Epic. So many beautiful lines and insights, like “A long life might be many lives, many ephemeral lives within one life.”

So highly recommended. The local bookstore even let me leave a blurb on their copy, then just messaged me that the copy sold an hour later! Someone‘s going to be a happy reader.

Loved it even more than Darktown.

Just started this and immediately devoured 100 pages. 🤓😍

I loved the characters and the world of Orisha, but the adventure started to drag after a while and I just needed some resolution! Loved the ending, though, and the author‘s note at the end. #blacklivesmatter

I always take dust jackets off when I‘m reading because they get in the way. I love when I find a beautifully embossed cover underneath (though the jacket art for this book is truly incredible).

“What fascinates and gives hope in a time of slashed budgets, enlarging class size, and national depression is the possibility that many of these young men and women may be gaining the kind of critical perspective on their lives and the skill to bear witness that they have never before had in our country‘s history.”

I‘ve been making money moves this week and I‘m feeling all #feminist

I never got over the mind-bogglingly literal Chekhov‘s gun, but Ware spooled out a compelling and well-paced puzzle that kept me reading all day.

This Chekhov‘s gun is painfully literal.

Been struggling to get into a new book so thought I‘d try a thriller. So far I have learned that bachelorette parties in the UK are called Hen Nights!? Lots of patriarchy to unpack there.

I finished this over the weekend and haven‘t stopped thinking about how octopus consciousness might separately reside in each of their eight arms. Also, about how they can squish through tiny spaces. That too.