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Are you subscribed to my @bindery_books newsletter yet? You should be! Sign up to get a weekly roundup of book review, plus a look at whatever else has been going on in my life. Yes, this means at least one cat photo every week! It’s also free, so I don’t know what you’re waiting for!

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[ ID: Graphic: Photo of open books with text around it. Text reads: Have you subscribed to my newsletter yet? Get a weekly roundup of what I’ve read and what I’ve been up to delivered to straight to your inbox every Monday. Subscribe for free at caseythereader.binderybooks.com. ] by @caseythereader

Follow these tips to read the most books you’ve ever read in a year!

#bookstagram #booktok #readersgonnaread by @caseythereader

My spouse helped me move my books from my old Kindle to my new Kobo and the first thing they told me was, “Don’t worry, I made sure to get all the John Scalzi books!” They know me so well.

[ ID: Photo - my hand holding up a Kobo in front of a shelf full of books. It’s displaying the title page of The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi. ] by @caseythereader

OCTOBER WRAP UP [ thanks to the tagged publishers for the gifted books ]
I blinked and October was gone. Here’s what I managed to squeeze in this month. My full end of month review and November TBR will be in my newsletter on Monday!

ONE YELLOW EYE by Leigh Radford*
LUCY, UNCENSORED by Teghan Hammond and Mel Hammond*
⭐ BUZZARD by Inez Ray*
THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION by qntm*
WOLF WORM by T. Kingfisher*
ESPIRITU by Aiden Thomas*
⭐ PUNISHED by Ann-Helen Laestadius*
⭐ DAGGERMOUTH by H.M. Wolfe*
NOBODY’S BABY by Olivia Waite*
⭐ THE FOUR WIVES AND FIVE DEATHS OF RICHARD MILFORD by Nafissa Thompson-Spires*
ONE WORD, SIX LETTERS by Adib Khorram*
WESTWARD WOMEN by Alice Martin*
⭐ NOT WITH A BANG by Temi Oh*
CITY OF OTHERS by Jared Poon*

[ ID: Photo - a row of books stands spines up on a light patterned bedspread. The books are One Word Six Letters, The Four Wives And Five Deaths Of Richard Milford, Punished, There Is No Antimemetics Division, and One Yellow Eye. ] by @caseythereader

In October, I turned 40.

I dog sat.

I began learning to make nail polish.

I saw the Spirit clinch a playoff spot.

I did ace flag ghost nails.

I watched Nebraska crush UMD.

I continued to have the cutest cats. by @caseythereader

[ @ballantinebooks #gifted ]
✅ fuzzy blanket
✅ Halloween cat mug
✅ mind bendy sci-fi novel

Couldn’t ask for a more perfect fall setup.

[ ID: Photo - my hand holds a coffee mug shaped like a black cat wearing an orange bow tie. The edge of the mug holds open a copy of There Is No Antimemetics Division open to the title page. Under it all is a fuzzy red blanket. ] by @caseythereader

[ thanks to the tagged publishers for the gifted books ] Here’s what’s been in my earbuds lately. Full reviews can be found in recent issues of my weekly newsletter.

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Westward Women by Alice Martin - 2 stars

Nobody’s Baby by Olivia Waite - 4 stars

More Like Enemigas by Stephanie Hope - 3 stars

If I Could Go Back by Briana Johnson - 3 stars by @caseythereader

Readers have been reading on the DC Metro lately! Swipe to see what I’ve spotted recently.

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The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Road To Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder

The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley

Ghost Fleet by PW Singer and August Cole

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides by @caseythereader

BOOKMAIL [ Thanks to the tagged publishers for the gifted books ]
The latest and greatest to arrive on my doorstep. Which would you grab first?

[ ID: Photo - books laying covers up on a light colored sheet. The books are The Strangers, Dead Batteries, A Dead White, What A Nightmare, and Our Arab. ] by @caseythereader

Happy 40th birthday to me! I got a Kobo! I threw out my back! You win some, you lose some!

[ ID: Photo - my left hand holding a Kobo Clara still in its package. ] by @caseythereader

[ @orbitbooks_us #gifted ] Do you ever find your books overlapping with something else in your life? My current read CITY OF OTHERS features a night market, and right before I started reading it I also started playing MINEKO’S NIGHT MARKET. It’s a bonus that I’m also greatly enjoying both!

[ ID: Photo - A copy of City Of Others lays on a light patterned bedspread next to a Nintendo Switch displaying the home screen of the game Mineko’s Night Market. ] by @caseythereader

BOOKMAIL [ thanks to the tagged publishers for the gifted books ] Some highly anticipated (for me) books have landed on my doorstep recently. Let’s take a closer look, shall we? Summaries are taken from The Storygraph.

[ ID: Photo - A stack of books on a white shelf in front of a white bookshelf full of books. The books in the stack are Set The Record Straight, Like Glass, Trans Time Travel, Monsters Of Ohio, The Mountain Woman, The Ravaged Night, Saltcrop, Live Laugh Love, and Man In The Mirror. ]

[ @scriberbooks #gifted ] THE RAVAGED NIGHT by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo - A band of teenage misfits. A town rotting from the inside out. An abandoned house that feeds on their deepest fears and darkest desires.

[ @torbooks #gifted ] SALTCROP by Yume Kitase - The epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister—and Earth’s environmental salvation.

[ @liverightbooks #gifted ] LIVE LAUGH LOVE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF WHITE CHRISTIAN WOMAN AND THE WORLD THEY MADE by Kristin Kobes Du Mez - A revelatory history of white Christian womanhood in the United States.

[ @scribnerbooks #gifted ] - THE MOUNTAIN WOMAN by Fernanda Trías - A hypnotic novel of rage, solitude, and metamorphosis, set on a mountain where the living and the dead refuse to stay silent.

[ @torbooks #gifted ] MONSTERS OF OHIO by John Scalzi - A heartfelt exploration of a tentacular solution to the struggles of the modern world.

[ @scribnerbooks #gifted ] TRANS TIME TRAVEL: A JOURNEY INTO AMERICAN HISTORY by Thomas Page McBee - A kaleidoscopic journey into the American archive, illuminating four centuries of gender-variant history and the cost, to all of us, of its erasure.

[ @aaknopf #gifted ] MAN IN THE MIRROR: HOPE, STRUGGLE, AND BELONGING IN AN AMERICAN CITY by Anand Giridharadas - A groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation.

[ @dellromance #gifted ] SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT by Hannah Bonam-Young - A fake dating, childhood friends to lovers, bisexual-awakening, holiday romance.

[ @harpercollins #gifted ] LIKE GLASS by Jen Ferguson - A luminous story of a family steeped in grief by @caseythereader