A moody, suspenseful noir about stolen money, revolutionary ghosts, and the kind of ambition hell-bent on drinking itself under Ron Morris’s Edge of the Golden Moon opens with a classic noir premise, but it gets stranger, sweatier, and more psychologically complicated as time goes on. Bert is a teacher at a language school in Bangkok, […]
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Not Safe for Work by Nisha J Tuli
Not Safe for Work by Nisha J Tuli on May 20, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Enemies to Lovers, Fiction / Romance / Workplace Pages: 341 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Engineer Trishara Malik once dreamed of being the first woman of color to smash the glass ceiling […]
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Best books on Appalachian folk magic
From Primary Sources to Living Practice One of my earliest memories of my grandmother is after dark in the Appalachians… The post Best books on Appalachian folk magic appeared first on She Reads Everything.
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Seriously Collaborative Fun by Christy Hale
For me, memories of reading are about connection: curled in my father’s lap, listening to stories from The Fairy Tale Book by Marie Ponsot, or my mother at my bedside reading classics like The Secret Garden and Little Women. I even felt connected to Louisa May Alcott because we regularly drove past her house in Concord, Massachusetts. And so, books […]
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Grumpy Mother Pucker by Sarah Smith
Grumpy Mother Pucker by Sarah Smith on May 11, 2026 Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Grumpy Mother Pucker by Sarah Smith surprised me in the best way possible! I expected this to lean a little more immature because of the college setting, but the writing felt much more mature and emotionally grounded than I […]
Somewhere between the talking bunny and the rapping baby, this story does something sneaky: it helps kids sit with fear without being swallowed by it. Some children’s books help kids fall asleep. Others help them make sense of worries they don’t yet have the language for. Mari-chan and Roboto Bunny by Jon Kaczka is a […]
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Keep the Flowers by Ellie Williams
A moving, faith-filled exploration of loss caused by invisible illness Despite her young age, Ellie Williams has already survived decades with a sneaky invisible illness. Being dismissed by doctors since age nine while experiencing devastating and debilitating symptoms that her family couldn’t fully understand, Williams struggles to carry on, leaning heavily on her family and […]
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Rules for the Summer by Meghan Quinn
Few rom-com setups arrive with as much swagger as this one: a posh British future-Lord clicks “yes” on a fiancé-matching profile during a drunken truth-or-dare, flies across the Atlantic with a ring in his pocket, and proposes to a paint-splattered candy shop hopeful in her front yard while his best friend feeds him her name […]
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Cupid of the Mess by Nico Patino
A fluid, introspective collection fueled by natural imagery, self-reflection, nostalgia, and experimental structures Utilizing a variety of experimental structures and forms, the poems in Cupid of the Mess dive straight into all of life’s messiness. Romance is the overall underlying conceit, but, in the case of these poems, the word “romance” doesn’t just apply to […]
A fast-paced, ruthless space-western where the only thing worse than the monsters are the people who profit off them On the unforgiving planet Kalderra, Mona Ripple has a job that no one envies. Tasked with scavenging the bodies of kameeba, huge, gelatinous creatures with valuable flesh and even more precious hearts, she and her team […]