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Time for some magitech

False Value by Ben Aaronovitch

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The Rivers of London series is one of my favourites being a London based urban fantasy centring around DC Peter Grant, a copper who back in the first book got himself mixed up in magic and seconded to the Metropolitan Police’s covet magic division “The Folly”. We’re now at the eighth full length novel in an increasing detailed series – we have offshoots in other countries (The October Man in Germany), graphic novels, and a sense of a slowly building world in which magic is […]

A bit of a Carry On…

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

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The premise of this book intrigued me with it being a full story set in a pseudo-Harry Potter world dreamed up to be a novel series in another book (Fangirl) whose protagonist wrote fan fiction. So it’s a fictionalisation of a book series that was Harry Potter with the numbers filed off. And our lead characters here are Harry & Draco archetypes (called Simon and Baz) with the idea being that in the Fangirl-verse everyone wanted them to be in a relationship rather than enemies. […]

Another Cinderella Story

Sootypaws: A Cinderella Story by Maggie Rudy

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I have organized the picture book reader copies several times recently (for various reasons). And I kept going around this book. I did not want to even touch it. Not that I have an issue with mice or even rats, but dead mice/rats are another thing and these cover critters looked dead. Never mind the fact that it seemed like it could be a fun alternative Cinderella story. I like alternative fairy tales and Cinderella stories in particular. I used to have a collection of […]

Who Can Truly Know Her When There Are No Others Of Her Kind?

The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathon Snipes

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Rivers Solomon’s The Deep is a beautiful and gut wrenching novella. At this current time, I don’t think I could have read it if I hadn’t listened to Daveed Diggs’ narration. Diggs and his fellow clppng’s William Hutson and Jonathon Snipes, hold author credits because the novella is based a song they wrote, commissioned by NPR’s This American Life for “We Are in the Future” an episode about Afrofuturism. Clppng’s song was an homage to Detroit’s Drexciya who imagined an underwater utopia created by the […]

Keep an Eye on Those Dragons

The Secret Chapter by Genvieve Cogman

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There is a lot to like about the Invisible Library series: interesting premise, a heroine who is not a total stereotype, dragons and Fey, dimensional travel and trouble, adventure and fun, and some humor. The Secret Chapter is book 6 in the series and it has a lot to add to the series. The biggest add to the series is some further world building on the dragon side of things. Previous installments have built up some context for the library and the Fey, and now […]



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