Review: “There is a Door in This Darkness” by Kristin Cashore

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Title: There is a Door in This Darkness Author: Kristin Cashore Published: June 2024 Genre: Magical Realism Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I read There is a Door in This Darkness in August, and have wanted to review it since but kept putting it off for personal reasons. Because honestly… this is the book I needed at the time, as I dealt with my favorite aunt dying from breast cancer, but didn’t want to process too heavily as I was in the thick of that. Well, it’s now been two months since my aunt died, we’ve gone through another […]

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Help! I joined a romance book club?

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You ever do something that’s just… not you? Well, this week, I did. I joined a romance book club. To back up a bit and give you some backstory: I moved in March from Chicago to a small, rural town in Massachusetts. I grew up here, but haven’t lived here since I left for college. I’ve lived in Chicago for 14 years and barely even got home to visit in that time. I had friends growing up, but they’ve all grown up (as did I), got married and had kids (as… didn’t I), and moved away (as did I, until […]

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Current Reads and DNFs – 10/23/2004

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I’ve been deep into Minecraft with friends the past couple of weeks, but I’ve still made some time for reading. And… attempting to read and deciding I really didn’t want to read those books after all! But first, let’s start with the positive! “The Games Gods Play” by Abigail Owen I read The Games Gods Play for my book group’s discussion for October, so it was a quarter of the book each week. I think I need to do a full review on this, because I overall really enjoyed the plot, but I have… complicated thoughts about it. When I […]

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Library Tour

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     I moved in March, and have spent a lot of time working on my library space since then. Before I moved, the room didn’t even have flooring, so I have designed everything from the ground up (with the exception of the fireplace and brick wall). It’s been wonderful being able to make this space truly mine, something I haven’t been able to do in all my years of renting. It is my “happy place”, as the saying goes. As I just brought a lot of my plants inside for the winter, I thought now was the perfect time to […]

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Book Weekend!

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     This weekend was the family “book weekend” —my mother, sister, and I went to a beach house on Cape Cod to sit around reading books and drinking wine all weekend. (This is actually the first time I’ve gone, as I only recently moved back to Massachusetts, but it’s been annual thing for them for years.) I was very much looking forward to this and packed a few of my “currently reading” titles as well as a new one that just came into the library (you never know what you’re in the mood for!), plus a board game called […]

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Welcome!

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     I love books. I grew up reading books, and that led me to a Bachelor’s degree in Literature and Master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences. Here you’ll find a collection of formal reviews, informal thoughts, thought-provoking (or just fun!) quotes, and rambling gushes about my favorites. Coupled with my YouTube channel, I hope to keep this updated on a more rolling basis of “here’s what I’m in the middle of and my impressions so far” updates than just formal reviews.     So, what do I like to read? Well… a lot of things! (You don’t study literature and become […]

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