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I loved this YA book about a descendant of Edgar Allan Poe who can see his ghost!
Ellen Poe: The Forgotten Lore by Diana Peterfreund pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/e...
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Krysta reviews this YA murder mystery based on LITTLE WOMEN:
Beth Is Dead by Katie Bernet pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/b...
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I go back and forth on whether books that are retellings of classics are most enjoyed by people who love the original classic or by people who have no opinions on the original at all.
(I’m sure the answer, as in general, depends on how well the concept is done.)
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🪄🧙🏼⚔️ New post! Low vs High Fantasy [Fantasy with Friends] - I'm squeezing in my thoughts on the Apr 13 prompt
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Monday's Fantasy with Friends prompt: Do you have any favorite subgenres of fantasy such as urban fantasy, historical fantasy, etc.?
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Do you declutter your bookshelves?
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This weekend I’m reading RIALTO by Kate Milford!
I’m about three chapters in and enjoying this middle grade centered on an abandoned probably magical theme park, though it does seem to be switching POVs between the two sisters in a way that’s confusing me.
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Memories Before and After The Sound of Music by Agathe von Trapp pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/m...
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Also when they lay off the editors because they replaced them with AI, will they be paying the authors more for their work? I doubt it.
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The fact that book blogging is notoriously difficult to monetize might be its greatest strength in 2026.
Who is going to bother to AI-generate book blog posts when there's no monetary payoff for doing so? Those people are going to stick to social media and other niches.
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The event has passed now, and they are STILL saying they will reveal to the volunteers what the reward is at some future date.
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I remember reading a long time ago a Reddit post from a baker who used box mix for her cakes and was always afraid someone would "catch her" buying it instead of making the cakes from scratch. She had a sense of shame she wasn't selling what people thought they were buying. We've lost that.
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I imagine it's like buying a cake because you thought it was homemade and then finding out the person sold you a factory-made cake from the grocery store. You'd be annoyed because it's not what you wanted/paid for and you wanted the human-made aspect.
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The "it doesn't matter if stuff is AI-generated" crowd is so funny because they never label their stuff as AI-generated.
If you thought no one actually cared, you would just say it was AI-generated instead of trying to pretend it's not and acting like you made it yourself.
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Sometimes people go too far with the "every book has an audience" thing. That's great. You didn't like the book but you assume someone else would. Let THEM give it 4 stars! Your star rating is for what YOU think! 🤣
For the record, I did give the book 4 stars lol!
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Just ran across a 4-star review, but when I started reading it, the reviewer said they DNFed at 20%. 🤣
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A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa & Emma Claire Sweeney pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/a...
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I think about this a lot! I liked some books this year but haven't actually given much 5 stars yet. Waiting for a book that really wows me!
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Guides like “The Only 10 Classics You Need to Read” or “The 10 Best Books on the Planet” or “The 10 Greatest Fantasies of All Time” do well in numbers, but I don’t know if I have the hubris to declare there are only 10 books the rest of you need to read & I know what they are. 🤣
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It's finally happened! Someone called me "elitist" for saying you shouldn't use AI to write because writing is thinking and you need to do the thinking part.
I mean, it really sounds like they insulted themselves and implied they can't think though. 🤔
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This weekend, I finished reading Ellen Poe: The Forgotten Lore by Diana Peterfreund.
This is really fun YA novel themed around Edgar Allan Poe and a girl who can see his ghost. He talks only in lines from his own writing, which I am still trying to sort out my feelings on.
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I am probably basing too much of this on, like, vampire fanfiction my friends made me read in high school, but the same premise can apply. I don't want to be stuck reading a lot of writing I don't even like just because I am neighbors or cousins with the author.
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I see writers post a lot about frustration that their friends/family don't read their work.
But as a reader, nothing horrifies me more than when someone I know IRL asks me to read their work. You feel stuck saying something positive & reading/promoting their work for life even if you don't like it.
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Do You Prefer High or Low Fantasy? (Fantasy with Friends) pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/d...
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Thank you!
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