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Oxford Time Travel: Blackout / All Clear

Meg — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:15:43 +0000

I loved Connie Willis’ Doomsday Book, and To Say Nothing of the Dog, but somehow missed that there are two more novels in the Oxford Time Travel series, Blackout and All Clear, and I was delighted to find them and go back to this world. Blackout and All Clear are more like two halves of the […]

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Chatbots, Pop Rocks, Booksta and Loss in YA “Message Not Found”

Meg — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:36:36 +0000

In the beginning of Message Not Found, by Dante Medema, Bailey and Vanessa are high school besties, with so many private jokes and rituals, sure to be lifelong friends. When Vanessa dies in a random, tragic car crash after leaving Bailey’s house, naturally Bailey is miserable. But even in her grief, there’s just one thing […]

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Daisy

Meg — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:36:55 +0000

Katie Cotugno’s upoming novel Daisy is a revisiting of The Great Gatsby, from Daisy’s perspective, opening after the events of that novel. Daisy takes place in the present day, even if the characters do go to a lot of jazz clubs and 20s-themed parties. Meh. Some of this is on me, I think. I enjoyed […]

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Book Lovers Day

Meg — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:25:58 +0000

Obviously, every day is Book Lovers Day for me personally, but here are some extra suggestions to celebrate books on the official holiday, August 9th. You can visit your local independent bookstore and browse for a new book. You can post a recommended new release or an all-time favorite book on your social media. (Like […]

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Feed

Meg — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:02:16 +0000

I don’t remember how I came across M T Anderson’s novel Feed, but I went into it thinking it was just science fiction, and not an extremely dark dystopia. That might be the ideal way to come at it, kind of like when I thought Never Let Me Go was about a boarding school. (Spoiler: […]

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Book Review: Where Spectres Dwell

Meg — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:17:32 +0000

Tyson Gill’s Where Spectres Dwell is a fantasy adventure that simply loves fantasy fiction. Ramille begins his life as an orphan with more abilities than the other kids being raised by the Sisters. But just when you think this is going to be a typical Chosen-One fantasy, he's is involved in an accident that changes the course of the world.

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Ghost Station

Meg — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:47:19 +0000

Ghost Station, by S A Barnes, is a new space suspense story. The novel’s tension comes from a distant, deep-space setting and from interpersonal secrets among the crew, long before introducing the truly unsettling ancient alien species, with darkly nonhuman goals and actions. When the story opens, Ophelia Bray takes a contract job as a […]

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The Modest Ao Dai

Meg — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:55:51 +0000

In Leila Vinnik’s upcoming novel, The Modest Ao Dai, Jamie Nguyen-Do is a Jewish-Vietnamese college student and aspiring writer. Jamie wants to write something true and authentic about the experiences of Jewish Asians like herself, a perspective she rarely sees. Looking for inspiration and community, she posts on Facebook looking for stories to tell. On […]

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Star Lore: Sorcerer Sleuth

Meg — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:00:16 +0000

I’m always interested in a good sci-fi mystery, and when you add good team dynamics and magic, I’m probably already halfway to adding it to my TBR. Star Lore: Sorcerer Sleuth, by Kris Powers, has the ingredients of a fun adventure, with magic and wild future tech in space. The titular sorcerer/sleuth is Aurora Blacknova, […]

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The Machine Stops: Touch Grass

Meg — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:50:42 +0000

I was pretty surprised when I discovered E M Forster wrote a science fiction novella, The Machine Stops. Like most readers, I think, I know Forster from Passage to India and Maurice, so I was very interested to see how he imagined the scifi future. In the future, a Machine keeps all humans cared for, […]

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