Tag: Catherynne M. Valente
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Boring Book Recommendation: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
“She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.” What is this book about? Little twelve-year-old September lived a normal life in Omaha. Her mother is a mechanic and her father away at work, and often times she is left at home to make her…
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Through Every Wall By Eileen Ramos
Author’s Note I haven’t written a short story in ages, though this is technically flash fiction. This is a mystical fairy tale for my #abandonedB2DBC project where I abandon books, literary magazines, small gifts, and my own written works in public for strangers to find and keep. It’s a guerrilla art project and a book…
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Summer Reading Recommendations 2017
Every year we recommend a long list of books to read during the summer. We try to put a little something in there for everyone, ranging from beach reads to horror, to nonfiction and romance. Feel free to scroll to whatever category you’re looking for or read them all if you have the time! Beach…
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Book Empire Vol. 169
All the book news you need to know on a need-to-know basis. Emma Straub and Rainbow Rowell talked about representation in comics. 12 fictional bookstores we wish were real. Barnes & Noble predicts that these books will be the future’s literary greats. A reader’s guide to Margaret Atwood’s work. Vice recommends some dystopian fiction now…
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Winter Reading Recommendations
We know that winter break is over, but that doesn’t mean we’re looking forward to spending time outside. It’s still dark and getting colder by the second, so what would be better than sitting inside with a good book? Just like last summer, we’re recommending books of all kinds so we think there’s something for everyone…
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Bookish People #53
Are you interested in the thoughts and lives of the bookish people of today? Don’t look any further and read the best interviews of the week Jesse Ball and Dan Ivac made a story of illustrated fiction together for Catapult called Unspeakable Things Befell us All.