Short Stuff in August

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022) by Eugen Bacon, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Milton Davis and others  422 pages • digital • first pub 2022   … to introduce readers to an ever more diverse set of writers associated with Africa.  10. Kaleidoscope – Milton J. Davis 👽👽👽👽☆— nice feel-good story with a benevolent alien and hope for the future.11. Memories of the Old Sun …

By The Light of a Blue Moon

Olive: Lost in Inner Space by Véro Cazot with Lucy Mazel (Illustrator), Jessie Aufiery (Translator) 232 pages • digital • first pub 2026  • 🦆🐕👨‍🚀✈️🐋 A fantastical coming-of-age graphic novel involving love, loss, and found family, centered around a determined autistic heroine who refuses to make herself fit neatly into other peoples' space Wherever she is, Olive has never quite fit in, and living …

Top Ten Tuesday—Freebie

Top Ten Tuesday was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday there is a new topic. You’re more than welcome to join and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin …

Monthly Wrap-up, August 2026

Not my month healthwise. Started off with a light summer flu that morphed into a bacterial eye infection. Antibiotic cream did the trick, but was a hassle. That was followed by a persistent and aggravatingly itchy eye infection. Surprisingly I still somehow managed to eye-read over 1000 pages. 📖 🎧 Fool's Fate 🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺 (Tawny Man #3) by Robin …

Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni

Alpha & Omega #1 Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs 320 pages • digital • first pub 2008  • 🐺🐺🐺🐺☆ — 3rd re-read Author's Comments Cry Wolf is the first novel in the Alpha and Omega series. The series itself is set in the same world as the Mercy Thompson series and is loosely connected. The first story in this series was the …

Top Ten Tuesday—Books With Nationalities In The Title

Top Ten Tuesday was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday there is a new topic. You’re more than welcome to join and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin …

But now she knew the monsters were real.

Alpha & Omega #0.5 Alpha & Omega by Patricia Briggs 81 pages • digital • first pub 2007  •  🐺🐺🐺🐺☆. Anna Latham never knew werewolves existed, until the night she survived a violent attack... and became one herself. After three years at the bottom of the Chicago pack, she's learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. …

The boring part of darkness.

Charlie Madigan #1 The Better Part of Darkness by Kelly Gay 394 pages • paperback • first pub 2009  • ⭐️⭐️ Atlanta: it's the promised city for the off-worlders, foreigners from the alternate dimensions of heaven-like Elysia and hell-like Charbydon. Some bring good works and miracles. And some bring unimaginable evil.... Charlie Madigan is a divorced mother of one, and a kick-ass …

Top Ten Tuesday—Bookish Places

Top Ten Tuesday was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday there is a new topic. You’re more than welcome to join and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin …

The thing between the wings…

Terrible Worlds: Transformations #2 Preaching to the Choir by Adrian Tchaikovsky with Emma Newman (Narrator) 4h 35m • audio • first pub 2026  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆ Elena Mendes thought she understood what “old money” was. She knew her boyfriend Ross Enderbough was rich. Like, “old money” rich. She knew he was the scion of some eccentric British line that predates the whole United States. She …