One of the things I noticed is a section in there where I was doing lots of rereads of the Vorkosigan Saga and realized that was when my beloved was undergoing cancer treatment. They got me through.

A middle school teacher was looking for a novel his school could use because HS teachers complained students had never read any and were not up to reading one. Asked at the bookstore because no librarians are in our middle schools anymore.

Enough of the backstory shows up organically throughout that I never felt anything was missing that I needed to know. I love it when a book in a series can stand on its own. I had picked it up because I loved Kowal's locked room mystery in space "The Spare Man".

"The Martian Contingency" is definitely worth reading. Turns out it is 4th! in her Lady Astronauts series, set in the mid twentieth century. I have not read any of the previous books in the series (but now I will.) It stands on its own.

Dang! forgot to tag. 💙📚🪐🌶️⏳🔍🩸🐉 #SFF

finished reading this year 156 were published in 2025 which helped cut it down a bit. I did read dozens of thrillers but left them off because I couldn't figure out a clear favorite.

I wanted to do this to help the folks at the bookstore find something for everyone. Of course, no 2 people ever read the same book so some folks will love some of these books while others won't connect to the same ones. Of the the 205 books I've

Most of my collection of signed books just have squiggles. Loopy squiggles will look fine on Books & Bewitchment.

Old enough to stand in line with my husband and our 1 1/2 year old son for almost 3 hours to get in to see it.

Just placed a hold on it at the library. Looking forward to reading it.