The Circle Never Breaks: On Mister Magic, Childhood Horror, and the Stories That Know Us Before We Know Ourselves There is a moment in Kiersten White’s Mister Magic that I have not been able to stop thinking about since I read it: A slow understanding of why five people, thirty […]
Feature: Tradwife by Michelle Brandon & The Fantasy That was Never for Us Welcome to October, y’all. What better way to kick off spooky szn than with the real horrors we live with! But for real, in just a few days, it will be Banned Books Week and we are […]
Crush on This: The House of Now and Then by Edward Underhill & More Picks Fall TBR season is here and if you spent the summer in survival mode, you are not alone. There are a handful of books from the past few months that slipped through our TBR and […]
Audiobook Review: Meet Me in the Garden by Nina LaCour A Book of the Month Club pick, featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and earning starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, Meet Me in the Garden is the book that Nina LaCour’s readers have been waiting for since she […]
Review: Lost in Yellowstone by Nicole Maggi If you have been following along here, you know we are big fans of Nicole Maggi’s National Park Mystery series. Lost in Yellowstone is the second book, following Special Agent Emmeline Helliwell as she investigates a murder in one of the most iconic […]
Feature: Pride 2026 TBR & Giveaway June is here and so is our annual tradition of reading every queer book we can get our hands on, crying at fictional characters, and losing sleep over slow burns that took three hundred pages to pay off. This year’s Pride TBR is stacked […]
Review: The Photonic Effect by Mike Chen I have been a Mike Chen fan since his debut and have read everything he has put out since. So when I tell you it genuinely surprised me to realize that The Photonic Effect is his first space opera, I mean that. Everything […]
Cover Crush: Clara & the Devil, Volume 1 by Olivie Blake with art by Little Chmura In Clara & the Devil, Vol. 1, Olivie Blake and artist Little Chmura put together this moody, obsessive graphic novel about what happens when your whole life gets flipped upside down. Clara has a […]
Cover Reveal: Love, Like Apples by Jeff Zentner We already know this one is going to hurt. A kid grows up in a house without much warmth. His brother is the one soft place. The one person who shows him that kindness isn’t weakness. And then the war takes him. […]
Event Recap: 2025 Columbus Book Festival This past July, the Columbus Book Festival returned for its third year of celebrating readers, writers, and the joy of reading at Columbus Metropolitan Library (Main) and Topiary Park. The free, two-day event brought 200+ national and local authors, a variety of panels, community […]