Category: Reading
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📚 Book Review: Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong
Genre: Cozy FantasyRating: ★★★★★Buy It Here: Amazon | Barnes & Noble I Didn’t Expect to Love This Genre as Much as I Do I would’ve never guessed that queer cozy fantasy would end up being one of my favorite genres—but here we are. Keeper of Magical Things surprised me in the best possible way. Julie…
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Quick, Clever, and Full of Heart: How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps
How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps doesn’t try to be perfect—and that’s part of its charm. It’s quick, clever, and highly enjoyable, especially for readers who grew up on RPGs, video game mechanics, and classic save-the-world setups. From the start, we follow Yui, an underdog who’s not “the chosen one” by…
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📚 Book Review: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Genre: Contemporary FictionRating: ★★★★☆Buy It Here: Amazon / Barnes & Noble A Quirky Hostage Story with Heart Backman is one of those authors who can make you laugh and cry on the same page. Anxious People starts as a bizarre, almost slapstick situation: a failed bank robbery leads to a group of strangers held hostage…
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📚 Book Review: The Humans by Matt Haig
Genre: Contemporary / Speculative FictionRating: ★★★★☆Publisher: Simon & SchusterBuy It Here: Amazon Barnes & Noble ✨ Strange, Funny, and Quietly Profound Some books sneak up on you, and The Humans is one of them. At first, it’s just funny and odd—an alien trying to figure out why humans love peanut butter sandwiches, math, and awkward…
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⛈️Inside the Storm: Reflections on Downpour
Some horror stories come at you with claws out—fast, loud, violent.Downpour by Christopher Hawkins doesn’t do that. It creeps in.Just like the storm in the book. The story centers on a father trying to protect his family from an unrelenting, corrosive rainstorm—and everything that comes with it. But what got under my skin wasn’t the…
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📚 I’ll Read It Eventually: Confessions of a Book Buying Addict
There are worse addictions, right? I tell myself that every time I walk out of a bookstore with a bag full of stories and the quiet knowledge that, realistically, I might not read half of them this year. Or next year. Or… ever? But that doesn’t matter. Because I didn’t just buy paper—I bought possibility.…