#BookReview: "Didn't You Used to be Queenie B?" by Terri-Lynne DeFino.
DeFino once again spoils readers with her artful skills. QueenieB is a rise-from-the-ashes tale you don't want to miss.
https://www.amberunmasked.com/review-queenieb/
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#Bookthreads #booksky #bookstodon Bulgaria Behind the Iron Curtain. My #bookreview for "The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax" by Dorothy Gilman (Mrs. Pollifax #3) on my #bookblog now. I'm still reading these #thrillers; they're fun! #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal #classics #Intrigue #communism #spies

http://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/04/25/bulgaria-behind-the-iron-curtain/

A few years back I read this book, Raven Rock, by Garrett Graff. I can’t recommend it enough. It covers the history of the Cold War and the defense strategies to protect political leadership in the event of a nuclear attack. So many fascinating details and stories. One of the things that really surprised me was how many US presidents said they wouldn’t leave the Oval Office. Eventually the strategies baked this in. Another fascinating detail was that JFK ran on a platform that promoted building more nukes, but once he became president he learned that America already had 10x more nukes than Russia. #BookReview #uspol #coldwar

ICYMI:Audio: Without Sanction by Don Bentley 
#BookReview   #4Hearts #AudioBookReview
https://booksofmyheart.net/2020/03/04/audio-without-sanction-by-don-bentley/?fsp_sid=3597

Here’s my review for the #1952Club hosted by @kaggsy59 of The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham, a tense thriller set in the dense London fog. I’m still not entirely sure what to make of it! #bookstodon #BookReview #Storygraph#audiobook @bookstodon
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fa1c45d2-a3d5-4eec-8794-addbdc8a668a

Linda reviews The Wolf's Raven by A. Williams:

"Shawn, while running with his pack, perceives the presence of his mate and proceeds to diligently search for him, until he discovers him in flight. Ren doesn't want a mate who is unable to fly... a sweet story, where fate seemed to have to make a huge mistake. 4 stars."

https://www.queeromanceink.com/2025/04/24/review-the-wolfs-raven-a-williams/

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A Review of Heart of Water and Stone: https://lydiaschoch.com/a-review-of-heart-of-water-and-stone/ #Fantasy #LGBTQ #Bookstodon #BookReview #IndieBooks

On the blog, a review of the linguistics book 'New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research' https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/book-review-new-horizons-in-prescriptivism-research-2024/

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Review - You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song, by Glenn McDonald: clearly a huge fan of streaming and of music, very much comes across as an apologist for Spotify. Rating: 2/5 ("it was okay").

Full review: https://breathesbooks.com/2025/04/24/review-you-have-not-yet-heard-your-favourite-song/

https://open.substack.com/pub/msarki/p/notes-on-denis-johnson-seek-and-gordon-3e7?r=jo10o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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With “Pedro and the Captain” Benedetti offered hope and dignity in times of repression (bookreview)
https://www.doorbraak.eu/with-pedro-and-the-captain-benedetti-offered-hope-and-dignity-in-times-of-repression-bookreview/

"Decades later, “Pedro and the Captain” remains painfully relevant. It exposes not just the mechanics of torture but the structures that support it. With minimalist setting and profound emotional depth, Benedetti delivers a powerful meditation on resistance, power, and the strength of the human spirit."

FAMILY SECRETS COLLIDE with a faraway war in this rueful, smart, funny novel—a young nurse, adopted as an Albanian infant into a blue-collar Italian-American enclave, hunts for her twin brother amid the chaos of her own life and the world’s. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/everybody-says-its-everything-xhenet-aliu/1145838116?ean=9780593732274

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**Enough Is Enuf by Gabe Henry review – the battle to reform English spelling**

Matthew Cantor

“_In his amusing and enlightening new book, Gabe Henry traces the history of these efforts, beginning with a 12th-century monk named Orrmin, continuing through the beginnings of American English and the movement’s 19th-century heyday, finally arriving at textspeak._”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/23/enough-is-enuf-by-gabe-henry-review-the-battle-to-reform-english-spelling.

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4 of 5 stars for The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6), by Agatha Christie

https://lordofthemoon.com/bookreviews/the-mystery-of-the-blue-train-hercule-poirot-6/

I've finished the reading and rereading for The Courage to be Disliked.

We're probably a bit more digesting away from anything like a book report, if I do another one for it, but in the meantime, I did take the time to leave a review on Storygraph.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7178e55e-1e24-4f45-a30d-6eca21c1d12a

Reading Pluralistic : Sarah Wynn-Williams’s ‘Careless People’ #bookreview https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/

Reading Pluralistic : Sarah Wynn-Williams’s ‘Careless People’ #bookreview