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Chronically ill neurosparkly mood reader & bunny lover 📚🐇 Love escaping into a fantasy world ✨️

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The Fire Prophecy (Hidden Legends: Academy of Magical Creatures, #1)

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The Last Graduate

Naomi Novik

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The Last Graduate

Naomi Novik

A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education, the start of Naomi Novik’s groundbreaking crossover series. At the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year—and the looming specter of graduation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive in its wake. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules . . .

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2026 🍁 Fall Readalong - ✨Sparkle Chasers✨, Cast your predictions🔮!

Hello PBees 🐝

Since we had some fun casting predictions for the 2026 Summer Readalong (see 🔗previous post), I thought we could do it again for the Fall one!

So the main question is: If you were to read all the books, what do you think your top for the 2026 Fall Readalong would be?

I don't think I'll go for the sparkly badge this time, but we never know, prepping for this post made me more interested! So here is my prediction:

🪄 The Incandescent
✍️ Death of the Author
🐦 The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love
🐺 How to be Eaten

You can cast your prediction even if you don't plan on aiming for the sparkles! In fact, don't push yourself too much for it, the goal is to enjoy reading and having fun discussions first of all!
You can also participate if you've already read them all (I see you speedy peeps 👀🏃‍➡️) Just retroactively list what you thought it could have been going in!
If you have already read a book, add a ✅green check at the end of the line. That way, we can see if you are going in blind or already have a good idea of whether you've liked some!

We will be doing a retrospective at the end of the Readalong to compare what we thought vs what was actually our final top! (The Summer one is coming next week! Just waiting for the last rush to pass, for people like me who procrastinate until the last minute 🫣)

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Brothersong (Green Creek, #4)

T.J. Klune

The beloved fantasy romance sensation by New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, about love, loyalty, betrayal, and joy. The Bennett family has a They're not just a family, they're a pack. Brothersong is Carter Bennett's story.In the ruins of Caswell, Maine, Carter Bennett learned the truth of what had been right in front of him the entire time. And then it—he—was gone. Desperate for answers, Carter takes to the road, leaving family and the safety of his pack behind, all in the name of a man he only knows as a feral wolf. But therein lies the wolves are pack animals, and the longer Carter is on his own, the more his mind slips toward the endless void of Omega insanity. But he pushes on, following the trail left by Gavin. Gavin, the son of Robert Livingstone. The half-brother of Gordo Livingstone.What Carter finds will change the course of the wolves forever. Because Gavin’s history with the Bennett pack goes back further than anyone knows, a secret kept hidden by Carter’s father, Thomas Bennett. And with this knowledge comes a the sins of the fathers now rest upon the shoulders of their sons.The Green Creek Series is for adult readers.Now available from Tor Books.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Library of Forbidden Books: A Novel

Mario Escobar

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A Deadly Education

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Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.0

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A Deadly Education

Naomi Novik

Lesson One of the Scholomance: Learning has never been this deadly. A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) — until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets. There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won’t allow its students to leave until they graduate… or die! The rules are deceptively simple: Don’t walk the halls alone. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere. El is uniquely prepared for the school’s dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out millions. It would be easy enough for El to defeat the monsters that prowl the school. The problem? Her powerful dark magic might also kill all the other students.

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Real-Life Romance Stories

I keep hearing adverts for the new romance book(s) which are written about real-life couples who met on Hinge, so I was curious - would the romance readers out there be interested in a real-life romance or is that crossing a line?

I don't personally enjoy reading romance, and my view on this is that I'd find it too weird so I wouldn't read it, even if I liked romance, but I'm interested to hear your views!

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Real-Life Romance Stories

I don't personally enjoy reading romance, and my view on this is that I'd find it too weird so I wouldn't read it, even if I liked romance, but I'm interested to hear your views!

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Never Work With Animals

Gareth Steel

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Never Work With Animals

Gareth Steel

Gareth Steel wants you to understand vets in a way you never could have before. How it feels to watch a healed dog bound into their owner’s arms. The joy of breathing life into the fluid-filled lungs of a newborn calf after a difficult labour. The satisfaction of rescuing a distressed sheep from the high-tide line. What it’s like to work 100-hour weeks for less than the minimum wage. How it can scar your soul to euthanize a beloved puppy with its grieving family beside you. The pressure of having to know such a diverse range of medicine, that one hour you can be protecting yourself from a dangerously distressed horse and the next you can be performing delicate surgery on a tiny mouse. How all these pressures have built up to the extent that vets have four times the national suicide rate, and why. Gareth Steel has been a vet for nearly twenty years and has worked all over the UK, across both rural and city practices, dealing with all manner of household pets and farm animals. This is his fascinating raw account of just how involved the job is and the toll the extreme emotions that come with it can take, but it also a heart-warming and often humorous story of the desperate lengths we go to for the love of animals.

