Returning here from a jaunt on an apparently down-for-the-third-time instance. Recent reviews were there and possibly lost; see this local list for a rundown of top recent reads: ramblingreaders.org/list/256/s/top-recents what's in it? mostly sapphic·witch·romance (pick two) and climate paranoia
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Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an …
had gotten off nf for a while but now can use a palate cleanser from holiday candy. this was sitting in booksmith asking to be read, so i'm obliging
The paint-loaded palettes of fifty world-renowned artists are displayed alongside the paintings the artists created using those hues, and the …
Outsmart Your Enemies. Outrun the Galaxy.
“Just please, remember what I told you. Run. Don’t stop running for anything.”
Buckle …
Travelling to Japan has never been so much fun-- visit the land of anime, manga, …
A Japan tourism overview in comic book style, in many instances being more informative than words alone could— like showing you how to use a JR rail pass, what foods you may encounter, and what toilets you may face. As it's from 2014, some particulars may have changed, but overall much more than it may seem from the cover.
"By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel …
The first international history of railroads and railroad infrastructure told through stunningly reproduced maps.
Since their origins in eighteenth-century England, …
i feel like i tried this once before, but i just read a good quote…
From Adelaide in Guys and Dolls to Nina in In the Heights and Elphaba in Wicked, female characters in Broadway …
This has to be as good as a modern reproduction gets. The colors are bright, the gold pops. Much better than newer books I've seen.
Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and …
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The L Word in this fresh, sizzling rom-com by Lana …
A fine witchy romance for the season, one in which the main character questions her full identity, having fled her stifling small town to be a (less powerful) City Witch, and faces a powerful attraction to someone from a rival family with darker powers.
In the manner of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the magic here is parlor tricks and the points don't matter. Serious magic-heads who grumbled when authors just ripped off literal Latin words for spell names will be disappointed here. The whole concept of the town is magic as stage show, and the town competition is magic as Family Feud. The power of the story comes from the dangerous but irresistible attraction of the main couple, from light and dark magic families, and from the sinister magical caste system of the town, which low-caste Emmy had spent her adult life trying to flee.
Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy Sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller …
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The L Word in this fresh, sizzling rom-com by Lana Harper. Emmy Harlow is a …
