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Michael gets an unexpected net call.  #webcomics #mutant #YA https://michaelcomic.com/am/comic/2026/02/09

Reading Wednesday: Urban Fantasy 1x02 “Trust” Week 2

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The year is 2113. A deadly virus has swept through the earth and killed off 50% of mankind. #Teen #YA #YANovel #MustRead

Michael: Anger Management Updates!!
Please don't let the power go out #spiderforest #webcomics #Michael #YA #Highschool #Mutant https://michaelcomic.com/am/comic/2026/02/02

He’ll do anything to protect his planet, but doing so may cost his memories of why he cares.
Silence of the Song Trees: a #YA, #SF novella.
#scifi #book #books #aliens #trees #clifi #hopepunk

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1735915955

#stsfa seems to be leaning in to the equivalence of “the burn” and “covid” for children in the 2020’s.

i see the comparison, but there’s a tremendous difference in the scale of these events.

but i’ll let this play out, because i like the show, even though it’s #YA roots are showing.

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆: 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂 3 – 𝑬𝒎𝒆𝒛𝒊’𝒔 𝑷𝒆𝒕 & 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉

Akwaeke Emezi demonstrates how Nigeria's contemporary writers turn our conceptual realities around. They offer a YA novel that doesn't condescend, but more, one which shows that we should not "walk away" from Omelas, but perhaps "Stay and Hunt."

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/words-from-nigeria-3-emezi/

#podcast #literature #books #ya #nigerianliterature #ogbanje #gender #lgbtqiaplus

Niall and Draven are separated across worlds and by magic, but once they make a connection, nothing can stop them being together in Crying Out For Magic by P.S.C. Willis!
#fantasy #gay #cozy #YA
https://www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/crying-out-for-magic

If you loved Tiffany Aching's stubborn brilliance or want a fantasy hero who wins through ADHD-powered persistence rather than prophecy, meet Wazo the Wildcard.

3 adventures. 1 sarcastic magical stone. Zero chosen-one nonsense.

https://amzn.to/3KrPFwU

#YAFantasy #FoundFamily #NeurodivergentHeroes #Books #humour #humor #Fantasy #IndieAuthor #YA #ADHD #Autism

Started as a TTRPG character. Became something more.

WAZO THE WILDCARD: Three novellas of chaotic fantasy adventure where the 'treasure' was never the point—but the journey, the friends, and learning to trust your weird brain absolutely were.
By an author who writes #ActuallyAutistic characters because he is one.

https://amzn.to/3KrPFwU

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#IndieAuthor #YA #ADHD #Autism

Reading Wednesday: Urban Fantasy 1x02 “Trust” Week 1

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Kicking from Beyond the 40

#kindle - https://amazon.com/Kicking-Beyond-40-Ashad-Mukadam-ebook/dp/B07MWH71QV/
#kobo - http://store.kobobooks.com/Search/Query?fcmedia=Book&query=9781386261216
#apple - https://books.apple.com/us/book/kicking-from-beyond-the-40/id1449916008
#nook - http://barnesandnoble.com/s/2940156290420
#google - https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ashad_Mukadam_Kicking_from_Beyond_the_40?id=wqKkDwAAQBAJ
#scribd - http://scribd.com/book/397689147

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Kicking from Beyond the 40

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#Amazon #paperback - https://amazon.com/Kicking-Beyond-40-Ashad-Mukadam/dp/1364282747/
#chaptersca #hardcover - https://chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/kicking-from-beyond-the-40/9781364282752-item.html?ikwid=ashad+mukadam&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=1#algoliaQueryId=9f1d624d6c97d33fd810feda38d3815f
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#blurb - https://www.blurb.ca/b/6909707-kicking-from-beyond-the-40
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Michael: Anger Management Updates!!
Thunder and lightning hasten Michael's exit from the ocean... #spiderforest #webcomics #Michael #YA #Highschool #Mutant https://michaelcomic.com/am/comic/2026/01/26

Do teenagers still read dystopian novels anymore or did that trend die out? I remember some really awful ones I read...

One was the Unwind series and the premise is that the government bans normal abortion but allows parents to "abort" their unwanted teenagers. There are some families who have a bunch of kids specifically to do this for religious reasons. Their organs are harvested and there was one kid who was created from a bunch of different aborted teens all mixed together...

And there was the Gone series, which is about a town where kids get trapped in a big dome and all the adults disappear. The kids develop superpowers and torture and kill each other in gruesome ways... I only read the first two or three of those. I remember one kid had his arm cut off and then a tentacle grew in its place and he whipped the other kids with it. And another kid trapped other kids' hands in concrete and there was an evil radioactive alien worm thing in a cave? It was pretty crazy.

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Reading Wednesday: Urban Fantasy 1x01 “That’s Not My Name” Week 2

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Interesting piece. I don't know that I'd heard anything about the accusations, but I don't follow #YA. The article raises concerns about how defamation is handled after #MeToo as well.

How #MeToo Destroyed the Author of ‘13 Reasons Why’

https://archive.ph/xojXf#selection-272.0-272.1

Book Review: "Detectives, Inc: A Mystery Story for Boys" (1935) by William Heyliger

A serviceable collection of mystery stories with a twist.

*Detectives, Inc: A Mystery Story for Boys* is actually quite an odd name for this book. "Detectives, Inc" isn't mentioned in the text in any way; the stories are about a retired police surgeon who solves mysteries that fall into his lap. And it's not *one* story, but **eight**. About the only thing that makes sense is that the stories are, indeed, for boys. Although the writing is relatively sophisticated in some ways for modern boys, I suspect, at least when it comes to vocabulary.

The twist, such as it is, is that the detective in this case is blind. We never find *how* he became blind (at least not in this book), but he's blind, retired, and has a seeing-eye dog - which was apparently a relatively new thing back then, as the book begins with a detailed explanation of seeing-eye dogs and how they help their humans.

The detective, Dr. Stone, is primarily helped by his dog Lady. But his young nephew Joe comes along for every adventure. The stories are primarily told from his point of view, but not in first person. The writing is solid and readable, but nowhere near as memorable as Heyliger's "You're On the Air". The mysteries are...okay. Not bad, but not brilliant. I guessed some things correctly in advance, but not *everything*. In terms of sheer cleverness, though, they're nowhere near on the level of Jacques Futrelle's *The Thinking Machine* stories. Servicable, not brilliant.

You can download *Detectives, Inc* free in all the major ebook formats from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44249

There are also two other books of his there that you can download. I'd recommend *You're On the Air*.

In a fractional system I'd give this book 3.4 stars out of five.

⭐⭐⭐

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