Tag Archives : v.e. schwab

Weekly Roundup: July 22-26, 2019


Hey, hey, kiddos, and what a week it’s been! Weather armageddon continues throughout the world, manifesting in varied and extreme ways, and I got to experience my own scare during the start of the week, when everyone’s phones exploded with emergency alerts about my hometown in a level-4 evacuation emergency for floods and mudslides. Remember how I complained about tsuyu…

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Book Club Discussion: A Darker Shade of Magic


Greetings, Book Clubbers! Your Editor-in-Chic is stepping in for the month of July with an important announcement. Do you remember, when we voted on July’s Book Club selection, that we picked the book based on helping Merrin clear out her TBR pile, because July is her birthday month? Well, because Merrin has been working so hard for this blog, I…

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Book Club: July Announcement and August Poll


Happy birthday to me and my fellow July babies!! This month I made you pick from my to-be-read stack and I’m so pleased with your choice . . . A Darker Shade of Magic (2015) Written by: V.E. Schwab Discussion date: 7/26/19 Premise: Kell is one of the last Antari — magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel…

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Cover Chic: Breaking with Stereotypes


When someone mentions fantasy book covers, inevitably a stereotypical image pops up. One of knights standing near dragons, perhaps a chain-mail bra-clad woman with him. Or at least, that’s what used to be the norm. As today’s standards of what’s “cool” and socially acceptable continue to shift, so do the covers of speculative fiction books. Fantasy, science fiction, and horror…

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