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Author, cat person, plant daddy, comic nerd, and book lover. They/he. In my garden in Seattle. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 sliverofice.com/links
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136th read of 2025:

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

Very fun. Mildly ridiculous. Cats are the best spies.

4/5 stars

#SciFiBooks #Booksky
Book cover for Starter Villain by John Scalzi A photograph of a gruff but fluffy cat that's a tabby with a white stripe down its face and nose and mouth. The cat is wearing a black suit, white shirt, and blue tie. Text says "Meet the new boss" above the cat.
October 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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135th read:

Crossplay by Niki Smith

Figuring out your gender via cosplay? Been there.

There were too many characters to get to know them well enough for the full emotional impact. The art style, especially the coloring, was fun & unique, but it didn't help clarity.

3/5 stars #Booksky #Comics
Book cover for Crossplay by Niki Smith Cover is a person who is blushing as they are watching two people holding hands. A flower bloom is at their feet. Cover is in black, white, and hot pink.
October 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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134th read of 2025:

Legends of the Leaf: Unearthing the Secrets to Help Your Plants Thrive by Jane Perrone

More plant books like this! I loved how Perrone profiled each plant, exploring botany, care tips, historical relevance, commercial trade, and other aspects.

5/5 stars #Booksky #Houseplants
Book cover for Legends of the Leaf: Unearthing the Secrets to Help Your Plants Thrive by Jane Perrone Cover features illustrations of a monstera, snake plant, peace lily, ivy, and oxalis triangularis
October 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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133rd read:

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

A masterclass in memoir writing. Ford takes her father’s incarceration as the framework & shaping of her young life. This book grapples with her relationships with her mother, grandmother, siblings, peers, & teachers.

4/5 stars #Booksky #Memoir
Book cover for Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford Cover is blue with an illustration of rocks that are red, pink, green, and ocher. A snake shape is in the recess of the blue.
October 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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132nd read:

The Black Ghost: Hard Revolution by Alex Segura, Monica Gallagher, Marco Finnegan, George Kambadais, Ellie Wright, and Taylor Esposito

Lara is a hard-drinking investigative journalist turned costumed vigilante. A sketchy, piecemeal story that’s incoherent.

2/5 stars #Booksky #Comics
Book cover for The Black Ghost: Hard Revolution by Alex Segura, Monica Gallagher, Marco Finnegan, George Kambadais, Ellie Wright, and Taylor Esposito Cover features a woman in a black hooded cloak, pulled up, and wearing a black domino mask with the Miami skyline in back
October 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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131st read:

Along Came Amor (Primas of Power #3) by Alexis Daria

Ooof. This was a most anticipated 2025 read as a series ender, and it was at least 100 pages overwritten. Overall, I liked the bones of the story. Ava is my favorite Prima. But, I got bored midway.

3/5 stars #Booksky #Romancelandia
Book cover for Along Came Amor (Primas of Power #3) by Alexis Daria Cover is an illustration of a woman and a man in an embrace. They're both Puerto Rican. She wears a bright pink halter dress and he's in a white dress shirt with a bow tie undone and his tux jacket being pulled off. In the background is a tropical beach paradise.
October 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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130th read of 2025:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Beautiful gowns, beautiful gowns.

You can just be a faggot, Donna Tartt. (I got the tshirt and everything.)

3/5 stars

#Booksky #MysteryBooks #DarkAcademia
Book cover for The Secret History by Donna Tartt Cover is a Greek statue face in sepia
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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129th read of 2025:

Diamond Ring (Unwritten Rules #3) by K.D. Casey

This felt weaker — due to the time jumps — than the first 2 books but still great. It made me care about the outcome of the big game (BASEBALL!) for the entire team (not just Alex and Jake).

5/5 stars #Romancelandia #Booksky
Book cover for Diamond Ring (Unwritten Rules #3) by K.D. Casey A man with short cropped hair has his hand up like he's running his thumb over his beard/stubble. He's also flexing and wearing a bracelet and in a white tank top to show off his muscles. Behind him is a baseball stadium.
October 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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128th read:

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe #0.3) by P. Djèlí Clark

I’ve loved a lot of these stories, but this one was by far the weakest. It centers around Agents Hamed Nasr and Onsi Youssef, and they feel like significantly weaker characters here.

