Oct 07 2026
This is a terrific multicultural children’s book that brilliantly underlines how differences can serve to bring people together, because everyone is allowed to make their own choices about what they do and don’t like for themselves. The picture book starts off with Musa, who’s excited to finally be able to tie his shoes by himself …
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Oct 06 2026
In a word: no. Lol. I’m usually quite good at solving mysteries because I’m good at two other things: understanding human behavior and understanding storytelling. Foreshadowing might as well be my hairdresser, as it generally tells me everything I need to know before it becomes common knowledge. That, I think, was a large part of …
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Oct 05 2026
This would have been way more successful for me were it the overly wordy storyboard for an anime — most likely a repetitively depressing one like Berserk — than an actual book. And look, I get it. Depression sucks. It’s a legit mental illness that you can’t just will yourself out of. But that doesn’t …
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Oct 04 2026
I feel kinda bad for the people charged with writing the back cover copy for Villain, Natalie Zina Walschots’ sequel to Hench. That novel showed a world with superheroes and supervillains, told from the perspective of a disposable henchperson. But Anna Tomedlov was her own person, center of her own world, and did not feel …
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Oct 03 2026
When River Cartwright’s final training exercise went publicly pear-shaped, he was only kept on the rolls of Britain’s spy service because of his grandfather, David Cartwright, a legend of the service’s Cold War days. Now, though, the Old Bastard, as he is widely known — sometimes affectionately, sometimes less so — is showing his age. It’s …
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Oct 02 2026
The first weekly roundup of October has three awesome titles to choose from, beginning with a globe-trotting historical mystery reminiscent of both classic Sherlock Holmes and James Bond. A E Goldin’s Death On The Pearl River is the sophomore novel of the Ben Canaan mystery series. It’s 1856 and young Ben has established himself as …
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Oct 01 2026
Happy October, dear readers! I had a torrid time figuring out what to review to kick off the month, but what better choice than another amazing deck from La Muci Design! I’ve actually had this in my possession for quite a while, but only got around to opening the package I’d backed via Kickstarter last …
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