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How To Learn Languages Fast But Maybe Not Like. That Fast
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May 18, 2026 |
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Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Endure Domestic Air Travel
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May 04, 2026 |
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Cleaning (With The Help of Books)
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Writers Talking About Writing Books About Writing
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Heated Rivalry (ft. A Proprietary Nootropic Mushroom Blend Inspired By Psychodelics)
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Taboo Romance and Captive Prince
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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THE PILE: Dissecting Our TBR Lists
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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2025 ROUND UP: The Milk Chronicles
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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What To Read When You Aren't Reading
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Animorphs Part 8: You Can't Keep Inventing Gods!
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Heaven Official's Blessing (Part 3 and 4)
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Heaven Official's Blessing (Volumes 1 and 2)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Chicken Book Extravaganza feat. Our Actual Chickens
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Animorphs Part 7: Put Him In The Horse Plinko
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Barbarian Beds: The Origin of the Chair in China by C.P. Fitzgerald (and other books on Chinese history)
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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May 20, 2025 |
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Sunrise on the Reaping/The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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May 06, 2025 |
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READING DEATH PACT THUNDERDOME ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Animorphs Part 6: The Bright, Clear Line
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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TBR Pile Death Pact
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Animorphs Part 5: The Weekend is Cancelled
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Sarah's Bummer of an Extended Vacation: The 2025 Oregon Healthcare Strike
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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This is KINDA an Episode about Murderbot
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Vermis: Which Flesh is Your Flesh?
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Animorphs Part 4: We HAVE to Talk about David
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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2024 Recap: DIY, Top Fives, and the Raw Power of Animorphs
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Animorphs Part 3: It's All Uphell From Here (Books 11-19)
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Danmei Beatdown!!
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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"That's Life!" A Harrowing Tale of Triumph, Humiliation, and Gravity Falls
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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The Book of Billl (and More!)
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Alien Romulus: We did not like The Man
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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This Is Not An Episode About Dungeon Meshi (lofi)
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Illumicrate Book Subscription Box
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May 31, 2024 |
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He Who Drowned The World by Shelley Parker-Chan
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May 14, 2024 |
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Ex Marginalia: Essays from the Edges of Speculative Fiction
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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A Rube Goldberg Machine for Self-Crucifixion
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Dungeon Meshi by Ryoko Kui
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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WE BOUGHT A HOUSE AND FORGOT HOW TO READ
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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The Whole Milieu of Frances Hardinge
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Animorphs Part 2: High Stakes Moral Crises for Children
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Translation State by Ann Leckie
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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2023 End of Year Wrap Up Lamentation and Vows
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Animorphs Part 1: Baby's First Existential Dread
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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The Real Horror is Marriage but the Clones Don't Help
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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My Best Friend's Exorcism
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Sorry, We're Still Obsessed
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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In Our Time of Woe
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Wei Wuxian is a Public Menace
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Read More With Less
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Gender Roles and Gender 'Oles
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Must Love Boats
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Conclusively and Without Question, We Have ADHD.
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Gender? I Hardly Know 'Er!
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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The Ballad of Bigolas Dickolas
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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You Know What They Say About Big Hands (of the Emperor)?
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The Sporekeeper: Thoughts on Fungus
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May 31, 2023 |
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The Family Business (Which Is, In This Case, Creepy Puppets)
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May 17, 2023 |
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The Scum Villain’s So-Stupid Seduction
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May 02, 2023 |
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The Bravest Little Girls in the Forest
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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An Approximate Definition of a Haunted House
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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The Sanderson-Pixar Carsmere
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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War Crimes 4 Kids
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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She Who Transed Your Gender
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Schrödinger's P---es
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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2023: Believe, Dang It, So Much!
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Kid Lit's Profound Gloom
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Play Me Off With The Death Kazoo
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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All Victorians Were Stinky Little Freaks
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Ned Stark's Book Five Plotline Really Slapped
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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We Are Both Doing Equally Well With Our Goals, Thanks
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Dense Little Weirdos: Short Story Collections
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Avada Kedavyaknowwhat, we're not doing this
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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The Super Duper Ultra Stuffed Lesbian Romance Rant (for Pride!)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Mary Oliver and Owen Wilson: Gay Poetry For Dummies
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Death to the Living, Rights to the Sperm Whales
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May 25, 2022 |
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Hey Wait A Sec, Did The Trojan War Suck?
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May 10, 2022 |
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Odyssey Hot Takes: Ten Years Seems Like A Bit Much
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Black Bonnets and Tortured Bystanders
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Coming Full Circe
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Such A Good Anthology, And The Soundtrack To Hell
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Of Mist, and Grass, and Snake, Oh God Wait There's a Snake??
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Book Nostalgia
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Resolutions and Other Unkept Promises
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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2021 Revisited
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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God Bless Us Every Crumb
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Break Your Book Slump
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Oops! Just a Sloppy Lil Supernatural Episode
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Sometimes Buildings Just Hate You, and Other Insights into Horror
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Venom's Extended Mouth Member
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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For A Game Called Disco Elysium, There Really Isn't That Much Disco
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Middle School English Class: Maximum Trauma, Minimum Word Count
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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On Novellas, and Variable Equine Stature
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Resident Evil: MILF But The M Stands For Mold
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Read Your Id
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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The Sporror!
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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We've ALL Read the Necronomicon: or H.P. Lovecraft, The Sex Life of a Gentleman
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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POV You Are Two Walls in Love
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Library Book Death Pact
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May 24, 2021 |
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The Year of Living Indoorsily
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May 10, 2021 |
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Nice Things For Murderbot!
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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2020: A Reread
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Love Wins, Allegedly: The Supernatural Story
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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The Lifeboat, by Charlotte Rogan
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Island of the Lost by Joan Druett
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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We did it. We saw Les Mis.
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Castlevania's Dracula is the Only Valid Dracula
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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No Beast So Fierce, by Dane Huckelbridge
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Good Omens, Bad Accents
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
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Jun 01, 2019 |
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Dracula by Bram Stoker
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May 15, 2019 |
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation by David Welky
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Les Mis, aka Javert Apologism
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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The Passage by Justin Cronin
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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The Ruins by Scott Smith
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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The Bad Relative's Guide to Last Minute Gift Giving
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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Black Sails pt 1: Another Cursèd Pirate Ship
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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Pure. Gay. Drama.
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
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Nov 03, 2018 |
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The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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The Hunger by Alma Katsu
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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Comestopnathus!
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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Ernest Shackleton Please Love Me
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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Ernest Shackleton Did Okay, Considering
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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John Carpenter's The Thing
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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Who Goes There by John W. Campbell, Jr
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Jun 18, 2018 |
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The Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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The Terror 2: Yet More Terror
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May 23, 2018 |
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The Martian by Andy Weir
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May 14, 2018 |
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When You Wish Upon A Car
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Apr 30, 2018 |
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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
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Mar 19, 2018 |
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Minisode: Annihilation
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
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Feb 05, 2018 |
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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Jan 22, 2018 |
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The Fifth Element (Is Mass Extinction)
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Jan 08, 2018 |
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President Jimmy Buffet, and Other Nautical Tales
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Dec 23, 2017 |
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Panem? I Hardly Know 'Em!
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Nov 27, 2017 |
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Minisode: World War Z
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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An Study of Brainrot
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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Slippery Robert De Niro: The Modern Prometheus
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Canned Beans in the Cracked Cellars of Hell
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Don't Go To The Arctic
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Oct 02, 2017 |