💙📚🪐🐉🌶️⏳⚡ #SFF Books I finished reading in May. Lots of great titles. Only one that I did not love but wanted to find out what happened and know some readers who will love it. Science fiction seems to be having a renaissance which thrills me. Also seeing great SF authors writing non-SF books.

💙📚🪐🐉 New #SFF at Out West Books today. I totally loved Cash and Gravity by Perrin Pring. Cash and Gravity is a near future SF, kick-ass road trip through the West with a big brawny woman marine, a male Ace (elite soldiers known for their advantages of being small, talented, smart, and beautiful) ⬇️

💙📚🪐🐉 #SFF Today's new releases on my favorite shelf at Out West Books. Just finished reading Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler. Amazing! Made me think of a couple of my favorite corvid books including deLint's Crow Girls and Science Comics: Crows.

All the car parks to the supermarkets and hyper markets in this area are done. Plus quite a few much smaller parking areas. All new agricultural buildings have solar panel roofs as well.

💙📚🪐 #SFF Generally, not a fan of books written by writers who have MFAs but VALET was listed as science fiction so I gave it a try and loved it. Cy, the main character, reminded me of C-3PO & the delightful Automatic Noodle characters. Look for it in your favorite library or indie book store June 2.

💙📚🪐🐉 #SFF New books shelf at Out West Books today. I ended up talking books for 4 1/2 hours today and ran out of Sarah Beth Durst books, sold out of Murder by Memory again.

💙📚🪐 #SFF Scott Treder's life is upended when he suddenly finds himself in the next day. Each disappearance is twice as long as the previous one, but he only has one day until it happens again. This hit all the "what if" and inexplicable events that make science fiction a favorite genre. 6/9/26 pub

💙📚🐉🔍The Book Witch is a celebration of the love of books, of reading and getting lost in a world full of what readers love. Memories of books read brought back feelings and created a yearning to reread some of them. A great story with wonderful twists. A joy to read. #fantasy #romance #mystery

💙📚🪐🐉 Big new release day today at Out West Books. Lot's of great fantasy and the newest Murderbot. Had a blast talking to several #SFF readers who came in. Keep selling out on all copies of Infinity Gate, Murder by Memory, & All Systems Red.

💙📚🪐🐉 Today's #SFF new shelf at Out West Books.

Enjoying contemplating the bedroom ceiling on a lazy Saturday morning.

I am getting behinder and behinder every day. Weren't many new #SFF releases at Out West books on Tuesday. I did read Paradox published by Forge not Tor and it is more thriller but the second in the series with the first def SF. Want to read Thistlemarsh and Honor & Heresy. 🔍💙📚🪐🐉

The world is full of weirdness. After sighting a group of jackrabbits, got home and logged in to look up collective noun for them and a post from @bunnyjadwiga.bsky.social , actually a share about looking something up popped up. Hares are solitary critters and seeing a bunch of them was rare.

💙📚🪐🐉 This weeks new #SFF at Out West Books. Loved Stay for a Spell by Amy Coombe. It's in my #1 spot for best fantasy of the year!

💙📚 Thrilled this is hitting bookstores in paperback tomorrow. It is quirky, humorous, heartfelt, and immensely satisfying. Bizarrely fascinating. You just can't beat a father daughter roadtrip with recently acquired orphans across the country and a cat that may be a harbinger of death.

#SFF Tuesday’s new releases in Out West Books Science Fiction and Fantasy shelves.

💙🪐📚🐉 #SFF New book shelves at Out West Books. Down to 1 copy of Wolf Worm, sold the rest. Enjoyed The Faraway Inn and The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Brigandale. Anticipating reading A Widow's Charm and This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me. Sold out of Murder by Memory 2 folks wanting to read B4 Nobody's Baby

💙📚🪐🌶️⏳⚡ 🐉 Books finished in March. Some of them aren't out yet and you may find my reviews in Booklist. My take on Tough Luck was in The Colorado Sun last Sunday. I started another 24 books that I didn't finish which is why there are so few this month.

💙📚🪐🌶️⏳🐉 If you love to read or listen to books please, please, please, buy from your local independent bookstore (I love Out West Books www.outwestbooks.co), bookshop.org, or Libro.fm. While you can find all the bestsellers at them you also can find much much more.

