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Book Sale

November 28, 2025

Hello, Hungry Readers, I still get excited about book sales. Look, I know you have a lot lot of sales emails in your inbox right now. And if you are trying...

From Where I Sit

November 14, 2025

Hello, Hungry Readers, Sometimes writing these newsletters ahead of time feels a little odd. Like I hope where you are things have changed a little for the...

I'm on Sale (in Some Countries)

October 24, 2025

Hello, Hungry Readers, So the nitty gritty of the sale, is that I Belong to You, my latest release, a fairytale mashup set in Rock Creek Park featuring a...

Quiet Cars and Other Things

October 10, 2025

Hello Hungry Readers, Bookshop links ahead. I mentioned on the blog that I was up in New York this weekend. I managed to get a seat in the quiet car on the...

Endings, Happy or Otherwise

September 26, 2025

Hello, Hungry Readers, The links are Bookshop links. I just finished Suzanne Collins’ Sunrise on the Reaping, and I want to talk about a few things it does....

Two Terrific Books - September Edition

September 12, 2025

Hello, Hungry Readers, Well, I’m still here. And things continue to be interesting in DC. I am a summer tennis fan, which is to say, I watch Wimbledon, the...

Three Terrific Things

August 15, 2025

Hello Hungry Readers, I usually start writing this newsletter a few days ahead of time, because as the week gathers up steam, things that aren’t done or at...

Two Terrific Books

July 29, 2025

Hello Hungry Readers, We are at the point of the summer here in my neck of the woods where, as much as I like heat, it is really quite a lot. But it also is...

Second Quarter Round Up

July 11, 2025

Hello Hungry Readers, It is for real pool weather where I am. People always talk about beach reads, but of course beach reads are whatever you want. A...

Two Terrific Books

June 20, 2025

Hello, Hungry Readers, Yes, sometimes I think I should get more imaginative in titling these things, but clarity is good too. We had a midweek holiday in the...

Two Terrific Things

June 6, 2025

Hello Hungry Readers, I promise I have not forsaken books, but as you may know, the Tonys are this weekend, and I love theater. So much. I live in DC which...

Two Terrific Things

May 23, 2025

Hello, Hungry Readers, We are headed into a long weekend here in the US, and well, I like long weekends. I started to type who doesn’t and then of course I...

Two Terrific Books

May 9, 2025

Hello, Hungry Readers, It is AANHPI Heritage, which a lot of letters. I mean it’s six, which is not that many. But Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific...

First Quarter Round up

April 18, 2025

Heelo, Hungry Readers, Gosh, it was a really good quarter of reading. I hadn’t quite realized until I started putting together this list. Bookshop links...

Two Terrific Books

March 28, 2025

Hey, Hungry Readers, It’s really springy here, and it makes it perfect audiobook weather, so of course the two books I want to talk about were ones I read in...

New Release: I Belong to You

March 12, 2025

1. I did not think that setting a story in a National Park was a thing that would turn out to be remotely topical. Wow, this timeline. But I do adore Rock...

Two Terrific Books

February 28, 2025

Hello Hungry Readers, I found this week exhausting, and no it’s not over yet, but I’m still pretty sure I’m right. But books, books are great. Bookshops...

Two Terrific Books

February 7, 2025

Hello, Hungry Readers, We have made it to February which always seems like a sign of something. I’m always a little happier about the world when there is a...

Fourth Quarter Round Up and Things

January 10, 2025

Hello, Hungry Readers, My big data nerd breakdown of 2024 reading will be on the blog soonish, but suffice it to say I read less but read well, and am quite...

Two Terrific Books

December 13, 2024

Hello, Hungry Readers, I had some day job stuff change recently which switched up my reading and I think I’m starting to get back into the rhythm of it all....