I'm in the process of rereading this series. I started and finished Winter's Passage (book 1.5, a novella you don't HAVE to read) yesterday and read the first chapter of The Iron Daughter before bed. This book has a scene I love (and hate) and think about frequently. I know it's gonna tear my heart out to read it, but I have a visceral NEED to have my heart ripped to shreds by a book.
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March 2025
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Crashing the A-List - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
The Thirteenth Tale - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Float Plan - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bright Lights, Dark Nights - ⭐️⭐️.5
The Davenports: More Than This - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Imaginary Girls - ⭐️⭐️
The Legion of Regrettable Super Villains - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England - ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
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I loved every second of this book. Okay, maybe not EVERY second, cause I did get mad a few times. It was so good, I'm mad I have to wait months to know what happens next.
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You know what? Let’s go back to the beginning. To Fear Street #1.

I keep getting thrown with the Columbo/Law & Order: CI openings where a crime is committed by SOMEONE and then the story actually starts, but it’s fine. I like Columbo and I LOVED CI.

I will say that a common critique you’re going to hear from me is a plot driven by poor communication. It’s a pet peeve of mine and just lazy writing. It’s also all OVER the Fear Street series.

Anyway, this book centers around a kid in high school who falls in love with the new girl, Anna. It IS a little strange that none of his friends know who she is, has her in their classes, and everyone that DOES know Anna insists that Anna…

Is dead.

I looked this up on Wikipedia to make sure I remembered the plot since I read this a couple years ago and it says that the boyfriend was convinced she was alive with her “human-like kisses.”

I literally laughed out loud.

Anyway, it turns out “Anna” isn’t Anna at ALL and she’s actually WILLA, Anna’s sister who killed Anna out of jealousy and assumed her identity. There’s a brother, Brad, and he plays a pretty important role. He shoved a girl down some stairs and I think he even killed a cat to stuff in a locker as a warning, but I don’t care about him.

My mind got snagged HARD on the idea that a teenage girl killed her teenage girl sister and just ADOPTED her personality. Where were her parents? Where was Brad? Why had nobody heard of Anna? Why is Willa going to school?

I just think that if you’re going to murder a sibling and assume their identity, high school years are the WORST years to do it.

That said, it was fun to re-read and still way better than Goosebumps.

I’m excited for the next one.

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4⭐️

Emily Henry delivers a charming read with Book Lovers, featuring outstanding banter and deep character connections. While marketed as a romance, the heart of the story lies in Nora’s relationship with her sister, Libby, adding depth beyond the love story with Charlie. Nora & Charlie's dynamic isn’t quite rivals-to-lovers but rather two ambitious people who misjudged each other. Henry’s writing is fantastic, making this a well-rounded and enjoyable book.

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It’s super interesting to read a philosopher’s take on how he thought Covid would impact our culture as a whole.

He was wrong, but I think we all were. I distinctly remember thinking that Covid could - for all the heartache and death it brought with it - also bring a reframing of our lives and a refreshed priority list to all of us. We could really take a moment and breathe for a bit, look around, and evaluate whether we as a society are okay with the grind that is modernity.

Turns out yes, people were okay with it. Well. Rich people were okay with it. As so often happens, the curtain lifted a bit to show that that so-called “unskilled labor force,” is actually holding up civilization while the rich just pretend to do important things.

At this point, Covid feels like a wasted opportunity to right an awful lot of wrongs.

Edit: I wrote the above in 2022 and I feel like I’ve just gotten more radicalized year after year from my disappointment in all of us as a society. We could have done so much. We could currently be in such a better place. But no, the workforce was forced to cave to the rich, showing their trick of limiting wages to barely livable also meant that nobody had the opportunity to reject the systems that they set up.

We were set up, exploited, and manipulated and words cannot express just how fucking angry I am about the whole thing because now there are ZERO silver linings or redeeming values to Covid19. Just a whole lot of unnecessary death and tighter grip on the people by corporations and billionaires.

It kills me, man. I’m not even kidding. I hate it and it breaks my heart every. single. day.

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Nope. Hated it.

I think my biggest problem with it comes from the complete and total mismatch of title and story.

