City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab is a middle-grade, supernatural fantasy book that I grabbed from the library after I surprisingly found it chilling there on the shelf. I remember looking it up a few days prior only to discover that the hold list for it was a mile long. So, when it popped into…
Hunting Prince Dracula is the second instalment in Kerri Maniscalco’s young adult historical fiction series, Stalking Jack the Ripper. I read the first book in June and picked up the second book this month as part of a buddy read with the brilliant and wonderful Nandini over at Unputdownable Books. I absolutely adored the first…
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith is a supernatural fantasy, alternate history novel that I picked up because I was in the mood to read a dark, vampire story that would also be fast-paced. Oh boy, not only did I not get what I was looking for, I also found myself utterly sapped of…
Bonfire by Krysten Ritter is a stand-alone mystery novel and the author’s debut release. I checked it out from my local library a few weeks ago probably for the same reason that many others did: I am a fan of Netflix’s Jessica Jones series, and I wanted to see what kind of story the main…
A Kill in the Morning by Graeme Shimmin is a British science-fiction, alternate history stand-alone novel that I picked up due to it’s badass, cult classic type of cover. I honestly didn’t even read the synopsis until after I checked it out. While the novel didn’t blow my knee-high sockies off of my tiny little…
The Invisible Thread by Yoshiko Uchida is an #OwnVoices Japanese non-fiction memoir that is written to be accessible for young adult readers. Ms Uchida was a renown Japanese-American author of children’s books, and in this book, she shares what her life was like prior to hers and her family’s forced relocation to the Japanese internment…
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is an #OwnVoices Japanese non-fiction memoir. It is the autobiography of the author’s time spent in a Japanese Interment Camp during the Second World War, when she was seven years old, and follows her life after her family was released. One of the first things that I noticed…
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco is a young adult Victorian era crime mystery novel that is also the first book in a series of the same name. After hearing a fellow book blogger raving about the book, I figured I should try reading it myself as it sounded like something I would enjoy.…
The History of Nations: Japan is a non-fiction collection of academic essays outlining various events and eras throughout Japanese history. Each essay was written by a different scholar and the collection itself was edited by Clay Farris Naff. It begins with the Ancient era and works its way towards the modern era (c. 2003). One…
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer is a new-weird, science-fiction novel that is the first instalment in the Southern Reach trilogy. I had always been hesitant when it came to trying out this subgenre, mostly because I was afraid that it would either be horridly slow, or ridiculously convoluted just for the sake of being so. It…
“Because the possibility for nuclear warfare exists, there is always, no matter how minor the conflict, the fear and threat that any war could lead to another nuclear holocaust.” White Flash/Black Rain: Women of Japan Relive the Bomb is an #OwnVoices non-fiction Japanese poetry and prose collection with contributions from various Japanese women. The book…
The Silence of the Lambs is a psychological crime fiction thriller, written by Thomas Harris, and was originally released in 1988. It is also the second novel in the Hannibal Lecter book series, but is usually read first, and can be read as a stand-alone. The novel follows FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, who is tasked…
Good morning, biblio-kitties, and otaku-fairies! Today, I decided to keep things simple and share with you the books that I’ve currently got my nose in. May has been a kick-ass month for me in terms of reading, and it seems that my currently reading stack is ever-evolving, which feels fantastic, but is also a bit…
And the Trees Crept In is a young adult psychological horror novel written by Irish author Dawn Kurtagich. This sucker has been on my shelf for almost two years. Since I’ve been in the mood for psychological horrors recently, I finally picked it up. I must say that it is one of the strangest books…
Modern Japanese Society, 1868-1994 by Ann Waswo is a non-fiction book that concisely discusses all of the major modern political and economic factors that went into Japan’s growth and evolution as a bustling society. Ms Waswo was a Professor of Japanese Studies at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at Oxford University in England for…