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Higher Magic

Courtney Floyd

In this incisive, irreverent, and whimsical dark academia novel for fans of Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde series and R.F. Kuang’s Babel, a struggling mage student with intense anxiety must prove that classic literature contained magic—and learn to wield her own stories to change her institution for the better. First-generation graduate student Dorothe Bartleby has one last chance to pass the Magic program’s qualifying exam after freezing with anxiety during her first attempt. If she fails to demonstrate that magic in classic literature changed the world, she’ll be kicked out of the university. And now her advisor insists she reframe her entire dissertation using Digimancy. While mages have found a way to combine computers and magic, Bartleby’s fated to never make it work. This time is no exception. Her revised working goes horribly wrong, creating a talking skull named Anne that narrates Bartleby’s inner thoughts—even the most embarrassing ones—like she's a heroine in a Jane Austen novel. Out of her depth, she recruits James, an unfairly attractive mage candidate, to help her stop Anne’s glitches in time for her exam. Instead, Anne leads them to a shocking and dangerous discovery: Magic students who seek disability accommodations are disappearing—quite literally. When the administration fails to act, Bartleby must learn to trust her own knowledge and skills. Otherwise, she risks losing both the missing students and her future as a mage, permanently.

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A Deadly Education

Naomi Novik

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Sorcery and Small Magics (The Wildersongs Trilogy, #1)

Maiga Doocy

Desperate to undo the curse binding them to each other, an impulsive sorcerer and his curmudgeonly rival venture deep into a magical forest in search of a counterspell—only to discover that magic might not be the only thing pulling them together. Leovander Loveage is a master of small magics. He can summon butterflies with a song, or turn someone’s hair pink by snapping his fingers. Such minor charms don’t earn him much admiration from other sorcerers (or his father), but anything more elaborate always blows up in his face. Which is why Leo vowed years ago to never again write powerful magic. That is, until a mix-up involving a forbidden spell binds Leo to obey the commands of his longtime nemesis, Sebastian Grimm. Grimm is Leo’s complete opposite—respected, exceptionally talented, and an absolutely insufferable curmudgeon. The only thing they agree on is that getting caught using forbidden magic would mean the end of their careers. They need a counterspell, and fast. But Grimm casts spells, he doesn’t undo them, and Leo doesn’t mess with powerful magic. Chasing rumors of a powerful sorcerer with a knack for undoing curses, Leo and Grimm enter the Unquiet Wood, a forest infested with murderous monsters and dangerous outlaws alike. To dissolve the curse, they’ll have to uncover the true depths of Leo’s magic, set aside their long-standing rivalry, and—much to their horror—work together. Even as an odd spark of attraction flares between them.

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The Golden Enclaves

Naomi Novik

Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate. Almost singlehandedly--although backed by an increasingly large cadre of genuine friends--El has changed the nature of the Scholomance forever. But now that she is back in the real world, how will the lessons she learned inside the school apply? Will her grandmother's prophecy come true? Will she really spell the doom of all the enclaves forever? As the quest to save her one true love ramps up, however, El is about to learn the most significant lesson of all--the dire truth on which the enclaves and the whole stability of the magical world are founded. And being El, she is not likely to let it lie....

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The Last Graduate

Naomi Novik

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middle-end of august check up!!

hi hi!! since we’re nearing the end of the month i was wondering what are you guys’ reading plans for what remains of august!! any books you’re in the middle of and want to finish before september starts? any books you’d like to squeeze in?

my august tbr was hard to achieve because i was too ambitious and i had quite a hectic month but i’m gonna try my best to stick to it until the end!!

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Booked at Midnight (Midnights on the Square)

Emily W. Andersen

Return to Aurelia’s magical bookshop in the second book in the Midnights On the Square series, featuring a brand new cast of beloved characters from the pages of classic novels.Now that writer and bookshop owner Aurelia has found love with her editor-turned-boyfriend Oliver, she has everything she’s ever wanted—love, a published novel, and of course, friendship with the literary characters who visit her shop every night at midnight. But when Oliver moves in, sneaking off for late-night bookish meetups becomes a lot more complicated.As Aurelia works to keep her midnight gatherings secret, she can’t shake the urge to help the downtrodden Harriet from Little Dorrit rewrite her story, but this time, crafting a new ending for a classic character proves to be a bigger challenge than before. Aurelia and Harriet will have to find their own voices so they both can claim the lives they deserve.Packed with all the warmth and bookish charm of the series debut, Booked at Midnight weaves together literary magic, enchanting romance, and the adventures of two women taking charge of their destinies … no matter the century.

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A Deadly Education

Naomi Novik

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