Novik’s Scholomance is finished, and was a pretty fun read. It was a very unique take on magic school.

Chinese products. After living there for a decade, I now actively try and avoid buying products made there—or Chinese companies—at the least.

This is unfortunate. I just bought one a couple months ago but haven’t even opened it yet.

I just recently read an article about Overdrive and KKR, the company that bought both Overdrive and now this publisher. It was a really disheartening read for what’s happening in the books market.

Article: https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries

Thank you for linking this. I read through it all, and as an avid Libby user, what quite disheartened. I just checked to see if my library has any other ebook options, but they don’t.