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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, …

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”  “Who watches the watchmen?
*WARNING* The comic and film discussed in this post feature some suggestive language and content, including themes of sexual assault and violence. Proceed at your own risk.
I feel I have to preface this post by saying 1) the title suggests t…

Synopsis:Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massi…

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Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole …

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4.5 out of 5 stars
I had read and heard glowing reviews of The Name of the Wind long before officially picking it up to read. That said, it was not what I had expected. At the advent, we find our protagonist wasting away as an innkeeper despite all he claims to have accomplished in his youth…

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Both Elisha (Ellie) and Jeremiah (Miah) attend Percy Academy, a private school where neither quite fits in. Ellie is wrestling with family demons, and Miah is one of the few African American students. The two of them find each other, and fall in love -- but they are hesitant to share thei…

Most of us are going into week 8747594 of self-isolation/quarantine, are just about going crazy from lack of a change of scenery, no diversity in the number of faces we see everyday, and how the pandemic is changing life as we once knew it. That said though, all things considered, I've been ta…

4 out of 5 stars

You know that feeling- that newfound perspective on a book you first read in your adolescence? You might find that you've outgrown the piece or that you have a better appreciation for it. In the case Blood Promise, the fourth installment in author Richelle Mead's Vampire Ac…

Synopsis 4.5 out of 5 stars
Rather than focus on the translation of Consolations, I'll discuss my thoughts on the content of Boethius's dialogue with Philosophy. My history with Consolations goes back to my days as an undergrad (which, granted, wasn't that long ago though I make it sound…

Synopsis 3.5 out of 5 stars
Historically, I've rated all of the Cassandra Clare books I'd read quite high, an average of 4.5 stars, I believe. But I have now been out of the fan-bubble for long enough that I'll be able to be a little more critical of the Shadowhunter books. Well, Queen o…