Is someone invisible? Yeah. But they’re a stranger, not the protagonist’s best friend and that is half the friggin’ title.

Also, bro, you can’t pull the same twist ending this close together because it’s basically the same thing as the Blob book and there was ONE book between those.

Considering that these were coming out roughly on a monthly basis that’s either lazy writing where you don’t remember your own stuff or completely dismissive of the reader’s ability to remember.

And that last one should never have entered the equation because fans were ADAMANT. I remembered details into my college years because I read the SHIT out of them as a kid. Multiple re-reads and I wasn’t even close to the only one. Once these started to get traction with kids, suddenly the corridor at my primary school where I would read on recess and lunch breaks (where I’d be protected from that goddamn burning ball in the sky) had more and more kids sitting next to me, reading Goosebumps and passing books between each other.

Over and over.

If Stine ever thought we couldn’t remember details like the FUCKING END OF THE BOOK, he was insane.

Either that, or the alleged ghostwriter didn’t get the memos about other books and this was a sheer coincidence.

But even then, which of these shitty options would be preferable?

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I’m calling it: this is my favorite Goosebumps book of all time.

I can say this with confidence since I’m reposting all of these from IG until I catch up to where I’m at now in my reading. I’ve read the rest. This is my favorite.

The story centers on a young writer banging out stories on a magic typewriter and I can tell you why I liked this so much:

1) I love typewriters. Always have. I have three now and need two more before I call my little collection complete (a Hermes 2000, perhaps with a German keyboard so I can keep practicing my Deutsch and an Olivetti because that’s what “Richard Bachman” used). The steady click clack sounds cool to me and when I’m writing, the tactile feels and loud sounds are inspiring. I want to hear more and to do that I have to write more.

2) I was absolutely that kid. Not with a typewriter - my parents hopped on the computer train pretty early - but writing. I wrote ALL the time. I still write. I’m working on a second-chance romance right now and it will be my fourth book. I don’t publish them - they’re just fun to write and I’ve been doing this since I was nine or so.

So this book could have done anything and I would have still been onboard with it. As it is, the magic typewriter makes everything the kid writes actually happen and hijinks definitely ensue. It’s a fun, fast-paced story and once it gets rolling, it gets pretty exciting.

Out of the whole series, this is the one I want a hard copy of the most.

Also, if you’re looking for an affordable, reliable, fairly indestructible typewriter, look for a mid-1950s Silent Super from Smith Corona. I’ve dragged mine around the world in my checked luggage (in its case) and it’s fine. Can’t recommend it enough.

If you’re more into apps, check out Hanx Writer for simulated typewriter typeface and sound goodness.

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I cannot put into words my dread at knowing I would need to eventually read this book. The cover and title are memorable and I remember thinking “ugh, so that’s Goosebumps now, eh?” as a kid.

I wasn’t stoked.

But then I read it and yeah, it’s just as dumb as you think it would be. A girl is slowly turning into a chicken after upsetting the neighborhood witch.

The only entertaining thing about it is that RL Stine has often been called a reader’s stepping stone (one place called him a training bra which is just hilarious) to Stephen King and I don’t think either party liked that. It’s very dismissive of Stine’s work and King had a character call Goosebumps dumb in “Fairy Tale.”

And THIS book is Stine actually taking a swing at being “inspired” by a King book and reworking it to be a Goosebumps book.

The King book? Thinner.

So does that make this fanfic? Or is there a better term? Perhaps a more nefarious term? Because as it stands right now it feels like parody more than anything else. If Mad Magazine took on Thinner, it would probably be this book.

So it’s entertaining to see Stine try to boil down a full-length novel about racism, classism, the justice system, and a failing marriage into a children’s book.

Obviously it’s not going to be a success but damn it, I enjoyed seeing him try.

When King’s Under the Dome came out, it really freaked me out. Not the story, but the fact that so many people lost their minds and followed a madman just because he had charisma. He was able to whip up a crowd and it led to horrible results that I could (now can) absolutely see happening. It freaked me out so badly I stopped reading King for a long time with the exception of Elevation.

Until I read this book and thought “Thinner was so much better than this. I should re-read that.”

So there are TWO good things about this book!

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More thrift finds. I am just basically starting a library at this point.

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