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There’s a New Young Magician in Town

Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston

Amari and the Great Game by B. B. Alston

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Seeking a break from the current troubles in my personal life, I hit the library looking for something light and fun to take my mind off of everything. The “now available” section on Libby showed me a bunch of things that looked too hard but then came Amari. Amari and the Night Brothers is the first in a planned trilogy of books by B. B. Alston known as the Supernatural Investigations series. The main character, Amari Peters, lives in a housing project with her single […]

Yes, THAT Vampire Series

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

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It’s okay to admit it – you have an opinion about the Twilight series, just like everyone else on Earth. Whether you love it or hate it, you’ve probably spent longer than you’d like to thinking about the folks up in Forks. I resisted the pull of these horny teenage vampires for years before finally giving in to my girlfriend’s plea to watch the movies with her. It only took thirty minutes of Kristen Stewart looking bored and Robert Pattinson looking constipated to make me […]

A Moving Portrait of a Complicated Character

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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I was starting to feel like the only person I knew who hadn’t read Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Scrolling through my Libby wishlist, I saw this at the top – and it was available! I checked it out and immediately sat down to see what all the fuss was about. The book is narrated by Monique Grant, a talented but underutilized writer at a magazine. The magazine receives notice that aging megastar Evelyn Hugo would like to tell her life story […]

Heartbreaking But Beautiful

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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One of my favorite discoveries of the past year is the band Japanese Breakfast. They’ve been around for a while, but I just never got around to listening to them. Something else I just never got around to was reading Crying in H Mart. What’s the link here? Michelle Zauner is both the lead singer of Japanese Breakfast AND the author of this beautiful and heartbreaking memoir. Michelle had a somewhat unpleasant upbringing. As one of the only Asian American students at her school in […]

Another Outing for the Thursday Murder Club

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

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After reading Thursday Murder Club last year, I was immediately craving more. Based in the English countryside, the Thursday Murder Club centers around a group of elderly residents in a senior living community. Each week the members of the club meet to discuss old, unsolved crimes. In the first novel, they become entwined with a real (and current) murder investigation making friends with the police and several unsavory characters along the way. In the second novel in the series, The Man Who Died Twice, the team returns to […]

Faeries, Beasts, and a Whole New World

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

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When I picked up A Court of Thorns and Roses from my local library, I wasn’t sure what kind of journey it would take me on. With a full cast of humans, faeries, and other mystical beasts, it seemed right up my alley. I devoured it in a single day. The first in a series of books, ACOTAR opens in the human world and focuses on Feyre. A young woman caring for her ailing father and two sisters, Feyre is hardened to the world around her. […]



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