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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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hello friends,

Sooooo what’s the most recent book you dnf and why? Do you give the author another chance or is that it?

This weekend I’m trying to finish a couple books and hopefully go to a bookstore, I am rewarding myself with two books 🤭

Recently I haven’t dnf a single book… which shocking!!!

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How to you read/plan books for travel?

I’m flying to the other coast of the US today and spent a good amount of the morning planning out my reading. I only brought one paperback, managed to only buy one book- a record for me- once in the airport (Running for the Hills by Kevin Wilson) and have a ton of books from Libby and cheaply from bookshop.org cued up on my Boox (a type of ereader. I tried to include some fiction that takes place where I’m headed, Hawaii after a stop in California, and otherwise prioritized books I’ve been reading or have been on my tbr.

This got me thinking- how do you all plan out (or not plan!) your vacation reads?

I also like to try to visit an independent bookstore while I’m in a new location. Any recs for bookstores in Hawaii and LA are appreciated :)

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what's up, fellow peebs! So it was my birthday today and as a little treat to myself, i went to the bookstore and surprise surprise, they had a big 3 for $10 sale going on with a large variety of books. Obviously i immediately bought six books (I was very proud of my restraint bc i could have bought Much More), but then i went thrifting and my restraint went out the window when i hit a gold mine of another eight books. So i am now the proud owner of fourteen new books, which altogether cost only $40! so i consider this a win even if my groaning TBR / Interested list doesn't think so. Anyway, i was wondering, what is the biggest book haul you've ever gotten? or what is the most amount of money you've ever spent on books?

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Sour Cherry

Natalia Theodoridou

Something terrible has happened. In a mysterious apartment filled with ghosts, our unnamed narrator attempts to explain this to her child - how do I talk about this? she wonders. The truth must become something beautiful. We must begin with a fairy tale. And so she begins to construct a beautiful fairy tale for her child - one that begins with a strange baby boy whose nails grow too fast and whose skin smells of soil. As he grows from a boy into a man, a plague seems to follow him everywhere. Tragedy strikes in cycles - and wife after wife, death after death, plague after plague, every woman he touches becomes a ghost. These ghosts call out desperately to our narrator as she tries to explain, in the very real world, exactly what has happened to her. And they all agree on one thing, an inescapable truth about this man, this powerful lord who has loved them and led them each to ruin: If you leave, you die. But if you die, you stay.A debut novel as emotionally poignant as it is fiercely smart, Sour Cherry is an arresting debut examining toxic masculinity through its chorus of women - deconstructing the idea of what makes someone a monster.

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The Pram

Joe Hill

A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a nightmarish short story about fatherhood dreams by New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill. Willy and Marianne’s farmhouse in Maine has acres of meadow and fresh air, and a lonesome bridle path in the forest along which Willy daydreams and ambles. When he’s loaned a decrepit old baby stroller to cart his groceries home, the rickety squeak of the wheels comforts him. So do the sweet coos of a baby Willy knows can’t be real. Can it? In this twisted thicket, wishes come true—with a price. Joe Hill’s The Pram is part of Creature Feature, a collection of devilishly creepy stories that tingle the spine and twist the mind. They can be read or listened to in one petrifying sitting.

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Reservoir Bitches

Dahlia de la Cerda

A debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico. Life’s a bitch. That’s why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth. In the linked stories of Reservoir Bitches, thirteen Mexican women prod the bitch that is Life as they fight, sew, skirt, cheat, cry, and lie their way through their tangled circumstances. From the all-powerful daughter of a cartel boss to the victim of transfemicide, from a houseful of spinster seamstresses to a socialite who supports her politician husband by faking Indigenous roots, these women spit on their own reduction and invent new ways to survive, telling their stories in bold, unapologetic voices. At once social critique and black comedy, Reservoir Bitches is a raucous debut from one of Mexico’s most thrilling new writers.

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May 29, 2026

3.0

Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0

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”All women are born with a bit of bruja in them for protection”

Lozano’s writing is great, redundant and it’s complicated at the same time, it’s dense in its darkest moment and you can feel the weight of the story all the way thru.

This book feels like two different, when the to main characters finally talk directly to each other as supposed to telling their stories separately, until we reach the end and both stories collide.

Lozano painted a scenery so powerful about one of Mexico’s most cherish traditions in such a respectful way. I’m not saying this is a perfect book, because I did have my issues with it, but it’s an overall good story worth reading.

Side note: Feliciana’s story was clearly inspired by Maria Sabina who was a very famous and celebrated ”Chamana” and poet, the author failed to acknowledge her anywhere in the book (at least in the copy I own), so I would like to encourage y’all to read about Maria Sabina, her story is fascinating. ✨

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Witches

Brenda Lozano

De uma das mais surpreendentes vozes da nova geração de escritoras latino-americanas. Uma bruxa-curandeira de um povoado no interior, uma jovem jornalista da cidade grande. O encontro de dois mundos que se revelam perturbadoramente próximos. Primeira mulher em uma linhagem de curandeiros homens, Feliciana é conhecida dentro e fora do México por seus feitos prodigiosos. Ricos, pobres, famosos, pessoas comuns ― adoecidos de toda sorte peregrinam até o povoado de San Felipe, escondido em meio às montanhas, na esperança de se verem livres de suas enfermidades. No entanto, quando é informada do assassinato de sua mentora Paloma, repentinamente Feliciana perde seus poderes. O caso chama a atenção de Zoé, jornalista que vive na metrópole mexicana. Interessada em compreender o assassinato de Paloma e, ao mesmo tempo, curiosa para conhecer Feliciana, Zoé decide entrevistá-la para o jornal onde trabalha. Se, na superfície, as realidades de Feliciana e Zoé não poderiam ser mais diferentes, o desenrolar de seus depoimentos revela um conjunto semelhante de medos, anseios, violências e afetos. Ao aproximar essas duas vozes tão singulares com sua prosa impecável, Brenda Lozano cria uma reflexão profunda acerca de tradições ancestrais, das pequenas subversões do dia a dia e, sobretudo, do poder arrebatador da linguagem.

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