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SUMMARY:The December Book Club – Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
DESCRIPTION:Join us on December 18th at 7PM ET to discuss Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree! December is the best time for cozy fantasy\, and we felt like we could all use some lower-stakes fun! \nHere’s the description: “After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed\, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time. The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh\, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success — not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is. If Viv wants to put the blade behind her and make her plans a reality\, she won’t be able to go it alone. But the true rewards of the uncharted path are the travelers you meet along the way. And whether drawn together by ancient magic\, flaky pastry\, or a freshly brewed cup\, they may become partners\, family\, and something deeper than she ever could have dreamed.” \nAnd here are some reviews! \n“This is a story about following your dreams\, even when they take you away from who you thought you had to be. It’s sweet\, beautiful and\, most of all\, kind. I hugely recommend this book.” – Seanan McGuire\, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway \n“A gentle little cozy set against an epic fantasy backdrop. . . . This charming outing will please anyone who’s ever wished to spend time in a fantasy world without all the quests and battles.” – Publishers Weekly \n“An orc retires from adventuring to start a fantasy city’s very first coffee shop. This setup combined with the positive messages of defying societal stereotypes\, letting go of violence to build peace\, and trusting in your friends feels like a premise from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. . . . Legends & Lattes is a novel\, and shop\, that will delight anyone who enjoys coffee-shop alternate universes\, slow-burn romances\, and the vindication of friendship.” – Booklist\, starred review \nTo join us\, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for December!
URL:https://carterhaughschool.com/event/the-december-book-club-legends-and-lattes-by-travis-baldree/
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SUMMARY:The January Book Club - Higher Magic by Courtney Floyd
DESCRIPTION:On January 8th at 7PM ET we’ll meet to discuss Higher Magic by Courtney Floyd – we’re giving you advance heads up for this one\, since our meeting will be a little earlier in the month (and also to give you lots of time to read this one because it is a DELIGHT!) \nHere’s the description: “First-generation graduate student Dorothe Bartleby has one last chance to pass the Magic program’s qualifying exam after freezing with anxiety during her first attempt. If she fails to demonstrate that magic in classic literature changed the world\, she’ll be kicked out of the university. And now her advisor insists she reframe her entire dissertation using Digimancy. While mages have found a way to combine computers and magic\, Bartleby’s fated to never make it work. \nThis time is no exception. Her revised working goes horribly wrong\, creating a talking skull named Anne that narrates Bartleby’s inner thoughts—even the most embarrassing ones—like she’s a heroine in a Jane Austen novel. Out of her depth\, she recruits James\, an unfairly attractive mage candidate\, to help her stop Anne’s glitches in time for her exam. \nInstead\, Anne leads them to a shocking and dangerous discovery: Magic students who seek disability accommodations are disappearing—quite literally. When the administration fails to act\, Bartleby must learn to trust her own knowledge and skills. Otherwise\, she risks losing both the missing students and her future as a mage\, permanently.” \nCould this BE any more perfect for us?? We can’t wait to talk about it with you! \nHere are some reviews! \n“Higher Magic is my catnip. By what dark arts I know not\, Floyd has summoned up a wonderful wizard-grad-school slice-of-life\, replete with organizing\, romance\, anxiety\, camaraderie\, and courage. More please!” – Max Gladstone\, NYT Bestselling Co-Author of This is How You Lose the Time War \n“Floyd creates a spellbindingly accurate reimagining of the grad school experience\, where magic does little to improve the struggle of trying to succeed in academia for neurodivergent or nontraditional students…A campus novel with a fantasy twist\, Floyd’s debut will charm anyone who’s had to fight for their place in higher education.” – Library Journal \n“Higher Magic is a magical treat with charm\, magic\, mystery\, and subtle commentary about friendship\, acceptance\, and inclusion.” – San Francisco Book Review \nTo join us\, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for the month of January!
URL:https://carterhaughschool.com/event/the-january-book-club-higher-magic-by-courtney-floyd/
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SUMMARY:The February Book Club - The Summer War by Naomi Novik
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 5th at 7PM ET to discuss Naomi Novik’s beautiful novella The Summer War! A short one about different kinds of love for the short month when we celebrate love :). \nHere’s the publisher’s description: \n“Celia discovered her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother\, Argent\, left home. Furious at him for abandoning her in a war-torn land\, she lashed out\, not realizing her childish\, angry words would become imbued with the power of prophecy\, dooming him to a life without love. \nWhile Argent wanders the world\, forced to seek only fame and glory instead of the love and belonging he truly desires\, Celia attempts to undo the curse she placed on him. Yet even as she grows from a girl to a woman\, she cannot find the solution—until she learns the truth about the centuries-old war between her own people and the summerlings\, immortal beings who hold a relentless grudge against their mortal neighbors. \nNow\, with the aid of her unwanted middle brother\, Celia may be able to both undo her eldest brother’s curse and heal the lands so long torn apart by the Summer War.” \nAnd here are a few reviews: \n“This surprisingly tender paean to love of all kinds is a treat.” – Publishers Weekly\, Starred Review \n“… a magical\, medieval-esque folk song captured on paper […] that will transport you into another reality for at least a couple of hours.” – Reactor  \nIf you would like to join us\, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for the month of February!
