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    review: red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston
    Chai
    • Mar 2
    • 5 min

    review: red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston

    Ah, yes, the one trope that sings to me the most: rivals to “if we never have to be in the same vicinity as each other, it'll be too...
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    review: gods of jade and shadow by silvia moreno-garcia
    Chai
    • Feb 20
    • 6 min

    review: gods of jade and shadow by silvia moreno-garcia

    Gods of Jade and Shadow feels told rather than read, and it pulled me back into the memory of the stories my mother used to tell me. I...
    327 views1 comment
    review: the space between worlds by micaiah johnson
    Chai
    • Feb 10
    • 6 min

    review: the space between worlds by micaiah johnson

    “Have you encountered any others who have truly met themselves?” This line from Carmen Maria Machado’s short-story collection Her Body...
    554 views1 comment
    review: mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia
    Chai
    • Feb 4
    • 5 min

    review: mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia

    Mexican Gothic is a sublime work of post-colonial gothic. It’s a story that unsettled me so effectively I found myself, on more than one...
    657 views2 comments
    review: the bear and the nightingale by katherine arden
    Chai
    • Jan 31
    • 3 min

    review: the bear and the nightingale by katherine arden

    A large pleasure in re-reading a favorite book is to experience that sense of almost-newness: to recognize and relive everything again...
    482 views1 comment
    review: black sun by rebecca roanhorse
    Chai
    • Jan 31
    • 2 min

    review: black sun by rebecca roanhorse

    It's hard to talk about this book because it is so many things at once. It's a heady epic and an intimate portrait of people wracked with...
    395 views0 comments
    review: the traitor baru cormorant by seth dickinson
    Chai
    • Jan 23
    • 4 min

    review: the traitor baru cormorant by seth dickinson

    How do you talk about a book that has completely obliterated your capacity for language? For days after I finished reading The Traitor...
    863 views0 comments
    review: tender by sofia samatar
    Chai
    • Jan 22
    • 2 min

    review: tender by sofia samatar

    I am incapable of reading anything Sofia Samatar writes without the tumbling headlong desire to put my whole body into her words, to...
    306 views0 comments
    review: a spindle splintered by alix e. harrow
    Chai
    • Jan 22
    • 3 min

    review: a spindle splintered by alix e. harrow

    Alix. E. Harrow is one of my auto-buy authors, and her debut novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January—a book about stories and doors and...
    494 views0 comments
    review: summer sons by lee mandelo
    Chai
    • Jan 20
    • 2 min

    review: summer sons by lee mandelo

    This book seduced me with its promise of spooky times and long stretches of repressed miserable queer longings and subsequently hooked...
    477 views1 comment
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