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

Oops! A Fishboy Named Sashimi was actually read in January.

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

her partner Sophia Burns are on the case, sure Dels was kidnapped. They are tough, smart, and somewhat reckless as they doggedly follow up on clues that fling them into danger.

After winning a major competition, Dels Billy, a beloved women’s Indian Horse Relay rider is on her way home with one of her crew when her truck starts cutting out and she pulls off and disappears, her companion appearing dead. Choctaw Detective Perry Antelope and

💙📚🔍 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.

I've been suffering from a dearth of SF I love (found some, but few and too far between) for the last couple years and resorting to rereading older favorites. I do have a 5 book a week habit, having cut back a bit so it does take a lot of books to stay supplied. Lovely to discover new storytellers.

💙📚🪐 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.

After more than half a century of watching CBS (for many years KREX out of Grand Junction was the ONLY station we could pick up in rural western Colorado) it is dead to me. I miss Sunday Morning and a lot more but its kowtowing to Trump is unforgivable.

brought them to the same place at the same time will hopefully garner all the awards and accolades this terrific story made of stories deserves. It is by @matthewkressel.net and I'm going to have to look for more he's written.

As terraforming creates some changes on the vast empty vistas of the planet, rain becomes a possibility. Told with tenderness and sensitivity, the stories of the lives of a few of the mission members, with their varied backgrounds, origins, triumphs, and disasters that ⏩cont.

💙📚🪐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.

Congrats! It's a terrific read, one the best sf reads I've found lately.

💙📚 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.

Reading the West Book Awards Introducing the 36TH Annual LONGLIST We are delighted to present the titles nominated for this year’s Reading the West Book Awards. Click on any of the categories below to explore the lists. Independe...

💙📚🪐🌶️⏳⚡ 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.

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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.

January on the Edge The first half month.

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One of the things I noticed is a section in there where I was doing lots of rereads of the Vorkosigan Saga and realized that was when my beloved was undergoing cancer treatment. They got me through.

On the Bookish Side Books read in 2025

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

Books finished in December 2025.

Out West Books suggests tales of music, murder and a ferocious mom The Grand Junction bookstore recommends stories of an aspiring songwriter, deleting minds and a mother who fights to save her kids.

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...

A middle school teacher was looking for a novel his school could use because HS teachers complained students had never read any and were not up to reading one. Asked at the bookstore because no librarians are in our middle schools anymore.

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

Our Sustainable Home A silent movie of the images of building our house and a few of what it looked like when done.

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...

Enough of the backstory shows up organically throughout that I never felt anything was missing that I needed to know. I love it when a book in a series can stand on its own. I had picked it up because I loved Kowal's locked room mystery in space "The Spare Man".