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Stelliform Press

Wish we could have been there with them, but 5 Stelliform authors gathered in LA for an evening of hopeful storytelling hosted by Reckoning, Solarpunk Mag, The Fabulist, and ARLA. Dazzling the audience with optimistic visions of the future were Syr Beker, E.G. Condé, Sarena Ulibarri, Cynthia Zhang, & Michael J. DeLuca.

On a scrapbook style background, from left to right: Syr Beker, E.G. Condé, Sarena Ulibarri, Cynthia Zhang, & Michael J. DeLuca.
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Anaïs

Triste tigre de Neige Sinno, aux éditions POL : Grâce à son récit, Neige Sinno brise le tabou sur l’inceste. C’est une véritable mise à nu dans laquelle l’autrice se livre avec sincérité. Elle essaie de trouver des réponses et des explications sur le comportement de son beau-père qui a abusé d’elle durant toute son enfance. Une lecture difficile mais essentielle !

Avis sur mon blog : anaislemillefeuilles.wordpress

Une photo du livre Triste tigre de Neige Sinno entouré d'objets de décoration.
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tessa 📚
🏹 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 🏹

⭐ 5 out of 5

I stayed up past midnight finishing this lol, whoops

My review:
I first read The Hunger Games when I was in high school. That's been at least 15+ years ago, and I am so pleasantly surprised by how well this book has held up. I was daydreaming about getting back home and reading it while I was at work this week 😅

‼️ SPOILERS BELOW ‼️

This story is pretty brutal for something that is widely considered young adult, and I'm not complaining about the rating, I was just surprised that I didn't remember how gruesome some scenes were! Rue's death in particular really got me, and I'm sure part of that is because I have a kid of my own now.

I really loved Katniss so much too. I don't think I really appreciated how good her character is when I was younger, but to me she came across as a perfect main character. She's talented and brave, but also flawed, angsty, and definitely has the attitude of a 16 year old, despite her circumstances. Some of her inner thoughts really made me laugh.

I'm stoked to reread this whole series and then get to the prequels!!

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Wordy Words on Words
For those that don’t know, the Fear Street series and the Goosebumps series were published by different houses, which explains why Stine didn’t end the original GB run with a kid moving to Fear Street or even Shadyside (where Fear Street sits).

My conjecture here is that the lawsuits from Scholastic left a bad taste in his mouth and he tried to get a GB-ish series off the ground as a spin-off called Ghosts of Fear Street.

And there were other spin-offs as well. Fear Street, Ghosts of Fear Street, 99 Fear Street, Fear Street Saga, etc.

But at some point, Stine stopped writing them. Some sources say that it’s because they just weren’t selling well anymore.

Stine sat.

And waited.

And then he came back with a vengeance and new Fear Street books. They were longer and more graphic than the Fear Street books of the 90s.

This is one of those new books (published in 2018).

And it was a lot of fun, it feels like Stine riffing on The Shining (movie). Room 237 is mentioned, it mostly takes place in a hotel in Colorado that has a sort of time warp and curse attached to it, and there was even a photo from 1924 that had people from modern times.

It might be unfair of me to compare Stine’s stories to King’s so often (I did it with at least two Goosebumps books) but I’ve read a lot of King and he’s been around for so long - has written so much - that it’s tough not to see similarities and call them out.

His changes to the series (longer and more violent) are plenty visible and I didn’t mind the additional violence but this book did stretch on a bit and felt a little bloated. Stine can write tight stories and pack a punch. Sometimes this feels like there’s character development lacking, but the extra length here isn’t exactly adding to it - it’s just making the book longer. There’s more repetition and, in some books’ cases, a couple different chances to end it.

All that said, it was still fun to read and I’m glad I did.

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Children's Book Project

All of our beautiful new and like-new children's books are donated by our awesome community of supporters, and we're always looking for Bay Area bookstores, cafes, and other businesses to host our #BookDrop donation stands.

If you know a great spot for a #BookDrop, check the link in bio for details!

Learn more about our mission at #ChildrensBookProject. Check out the link in bio to Give Books, Get Books, Volunteer, and Donate!

#ChildrensBookProjectSF#NorCalNonProfit#GiveBooks
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Wordy Words on Words
If there was ever a toe-in-the-water to the Fear Street series, this is it. It’s also the only copy of a classic Fear Street in size, cover, and price at my local Books-A-Million and I can’t help but feel that’s because it doesn’t bring the scares (or, really, much of anything).

The story centers on a douche of a dude who is so self-centered and full of himself that he challenges himself to date twins within a specific time frame. They both fall in love with him and begin to play off each other while a third sister - an EVIL sister - is thrown into the mix.

The only thing I kept thinking throughout the whole book is that SURELY sisters would talk to each other more. I mean, I wasn’t particularly close to my brother when we were teenagers, but we knew who each other was dating.

It wasn’t a dumb book per se, but it wasn’t anything special.

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Librería PRAGA

Un #lodehoy con Wittgenstein, Colli y, bueno, Popper, no está nada mal. También están Kafka, Wilde, el mítico libro de los Alpes Alpujarreños, algo de indios norteamericanos y un poco de #cienciaficción y #cocina. Y el estrés habitual de lunes.
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#lodehoy
#librería
#libreríasdeGranada
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#Granada
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