Hahahaha best intentions and all that: the second book I read in February was an accidental re-read but all the rest of them were new-to-me:
- Normal Women by Ainslie Hogarth - I don't remember much about this one now but I liked it well-enough.
- The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher - I liked it the first time I read it (whenever that was) and I liked it this time too. Scary portals to other worlds and rampaging taxidermy.
- The Princess Bride by William Goldman - You know how if there's a book and a movie, it's usually the book that is better? The movie is better, for me anyway. It may have been the edition I read. And the movie is so well-cast, so iconic, that it kept getting in the way of what I was reading.
- Loot by Tania James - Historical fiction set in India and England. Didn't love it, found it a little tedious.
- Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. Pretty good, seemed a little lightweight.
- How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelman. Really liked this one: a retelling of classic fairytales via a support group for traumatized women.
- Into the Mist by PC Cast. Post-apocalyptic, women-focused, mystical. Characters seemed a little thinly drawn.
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. Power, privilege and dark magics on the Yale University campus. Really liked this one, as well as the second one in the not-yet-complete trilogy.
- Hellbent by Leigh Bardugo. Continuing the story from Ninth House.
- The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark. This one is a novella and seemed lighweight. Didn't love it but it was okay.
Hooray for libraries!
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