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I like to think I have a healthy marriage. Still, there's this part of me that wonders why marriages go wrong and if I'm doing those things. This book was remarkable. There is infidelity.

This book is about a China rabbit doll who gets separated from his owner, traverses the world, and learns what it means to love and to be loved by another.

Divergent Realms is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by neurodivergent writers featuring neurodivergent characters.

From Jonestown and Heaven’s Gate to CrossFit and Multi-Level Marketing schemes, this book covers it all.

Like DiCamillo’s other works, The Puppets of Spelhorst’s prose is simple yet exceedingly powerful. This is a story about the inner lives of puppets. This is a story about stories. This is a story about regret.

Although it wasn’t published until after she died, Northanger Abbey was the first novel Austen wrote and finished.

A playfully delightful children’s book, The Willoughbys is full of references to famous works of children’s literature. The book centers around the 4 Willoughby children.

When Toni Morrison gets brought up in conversation, it’s usually about her books The Bluest Eye, Beloved, or Song of Solomon. But her entire eleven-book catalog is worth reading and rereading.  

A satirical musical comedy wrapped in an Archie Comics/Hanna-Barbera IP, Josie and the Pussycats is singular: a cult classic capsulation of pop counterculture in the early 2000s.

This book is a blast from beginning to end. One of the blurbs on the cover says, “as close as you’ll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form,” and after reading it, I think that description encapsulates this book perfectly. 

A Boston family opens up their home to an 11-year-old British girl, during the WWII bombing raids in England.  Beatrix Thompson slowly becomes Bea to the Gregory family; they grow to love her, and she comes to love them with a fierceness that

Willow has such an excellent sound! I don’t know if there’s any music from her that I don’t like, but I really enjoy this rock sound she found.

Willa Cather’s 1918 novel My Antonia follows Antonia Shermida and her family’s story of moving to Nebraska from Bohemia, as told retrospectively through the lens of Antonia’s childhood friend, Jim Burden. 

I am unashamed but not proud to say The Ice Pirates is one of my favorite movies. The camp, funny, action-packed, full-throttle 1980s flavor shoulder-pad sci-fi has it all because no one edited any of their ideas.