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A Divided Duty
A Divided Dutyby Seanan McGuire400 pages, Tor Publishing Group (2026) Find a copy: Review at NetGalley → A reader without experience of the urban fantasy October Daye series could read A Divided Duty and come away richer for the experience. However, I feel that to fully grasp the nuances of this newest volume, it is…
Making Art and Making a Living
Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Lifeby Mason Currey240 pages, Celadon Books (2026) Review at NetGalley → Find a copy:
What We Can Know
What We Can Know : A Novelby Ian McEwan320 pages, Knopf (2025) Review at NetGalley → Find a copy: I came to this novel without prior experience of McEwan’s work, and without having read much beyond the description. What We Can Know moves across two timelines: one near enough to our present to feel recognizable,…
A Trade of Blood
A Trade of Blood: Book 3 of Shadow of the Leviathanby Robert Jackson Bennett400 pages, Del Rey (2026) Review at NetGalley → Find a copy: A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett is the next installment in the Ana and Din Mysteries, and it trusts both its characters and its readers to have grown.…
Anointed
Anointed: The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status in a Winner-Take-Most Worldby Toby Stuart288 pages, Simon & Schuster (2025) Review at NetGalley → Review at LibraryThing → Find a copy: Anointed by Toby Stuart is a fascinating journey through one of humanity’s enduring puzzles: social status. This isn’t an academic treatise on sociology; it’s an accessible…
Why We Write About Ourselves
Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literatureby Meredith Maran (editor)254 pages, Plume (2016) Review at NetGalley → Read, September 2025 I’m no longer sure when exactly I requested a review copy of Why We Write About Ourselves, but it’s sat in my to-be-read…
Grocery
Grocery : The Buying and Selling of Food in Americaby Michael Ruhlman320 pages, Abrams Press (2017) Review at NetGalley → Read: July 2025 I requested a review copy back when it was published in 2017, but didn’t actually read it until this past July. That timing turned out to be fortuitous. Reading Grocery while watching…
Ask More
Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Changeby Frank Sesno272 pages, AMACOM Books (2017) Review at NetGalley → Ask More by Frank Sesno takes what many regard as a routine journalistic step and turns it into something far more powerful. Questions become a creative superpower you can wield whether…
Right Kind of Wrong
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Wellby Amy C. Edmondson368 pages, Atria Books (2023) Review at NetGalley → Find a copy: I requested an early review copy of Right Kind of Wrong from NetGalley back in late 2023 and then promptly let it sit on my virtual bookshelf while life and deadlines took…
Book and Dagger
Book and Dagger:How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War IIby Elyse Graham400 pages, Ecco (2024) Review at NetGalley → If your pulse quickens at the mention of a library book sale and the promise of towering stacks of books to schlep home, then Elyse Graham’s Book and Dagger is a must-read.…
Why Information Grows
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economiesby César Hidalgo256 pages, Basic Books (2015) Review at NetGalley → Some books are fast reads, even if it takes a decade to start them. Why Information Grows by César Hidalgo is one such book. It’s a remarkable and readable exploration of how information is encoded, transmitted,…
The PLAN
The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Geniusby Kendra Adachi256 pages, Convergent Books (2024) Review at NetGalley → I picked up The PLAN out of curiosity, open to explore a time management approach that wasn’t all about productivity. While not previously acquainted with Adachi’s Lazy Genius system, I was intrigued by the promise of…
Building a StoryBrand 2.0
Building a StoryBrand 2.0: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listenby Author304 pages, HarperCollins Leadership (2025) Review at NetGalley → Every solo business wants a secret magical weapon. When you’re buried under a never-ending task list and wearing too many different hats, clearing the noise from your messaging is key, Building a StoryBrand 2.0 can…
A Drop of Corruption
A Drop of Corruption: An Ana and Din Mysteryby Robert Jackson Bennett480 pages, Del Rey (2025) Review at NetGalley → I have a soft spot for locked door mysteries. When one is investigated by a remarkable duo who thrive on thinking differently? This reader can’t get their hands on the book fast enough. While you…
Feuds
Feudsby Mercedes Lackey, editor432 pages, DAW (2024) Review at NetGalley → This is the eighteenth anthology of stories set in Lackey’s beloved Valdemar universe. This reviewer has loved and enjoyed these collections for many years and this newest anthology does not disappoint. For this and many readers, each volume is a chance to catch up…