Feb 12 2026
As someone who enjoys but doesn’t follow much comedy (a lot of my favorites come from random clips passing through my Instagram,) I honestly don’t remember how I first became aware of groundbreaking comedian Maysoon Zayid. I do remember her inspirational TED Talk tho, which this book expands upon in a format more suitable for …
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Feb 11 2026
Hahahahaha, I’m in this book and I don’t know if I like it. Look, I know I do too much. The fact that I’m taking so long to recover from the flu rn has given me plenty of time to reflect on what I usually spend my days doing (a lot, tho it honestly doesn’t …
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Feb 10 2026
This seventh installment in the terrific City Spies series finds our family of young secret agents (and their adult handlers) getting used to their new living quarters in London. Now that Le Fantome, the head of the terrorist group known as UMBRA, is in an English prison, the kids are focusing on their academics, both …
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Feb 09 2026
It’s my birthday week so I’m going to treat myself by focusing on recently published Middle Grade books this week instead of going for a wide variety of genres, as I usually do. MG is one of my favorite categories because the authors uniformly care about being entertaining and emotionally engaging — and often educational …
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Feb 06 2026
I can’t believe it’s the first week of February already, dear readers, especially since I’ve been a shut-in with one illness or another for these past three weeks. I’ve managed to leave the house exactly once — for much-needed specialty groceries — but haven’t ventured any farther than my yard otherwise, as I’ve only felt …
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Feb 05 2026
Steven Max Russo is back with another action-packed examination of the repercussions of war and the moral choices we need to make, both in theater and in the aftermath. Ophelia Harris is a former CIA analyst who joined up with a private security firm, Grendel, in Afghanistan. After an investigation into an insurgent money laundering …
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Feb 03 2026
I’m a doomscroller. In this environment, who can afford not to be? But I do have a carefully curated feed that helps me know when I’ve come to the end of my Instagram and, especially, BlueSky time so I can go do other productive things once I’ve thoroughly acquainted myself with what fresh horrors this …
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Feb 02 2026
Y’all, as soon as I finished this book, I was all Adam Driver Saying More gif. I’m actually kinda mad that I’m going to have to wait who knows how long before I get to read the next book in this series. Tracy Wolff has written something so fresh from what can often feel like …
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Jan 29 2026
Ooh, is this the first Part Five I’ve ever published of this monthly series? It can’t be because this year’s January has lasted forever can it, hahahahahuuuuuuuunh. Anyway, this column is coming out on a Thursday this week because we’re taking part in the USA’s General Strike tomorrow. No work, no school, no shopping for …
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Jan 28 2026
Being confined to the house by a double whammy of flu and ice storm sure has made me appreciate books like this even more than usual! The third in the Cranberry Creek Word Search mystery series finds our heroine, bookstore owner Abby Jones getting ready for the wedding of her best friend, baker Rose Turner. …
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