Thursday, October 2, 2025

Book Review: Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found, by Rucker Moses and Theo Gangi

Guest review by: Becki BayleyI’m sitting outside on the stoop and I can’t imagine hitting the pillow. I am wired, my heart racing like it’s got enough voltage running through it to power the county grid.At 4:00 a.m., the street is so quiet I’d believe I’m back in the suburbs....

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Book Review: The Athena Protocol, by Shamim Sarif

Guest review by: Becki BayleyI have a mouthful of dirt. Damp earth and pine needles. I fight to twist my way out, but my attacker has legs on either side of me and an arm on my head, and I can’t move. Feeling paralyzed sets me off into panic, but somewhere in my head, there’s...

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Fog and Fury, by Rachel Howzell Hall {ends 8/4}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley Saturday morning brought with it thick fog. But as I drove north on Highway 1 – before I could even begin to list types of gems – the fog thinned, and sunshine spread like butter across the blacktop. And then I saw the blue sky ...

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Book Review: The Speed of Falling Objects, by Nancy Richardson Fischer

Guest review by: Becki BayleyI sleep fitfully, waking again and again in the dark morning hours to insects burrowing beneath my sweatshirt. The worst part is that I have to look at them in the firelight, hairy legs, twitching antennae, stingers and pincers, to make sure they’re...

Monday, July 7, 2025

Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Into the Leopard's Den, by Harini Nagendra {ends 7/14}

Guest review by: Becki BayleyKaveri gave Ramu a watery smile, gripping his hand. ‘Last week, on her sixtieth birthday, Uma aunty told me that she feels like her life has restarted all over again.’‘Of course it has,’ Ramu agreed. ‘Her son and daughter-in-law constantly tell her...

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Book Review: Knife River, by Justine Champine

Review by: Becki BayleyLater that night as I tried to fall asleep, I remembered a woman, a self-described psychic, who called us at the house years ago. It was just weeks after our mother disappeared, and we were still sleeping with the phone then, the receiver resting between...

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Book Review and GIVEAWAY: The Ashtrays are Full and the Glasses are Empty, by Kirsten Mickelwait {ends 6/22}

Guest review by: Becki BayleyOn our last day we prowled the shops, and I bought a small guitar for Baoth, an embroidered shawl for Honoria, and a toy bull for Patrick. After dinner, there was a fireworks display, and the locals gathered at city hall to sing “Pobre de Mi” by...

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