Sep 17 2026
As soon as I read the word “Orinda”, I was all “no way! I have to tell my best friend about this!” as that’s where she’s from and this is literally the first time I’ve ever read anything set specifically in that part of California. Orinda and Oakland in the 1960s are the setting for …
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Sep 16 2026
I don’t often talk about zines on this website but honestly, the quality and size of this terrific perfect-bound book firmly qualify it for review (plus it has more words than plenty of other books I’ve discussed here, lol.) As regular readers will know, I’m a massive Arsenal fan, having unexpectedly fallen in love with …
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Sep 15 2026
The weather is cooling off up here in the northern hemisphere and the sequel to Practical Magic is in theatres too, so what better time to check out a new cozy mystery series featuring Tarot cards and a delicious tinge, if not more, of the supernatural? Jane Brookwood’s The Hanged Man is the first novel …
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Sep 14 2026
Frankly, any good faith attempt to bring the world’s diverse mythologies to a wider audience of young readers — a la Rick Riordan’s Camp Half-Blood Chronicles — is a win in my book. While Christopher Roubique is careful to note that his story is based not on any one tribe’s beliefs but on an amalgamation, …
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Sep 13 2026
“But life works in such a way that social progress and a better future can only be achieved if a certain number of people are willing to pay the price for their right to have their own beliefs. The more of them there are, the less everyone has to pay. And the day will come …
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Sep 12 2026
The title translates as On Censorship, and over the course of his life, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has encountered it far more than most people. (The book was originally published in English; I received this edition as a birthday present. It was translated into German by Luca Groß, and it reads both smoothly and clearly.) …
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Sep 11 2026
Hello, dear readers! I got my flu shot yesterday and have been struggling a wee bit more than usual ever since, so all I want to do is climb back into bed with a book. The question, ofc, is which one? A strong contender is definitely Freya Marske’s Bodies Of Magic, publishing next week! Medical …
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Sep 10 2026
Sweet but slight, almost like a condensed version of the Toy Story movies but with a lot less action. Piggy has belonged to their human ever since the little girl was a baby. Once upon a time, Piggy was pink, pristine and perky: the very epitome of a huggable, loveable stuffed animal. But being a …
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Sep 09 2026
This was the only Hugo Awards 2026 nominee for Best Novel that didn’t come in the Voter’s Packet, so I got on the waitlist for it at the library, thereby ensuring that I’d actually read the book this year, lol. So on the one hand, I was unsurprised that not being in the packet meant …
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Sep 08 2026
with a special shout-out to Yaoyao Ma Van As, who’s done an even better than usual job on the terrific cover. Young sleuth Alex Sherlock is absolutely stunned when one of the most popular girls in school sits down next to him and his best friend Yadi while they’re having lunch one day. He’s crestfallen …
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