A Blog of Books and Musicals

After my monster reread of essentially all the Percy Jackson books that started with The Lightning Thief and went through all of

I love solving puzzles and attending murder mystery parties. When I read or watch a whodunit, I get very invested in trying to figure it out alongside the fictional detective (and I often do a pretty good job of it). Most of my early writing endeavors were mysteries, and one of my proudest recent writing projects was a mystery party that I wrote for my sister’s birthday ...

Since it’s been several months since the last time I talked about any TV shows besides my (very long, very involved) essays about Stranger Things, I’d figure I’d start with those first before I g...

Because I loved A Clash of Steel by C.B. Lee, I’ve been regularly reading more books from the Classics Remixed series, which has popular YA writers reimagining the classic canon through a diverse lens. Most of these novels replace the straight white leads of the original with a character who is nonwhite or queer, and often both. While I have continued to enjoy t...

I received The Lies We Conjure by Sarah Henning in a Secret Santa exchange last year finally got around to reading it nine months later. Well, listening to it. My physical TBR is getting out of control, so I’ve shifted some to the audio TBR to get through them faster. The audiobook is read by Barrett Leddy and Kristen DiMercurio. I assume my Secret Santa got thi...