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What’s the opposite of taking it easy? This book is that.

The Art of Taking It Easy by Dr. Brian King

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Dr. Brian King, academic psychologist and aspiring comedian, shares his thoughts on how to live a life with less stress. Overdrive selected this one as their Big Read for the spring. I’m going through a fairly stressful season in my own life, and hoped this would have a takeaway or two that I could use. Y’all. It has been a while since I’ve quit a book so completely fully as I did with this one. How does a book about reducing stress result in a […]

What it means to be king

How to Catch a Queen (Runaway Royals, #1) by Alyssa Cole

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This might be my favorite Alyssa Cole yet. The story continues in Cole’s established universe–cameo appearances by most of the Reluctant Royals gang. Sanyu is the new king of an isolationist African nation Njaza. Tradition demands that he wed before his father passes away, and his advisors present him with Shanti (found on RoyalMatch.com). Don’t. Stop. I hear you laughing. Just go with it. The thing is, tradition also demands that the king’s marriage is for a four month trial period, after which the queen […]

Ridge City is a mess, y’all.

Bones of the Past by Drew Hayes

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Bones of the Past picks up a few months after Forging Hephaestus left off. Tori, Beverly, and Chloe are sharing an apartment. Doctor Mechaniacal is rebuilding the Guild’s home base. Donald, Rem, and their teammates are doing what they can to regain the public’s trust now that everything is out in the open. And Lodestar is back on duty, fending off alien invasions in between PTA meetings. Life returns to normal. (That Nexus comment at the end of FH, though? You won’t find the resolution […]

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a cookie look smug.

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

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Mona lives in Riverbraid, a city-state where folks with magick live mostly peacefully with their non-magic neighbors. (Other city-states are not so kind, you understand. Some require magickers to register with the government, or lived confined to a ghetto, or serve in the military.) Mona is pretty satisfied with this as her magic is small and, in her opinion, not terribly useful. She’s a bread wizard, useful for saving a loaf from burning, but limited in application otherwise. Then magickers with small gifts like Mona’s […]

A YA cautionary tale for those DNA sites

You Have A Match by Emma Lord

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Alternate title I didn’t have the fortitude to go with: more like parentS trap (I’m funnier in real life.) As far as summer camp adventures go, hiding out at an academic grind sleepaway camp in order to get to know your SURPRISE FULL-BLOODED SISTER and avoid summer school is kind of… okay, I’m not sure it would have ever occurred to me to do it, but The Youth are better than me. So there’s Abby. She’s having a bad year. Her beloved grandfather passed. Her […]



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