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ARC Review – Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske
At a magical academy for mage-healers, scholar complete their final exam in a group, solving five cases over the course of five days. Estiene, Alys, Clement, Moyna, and Jehan enter the hall for their first case, only to find the most accomplished scholar in their cohort dead on the floor. After completing the first case,…
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ARC Review – The Henchperson’s Guide to Unionizing by Marshall J. Moore
On the run from yet another peasant mob after their latest attempt to create new life from corpse parts, Doctor and his faithful assistant Igor end up in the isolated Ravenwald Manor, only to find out that they are not alone there. Increasingly disillusioned with the Doctor’s quest, Igor befriends Grimalkin, a witch’s familiar, and…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 8/24/26-8/30/26
By the time you’re reading this I’ll have started classes, so I’m both very excited and also slightly terrified as I’m writing this. Weirdly, I feel like I usually read more during the school year because it feels like more of an escape than it does while I’m on break. That being said, I didn’t…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 8/17/26-8/23/26
It looks like it’s finally cooling off in Portland and the school year is just around the corner so I have lots to look forward to! That being said, this was another pretty awful reading week, and I’ll try to keep this roundup fairly short for both of our sakes. The book-related highlight of the…
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ARC Review – Trad Wife by Sarah Langan
With her career on a sudden downturn, journalist Jenny Kaplan accepts an assignment to write about Mia Wright, a trad wife influencer living on an isolated farm with her beautiful husband and seven children.Jenny goes in expecting to write a critical article exposing the disparity between Mia’s actual life and the life she show on…
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ARC Review – Strange Is the Light by Sarah Maria Griffin
Every summer while they were growing up, four friends converged on the island of Valentia to play a game of their own invention, the rules of which are defined only by the bounds of their imaginations. After a single night goes wrong and separates them, the game goes unplayed for many years until they are…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 8/10/26-8/16/26
Summer is wrapping up but the good news is that peak reading season (Fall, obviously) is nigh and I’m ready to be curling up with a book on a rainy day already! I read five books this week and the week started out pretty rough, but they got better as the week went on so…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 8/3/26-8/9/26
I hope everyone is enjoying summer as it’s wrapping up! Portland is pretty smoky at the moment which is no fun but I think it’s clearing up. I read six books this week and…I guess this was actually a pretty bad reading week. Before I started this blog, I never did weekly roundups so I…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 7/27/26-8/2/26
August is upon us! I read five books this week and I would say it was a pretty solid week overall, mostly just good with one real standout. I mostly stuck to the plan I laid out at the end of last week’s roundup with the exception of one book. We have one audiobook, one…
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ARC Review – The Salt King by Natasha Pulley
At age sixteen, Avelyn fled his small isolated hometown of Hreodwater—home to a salt mine and a culture that lives, breathes, and speaks the mythology of their Salt King—and ran off to become a Jesuit priest at the Vatican in desperate search of guidance and the nurturing embrace of the God he left behind. Twelve…