URL:https://carterhaughschool.com/event/the-february-book-club-the-summer-war-by-naomi-novik/
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SUMMARY:The March Book Club - Cinder House by Freya Marske
DESCRIPTION:Join us on March 12th at 7PM ET to discuss Freya Marske’s fascinating novella\, Cinder House! This Gothic “Cinderella” retelling delighted us with its originality\, and we can’t wait to talk about it with you! \nHere’s the publisher’s description: \n“Ella is a haunting. \nMurdered at sixteen\, her ghost is furiously trapped in her father’s house\, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters. \nEven when she discovers how to untether herself from her prison\, there are limits. She cannot be seen or heard by the living people who surround her. Her family must never learn she is able to leave. And at the stroke of every midnight\, she finds herself back on the staircase where she died. \nUntil she forges a wary friendship with a fairy charm-seller\, and makes a bargain for three nights of almost-living freedom. Freedom that means she can finally be seen. Danced with. Touched. \nYou think you know Ella’s story: the ball\, the magical shoes\, the handsome prince. \nYou’re halfway right\, and all-the-way wrong. \nAnd here are a few reviews: \n“A fairy tale by way of Shirley Jackson… dark and appropriately haunting.”―The New York Times \n“Gorgeous\, whimsical\, romantic\, and bittersweet\, Cinder House both whisks you away and holds you over a flame. I was bespelled.”―Ava Reid\, #1 New York Times bestselling author \n“Absolutely delightful. One of the most unusual fairy-tale retellings I’ve seen in a hen’s age. I enjoyed it enormously!”―T. Kingfisher\, New York Times bestselling author \n“An incredibly unique and shadowy ‘Cinderella’ retelling\, full of tenderness and whimsy and featuring a heroine who cannot help but haunt readers.”―Library Journal (starred review) \n“This novella impresses from its chilling opening to its inspired\, polyamorous take on happily ever after. Lovers of fairy-tale retellings\, gothic fantasy\, and fierce queer joy will be enchanted.”―Booklist (starred review) \nIf you would like to join us\, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for the month of March!
URL:https://carterhaughschool.com/event/the-march-book-club-cinder-house-by-freya-marske/
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SUMMARY:The April Book Club - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 16th at 7PM ET to discuss Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries! Yes\, we’re finally reading this delightful book about a very practical folklorist (shout out to prior book club pick\, Emily Tesh’s Silver in the Wood!) doing fieldwork on actual fairies.  \nHere’s the description: “Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books\, her dog\, Shadow\, and the Fair Folk to other people. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik\, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby\, who manages to charm the townsfolk\, muddle Emily’s research\, and utterly confound and frustrate her. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones—the most elusive of all faeries—lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town\, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby\, and what does he really want? To find the answer\, she’ll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all—her own heart.” \nHow could we not love a book where the protagonist is making an encyclopedia of fairies?? ;). \nHere are some reviews! \n“The world-building here is exquisite . . . and the characters are just as textured and richly drawn. This is the kind of forlorn\, folkloric fantasy that remembers the old\, blood-ribboned source material about sacrifices and stolen children\, but adds a modern gloss.” – The New York Times Book Review \n“A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.” – Sangu Mandanna\, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (another former book club pick!) \n“The full cast of characters\, well-developed faerie lore\, and pervasive sense of cold add depth to the delightful proceedings\, which include scholarship\, yes\, but also danger and a hint of romance.” – Booklist (starred review) \nWe can’t wait to talk about this one with you all. To join us\, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for April!
URL:https://carterhaughschool.com/event/the-april-book-club-emily-wildes-encyclopaedia-of-faeries/
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SUMMARY:The May Book Club - The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto Yambao
DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 28th at 7PM ET to discuss The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto Yambao\, a surreal\, Studio-Ghibli-esque book about destiny and finding your place in the world. \nHere’s the description: “You can’t buy a ticket for the Elsewhere Express. Appearing only to those whose lives are adrift\, it’s a magical train seeming to carry very rare and special cargo: a sense of purpose\, peace\, and belonging. Raya is one of those lost souls. She had dreamed of being a songwriter\, but when her brother died\, she gave up on her dream and started living his instead. One day on the subway\, as her thoughts wander\, she’s swept off to the Elsewhere Express. There she meets Q\, an intriguing artist who\, like her\, has lost his place in the world. Together they find a train full of wonders\, from a boarding car that’s also a meadow to a dining car where passengers can picnic on lily pads to a bar where jellyfish and whales swim through pink clouds. Over the course of their long\, strange night on the train\, they also discover that it harbors secrets—and danger: A mysterious stranger has stowed away and brought with him a dark\, malignant magic that threatens to destroy the train. But in investigating the stowaway’s identity\, Raya also finds herself drawing closer to the ultimate question: What is her life’s true purpose—and is it a destination the Elsewhere Express can take her to?” \nAnd here are some reviews! \n“A stunning\, visual fever dream of a story akin to both the game Spiritfarer and Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea—a character-driven tale wrapped in a sparklingly creative spectacle of a world that inhabits a Studio Ghibli–like chaos even as it comes with a well-organized passenger rulebook.”—Booklist (starred review) \n“With its poetic\, descriptive prose\, The Elsewhere Express takes the reader on a magical ride exploring loneliness\, life’s purpose\, and ultimately human connection through a playful\, surreal tale. Without question\, the book will delight fantasy enthusiasts as they nestle into this perfect escape\, a story that whisks them from the mundane and into an imaginative wonderland they might not want to leave.”—J. Penner\, author of A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic \n“A delicately layered dream of a book that glimmers with the promise of hope after grief\, The Elsewhere Express will carry you to the stars.”—Molly O’Neill\, author of Greenteeth \nTo join us\, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for May!
