Books
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The Diabolical Stupidity of The Boys’ Episode Titles
Yeah, okay, so The Boys’ final season didn’t go so well. But honestly, I’m tired of hearing the same complaints over and over again, so…
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I Have No Host Skills, and I Must Torture My Guests:
How the Harlan Ellison Classic Holds up to Reiteration While riding the TTC, I overheard several teenage boys parodying the title of Harlan Ellison’s sci-fi…
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Shadow Daddies: A Bloodstained Green Flag
Anyone who has spent even a single millisecond on Booktok is familiar with the Shadow Daddy archetype and its aesthetics. Enemies to lovers, knives to…
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Meandering Monsters: A Yume Book Review
For the first time, I decided to go against Goodreads reviews and trust my gut. Lo and behold, it was wrong. Considering my own tendency…
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Why Every Fantasy Lover Needs to Read the Green Bone Saga
Jade City is a gripping Godfather-esque saga of intergenerational blood feuds, vicious politics, magic, and kungfu. The Kaul family is one of two crime syndicates…
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Review: Refreshing and Affecting Fantasy in Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf and Guy Gavriel Kay’s A Brightness Long Ago
This review contains mild spoilers. If anyone ever tells you that fantasy literature is a stale genre with tired tropes, direct them to two…
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Enter the Raccoon
I would never have known about the existence of Enter the Raccoon if it wasn’t for Beatriz Hausner herself, who came in as a plenary…
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Harry Potter and the Crisis of Sorting
It’s safe to say that Harry Potter blazed many paths. It brought life to a dying publishing industry, it launched the young adult and children’s…
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After Alice: Beyond the Rabbit Hole
How many characters from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland can you name off the top of your head? It’s alright if you can’t name them…
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Scott Lynch’s The Thorn of Emberlain Slated for Release in September
A mostly official release date has been set for the fourth book in Scott Lynch’s critically acclaimed The Gentleman Bastard Sequence. Note the ‘mostly’ in…
