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The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Amanda

Tesla Crane is on her honeymoon, a cruise to Mars. She revels in her anonymity with a spoofed ID and appearance, no bodyguards to surround her and give her away. But only a few days into what’s meant to be … Continue reading →

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Good for a Girl, by Lauren Fleshman (audio)

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Amanda

Subtitled: A Woman Running in a Man’s World Fleshman is a retired world-class professional runner, and this book is both her memoir and a treatise on the way women are approached and treated in the sports and running world. In … Continue reading →

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The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Amanda

Excerpt from the book jacket: Out on the Yorkshire moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book’s content after eating it… Devon is part of the Family, an old … Continue reading →

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The Change, by Kirsten Miller

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Amanda

Why do [women] keep going for thirty years after our bodies can no longer reproduce? Do you think nature meant for those years to be useless? No, of course not. Our lives are designed to have three parts. The first … Continue reading →

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The Ink Black Heart, by Robert Galbraith (audio)

Posted on September 16, 2022 by Amanda

When cartoonist Edie Ledwell is murdered, Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott are hired to find the identity of Anomie, the anonymous fan who has spent years torturing Ledwell online. Yes, the author of this book is horrible, and in this … Continue reading →

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The It Girl, by Ruth Ware

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Amanda

Ten years after April’s murder, her killer dies in prison, still proclaiming his innocence. Hannah, April’s then-roommate and friend, is left uneasy. It was her evidence that put John Neville away, after all, and if he wasn’t really guilty, then … Continue reading →

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Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas (audio)

Posted on September 9, 2022 by Amanda

As this is the sixth book in the Lady Sherlock series, I’m not going to go into a whole lot of detail. We’ve reached the point in the Sherlock series (if I understand the original Sherlock) where Holmes has come … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Stalker

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Amanda

Women are gaslit from early childhood. We’re told that boys hurt you or make fun of you because they like you. We’re told that it’s our job to nurture, to be nice, to be responsible for everything from others’ feelings … Continue reading →

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Tell Me Everything, by Erika Krouse (audio)

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Amanda

Subtitled: The Story of a Private Investigation Part memoir, part legal/true crime, Krouse details the work she did as a private detective on a landmark case involving sexual assault in the collegiate football arena. Over the course of several years, … Continue reading →

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Curfew, by Jayne Cowie

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Amanda

For fifteen years, women in Great Britain have been safe. Ever since the reforms of 2023, women have had equal pay, domestic work compensation, free and easy access to healthcare such as birth control and abortion, strict laws re: violence … Continue reading →

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