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(re)Viewing Last Month: August 2025

September 4, 2025 3 Comments

Hello! I’m trying something a little different this month. I always like to see what my fellow book lovers are watching. If I like your book recommendations, it stands to reason that I would like your screen recommendations too. I occasionally share what my husband and I are watching but I include […]

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I’m from and still have my permanent home in Asheville, NC, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene. My family, close friends, and I were fine but if you’re able, I hope you’ll consider donating to a relief organization or shopping online at some of our local small businesses. If you’re unable to support my community financially, please keep us in your thoughts and/or prayers. It’s going to take years to recover from this.

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Read my book review of Greenteeth, Molly O'Neill's Read my book review of Greenteeth, Molly O'Neill's delightful debut fantasy novel. Full review at the link in my bio.What an absolute delight!I just texted my sister to recommend Greenteeth to her. I wrote, “It’s an old school fantasy/fairy tale. It felt a little retro in a time when fantasies are either urban fantasies or sprawling epics with 50,000 characters and entire magic/religion/political systems.”To be clear, I do enjoy other types of fantasy books, but as a child of the ’80s, this felt like a return to the books that made me fall in love with the genre in the first place. There are quests (three to be exact, because how could there be more or less?), danger, high stakes, and characters who genuinely care about each other while at the same time disagreeing and having their own, differing opinions. I loved it.I would almost describe it as a cozy fantasy but the stakes are a bit too high for that and there are strains of genuine loss and sorrow woven through the novel. It’s close though.It is definitely a novel of found family and that is a trope I always enjoy. Jenny Greenteeth is a complicated character who doesn’t always understand her own motivations. She makes some questionable decisions but she eventually learns important lessons. Temperance is a witch with an enormous mother’s heart. She is the definition of a mother bear. And poor Brackus is the dandyish peacemaker who somehow holds them all together. None of them are perfect except in their love for each other.Catrin Walker-Booth beautifully narrates the audiobook. I felt as if she were reading me a fairy tale before bed, which is the perfect vibe for this book.I highly, highly recommend this debut novel. I’ll be keeping an eye out for Ms. O’Neill’s future work.
Join me as I look back on the movies and shows my Join me as I look back on the movies and shows my husband and I have watched recently in (re)Viewing Last Month: August 2025. Full post at the link in my bioStephen King's The Shining (1997 mini-series)--3.5 StarsLupin: Part Three--4 StarsRogue One--4 StarsWe Bought a Zoo--4 StarsAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--3.5 StarsMiss Scarlet and the Duke: Season Three: 4 Stars
Check out what I've been reading, reviewing, posti Check out what I've been reading, reviewing, posting, and doing on Introverted Reader in my weekly update for August 31, 2025! Full post at the link in my bio.Since my last update on August 10 I’ve read:The Lost Art of Mixing (The School of Essential Ingredients #2) by Erica Bauermeister, read by Cassandra Campbell–4 StarsThe Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte–4 StarsO Pioneers! by Willa Cather–4 StarsThe Serpent and the Wings of Night (Crowns of Nyaxia #1) by Carissa Broadbent, read by Amanda Leigh Cobb–2 StarsThe Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories by Stephen King–4 Stars
Check out what I've been reading, reviewing, posti Check out what I've been reading, reviewing, posting, and doing on Introverted Reader in my weekly update for August 10, 2025! https://buff.ly/DtxhaZ0 I've read too many books to list here since my last update on March 23. But I did recently take a page end painting class at my (current) local library. The library provided us with all the supplies, including the books! I know that I'm not Picasso but I had fun and I'm happy with how it turned out.During the class, the librarian and the other attendees decided to start a new romantasy book club. They invited me to join, so I suddenly find myself a founding member! I read a lot of fantasy but not a lot of romantasy so this has taken me a little outside my comfort zone. We started off with the Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros. Read more in my blog post!
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon by Edward Dolnick: Book Review--4 Stars. Full review at the link in my bio.John Wesley Powell caught my attention when my husband and I visited the Grand Canyon in 2013. I would periodically think that I should read a book about him and then I would forget about it. When we visited Lake Powell and Horseshoe Canyon in Page, AZ a few months ago, I decided that it was finally time to learn more about this explorer.I will never raft the Colorado River, and especially not the section through the Grand Canyon. That was my biggest takeaway. The descriptions of the rapids and the power of the water were terrifying.But this was a truly interesting book. I honestly couldn't wait to read more about Powell and his crew every night. The fact that the first European team to raft the Grand Canyon was led by a Civil War veteran with only one arm and practically no experience on the water is mind-boggling to me. The entire group was made up of novices! Sure there were some "mountain men" who were used to living off the land but that knowledge doesn't lend itself to reading rapids and finding the best way through them.The author takes a lot of tangents on the river journey. I'm a tangential thinker and storyteller myself so it didn't bother me but his style might not be for everyone. There were sections about the Battle of Shiloh, where Powell lost his arm, that segued into the state of medicine and infection control at the time. There were interviews with today's river guides who know the river like the backs of their hands. There was some history of the areas they were passing through and some then-current events.If you like reading about explorers doing the seemingly-impossible, this book is a great choice. But if you're planning a rafting trip down the Grand Canyon and you're feeling a little hesitant about it, maybe wait until after your trip.
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