Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone J.K. Rowling NOTE 1: J.K. Rowling is a virulently hateful person, and she has made that inescapably clear over the last several years. This…
Dear Diary, We are now 18 days into 2025. Morale is low, but I have the Library of Congress blanket I picked up at the national book festival last year….
Happy new year. We are twelve days into 2025, I just came back from a two-week winter blog break, and I’m still not over that damn Wicked movie. I literally am…
This is how long I have been procrastinating on this update: the post was originally titled “I Love Jelly in the Fall.” Look, in my defense, it is a pain…
November in a nutshell: Sumayah went out on the same week as the U.S. election, this month sucked ass and I have not been anywhere near my best. I was…
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen NOTE: Shout-out to Ms. Kube, who used Mr. Collins’s proposal in a lesson contrasting two dramatically different literary proposals. I don’t remember much of tenth…
The Cartographers Peng Shepherd You’re off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be serious spoilers. We are all very familiar with the concept of a book that’s so…
First things first: civic duty over all. This is the first election I’ve voted early. Every other time I’ve left it till Election Day, but this year carries far more…
I DON’T CARE IF IT’S ONLY MID-OCTOBER MY SHOP IS SO READY FOR HALLOWEEN because if there’s one thing I’ve been doing with all my free time it’s sleeping and…