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It’s a Wonderful Life (Now With Books!)

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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CW: suicide, suicidal ideation This was an interesting premise but has some deep (spoiler-y) flaws in the magical element that make it hard to get behind it from an entirely logical perspective. The not-spoiler part (available as part of book’s blurb): sometimes, instead of dying, you end up in a midway point which, for our protagonist, takes the form of an endless library in which it is always midnight and which is librarian’d by her old middle school librarian. You can read any of the […]

Is there a non-Prom way to get a crown?

You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

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I really wanted to like this a lot more than I did, unfortunately. A gay-verging-on-bi WOC lead discovering herself and chasing her dreams in high school? It’s definitely up there on the list and I was pretty excited when it came off of hold. The issue was that the main premise never stopped feeling incredibly contrived, to the point of distraction. And while I acknowledge the need for some driving force to get Liz to do all the things she did, there’s enough emotional heft […]

Bookclub re-read: were we ever this young???

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

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I have had this book for years now, evidentially procured from some sort of bookstore or library because there’s a sticker on the spine. I’ve read it and re-read it many times while home. This time, I re-read it in preparation for book club, theme of which is “a book from your childhood/young adulthood which talked about adulthood which, now that you are an adult, reads very differently.” Which is a long winded way of saying, things aren’t always what they seem when you were […]

Exactly what you’d expect (which isn’t bad!)

A Kiss at Midnight by Eloisa James

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A(nother) recommendation via Cannonball Read-ish/Pajiba. I wouldn’t call this revelatory or a retelling in the vein of McKinley, but it’s definitely the bones of the Cinderella story transplanted to a Regency-ish setting. And I can’t deny that I, personally, enjoyed it quite a bit (as a matter of fact, here is what happened–I started reading this yesterday night, had to put it away because I was very sleepy, and then woke up early this morning remembering that I was reading something I liked without recollecting exactly what it […]

One of those books I kept taking breaks from because I didn’t want it to end

Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey

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This books are just THE BEST, and they do the amazing in which they enhance an already great TV show (I will completely caveat that I specifically hold off on reading until I’ve seen the show, I’m not saying that the show is better but I am very into the Spectacle and the work that’s gone into the show. Now that the show is openly going to end after the upcoming sixth season, with noted deviations from the books because real world humans are terrible, […]

Set My Heart to A Billion

Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson

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A recommendation from Cannonball Read by jomidi! This book was not what I was expecting. I was expecting a book in the vein of All Systems Red and the accompanying books, because that is a book about a bot who develops…unwarranted feelings/empathy/care, and this seemed like a similarly set up premise and therefore something I would like. But it was not, which I should have realized because books are not just derivatives of other books. Authors generally like to write new works. Authors! Are great! …my attempt at language similar […]



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