Only the Essentials
Books are the essentials for any trip!
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Learning from Media: Anime and Writing Overpowered Heroes
May 2026’s Newsletter: “Learning from Media: Anime and Writing Overpowered Heroes” Stop me if you’ve seen this one before: The hero swaggers onto the scene. They burst out flashy fight moves. Enemies fall left and right. The hero flies through and nothing can touch them. Are they even trying? Lights, fireworks, lots of special effects.
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Turning into Your Mother
Turning into your mother isn’t a problem when your mother’s awesome
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Work Time is Cuddle Time
When you work from home, work time is cuddle time
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Don’t Make Me Choose!
Can anyone really choose just one book? It seems like an impossible choice to me
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Books Written by Indie Bookstagrammers
April 2026’s Newsletter: “Books Written by Indie Bookstagrammers” I network on Instagram a lot these days, so plenty of Indie authors’ books have ended up on my TBR. I thought I’d share some with you today! This book rec list contains books self-published or produced by bookstagrammers. (Bookstagrammers: Instagrammers who post about books and book-related
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Me and My Inner Child
Sometimes it’s important to check in with your inner child and let them be excited for you.
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Do Not Go Gentle
We will not go gentle; there’s always something we can do to help the good fight. The ACLU is suing before the Supreme Court to defend birthright citizenship on April 1st. If you want to help their cause, you can sign their petition here.
Book Recommendation: “The Summer War”
March 2026’s newsletter: “Book Recommendation: The Summer War” Naomi Novik brings us another new fairy tale in her stand-alone novella, “The Summer War.” I love stories with close siblings, and siblings are a central theme in this novella. I try to avoid spoilers when writing my recommendations, but I fell into revealing more with this
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