May 2025 archive

Space Oddity by Catherynne M. Valente

Space Oddity by Catherynne M. Valente

Eurovision 2025 is coming up in not quite three weeks, and I’ll be watching it, though I hadn’t given it much (if any) thought until I looked up the date just now. I watched in 2024 and amused myself on social media, cackling along with fellow commenters, but the truth is that I was still …

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Tantalizing Tales — May 2025 — Part One

Happy May, dear readers! I’m in the hard middle of Performance Season, but at least I have a whole bunch of terrific upcoming reads to keep me company as I gallivant around the country. First on my list is the latest book from local-to-me author Nick Brooks, which I’m super looking forward to bingeing with …

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Bring Me The Head Of Susan Lomond by Connor B

subtitled A High School Story. Ever since Susan Lomond beat Monroe Poole to the top of the Highwater High School Proficiency Listings, Monroe has been obsessed with taking her new rival down. It’s bad enough that Susan is the school’s star quarterback, someone so popular with her classmates that she’s just been elected prom queen …

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