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January 6, 2023

Jayne’s Best of 2022 List

JayneBook Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsBest of 202211 Comments

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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a ... more >

July 25, 2022

REVIEW: Ashlin and Olivia by Aster Glenn Gray

JayneBook Reviews / C+ Reviewschildhood friends / Contemporary / Dual Timelines / f/f / friends-to-lovers / Italy / LGBTQIAP+6 Comments

Ice queen Ashlin has one passion: art. That shared interest drew Olivia to her for an intense childhood friendship, but after that friendship’s disastrous end, Olivia never wanted to see Ashlin again. Years later, when the two women run into each other in Florence, Olivia is shocked to discover that ... more >

May 27, 2022

REVIEW: The Mating Call of the Teleporting Warbler by Aster Glenn Gray

JayneA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readscats / contemporary f/f romance / epistolary novel / f/f / Fantasy / LGBTQIA characters / professor / Scientist / short-story / slice of life4 Comments

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An f/f epistolary short story. When Rosemary’s research on the elusive teleporting warbler takes her out of cell service, established middle-aged couple Eleanor and Rosemary keep in touch by sending letters via their winged pet cat Ursula. Previously published in Her Magical Pet: Benefit F/F Story Collection. Dear Aster Glenn ... more >

December 8, 2021

JOINT REVIEW: The Larks Still Bravely Singing by Aster Glenn Gray

JanineB Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews1910s / 1920s / amputee / anxiety / boarding school / convalescent hospital / Cornwall / disability / England / English countryside / epistolary / historical romance / infidelity / joint review / m/m romance / Oxford / trauma / World War I12 Comments

Janine: The Larks Still Bravely Singing begins when Robert Montagu and David Callahan reunite after being invalided from the battlefields of World War I. Robert and David both attended the Abbey, an English boys’ boarding school. As members of the same natural history club, they rambled along the countryside and ... more >

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January 29, 2021

Janine’s Best of 2020

JanineBook Reviews / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsAgent/Spies/Undercover / Best of 2020 / best of list / boarding school / Cold War / disabled hero / found family / genius loci / historical romance / king / Literary fiction / loner / m/m / magic users / one day courtship / passing / SF / thief / twins / UF / voting / war / YA / YA fantasy14 Comments

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I spent much of 2020 grateful to books and authors for giving me a way to visit other times and places while stuck at home because of Covid. Below, listed in alphabetical order by author, are my top eight favorite books of 2020. Some grades have been adjusted since my ... more >

September 25, 2020

JOINT REVIEW: Honeytrap by Aster Glenn Gray

JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1950s / assassination attempt / bisexual characters / Cold War / FBI agent / investigation / joint review / Russian / secret agent / Soviet Union / star-crossed lovers20 Comments

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Content warnings: Sirius and I reviewed Aster Glenn Gray’s f/f novella, The Wolf and the Girl, early this year. We decided to reunite for her new m/m novel, Honeytrap. Both works feature Russian characters so I’m especially glad to have Sirius, who lived in what was then a part of ... more >

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