book reviews Katabasis August 22, 2025 / August 22, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Katabasis, by R. F. Kuang, is a story about two graduate students who use “Magick” to venture to the uniquely imagined depths of hell crafted by Kuang in order to rescue their doctoral thesis advisor who was mysteriously found not just dead, but torn to pieces atop a chalked alchemical circle the main charater had […] Read more » Classical literature fantasy New Adult young adult
book reviews Review: Hemlock & Silver August 19, 2025 / September 27, 2025 by Star Cat Books Part mystery, part very slight romance, part quite intricate and fascinating fantasy, and part horror. This book drew me in and I couldn’t stop reading. Read more » fantasy mystery
book reviews REVIEW: The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy August 17, 2025 / August 17, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Mary Darling is not the prim & proper young mother society and her neighbors thing she is. Mary Darling, for instance, belongs to a weekly “exercise” session for “umbrellas” (read: sabers) with other women like her. When she and her husband, George, who fecklessly left their giant protective dog Nanna tied outside while they went […] Read more » Fairy tale fantasy
book reviews An Unusual Take on a Fairy Tale We All Know and Love August 7, 2025 / August 16, 2025 by Star Cat Books Mary Darling is an alumnus of living with Peter Pan. She is not the prim proper Victorian lady: she is one kickass woman. Wesley the bookstore cat was also enthralled by the book and helped me read it. Read more » Fairy tale science fiction
news Wesley has taken over our Instagram! June 17, 2025 / August 4, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Wesley has apparently learned our Insta password and has been using my iPhone when my back is turned. If you hadn’t noticed our Instagram has (mostly) been taken over by Wesley the bookstore cat. And, as you probably know, cats want attention. To keep him from taking over the cash register, we encourage you to […] Read more » Cat Instagram Wesley the bookstore cat
Audio books book reviews REVIEW: Three Days in June by Anne Tyler February 11, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment This lovely little novel centers around Gail Blaine — mother, ex-wife, suddenly unemployed educator — and three days surrounding her daughter’s (Debbie) wedding. And her ex, Max, who shows up unannounced for said wedding, expecting to stay at Gail’s house. With a cat. Not his, he claims, but a foster; does Gail mind that the […] Read more » Fiction
book reviews REVIEW: The Daughter of Auschwitz: The Girl Who Lived to Tell Her Tale, by Tova Friedman January 25, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Tova Friedman here recounts her own story as one of the youngest children to survive Auschwitz’s during the Holocaust, framed as a retelling to a friend she has met and trusts in New York, after World War II. The book is an ostensibly middle reader version of Friedman’s adult book of the same, told from […] Read more » children's books Holocaust Middle Reader
news Neil Gaiman books January 14, 2025 / August 4, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment I need to make this announcement, apparently, because it’s already started: We are not a dumping ground for your now-unwanted Neil Gaiman books and graphic novels. We have no access to the dumpster — you can go to the Transfer Station more easily than we can, in fact. I know far more about this news […] Read more » Neil Gaiman Trade-in books
book reviews REVIEW: Never Gamble Your Heart January 8, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Never Gamble Your Heart (Forever (Grand Central Publishing), pub date Feb 4, 2025, 384pp, $17.99) Genre: Romance with mystery. A charming Victorian romance, updated for modern values regarding women’s independence, but quite lovely, well-told, and eminently readable. I tore through it (even while taking notes!). I read an ARC of this (Advanced Reading Copy) because […] Read more » mystery Romance Victorian
news Open 7 Days a Week Until Christmas! December 14, 2024 / August 4, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment We are now open 7 days a week, 10am-5pm, until Christmas. Closing at 2pm Christmas Eve, we are closed Christmas Day and the day after Christmas. Hope to see you then! Remember, Saturdays are 15% off new books until Christmas. Read more » Holiday Holiday schedule sale store hours