3/5 stars #fantasy #Booksky
Book cover for The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe #0.3) by P. Djèlí Clark Cover is an illustration of a retro futurist Ciaro from the 1920s with a train and people around it and big buildings and airship looming in the background
October 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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127th read:

Taken in the Minotaur's Labyrinth (A Menagerie of Monsters #1) by Ciara Bane

This short story is part of a larger one & maybe the whole thing would've been 3 stars. However, it lacked description to set up the universe or explain what was happening.

2/5 stars #Booksky #MonsterRomance
Book cover for Taken in the Minotaur's Labyrinth (A Menagerie of Monsters #1) by Ciara Bane Features a torso photo of a shirtless tanned man with gym muscles, below his 6-pack is green and blue clouds
October 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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126th read of 2025:

The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées #1) by Julie Garwood

This is an essential text that many other Romance books have copied, and it is a great book on its own. Delightful, funny, and charming. Jamie's a great heroine.

5/5 stars #Booksky #Romancelandia
Book cover for The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées #1) by Julie Garwood Cover is photo of a white woman all dressed in a white Medieval-style wedding dress with a veil and holding flowers, in the background is a Scottish shore with cliffs and a castle.
October 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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125th read:

Kiss the Girl (Meant to Be #3) by Zoraida Córdova

An official adaptation of Disney's The Little Mermaid that nails the themes as it stays structurally true, makes it contemporary without nostalgia, & delivers a fab rockstar romance with a Latine cast.

5/5 stars #Booksky #Romancelandia
Book cover for Kiss the Girl (Meant to Be #3) by Zoraida Córdova Illustrated cover where Ariel sings into a microphone while Eric strums his guitar. There are spotlights up top that shine on the title text.
October 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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124th read of 2025:

The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton

Cute but ultimately I needed more tension and space because he's an astronaut. I wish this had been dual POV instead of only Amerie. I still can't believe she didn't know their date was to stargaze! A+ cover.

3/5 stars #Booksky #Romancelandia
Book cover for The Kiss Countdown by Etta Easton Illustration on a bright pink cover shows a Black man in a blue NASA astronaut suit holding and dipping down to kiss a Black woman in a sparkly green dress and high heels. Behind them is a city outline and in the sky is a moon and rocketship blasting off into the atmosphere.
October 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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123rd read:

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes

I’m aligned with the thesis: to expand the definitions of mothering & value & reward it. Society runs on this unpaid labor. The non-memoir parts were significantly weaker, especially on disability.

3/5 stars #Booksky #Memoir
Book cover for Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes Cover is an outline drawing of a woman holding a baby in front of her. Both have dark skin and there is a halo-like effect around the mother's head to signal the reverence of the mother that is not rewarded.
October 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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122nd read:

Simplicity by Mattie Lubchansky

Lubchansky perfectly encapsulates how very absurd and disconnected this moment in time feels. Simplicity is set in 2081, but its chaos is patterned after echoes of ours. Both art and text capture relatable moments.

5/5 stars #Booksky #Comics #ScifiBooks
Book cover for Simplicity by Mattie Lubchansky Features an illustration of Lucius, a trans man with tan skin and glasses being pulled down by tentacle vines being let go by a person at the top
September 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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121st read:

Marvel Voices: Heritage #1 by various creators

These Indigenous character stories felt too short and promotional. The best was “Snowguard: The Tuurngait’s Song," as it pulled through with themes, characters, and the only outstanding art.

2/5 stars #Booksky #Comics #Superheroes
Comic book cover for Marvel Voices: Heritage #1 Cover features an illustration of Echo as Phoenix leading a group of superheroes as they jump or fly over the Grand Canyon
September 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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120th read of 2025:

A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander

I loved this! In many ways, Christopher was a very ordinary romance hero, forced through inheritance drama to marry before 25.

