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Home › Archive for Book reviews

Category: Book reviews

Good memoir, dull memoir, and translations

By Kendra Leonard Posted on February 24, 2023 Posted in Book reviews

A History of the Island by Eugene Vodolazkin. 4/5 In preparation for this novel, I read the author’s previous epic work, Laurus. As some reviewers have already mentioned, this is a continuation of that novel, and the author’s storytelling style …

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Poetry from Ukraine, memoir, and more

By Kendra Leonard Posted on February 9, 2023 Posted in Book reviews

The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill by Rowenna Miller.3/5 You know, from the very first pages, what the bargains are going to do, and who’s going to have to pay for them. So you spend the first 60% of the …

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Fairies and wishes and spirits, oh my

By Kendra Leonard Posted on February 8, 2023 Posted in Book reviews

Without Children by Peggy O’Donnell Heffington. 4/5 This is a well-researched and interesting read about the many reasons people–particularly ciswomen and some transmen–do not have children–economic, physical, because of climate change, more. As a woman who is childfree by choice, …

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Climate fiction, poetry, and more–from 2022

By Kendra Leonard Posted on January 5, 2023 Posted in Book reviews

Apparently I missed posting a number of NetGalley reviews written in 2021 for books being published in 2022. Apologies! The Gravity of Existence by Christina Sng. 5/5 An absolutely brilliant collection of tiny poems, each on a world or person …

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Best books of 2022

By Kendra Leonard Posted on December 8, 2022 Posted in Book reviews

5/5, in no particular order Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volume 1: Lila …

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A wonderful gothic novel and a gritty girl on Mars

By Kendra Leonard Posted on November 29, 2022 Posted in Book reviews

White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link. 4/5 I liked a lot of these tales, some of which I’ve encountered before, and was honestly kind of bored by others. I enjoyed The White Cat’s Divorce–which I also read as an …

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Book reviews: Peter S. Beagle, Indigenous fantasy, and horror

By Kendra Leonard Posted on November 9, 2022 Posted in Book reviews

The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volume 1: Lila the Werewolf and Other Stories by Peter S. Beagle. 5/5 Jane Yolen’s utterly craven and insensitive Foreword is a disservice to Beagle’s works. Her use of the Uvalde, TX, massacre is despicable …

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New and dazzling poetry, an unexpected rom-com, and more

By Kendra Leonard Posted on August 23, 2022 Posted in Book reviews

The Only Daughter by A.B. Yehoshua. 4/5 This is a bit odd. Based on the writing style, descriptions, and settings, I initially thought that this book was set in the 1950s, not the late 1990s. It’s a book about identity, …

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Book reviews: psychological thrillers, witches, and twists

By Kendra Leonard Posted on July 27, 2022 Posted in Book reviews

Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong. 2/5 This spin-off from These Violent Delights (which I liked) and Our Violent Ends (which was an unnecessary mess of a sequel to These Violent Delights), is also mess. It doesn’t have the same …

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Book reviews: My new favorite book, plus mysteries

By Kendra Leonard Posted on June 18, 2022 Posted in Book reviews

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott. 5/5Thistlefoot is the brilliant, clever, deeply and well thought-out magical realist book about the Jewish diaspora from Eastern Europe I have been waiting for. It’s beautifully written and original and heartbreaking and joyous. And it is …

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