2023 Brackets: May
This year, I am motivating myself to write reviews of the books I read by doing a tournament-style bracket every time I finish 16 books....
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katymulvaney
- May 24
- 4 min
Ask the Trope Fairy: Labors Lost
Ask the Trope Fairy is an advice column for characters navigating science fiction and fantasy realms. Note: Today's Letter was forwarded...
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katymulvaney
- May 10
- 10 min
2023 Brackets: April and a Bit
2023 Tournament of Books, ranking my reading for April (and a bit).
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katymulvaney
- Apr 19
- 5 min
Ask the Trope Fairy: Take the Weight Off Your Shoulders
Ask the Trope Fairy is an advice column for characters navigating science fiction and fantasy realms. Dear Trope Fairy, I work for the...
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katymulvaney
- Apr 1
- 9 min
2023 Bracket: MARCH MADNESS!
I'm so pleased that I managed to complete a set of 16 in March for true March Madness results! This year, I am documenting my reading by...
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katymulvaney
- Mar 23
- 6 min
Ask The Trope Fairy: Some Spider
Ask the Trope Fairy is an advice column for characters navigating science fiction and fantasy realms. Dear Trope Fairy, My family and I...
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katymulvaney
- Mar 8
- 7 min
2023 Bracket: February (and a bit)
This year, I've decided to not just quietly document my reading in a word document. I've tried to expand beyond that in the past, both on...
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katymulvaney
- Feb 8
- 8 min
2023 Bracket: The First Month (and a bit)
This year, my plan is to document my reading here on this blog. In an attempt to make it unnecessarily weird and competitive, I decided...
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katymulvaney
- Feb 1
- 7 min
Ask the Trope Fairy: You've Loved Me All Along -- Real or Not Real?
Ask the Trope Fairy is an advice column for characters navigating science fiction and fantasy realms. In this dimension, advice is...
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katymulvaney
- Jan 24
- 4 min
Review of Wishes: The Elaborate Restraint of Victo Ngai
In honor of Meg Medina spotlighting the book during the ceremony for her new role of National Ambassador of Young People's Literature, I...
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katymulvaney
- Jan 17
- 4 min
Ask the Trope Fairy: The Path of Least Resistance Does Not Run Through Bustopolis
Ask the Trope Fairy is an advice column for characters navigating science fiction and fantasy realms. In this dimension, advice is...
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katymulvaney
- Jan 11
- 4 min
2023 Bracket: The First Ten Days
This year, my plan is to document my reading here on this blog. In an attempt to make it unnecessarily weird and competitive, I decided...
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katymulvaney
- Jan 9
- 3 min
Ask the Trope Fairy: When Imaginary Friends Go Bad
Ask the Trope Fairy is an advice column for characters navigating science fiction and fantasy realms. In this dimension, advice is...
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katymulvaney
- Jan 8
- 9 min
Grammar Triage: If You Only Follow Four Grammar Rules, Make It These Four
Grammar is a class thing. And it is still going strong. People make all kinds of claims about the internet changing grammar standards or...
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katymulvaney
- Jan 5
- 13 min
Gilmore Girls: That Would Have Been So Much Better!
The name is taken from a moment several years ago. I was in the Netherlands with two friends from graduate school. After dinner, I agreed...
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katymulvaney
- Jan 4
- 8 min
Lies Teachers Told You About Paragraph Structure
One of my favorite authors, Douglas Adams, wrote in an essay collection in which he asserts that teachers are, by definition, Liars to...
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katymulvaney
- Jan 2
- 5 min
Ask the Trope Fairy: The Other Side of the Wardrobe
Dear Trope Fairy, Years ago, my siblings and I discovered a wardrobe that led to a magical world. We crossed through it together, and we...
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