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I'm a scholar, a writer, a late-blooming artist, and a lover of narrative. Books have been my solace for as long as I can remember. I have a particular love for sci fi/speculative fiction and poetry
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tracynicholrose rated These Precious Days: 5 stars
These Precious Days
“Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will …
tracynicholrose rated The Five Wounds: 5 stars
tracynicholrose rated The City of Brass: 5 stars
The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con …
tracynicholrose rated Akata Woman: 4 stars
Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor (The Nsibidi Scripts, #3)
From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had magic flowing in her blood, she sought to understand and control her …
tracynicholrose rated The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: 5 stars
tracynicholrose rated The Burning Page: 4 stars
The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman
"Never judge a book by its cover. ... Due to her involvement in an unfortunate set of mishaps between the …
tracynicholrose rated This Boy We Made: 3 stars
tracynicholrose rated Servant Mage: 5 stars
tracynicholrose rated Oh William!: 3 stars
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always …
tracynicholrose rated A Little Life: 5 stars
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and …
tracynicholrose rated Masked City: 4 stars
Masked City by Genevieve Cogman
Librarian-spy Irene is working undercover in an alternative London when her assistant Kai goes missing. She discovers he's been kidnapped …
tracynicholrose rated Where the Drowned Girls Go: 4 stars
Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #7)
There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again. It isn't as friendly as …
tracynicholrose rated The mermaid, the witch, and the sea: 4 stars
The mermaid, the witch, and the sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
A desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial daughter find a connection on the high seas in a world …