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Reading Log: A Snake Falls to Earth
[Originally Posted: 2024.07.05]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I read A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger again. 📚
Read aloud with my son at bedtime some nights. We both really enjoyed it; hope for more with these characters and/or in this world.
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Reading Log: Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.30]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I read Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams by Shari Green. 📚
It was tense and musical and I liked it.
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Reading Log: Plain Jane and the Mermaid
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.26]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I read Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol. 📚
Fun, adventurous story, art is excellent, themes and message are amazing.
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Reading Log: Parasol Against the Axe
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.24]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I read Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi. 📚
Orlando vibes, Kafka vibes, fun weirdness vibes. I will likely be reading more of Oyeyemi, and the other writers she mentions in interviews (linked after the “more” jump.)
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Reading Log: Mid-Air
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.22]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I read Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams. 📚
(I guess I put everything in the genre tag now, feels less auspicious.)
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Reading Log: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.16]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I read The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On : Poems by Franny Choi. 📚
Read the first half of this in one day about a month ago - not sure why I let it slip, but now I’m back to it and finishing it. Need to buy a copy of it.
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Reading Log: And Then, BOOM!
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.11]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I read And Then, BOOM! by Lisa Fipps. 📚
Fipps has mastered the novel as an empathy-building machine, for sure.
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Reading Log: Blackouts
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.09]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I read Blackouts by Justin Torres. 📚
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Listening Log: Frame & Canvas
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.02]
[Last Updated: 2025.01.11]
I listened to Frame & Canvas by Braid. 🎵
Listened to this album for the who knows how manynth time - still just love it, songs have been in my head all week and I’m not sure why.
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Reading Log: Starfish
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.02]
[Last Updated: 2026.03.08]
I read Starfish by Lisa Fipps. 📚
I get so angry at terrible adults in middle grade novels - i have no patience for it and want the kids to start fighting back immediately. It takes her awhile but this girl finally pushes back spectacularly.