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The Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag 2026
Although I usually find it easier to fill blog posts with numbers and statistics, I actually always really enjoy seeing other bloggers and booktubers fill out the Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag. Originally, this tag was created by Earl Grey Books, and in the meantime, it has become a true classic within the book community. It is the ideal way…
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Fairyloot Adult #50: June 2026
The June Fairyloot Adult box was without a doubt one of the boxes I was looking forward to the most this year. Very early in the year, spoiler accounts started speculating about which book Fairyloot would choose for June, and those predictions were almost unanimous. It involved a new book by an immensely popular author, one whose series I had…
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Illumicrate #44: May 2026
You were still owed the May Illumicrate from me. This was another one of those boxes where I hadn’t really kept track of what was inside, making the unboxing a real surprise. The theme of the month was Fatal Fortunes, with the slogan: Fortune favours the brave and the bold, but some fortunes may be fatal for all those involved.…
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Read in June 2026
June turned into a month of rereading, devouring audiobooks, and the quick gratification of short stories and novellas. In the end, I finished 9 books in June, totaling 3200 pages. This brings the average June book to 356 pages per book. Additionally, there was also 1 DNF. I put that book aside after 90 pages (28%). Fortunately, that was the…
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Fairyloot Adult #50: May 2026
I completely missed the announcement of the May theme for Fairyloot Adult. Probably because I skipped the April box and time seems to fly twice as fast then? Before I even realized it, I received the order confirmation in my inbox. Oops, lol. I actually don’t really know what I would have done if I had seen the announcement, because…
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The Broken Binding SF&F Sub #5: May 2026
In my previous unboxing of The Broken Binding SF&F Subscription, I already mentioned that the subscription was converted from a bimonthly to a monthly subscription after barely six months. This meant that immediately after the April book, a new delivery was already on the doorstep in May. The theme for May was Ghostly Memories and promised a standalone historical fantasy…
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Page & Wick #10: January 2026
It seems like Page & Wick has been having quite a lot of bad luck lately. I had skipped the September and November boxes, but I had no more skips left for the January one. Normally, I should have received a reset for the new year, but that wasn’t the case on their website at the time, and I didn’t…
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Illumicrate #43: April 2026
The teaser video that Illumicrate posted on Instagram for the April theme actually caught my attention immediately. It started with a stately building, followed by a rather eclectic collection of images: old-fashioned keys, a marble statue in a pond full of lilies, an English cottage-style house among the plants, a tiger, a forest, fairy lights, a detail from a carpet,…
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The Broken Binding SF&F Sub #4: April 2026
Although The Broken Binding’s SF&F subscription started in November as a bimonthly subscription, it was converted to a monthly subscription in April. That means the previously expected six books per year have now doubled to twelve. Although I keep saying that I need to be a bit more selective about the books I buy through my book subscriptions, you absolutely…
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Illumicrate #42: March 2026
The theme for the March issue of Illumicrate sounded really cool. Additionally, Illumicrate revealed that their next bookpot would be in this box. Although I have collected quite a few of those pots by now, I really have a soft spot for them. So I was happy that such a pot was going to be in a box where the…
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