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Bookish (And Not So Bookish) Thoughts

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1. I'm trying Rent the Runway for the first time. I know Meg at A Practical Wedding is a huge fan, and it's always recommended in the APW comments. I'm going to a friend's wedding in September, so it seemed a good opportunity to check it out. I wasn't overwhelmed by the choices, but it's better than going to a store and basically you can rent a $495 dress for $40ish AND you then return it after the event, which appeals to me hugely in terms of money and space saved. Not that I would spend $495 on a dress, but I could easily spend $100-$200 and then have few occasions to wear it again. If you're interested, try my referral link, which will give you and me $30 off: https://rtr.app.link/e/g9KBbsTPuP

2. Jamie at The Perpetual Page Turner inspired me to go grown-up back-to-school shopping! I always LOVED buying school supplies: notebooks, Post-Its, colored pencils, paper clips--it all made me so happy. My sister and I used to dump everything we'd picked out in the hallway and then 'trade' if we decided we liked the other's stuff better, which always worked out well for me, because she would pick the cutest notebooks and then decide she didn't want them all! This year, I actually need to buy clothes, shoes, and a haircut, but I'm branding it as 'back-to-school' shopping, and, as an educator, I am literally going to school anyway :-) AND I'm buying myself a cute notebook. Because.

3. I just finished Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, and I don't know why it hasn't blown up in popularity? It's purportedly the last canon book of Simon Snow, which Cath writes her fanfiction about in Fangirl. Simon Snow is clearly based on Harry Potter, but Harry Potter with a gay vampire, lots of other cool twists, and better writing (please don't shoot me). It clearly owes a debt to Harry/Draco Malfoy slash fic, but the World of Mages is completely its own, as are the four main viewpoint characters: Simon, Baz, Penelope, and Agatha--variations on Harry, Malfoy, Hermione, and Daphne from Scooby Doo, respectively. Everybody who likes Harry Potter and fanfic should be reading Carry On...I wish there were more books coming!

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