Month: September 2025

The Beauty–Aliya Whiteley

Published by Reid on September 14, 2025

I found out about this author last month from a promotional post on Bluesky for her latest book (Presumably The Misheard World, though I can’t find the post) and now I’ve read two of her books. I am not generally a horror fan, but I think it is more gore and graphic violence, and this book, while not without violence and gore, didn’t read as horror to me. I guess I need to keep expanding…

Record of a Spaceborn Few–Becky Chambers

Published by Reid on September 13, 2025

I started this book about a month ago, and just couldn’t get into it. After a few weeks, and starting and finishing my previous book, I decided to try again. This time, for whatever reason, I was able to get into the characters and the world and I finished it in about 5 days. I read “A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet” several years ago and I knew that this book was set…