2021: #65 – The House in the Cerulean Sea (T.J. Klune)

I am late to this particular great-book-train, and I’m not sure there’s anything I can say about this that hasn’t already been said. This is a magical joyride full of charming characters that really can do no wrong. Linus is basically a CPS worker, but the department he works for deals specifically with magical children and Linus himself deals specifically with orphanages. He is surprised

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2021: #43 – One Last Stop (Casey McQuiston)

Like many people, I really liked Red, White & Royal Blue. But this? This, I LOVED. I’m not going to write a big long summary, but the basics are: August is starting over in New York. August meets Jane on the subway and thinks she’s keen. August realizes Jane is *always* on the subway. August realizes Jane can’t leave the subway. Quest to fix this

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2021: #42 – Only Mostly Devastated (Sophie Gonzales)

“Sometimes in life, terrible things happened. And sometimes really, really amazing things happened. And sometimes, those things all kind of happened at once.” This book was a goddamned delight. Ollie has spent the summer away from his California home, spending time with his sick aunt and helping her out in North Carolina. He expected to be babysitting all summer, but he wasn’t expecting to meet

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