en-US Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:09:02 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7438135141 Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:09:02 -0700 /review/show/7438135141 Brooke gave 4 stars to All Fours (Hardcover) by Miranda July
bookshelves: 2025, general-fiction
]]> ReadStatus9270950104 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:49:58 -0700 /review/show/7462417834 Brooke is currently reading Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
]]> Review7446083350 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:43:49 -0700 /review/show/7446083350 Brooke gave 5 stars to The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts (Kindle Edition) by Mary Claire Haver
bookshelves: 2025, non-fiction
]]> Review7424587827 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:37:14 -0700 /review/show/7424587827 Brooke gave 3 stars to The Manor of Dreams (Hardcover) by Christina Li
bookshelves: 2025, horror
I requested this book on NetGalley due to the promise of a multi-generational Chinese-American family gothic horror novel. Overall I enjoyed it, although it wasn't one that I eagerly looked forward to getting back to whenever I had to put it down. It leaned far more heavily into the family drama than it did the gothic/horror elements. Those elements were really more like highlights on the full picture, and there were no moments of dread or anything I found particularly creepy. Despite the synopsis mentioning that the characters are "racing" to find out what happened to the deceased matriarch of the family, the pacing was fairly slow and unhurried as the history of the family unfolds through flashbacks that take up the majority of the story. If family dramas are something one enjoys, there's certainly a solid one here. ]]> ReadStatus9247721393 Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:07:14 -0700 /review/show/7446083350 Brooke is currently reading The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts by Mary Claire Haver
]]> Review7424587827 Sat, 29 Mar 2025 18:06:23 -0700 /review/show/7424587827 Brooke gave 3 stars to The Manor of Dreams (Hardcover) by Christina Li
bookshelves: 2025, horror
I requested this book on NetGalley due to the promise of a multi-generational Chinese-American family gothic horror novel. Overall I enjoyed it, although it wasn't one that I eagerly looked forward to getting back to whenever I had to put it down. It leaned far more heavily into the family drama than it did the gothic/horror elements. Those elements were really more like highlights on the full picture, and there were no moments of dread or anything I found particularly creepy. Despite the synopsis mentioning that the characters are "racing" to find out what happened to the deceased matriarch of the family, the pacing was fairly slow and unhurried as the history of the family unfolds through flashbacks that take up the majority of the story. If family dramas are something one enjoys, there's certainly a solid one here. ]]> ReadStatus9236327519 Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:14:40 -0700 /review/show/7438135141 Brooke is currently reading All Fours by Miranda July
]]> ReadStatus9217064343 Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:33:19 -0700 /review/show/7424587827 Brooke is currently reading The Manor of Dreams by Christina Li
]]> Review7414510610 Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:27:27 -0700 /review/show/7414510610 Brooke gave 3 stars to The River Has Roots (Kindle Edition) by Amal El-Mohtar
bookshelves: 2025, fantasy
]]> Review7403641155 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:40:53 -0700 /review/show/7403641155 Brooke gave 4 stars to The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock, #3) by Sherry Thomas
bookshelves: 2025, mystery
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