5 stars Damn. Another excellently-crafted work from West. I am so thankful Lindy West is on this planet. She has such a way of cutting through all the B.S. to call out what is wrong, doing so in a way that is humorous and entertaining without taking away from her message. Pulling from pop culture,…
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5 stars In this mammoth of a book, Randall Munroe proves that with enough math, everything eventually explodes. A hilarious, entertaining, interesting, and fascinating read exploring oddly specific questions you never thought to ask. The book blends mathematics, science, and history to create an extraordinary journey (with plenty of things blowing up along the way)….
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4 stars Another wonderful story following Nory and her friends in the Upside-Down Magic program, along with some new ones made along the way. In the fourth book, the kids in the Upside-Down Magic class head to Dragon Haven for three days to learn about and interaction with real dragons. Yet unexpected surprises are in…
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5 stars What an absolutely gorgeous book! I love the Hilda graphic novels, the Netflix adaptation, and the tie-in novels, so when I saw there was a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them-style book of creatures, I was all in. This book did not disappoint. The illustrations are phenomenal. I really enjoyed the aesthetic. My…
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5 stars Another adorable collection of Catana Comics! This series is so cute, heartfelt, and relatable. Covering topics such as morning routines, a deep love of food, getting in each other’s way, and just being your own weirdo self, this is such a sweet book. As with the first collection, there were so many times…
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3 stars A good third book in the Magic Misfits series. I’ll admit this one didn’t quite hit the mark for me as well as the first two. Not sure if the series is losing some of its steam or if it was the listening format of the audiobook. This feels like a bridging point…
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5 stars Absolutely adorable! I lost count of the number of times I went to my husband with a comic from this book with exclamations of “This one is us”, “We do this all the time”, and “See? It’s not weird I do that. Other people do it too!” This little book is so full…
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4 stars Another fun Hilda tie-in. While I’d love this series to go more in-depth into the world we see in the show and the original comic, these books are not set up that way. Instead they combine episodes, creatively incorporating the plots together to make one continuous story. That isn’t necessarily bad; it’s just…
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4 stars A fun mashup that takes influence from Luke Pearson’s graphic novels, the Netflix adaptation, and a few changes of its own. The second book in the series covers episodes 3, 5, and 7 of the show. It was interesting to see how Davies combined the plots of these three episodes to create their…
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2 stars I currently work in a library and this series is quite popular among our patrons. Though I haven’t read many cozy mysteries, I wanted to see what it was all about. There were a lot of cringey moments with bad writing, overly detailed scenes, terrible police work, unethical vigilantism, talking down to the…
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