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Heading into my 8th year participating in Cannonball Read with CBR12: likely slowing down with my reading as work won't allow as much, but I'll try not to let that stop me!

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Even the Mysterious Figures that We Aren’t Quite Sure are there Have Their Histories to Tell

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

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It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to the Welcome to Night Vale podcast, a surreal little trip into a strange desert town with unexplained incidents that the people are just accustomed to and seem to live with like that’s just life. I’m not sure if my previous knowledge and experience with the series made the reading of this novel better or worse: on the one hand, it certainly filled in a couple of spaces at the end that might make those unfamiliar confused, […]

Who Else Has a Sibling Dynamic Where You Are Constantly Annoyed Over Petty Things But Would Help Them Hide a Body in an Instant?

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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My Sister, the Serial Killer begins at the cleanup of a murder; Korede is the older sister of Ayoola, and this is the third time Korede has had to come to the rescue of her little sister’s crimes in order to help her clean up and dispose of a dead body. Korede has always been protective of her little sister after a traumatic childhood with their father, but at this point she is beginning to question if the trail of bodies Ayoola has been leaving […]

When Theatre Kids Get Involved In Their Own Shakespearean Tragedy

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

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So this novel was chosen on a whim, as it was sitting ready and waiting in the Audiobooks Available Now section of the library’s app. And upon reading the synopsis it felt like it had a similar energy to The Secret History by Donna Tartt, a book I definitely liked! If We Were Villains begins by introducing us to Oliver Marks, a man who is just being released from prison for an unspecified crime for which he served a 10-year sentence. The original detective from […]

Slivers of Hope in an Unknown Doorway

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

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Listened to as an audiobook, read by the author. And what a calm and straightforward voice! I can’t remember why Exit West came on my radar (I think I saw someone talking about it on Twitter?) but in any case, it was well worth the read. A story tied to real-world pain but with a fantasy element to string the story along. Does this magical realism entirely work? Mileage may vary, but overall I think the novel was successful in what it set out to […]

Started with my Curiosity, but Somewhere Got Lost Along the Way

The First Bad Man by Miranda July

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Since I’ve been slacking on my reading time so far this year, but sometimes listen to podcasts while I work on art and design projects, my friend suggested I listen to audiobooks to keep with my book goals. And so here we are! Shout-out to the library for having a great digital collection that I can access with a few different apps. Miranda July is a bit of a pickle for me: some of her works I love (ie, Me and You and Everyone We […]



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