I’m reading and enjoying a book I was given for my birthday: THE CITY WE BECAME by award-winning writer N. K. Jemisin. In it, the City of New York is “born” as a living city with the help of a young man who, not knowing…

I just buzzed through the Grishaverse trilogy, otherwise known as Shadow and Bone, although that’s just the title of the first book. I watched the Netflix series and ADORED IT, so imagine my surprise when the series turned out to have been a mash-up of…