Emily Lauer

Emily lives in Manhattan with her spouse and kid. She teaches writing and literature at Suffolk County Community College where she studies speculative fiction and visual culture.

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  1. A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The late 1980s! — 5 comments
  2. Speculative Mysteries coming soon! — 4 comments
  3. House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk — 3 comments
  4. T. Kingfisher BINGO and Hemlock and Silver Review! — 1 comments
  5. Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America — 1 comments

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Feb 19 2025

A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The early 1990s!

Emily's photo of her bookcase shows her copies of all the Diana Wynne Jones books to be read in the readthrough. Many are tattered.

In my quest to read all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in one year, this month I read Castle in the Air, Aunt Maria, A Sudden Wild Magic and Hexwood! Honestly, it was a big month. Those are some hefty ones, and I think Hexwood is among her very best. It’s a high bar! Castle …

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Feb 07 2025

A Year of Diana Wynne Jones: The late 1980s!

Emily's photo of her bookcase shows her copies of all the Diana Wynne Jones books to be read in the readthrough. Many are tattered.

In my quest to read all of Diana Wynne Jones’s books in one year, this month I read Howl’s Moving Castle, A Tale of Time City, The Lives of Christopher Chant and Wild Robert! It was fun to revisit Howl after the Ghibli film version became so popular, and Wild Robert was entirely new to …

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