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ARC Review – You’ll Love it Here by Natalie Sue
After one bitter comment to the wrong person, Mona is forced to take a leave of absence, and she feels the precarious life she’s spent years building up crumbling around her. Unfortunately, her apartment building is literally crumbling around her. After her landlady falls and hurts herself, Mona agrees to watch over the building and…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 7/20/26-7/26/26
I hope everyone’s summer is going well! Another week has passed. I read four books this week but two of them were pretty long and I wasn’t doing much audiobook listening. This was actually a pretty good week—I really enjoyed three out of the four books. Shockingly, I actually stuck to the books I said…
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Essay – In Defense of Anti-Intellectualism
I. Introduction Being in book spaces, you might have come across a TikTok, Reel, YouTube video, or blog post somberly declaring the rise of “anti-intellectualism.” Usually, this is paired with complaints about the oversaturation of romance/romantasy books and the plague of tropes. God, tropes! Never before 2020 were works of media based on or marketed…
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ARC Review – Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty
After being hit by a car, a series of events leads to Anna, a single mother, getting a job at the Time Travel Agency. Despite the name, the place is a cozy hole in the wall with few customers and a small staff led by an eccentric disgraced physicist. Anna is sure that it’s all…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 7/12/26-7/19/26
I’ll be doing weekly updates with quick thoughts on what I read, particularly for books that don’t warrant a full scale review. If I have written a full review, it will be linked. Not a particularly outstanding or terrible week. My Lady Jane and A Prince Among Pirates were both audiobooks and were pretty fun,…
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ARC Review – (Mostly) Human Resources by Grace Viall
Alexys works in the Human Resources department for Entity a company that catalogues, studies, and contains cryptids, attempting to honor the legacy of her father who worked in the field as a Warden and died as a result. Now, one of the Wardens she’s meant to oversee goes missing chasing an undiscovered creature called the…
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ARC Review – Kitten by Stacey Yu
It’s not that Katie’s life is terrible, but she just can’t seem to do things right—to move through the world with the ease that everyone else does. Everyone, including her boyfriend James, who is sweet enough to take a break from work to whisk Katie away to his family’s seaside house. Joining them is Silver,…
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ARC Review – The Missed Connection by Tia Williams
Sasha is a casting director, and no man has ever so perfectly fit the role of her love interest as the man in seat F she meets on a long flight. Somehow, the two lose track of each other in the airport and she realizes they didn’t exchange any information that could lead her to…
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ARC Review – Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim
Every time a person crosses a boundary, there’s a chance that they might split into two ‘instances’, with one moving on to live their life in a new place and the other being left behind. Soyoung, a young woman living in South Korea, barely knows her instance Rose in America. They split when she was…
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ARC Review – The Children by Melissa Albert
The God of Endings meets Immaculate Conception in this adult gothic fantasy about the two adult children of an immensely famous children’s book series, forced to face the reality that their childhood was not as idyllic as the stories their mother wrote them into. After decades without a word to each other, Guinevere’s idealized memoir…
