Circular Logo, turquoise on top, reads Independent Bookstore Day, Saturday, April 26 2025. Across the top of the turquoise is a banner of pennants and lights.Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day.  The ABA has provided a map and a guide to bookstores with events, by state. A bookstore crawl might be fun to organize.

From 2023, Bookbub provides a list of books with magic houses. A few recent releases aren’t included, and at least one of these, The Little Stranger, is not a magic house but a haunted one. (I won’t die on that hill, but I’m at least willing to take some damage on it.) The list is still worth checking out.

Since the first moment of the first trailer I saw, I wanted to see the movie Sinners, and this reviews just confirms that desire.

The U.K. Guardian posted a list of Easter eggs in films last week, just before… Easter. (Thanks to File 770.)

Also in File 770, the Dream Foundry writing contest. The contest is open through June 2, 2025.

Do you welcome our robotic vending machine overlords?

Nerds of a Feather once again delivers a review that makes me want to read the book: If The Stars Are Lit by Sara K. Ellis.

Over on Bar Cart Bookshelf, Elias Ells reviews the novella A Palace Near the Wind, by AI Jiang, and creates a mocktail.

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  • Marion Deeds

    Marion Deeds, with us since March, 2011, is the author of the fantasy novella ALUMINUM LEAVES. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies BEYOND THE STARS, THE WAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE, STRANGE CALIFORNIA, and in Podcastle, The Noyo River Review, Daily Science Fiction and Flash Fiction Online. She’s retired from 35 years in county government, and spends some of her free time volunteering at a second-hand bookstore in her home town.

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