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Writer and designer in the Seattle area. Freelance sustainability consultant. Reach me at tracy.durnell@gmail.com. She/her.

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Read The Witchwood Knot

Read The Witchwood Knot The faeries of Witchwood Manor have stolen its young lord. His governess intends to steal him back. Victorian governess Winifred Hall knows a con when she sees one. When her bratty young charge transforms overnight into a perfectly behaved block of wood, she soon realises that… read more


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Read A Power Unbound

Read A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3) Secrets! Magic! Enemies to. . .something more? Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. After the death of his twin sister, he thought he was done with magic for good. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual… read more


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Read Sourdough

Read Sourdough Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa… read more


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Read I’m Glad My Mom Died

Read I’m Glad My Mom Died A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Wowza, that was intense.… read more


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Read Swimming in Darkness

Read Swimming in Darkness by Lucas Harari Pierre is a young man at a crossroads. He drops out of architecture school and decides to travel to Vals in the Swiss Alps, home to a thermal springs complex located deep inside a mountain. The complex, designed by architect Peter Zumthor, had… read more


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Read If Found, Return to Hell

Read If Found, Return to Hell Being an intern at One Wizard sounds magical on the pag… Weirdly delightful. The second person didn’t bother me, surprisingly, though I did keep trying to guess what gender the narrator was, and never settled on anything. (Goodreads lists this as queer but the… read more


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Read System Collapse

Read System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells Am I making it worse? I think I’m making it worse. Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional… read more


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Read Entreat Me

Read Entreat Me by Grace Draven Afflicted by a centuries-old curse, a warlord slowly surrenders his humanity and descends toward madness. Ballard of Ketach Tor holds no hope of escaping his fate until his son returns home one day, accompanied by a woman of incomparable beauty. His family believes her… read more


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Read Small Miracles

Read Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater Gadriel, the fallen angel of petty temptations, has a bit of a gambling debt. Fortunately, her angelic bookie is happy to let her pay off her debts by doing what she does best: All Gadriel has to do is tempt miserably sinless mortal Holly… read more


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Read Saga Vol. 11

Read Saga, Volume 11 While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new allegiances in the universe’s never-ending war. I feel like this volume was a little too obvious with its social commentary compared to earlier volumes. The themes of vengeance… read more


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