Tag: Middle-grade
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Book Review: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher is an author I’ve seen floating around in the blogosphere a lot. However, I always doubted whether these books were for me, as I’m not much of a horror reader. And let’s be honest, most books by this author fall into the horror category. However, in spring 2025, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive…
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Book Review: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan
The Covid-19 pandemic has proven to be really productive for me in regards to catch up on old series I haven’t had the chance to read before because I never heard of them when they got published. One of these series is the “Percy Jackson” series by Rick Riordan. The universe this author created is…
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Book Review: Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
As stated in this post where I outline my bookish goals for the year, focusing on my backlog is one of the key goals for 2025. I have so many books I tend to forget about because of all the interesting new stories being published. A book I indeed forgot about was Noughts & Crosses…
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Book Review: Amari and the Despicable Wonders By B.B. Alston
It was sometime in Summer 2021, according to my reading stats, that I discovered Amari and the Night Brothers, the first book in B.B. Alston’s series about Amari, a black girl with magic powers. This book was an excellent, unexpected surprise that got rewarded with a 5-star rating. I therefore was curious for Amari and…
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Review: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
About a year ago, I discovered the book Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume. I somehow thought it was a quite new book, because it was going to be both adapted for television and translated into Dutch. However, this book was first published in 1970. I got curious nevertheless and decided…