URL:https://carterhaughschool.com/event/the-may-book-club-the-elsewhere-express-by-samantha-sotto-yambao/
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SUMMARY:The June Book Club – Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
DESCRIPTION:HOW have we gone this long having a book club for folklore-inspired books but failing to pick a Terry Pratchett book?? That oversight ends now. Join us on June 25th at 7PM ET to discuss Pratchett’s hilarious Discworld novel Witches Abroad! And don’t worry if you’ve never read a Discworld book before – we picked this one because it truly stands alone very well. Also: WITCHES. FAIRY TALES. SHENANIGANS. \nHere’s the publisher’s description: \n“Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart\, a wise head\, and poor planning skills—which\, unfortunately\, left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when death came for Desiderata. So now it’s up to Magrat Garlick\, Granny Weatherwax\, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn’t marry the Prince. \nBut the road to Genua is bumpy\, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire\, werewolf\, and falling house (well this is a fairy tale\, after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who’ll stop at nothing to achieve a proper “happy ending”—even if it means destroying a kingdom.” \nAnd here are a few reviews: \n“Engaging\, surreal satire . . . nothing short of magical.” – Chicago Tribune \n“No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect” – Daily Mail \n“One of our greatest fantasists\, and beyond a doubt the funniest.” – George R.R. Martin \nIf you would like to join us\, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for the month of June!
URL:https://carterhaughschool.com/event/the-june-book-club-witches-abroad-by-terry-pratchett/
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SUMMARY:The July Book Club - The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
DESCRIPTION:HOW have we never done this one?? We are honestly baffled. Apparently this is the summer of correcting inexcusable oversights in book club! Join us on July 15th at 7PM ET to discuss Angela Carter’s brilliant short story collection\, The Bloody Chamber. This is the work that really kicked off all the subversive\, uncanny\, fascinating fairy-tale retellings we all love\, and we cannot wait to talk about it with you (especially the less popular but no less brilliant stories that we never get to talk about!) \nHere are a few reviews: \n“A wonderfully written book\, ironical\, cerebral\, elegant.” – Joyce Carol Oates\, The New York Times Book Review \n“She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality: dreams\, myths\, fairy tales\, metamorphoses\, the unruly unconscious\, epic journeys\, and a highly sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and darkest manifestations.” – Ian McEwan \n“She was\, among other things\, a quirky\, original\, and baroque styleist\, a trait especially marked in The Bloody Chamber – her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned phrase\, luscious adjective\, witty aphorism\, and hearty\, up-theirs vulgarity.” – Margaret Atwood\, The Observer \nIf you would like to join us\, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for the month of July!
URL:https://carterhaughschool.com/event/the-july-book-club-the-bloody-chamber-by-angela-carter/
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SUMMARY:The August Book Club - The Mystery of the Bitten Peach by Cecilia Tan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on August 13th at 7PM ET to discuss Cecilia Tan’s delightful novella The Mystery of the Bitten Peach! \nHere’s the description: “Meet Mei\, a young Chinese American who has discovered she has the mystical ability to transport herself anywhere that is spiritually “China”-including Chinatowns around the world and different eras of Chinese history. As an adoptive child of the diaspora\, Mei was raised in America with no knowledge of Chinese folklore or fairy tales\, but when an antiques dealer friend needs help retrieving a mythic artifact-a jade carving of a peach that represented same-sex love in ancient China-she’s game to give it a try. Her quest sends Mei not only into the past\, but on a journey of self-discovery.” \nAnd here are some reviews! \n“Not to be missed.” – Shelley Parker-Chan\, author of She Who Will Become the Sun \n“Cup your hands around this enchanting tale of romance\, art\, and magic\, and savor its juice. An absolute gem!” – Jadie Jiang\, author of Monkey Around \n“The kind of story that burrows into my brain.” – Emma Mieko Candon\, author of The Archive Undying \nThis is a shorter read\, but it features a lot of the book club’s absolute favorite things\, so it would be a great first read with us if you’ve been considering signing up! To join us\, make sure you’re on the $7+ tier on our Patreon for August!
URL:https://carterhaughschool.com/event/the-august-book-club-the-mystery-of-the-bitten-peach-by-cecilia-tan/
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