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The House in the Cerulean Sea

I’m a little disappointed with myself for waiting so long to read the bestselling The House in the Cerulean Sea (2020) by T.J. Klune, which was everywhere since then and nominated for many fantasy awards, but I do have a bit of a contrarian in me and sometimes resist books that become very popular. IfContinue reading “The House in the Cerulean Sea”

The Unfortunates

The Unfortunates (2023) by J.K. Chukwu is probably better read than listened to, although I very much appreciated it, as it deals with themes of microaggressions, body size, queerness, depression, and the alienation of a black college sophomore student at a primarily white institution. Told from the perspective of Sahara, a half-Nigerian pre-med student, inContinue reading “The Unfortunates”