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A New York Tate of Mind
A New York Tate of Mind
In which this reader and explorer reviews books, muses on literary (and other) matters, and shares some of her adventures.
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My 1-5 rating system:
1 = I did not like it and would not recommend it.
2= It was fine. Read it if the subject matter interests you.
3 = I enjoyed it and would recommend it.
4 = I really liked it, and think you should read it!
5 = One of the best books I've read.
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Review: A Botanist's Guide to Parties & Poisons
3/5 stars A Botanist's Guide to Parties & Poisons, by Kate Khavari (2022) TW: Threat of rape This is a delightful, historical murder...
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Aug 1, 20232 min read
Review: Wrecked
3/5 stars Wrecked, by Heather Henson (2022) TW: Descriptions of drug manufacturing, use, and addiction Full disclosure - I have a...
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Jul 30, 20233 min read
Review: The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
2/5 stars The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2017) TW: Domestic abuse and rape I enjoyed this more than a 2-star...
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Jul 17, 20232 min read
Review: Mexican Gothic
2/5 stars Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2020) TW: Allusions to sexual assault, incest, suicide, cannibalism, murder...
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Jul 13, 20232 min read
Review: The Killings at Kingfisher Hill
3/5 stars The Killings at Kingfisher Hill, by Sophie Hannah (2020) Another of Hannah's Hercule Poirot mysteries! I also read The Mystery...
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Jul 7, 20233 min read
Review: Weyward
5/5 stars Weyward, by Emilia Hart (2023) I absolutely LOVED this book, but let me get some trigger warnings out of the way first: sexual...
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Jul 7, 20232 min read
Review: Who is Maud Dixon?
4/5 stars Who is Maud Dixon?, by Alexandra Andrews (2021) WOW this was fun. Totally entertaining! But there's also VERY little I can say...
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Jun 30, 20232 min read
Review: How High We Go in the Dark
2/5 stars How High We Go in the Dark, by Sequoia Nagamatsu (2022) I saw this compared favorably to Emily St. John's Station Eleven, which...
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Jun 28, 20233 min read
Review: Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow
2/5 stars Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin (2022) “What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and...
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Jun 20, 20233 min read
Review: Hestia Strikes a Match
4/5 stars Hestia Strikes a Match, by Christine Grillo (2023) This is a great piece of speculative / alternate universe fiction. The year...
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May 28, 20232 min read
Review: Olga Dies Dreaming
4/5 stars Olga Dies Dreaming , by Xóchitl González (2022) TW: Mention of suicide and rape (not graphic), drug use, hurricane damage Olga...
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May 24, 20232 min read
Review: Ghost Boys
3/5 stars Ghost Boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes (2018) TW: gun violence, fatal police brutality, mention of lynching This is a middle-grade...
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May 23, 20231 min read
Review The Inheritance Games series
3/5 stars The Inheritance Games (2020), The Hawthorne Legacy (2021), and The Final Gambit (2022), by Jennifer Lynn Barnes I'll be...
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May 15, 20233 min read
Review: The Last White Man
2/5 stars The Last White Man, by Mohsin Hamid I'm having a really hard time writing about this one. I finished it almost 2 weeks ago and...
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May 2, 20234 min read
Review: So Much More Than a Headache
3/5 stars So Much More Than a Headache, edited by Kathleen O'Shea (2020) I Describe a Migraine I wanted to describe chronic migraines as...
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Apr 21, 20233 min read
Review: Kaikeyi
3/5 stars Kaikeyi, by Vaishnavi Patel (2022) In the Indian epic story, The Ramayana, Queen Kaikeyi is the villain. She is the third wife...
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Apr 18, 20232 min read
Review: Our Missing Hearts
3/5 stars Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng (2022) This book is set in a dystopian version of the US that pulls from many real-life...
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Apr 9, 20233 min read
Review: Deaf Republic
5/5 stars Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky (2019) This past weekend I was fortunate enough to attend two of RIT/NTID's Big Read events,...
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Apr 3, 20233 min read
Review: Hell Bent
3/5 stars (reluctantly) Hell Bent, by Leigh Bardugo (2023) A few years ago I read the first book in this series, Ninth House, and...
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Mar 27, 20233 min read
Review: Black Cake
2/5 stars Black Cake, by Charmaine Wilkerson (2022) Very sad to be giving this 2 stars. It started out so well! A 5-star beginning, that...
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Mar 19, 20232 min read
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