The great ending reinforced his Heroism. A gay trans man doing it all!

5/5 stars #Romancelandia #Booksky
Book cover for A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander Cover is a stylized photo of a man wearing a fancy cravat and light colored Regency clothing, shows his face from his mouth down, with a calling card for the book's title and author.
September 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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119th read of 2025:

If the Boot Fits (Cowboys of California #2) by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Sweet, but this could've used more tension. It plays with dimensions of fame, but Sam and Amanda are just too nice, as the book pulls its punches in this Cinderella retelling.

3/5 stars #Booksky #Romancelandia
Book cover for If the Boot Fits (Cowboys of California #2) by Rebekah Weatherspoon Cover is a photo of a tall Black man wearing a tuxedo and a black cowboy hat. He's tipping his hat toward the reader as a sign of respect. The background is a pasture with a tree, a horse, and wooden fencing.
September 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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118th read:

Hypnotized! A Sharktastic Love Story by Niki Brazen

Either the best book I’ve read or one of the worst. It includes such bangers as — “Today, I quit my job as a marine biologist. Because I think I'm in love with a Shark.” Fin-tabulous.

3/5 stars #Booksky #MonsterRomance #Romancelandia
Book cover for Hypnotized! A Sharktastic Love Story by Niki Brazen Illustrated cover of a white woman with red hair's face. She wears big glasses that reflect a great white shark in one lens and a hypnotic swirl over the great white in the other
September 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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117th read:

All Yours (The Apex Series #1) by Vicky Walklate

Starts off pretty sexy and then gets increasingly silly. Cleo, the zookeeper, falls for a crocodile man, who is a demon from another dimension that can grant immortality, and they must fight an evil capitalist.

3/5 stars #Booksky
Book cover for All Yours (The Apex Series #1) by Vicky Walklate Cover is a drawing of a busty redheaded white woman in a white dress being held on the lap of a crocodile man
September 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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116th read:

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers

This reads like how some people act like Firefly was. If you want a found family of humans and aliens, who mostly get along and do jobs in space, and everyone will be okay, this is it.

4/5 stars #Booksky #Scifi
Book cover for The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers A modest brown spaceship is flying in front of a small planet
September 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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115th read:

DC Pride 2024 #1 (DC Cultural Anthologies) by many creators

These continue to skirt the corporate pride line. Most of the stories are too polite & Gay, not Queer. They were largely safe, except for Starman & Poison Ivy. Jimenez's personal story made me cry.

3/5 stars #Comics #Booksky
Comic book cover for DC Pride 2024 #1 (DC Cultural Anthologies) It has a rainbow splash background with Harley, Superboy, Dreamer, and more!
September 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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114th read of 2025:

Women Of Marvel (2024) #1 by a lot of creators

Unfortunately, extremely mediocre. The first story is literally about a man capturing all the women of Marvel, and he learns a lesson.

2/5 stars #Comics #Booksky
Comic book cover for Women Of Marvel (2024) #1 Features a floating group of superhero women: Scarlet Witch, Storm, Medusa, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, Madame Web, and Psylocke over the Manhattan skyline
September 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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113th read of 2025:

The Governess Affair (Brothers Sinister #0.5) by Courtney Milan

This was so close to a 5-star read. The romance! The tension! The flirting! No one writes the intimate world of a couple like Milan.

4/5 stars

#Booksky #HistoricalRomance #Romancelandia
Book cover for The Governess Affair (Brothers Sinister #0.5) by Courtney Milan A white woman with long auburn hair wears a big yellow dress. She is looking at the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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112th read:

Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle #3) by Tracy Deonn

Disappointing, as I loved the first 2. Oathbound’s main flaw is that it’s too long, not picking up for ~200 pages. The tension relying on Bree's missing memories didn't work. Hoping the next one will be awesome.

3/5 stars #Booksky #YA
Book cover for Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle #3) by Tracy Deonn A young Black girl has magic swirling all around her that's purple and red in color. There is a man in a black cloak with glowing red eyes behind her.
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM