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 Happy Top Ten Tuesday!  I am trying to write a spring TBR in line with my goals this year, so books that I already own or can get from the library or Kindle, and at least 25% by authors of color, and at least two women writers in translation. Fortunately, I have some books kicking around that should help out. Books On My Spring 2023 TBR Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare Women in Sunlight by Frances Mayes With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo LA Weather by Maria Amparo Escandon Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura The Other Man by Farhad J. Dadyburjor At the End of the Matinee by Keiichiro Hirano

  Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate, I'm doing a post on 10 amazing writers to check out if you haven't already. I've tried to range the gamut with authors from different backgrounds and identities, as well as different time periods and nationalities. These are all books I've loved. Hope you enjoy! 10 Amazing Books by Women Authors to Check Out The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers--Perfect cozy scifi--if it were TV, it would be a bottle episode where a few characters from different species spend a few days contained together and learn as much about themselves as they do each other. The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders--Such an amazingly realized world of how humans would adapt to a tidally locked planet, and the native alien culture. The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck--Fictionalized true story of a woman with a wooden leg from Virginia who became a spy in WWII Europe. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab-...

The Shadow of Theron by Kathryn Troy Published February 28, 2023 Amazon  Goodreads UBL Blurb (Provided by the Author) The powers of old are fading. A new Age is dawning.   Holy relics are all that remain of Theron's sacred legend.    Now those relics, the enchanted weapons forged by the Three-Faced Goddess to help Theron defeat the wicked Sorcerer Argoss, are disappearing.   Lysandro knows the village magistrate Marek is responsible, and he searches for proof disguised as the masked protector the Shadow of Theron.  But when Marek wounds him with an accursed sword that shouldn't exist, Lysandro must find a way to stop Marek from gaining any more artifacts created by the Goddess or her nemesis. The arrival of the beautiful newcomer Seraphine, with secrets of her own, only escalates their rivalry.  As the feud between Lysandro and Marek throws Lighura into chaos, a pair of priestesses seeks to recover the relics and return them to ...

February has been an okay reading month in terms of quantity but great for quality. I enjoyed Mary Jane , about a teenage girl growing up in 1970s Baltimore who becomes the nanny for a more freewheeling Jewish family. This was fun for our synagogue book club, many of whom can remember growing up in the Jewish neighborhoods in Baltimore (specifically NOT the WASP-y neighborhood where Mary Jane lives). Then, I whipped through the graphic novels that the TV show Heartstopper is based on--I like the TV show more but it's based deeply on this source material (down to exact lines and scenes) so it was fun to see that and get a sneak peek ahead at next season. Finally, I got to read Kristin Cashore's Seasparrow, which I feel so lucky to read so soon after the last book Winterkeep came out in 2021, and that it was such a chunkster (624 pages!). I hope she never stops writing this series, I love them all so much, and I'm glad I got to fall in love with the character of Hava for this...