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Younger me would be absolutely shocked to hear that I no longer have the time to read full blurbs or the back cover matter of books anymore, but such are the perils of having so much to read, and so little time to do it in! Present day me was thus quite surprised to get …
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Happy August, readers! I have never had a year in which I’ve looked so forward to my kids going back to school. I love spending time with them but they’ve felt a little needier — and definitely a lot louder! — than in previous years, so it’ll be nice to get some nice, quiet reading …
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The second book in the A Year Of Diana Wynne Jones challenge that I could join in on was this, Eight Days Of Luke. I’m honestly still torn over how I feel about the various covers: some seem a little spoiler-tastic, but if I’m being perfectly honest, I didn’t even look properly at the cover …
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I was so thrilled to finally be able to stop by my local friendly game store for Free RPG Day 2024 and snag a whole bunch of loot. While showing off my haul to my friends, one of my Space Gnomes on our Discord server asked, mischievously, if this meant that I would run the …
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Hello there, readers! This week we have another excerpt treat for you. Chad Boudreaux is back with another fast-paced political thriller, Homecoming Queen, publishing today. While his debut, Scavenger Hunt, was set in Washington DC’s halls of power, his sophomore novel examines small-town politics on the South Texas coast where he was born and raised. …
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Oh gosh, I really do hope this is the start of a series! It’s so cute, and the ending is the perfect setup for sequels galore! Eleven year-old Caleb isn’t super thrilled to have to leave California and all his memories of his late dad. But his mom enjoyed growing up in small town Wisconsin …
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I used to be a bit of a goth chick in my younger days (I know, WHAT a shocker.) That said, this was back when I was living in Malaysia, so finding the full accoutrements of goth was a challenge for someone with as little spending money as myself. Fortunately, my love of dark clothes …
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I read a fantastic tweet recently which essentially said that getting a job you love does not mean, as the old saw says, never having to work a day in your life, but that you will in fact do far too much work, which is genuinely my plight right now. So when I picked up …
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Oh dear. This book starts out so promisingly, as a woman on her deathbed makes her lover swear to speak with the daughters the latter gave up for adoption. A grief-stricken Sylvie Swift has no idea how to approach the two girls she gave up as babies, so decides to write them a series of …
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Jackson Wilder is an adorable little boy who lives with his dad and his beloved stuffed thylacine doll, Irwin. In the manner of all imaginative kids with a constant stuffie companion, Irwin often takes on a life of his own in Jackson’s imagination, as Sarah Davidson depicts in a way that will definitely bring up …
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