💙📚🪐🐉 #SFF Today's new releases on the New Books (and too tall) section at Out West Books in Grand Junction, Colorado. Wolf Worm, Nobody's Baby, and Seasons of Glass and Iron already getting lots of love. @amalelmohtar.com @oliviawaite.com @tkingfisher.com @barfridmantell.bsky.social

#SFF 💙📚🪐🐉 Busy, busy, week so missed posting on book release Tuesday. Expected more new SFF on Tuesday but no UPS truck. Here's what the New Books shelves at Out West Books looked like Tuesday.

💙📚🪐🐉 Book release Tuesday (face out). New books section in the #SFF area of Out West Books in Grand Junction, Colorado. Loved Nobody's Baby by Olivia Waite. Awesome blend of science fiction and locked room mystery.

💙📚🪐🔍 Excited the second Dorothy Gentleman book is out tomorrow. Super good blend of science fiction and mystery. Glad I got to star it for Booklist. "cozy locked-room mystery and inventively logical world building to create an addictive read that will delight mystery and SF fans."

💙📚🪐🐉 The #SFF new books shelves at Out West Books in Grand Junction, Colorado.

💙📚🪐🌶️⚡ Books I read in February. Happy to discuss.

💙📚🔍 New release Tuesday and I'm excited to introduce folks to Blood Relay by Devon Mihesuah. This superb thriller spanning multiple law enforcement jurisdictions, tribal, municipal, and state also illuminates contemporary Native life and culture.

💙📚🪐 Happy to have read Cash and Gravity by Perrin Pring. It is a near future SF, kick-ass road trip through the West to save... and well worth reading. It's in my top 5 for new SF reads in the last year. In bookstores 5/26/2026. Can't wait to share it with readers. It's time to preorder it. ⏩

💙📚🪐🐉 This week's new science fiction and fantasy releases at Out West Books.

💙📚🪐New release Tuesday and one of the sf books I've loved recently is out today. This outstanding novella is made up of multiple stories relayed and retold to a photographer on a mission to be the first humans to experience rain on Mars. ⏩cont.

💙📚 Just have to say... even after writing published reviews for many years, I still get a thrill out of seeing my lines used as a blurb on a book jacket or in the publisher's promotional materials.

💙📚🪐🌶️⏳⚡ The Reading the West Awards long lists have been published. readingthewest.com/36th-annual-... Sponsored by Independent Booksellers Association. I've read several in fiction, 1 debut fiction, 1 in young reader, and 2 in YA. Lots of genres included in fic list. ❤️ Reading outside comfort zone.

💙📚 My books about books shelves.

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💙📚🪐🐉 The shelves at Out West Books featuring new science fiction and fantasy.

Books I finished reading in January; everything from a middle grade graphic novel about a cryptid to a major award winner that had fallen behind a night stand not to mention new romances, westerns, mysteries, some more literary titles, and Bridgerton re-reads.

The new books shelf at Out West Books this week.

💙📚🪐🌶️⏳⚡🔍 The 227 books read in 2025 with top recommendations at the end. lifeontheedge.substack.com/p/on-the-boo...

Books finished in December 2025.

Two of my favorite novels this year highlighted in today's Colorado Sun. Murder by Memory and The Adventures of Mary Darling. 💙📚🪐 #SFF coloradosun.com/2025/12/14/o...

This week’s new #sff releases and too tall books shelves. 💙📚🪐🐉 #OutWestBooks

We have now lived in our #off-grid, #sustainable, #earthship for as many years as we worked toward being able to build it. Life is good. lifeontheedge.substack.com/p/our-sustai...

💙📚 #YA The Morris Award is one of my favorites. I was thrilled to be a member of the 2011 committee and every year I look for this list to find the best new authors of YA/teen books. www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

💙📚🪐🌶️🎧🐉⏳⚡ Books finished in November.

#SFF 💙📚🪐 One of the things I love about booktalking at Out West Books every week is people recommending books to me. Just finished listening to the audiobook of Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio recommended by several book buyers. A great recommendation.

West Point plaque: "Our code of military obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law."

I woke up at 2:30 this morning and decided to work on a top 10 list of books read and published in 2025. It was an impossible task. So I then decided to just list 1 book per genre which gave me doable parameters but was it really fair to the genres I loved and read voraciously?

New #SFF book shelf at Out West Books today.

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💙📚 #SFF New books shelves at Out West Books. Marissa Meyer’s THE HOUSE SAPHIR also released today but was on display in YA. Definitely worth the read.