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Category: 2024

Book Review: Perfect Girl

Posted on November 19, 2024November 19, 2024

Thank you to TBR & Beyond Tours for the early review copy of the book! Check out the whole tour here! About the Book Jessa has been raised to be the “perfect girl.” She is unfailingly polite, never rocks the boat, and always follows the rules―no matter what. Her friends love to give her a…

Book Review: Practical Rules for Cursed Witches

Posted on August 28, 2024August 28, 2024

About the Book: From the New York Times bestselling author of My Dearest Darkest comes a sapphic fantasy adventure about a teen witch who must complete her magical training by breaking a powerful family’s curse. But her own affliction—to never find true love—gets in the way when she falls for the girl she’s trying to…

Book Review: Our Wicked Histories

Posted on August 1, 2024July 30, 2024

ABOUT THE BOOK: A teen girl’s attempt to make amends with her former friend group takes a sinister turn during a weekend getaway at an ancestral Irish estate in this atmospheric, literary horror from the author of Those We Drown. There’s something in the lake at Wren Hall. At least, that’s what the locals say….

Book Review: Heiress Takes All

Posted on June 6, 2024June 5, 2024

About the Book: The Inheritance Games meets Ocean’s 11 in this thrilling YA adventure about a teenager determined to pull off the perfect heist in the midst of her father’s wedding. Seventeen-year-old Olivia Owens isn’t thrilled that her dad’s getting remarried…again. She’s especially not thrilled that he cheated on her mom, kicked them out of…

Book Review: The Wonderful Wishes of B

Posted on June 5, 2024

About the Book All that stands between ten-year-old Beatrice and an amazing life are five wishes…and she’s got a plan to make them all come true! A magical and heartfelt adventure about grief, hope, and the power of human connection. Beatrice Corwell has a crooked haircut, eight well-trained cats, and a she’s turning herself into…

An Open Letter About Community Theater

Posted on February 27, 2024February 27, 2024

*this might be a bit of a celebration AND a bit of a rant* I have been associated with community theaters literally as long as I have been in theater. I was a part of the community theater scene in Albion long before it was officially named, branded, and a thing. We met in the…

Broken Crayons Still Color/Broken Hearts Still Beat

Posted on February 21, 2024February 21, 2024

They say that broken crayons can still color.They’re right, I suppose.A broken crayon isn’t ready to be thrown away;There is still a little life left in there. But broken crayons don’t color the same, do they?Their edges are smudged sometimes;They don’t quite stay inside the lines;They don’t quite fit where they used to. At their…

Who They Thought I Was

Posted on February 12, 2024February 12, 2024

“I miss who I thought you were.” The words have echoed in my head for weeks now, replaying over and over again. They miss a version of me, but not me. They miss what I threw out into the world as my reality, but not who I really was. They miss the role I played,…

What No One Tells You

Posted on January 20, 2024January 20, 2024

There are things no one tells youAs you face the world on your ownAfter so many years of not having to navigateA world made for community as a party of one No one tells you how much you’ll miss Being able to just collapse into someone’s armsWhen an average day turns stressfulAnd you just don’t…

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