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June 2025

Review: The Unhoneymooners | A Visit to Stanza Books
“It's so exhausting pretending to hate you.”
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Review: You Are Fatally Invited | A Visit to Novel Books and Cafe
“Sometimes the art of fiction isn't in how intellectual it is, but how well it makes you actually forget the world around you. Sometimes, binge reading…
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Review: Project Hail Mary | A Visit to Pine Books (Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA)
“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
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I joined an unsuccessful book club and here’s what happened
An assorted group of 20-year-olds started a book club and it went exactly as you’d expect.
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Review: Sunrise on the Reaping | A Visit to Kulture Café
“You were capable of imagining a different future. And maybe it won’t be realized today, maybe not in our lifetime....Does that make it pointless?"
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May 2025

It’s Summer, Let’s Read | May Recap
A summer reading take that’s better than the Chicago Sun-Times because it actually exists.
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Review: How To Seal Your Own Fate | A Visit to Good Books
A murderous sequel that takes us back to an English estate, and a very not-murderous visit to a bookstore on a sleepy New York street
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Popular Books I Did Not Finish Pt. 2
Nope, not for me.
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Review: The Woman in Cabin 10 | A Visit to Split Rock Books
“There’s a reason why we keep thoughts inside our heads for the most part—they’re not safe to be let out in public.”
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On entering a reading slump (and bouncing back)
We’ve all been there, right?
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