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Jamie Canaves

Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer–in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can definitely talk books with her on Litsy and Goodreads. Depending on social media’s stability maybe also Twitter and Bluesky.

Let’s Curse and Color: Profanity-Filled Coloring Books

Rioter Sarah Knight’s 5 Irreverent Self-Help Books and the recent coloring book craze led me to profanity filled coloring books ...

Will It Suck? READY PLAYER ONE Movie (Spoiler-Free)

Calling all ’80s lovers, gamers, and sci-fi/dystopian fans: the Ready Player One movie is coming together. Being that the original ...

15 Book Recs Based On Movies & TV Shows

I recently read a few books that made me think hmm fans of (insert pop culture movie/TV show) may also ...

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE: 24 Foreign Covers

As a kid I was always intrigued by family members reading translated books: American classics in Spanish; Latin American works ...

Adorable Animals Reading Books

Remember Elmyra Duff from Tiny Toon Adventures? via GIPHY She was super annoying but I totally understood her. I mean ...

Rioters Reveal Their Reading Superpowers

It was recently pointed out to me that I walk the length of a long dock every day with my ...

Beyond Fine Art: Book Covers for Hair Color Inspiration

Thanks to a Laughing Squid post I became aware of the very talented and awesome Ursula Goff— a hair colorist ...

Cover Face-Off: KISSING TED CALLAHAN by Amy Spalding

I recently noticed that Kissing Ted Callahan (And Other Guys) by Amy Spalding, a book in my TBR list, was suddenly ...

Genre Kryptonite: Characters Who Love Books

I imagine it comes as a shock to no one that a bibliophile would get weak in the knees for ...

Loving But Never Reading Short Stories: Confronting the Issue

Recently I realized that for as much as I say that I like short stories and anthologies, I don’t seem ...