Books and Sensibility

We’re Back (and on WordPress!)

August 31, 2020 Leave a Comment

Kat and I have been on a bit of a blogging hiatus since March. When Virginia locked down due to the pandemic I started taking to Kat about finally migrating our site to WordPress as a project and distraction.

In the mid-2010’s moving to WordPress was this rite of passage for book bloggers. The process always looked intimidating so we put it off for years. I started researching and found the process was more streamlined than I remembered. I’m moderately tech-savvy and felt I could Google my way through it. Also, the new Blogger made me ready to jump ship.

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AudioFile Magazine’s Picks of the Best YA Audiobooks for Spring Listening

April 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

Spring is finally here and you can always count on an audiobook as a great little getaway, and AudioFile Magazine is here to help with their Best YA Audiobooks for Spring Listening. For more audiobook reviews, recommendations and blog posts and check out AudioFile Magazine.com or follow @AudioFileMag

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Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

March 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

9 hours 58 min. | G.P. Putnam’s Son | Adult Fiction | Release Date: 12/31/19

2020 has been kind of a meh reading year for me so I decided to switch it up with some upmarket book club-y fiction. This is one of those books where it’s better to go in with as little information as possible. Such a Fun Age starts with 25-year-old Emira, a Black girl living in Philadelphia, being racially profiled while babysitting a white child. The book then follows Emira as she tries to figure out how to become a “real adult” and her boss, Alix Chamberlain, who starts noticing Emira in a new way after the incident.

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Protect The Prince by Jennifer Estep (Crown of Shards #2)

March 14, 2020 Leave a Comment

12 hrs. 40 min. | Adult Fantasy | Harper Voyage | Release Date: 07/2/2019

*Kill the Queen Spoilers*

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The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta

March 8, 2020 Leave a Comment

9 hours 44 min. | Viking | YA Fantasy | Release Date: 10/30/18

In this Italian inspired fantasy, we travel to the mountains of Vinalia and meet Teodora “Teo” Di Sangro, the second daughter of a high ranking family. Teo has a secret. She’s a strega who uses her magic to turn the men who have wronged her family into objects. You know…like a straight-up serial killer.

Stregas are supposed to be things of the past but when tragedy strikes her family, Teo joins up with Cielo– a mysterious orphaned strega who can change genders– to teach her how to become a boy and take over as the Di Sangro family son.

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