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Fifteen Favorite Fantasy Reads 2023

It’s time for me to reveal my Fifteen Favorite Fantasy reads of the past year!

How is it the end of the year already? How is 2023 already over? I’m not ready!

But I’m also excited, because this is honestly one of my favorite posts to write every year.

It’s so fun to take a minute at the end of the year and peruse over what books I read, reminiscing about which ones I really enjoyed. It’s also always highly entertaining to me to see which books I meant to read versus which books I actually read.

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The Shift: Movie Review

Coming out of hiatus briefly because Derek and I went to see The Shift the other night and I feel like I need to talk about it!

It’s been a while since I did a movie review.

Honestly, it’s been a while since I saw anything worth reviewing. Partially because I haven’t been watching much worth talking about, partially because I haven’t been watching much in general, and partially just because the movie industry doesn’t seem capable of making much in the way of “good” lately.

However, The Shift was a notable exception to all of the above.

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Fifteen Favorite Fantasy Reads of 2022

The following list is my top 15 favorite fantasy reads of 2022. In order to be eligible to make the list, they must be:

  • novel length

  • speculative fiction (fantasy or science fiction generally)

  • Indie/small publisher is a bonus for getting on the list, because I don’t think authors like Terry Pratchett or J.K. Rowling really need any extra help from little old me, but I don’t make it a hard-and-fast rule because

    • 1) we all know how good I am at following my own rules (not good at all) and

    • 2) I like having a little flexibility built in!

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