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Marlene Harris @readingreality

Library Journal SF/F columnist, book reviewer, librarian, consultant, freelance writer (she/her)

Joined April 2011
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January Wellness, Super Bowl & Valentine's Day Giveaway Event! #Sweepstakes #Giveaway #Contest #ContestAlert #Wellness #ValentinesDay #SuperBowl #VTEvents @Versatileer
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#AudioBookReview: Merry Ever After by Tessa Bailey @AmazonPub #UnderTheMistletoe #HolidayRomance #BookReview #ShortStoryReview wp.me/p3gHJx-eIb
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Grade A #BookReview: Unquiet Spirits by Bonnie MacBird @macbird @HarperCollins #CollinsCrimeClub #SherlockHolmes #HistoricalMystery #HistoricalFiction #mystery @bmacbird wp.me/p3gHJx-eJ1
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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 12-29-24 #SundayPost #NightstandBooks #TBR #TBRshelf #nightstand wp.me/p3gHJx-eyl
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Stacking the Shelves (633) #STS #StackingTheShelves #TBRshelf #TBR #newbooks wp.me/p3gHJx-eCM

Stacking the Shelves (633)

This is OMG the last and final Stacking the Shelves for 2024. It's a bit on the puny side, isn't it? That's the way things go at the end of the year. Not much new is being published - like, not at...

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Best Books of 2024 #BestBooks2024 #BestBooksList #BookLists #BestOf2024 #BestBooks wp.me/p3gHJx-esu

Best Books of 2024

I try to get this list down to a 'Top 10". Occasionally I succeed, at least sorta/kinda, as I did last year. This year I didn't even get close, because, as sometimes happens in the weekly Stacking...

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A #AudioBookReview: Blood Jade by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle #UrbanFantasy #fantasy #dragons #PhoenixHoard @valleygrrl @kenbebelle @torbooks @natalienaudus #AudioReview #audiobooks @MacmillanAudio wp.me/p3gHJx-eBh
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Christmas Day 2024: The Cats of Christmas #Christmas2024 #Xmas2024 #SeasonsGreetings #HappyHolidays #HolidayCats #MerryCatmas wp.me/p3gHJx-eyk

Christmas Day 2024: The Cats of Christmas

In 1903, the early Dickens scholar F.G. Kitton (no relation to Luna) published an essay titled "The Man Who 'Invented' Christmas". The thesis was that Charles Dickens not only wrote a timeless tale...

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A #BookReview: Echo by Tracy Clark #TracyClark @AmazonPub #ThomasAndMercer #DetectiveHarrietFoster #mystery #suspense #thriller wp.me/p3gHJx-ej0
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Winter 2024-2025 Seasons of Books #Giveaway Hop @ShannonMiz @Versatileer #WinterSeasonsOfBooks #Winter #SeasonsOfBooks #GiveawayHop #WinterHop #bloghop #GCGiveaway #BookGiveaway #GiftCardGiveaway wp.me/p3gHJx-dPD

Winter 2024-2025 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop

Welcome to the Winter 2024-2025 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop, hosted by It Starts At Midnight and Versatileer! Once upon a time, this was the Month of Books Giveaway Hop, now it’s the Seasons of...

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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 12-22-24 #SundayPost #NightstandBooks #TBR #TBRshelf #nightstand wp.me/p3gHJx-eyi
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Stacking the Shelves (632) #STS #StackingTheShelves #TBRshelf #TBR #newbooks wp.me/p3gHJx-eCL

Stacking the Shelves (632)

I have a new category for judging book covers this week, because The cover of The Baby Dragon Café goes beyond pretty and straight into ADORABLE. I also can't wait to read it so I'm really happy that...

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#BookReview: Love in Other Worlds edited by Tracy Cooper Posey #TracyCooperPosey @mlbuchman #StoriesRulePress #HolidayRomance #FantasyRomance #HolidayRomantasy #ShortStoryReview wp.me/p3gHJx-eGg
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#BookReview: Miss Amelia's List by Mercedes Lackey @mercedeslackey @dawbooks #HistoricalFantasy #ElementalMasters wp.me/p3gHJx-eB1
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#AudioBookReview: Merriment and Mayhem by Alexandria Bellefleur @ambellefleur #AmelieGriffinNarrator @AmazonPub #UnderTheMistletoe #HolidayRomance #BookReview #ShortStoryReview wp.me/p3gHJx-eHp

#AudioBookReview: Merriment and Mayhem by Alexandria Bellefleur

My Review: In this last week before both Christmas AND Hanukkah, I found myself looking for something a bit lighter than the books I had originally planned. Which is when I remembered that I still...

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A- #BookReview: Wedgetail by M.L. Buchman #technothriller #PoliticalThriller #thriller #suspense #ActionAdventure #MirandaChase @mlbuchman wp.me/p3gHJx-ezX

A- #BookReview: Wedgetail by M.L. Buchman

My Review: I just re-read my review of the previous book in this awesome series, Gryphon, and re-discovered that this book, Wedgetail, was originally supposed to have been published over the summer....

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Dashing December Giveaway Hop #bloghop #GiveawayHop #giveaway #BookGiveaway #GCgiveaway #GiftCardGiveaway #DashingDecemberHop #WinterHop #DecemberHop wp.me/p3gHJx-dKq
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The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 12-15-24 #SundayPost #NightstandBooks #TBR #TBRshelf #nightstand wp.me/p3gHJx-eyh

The Sunday Post AKA What’s on my (Mostly Virtual) Nightstand 12-15-24

December is officially, or at least officially-ish, half over. Not that December 31st really counts as December since everyone spends the whole day thinking about that last second when the year ends....

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Stacking the Shelves (631) #STS #StackingTheShelves #TBRshelf #TBR #newbooks wp.me/p3gHJx-eCK

Stacking the Shelves (631)

A really short stack this time around, and ALL coincidentally at the end of the alphabet. My stacks tend to get short at the end of the year because they're usually all eARCs that I get from NetGal...

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#AudioBookReview: I Made It Out of Clay by Beth Kander #Excerpt @htp_books #HanukkahRomance #HolidayRomance #MagicalRealism #bookreview #audioreview wp.me/p3gHJx-esD

#AudioBookReview: I Made It Out of Clay by Beth Kander #Excerpt

My Review: This is going to be one of those reviews where I write AROUND the book more than I write ABOUT the book, because my reaction was considerably more about the issues it raised than it was...

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