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Official Summary: Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as it’s whispered, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethoven’s manuscripts, she has no idea how dangerous her life is about to become. Prague is a threshold, Sarah is…
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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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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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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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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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Initially, I thought I’d skip this week’s Top 5 Wednesday topic. But then, I got hit with a couple brilliant ideas. And so, I decided to take the plunge and do today’s T5W post. This week’s topic is classics you’d like to see modern adaptations of. I tried to avoid classics that have already had…