• I vant to get your views! Okay, so vampires are considered passé now. But that doesn’t mean we don’t all still love them, at least a little bit. Plus, there’s so much lore around them! There’s no one right way to do the vampire story. Their manifestations vary so much from culture to culture. I’ve…

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  • You know how we all dreamed of going to Hogwarts? Well, earlier this year, our letters finally came! Er, sort of. They came in the form of a role-play game. Still, that’s more than we’ve gotten from previous games where we simply went on Harry’s journey. In this game, titled Hogwarts Mystery, you get to…

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  • Whether they’re in your closet, under your bed, or just in your imagination, monsters have had a grip on all of our minds since childhood. They fill us with terror and exhilaration. Therefore, it’s no surprise that this week’s spooky Top 5 Wednesday topic is our favorite monsters. Fiction has so many great monsters, it…

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  • Trope Talk: Hate-to-Love

    When asked about favorite tropes, the one that seems to come to most people’s minds first is the hate-to-love trope. While I love me some good angst, this isn’t a trope that usually makes my list. I think it’s because I don’t always like how it’s handled. Essentially, there’s Good Hate-to-Love and there’s Oh-No-This-Is-Borderline-Abuse Hate-to-Love.…

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  • Over the past year, no band has been turned on faster than twenty one pilots. One day, they were lauded as near-gods and the next they were written off as hacks. In a world where callout culture is affecting careers left and right, this isn’t so surprising. That is, until you realize neither Tyler Joseph…

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  • Four Word Summary Challenge

    I was browsing some new blogs today, when I came across a new tag I thought was just neat. This tag is, as you can tell by the title, the Four Word Summary Challenge. For this challenge, you have to summarize a book using only four words. Those words cannot include character names or any…

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  • It’s Wednesday, my dudes. That means it’s time for another Top 5 Wednesday post! This week’s topic? Our favorite villains! …The problem is I did this topic a couple months ago when we got to pick old topics from the archives. Sure, I could probably come up with some more villains I love, and I…

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  • Unlike with reading, September was a sparse month for music. Maybe I’m just becoming more selective, but I wasn’t that into most of the new music that came out this month. Most recommendations I was given didn’t impress me either. That said, the music I did enjoy this month was excellent. In fact, September brought…

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  • September 2018 Wrap-Up

    Ba de ya, say do you remember? Ba de ya, reading in September? I sure do. In fact, I had a pretty dang great reading month. This month I read six novels, one novella, and one graphic novel. In total, I read eight books. Overall, the quality was pretty good too. So, let’s jump right…

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  • Imagine you’re eight years old and your mom pops a CD into the car CD player. The voice that comes out of the speakers is the biggest, most beautiful voice you’ve ever heard. You decide you like this voice and these songs, so you borrow that CD for yourself. You create dances to the songs…

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