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Winnie the Librarian
by Librarian Winnie
A librarian and her cat discussing books.A podcast formerly called Books for Beliebers
Episodes
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Wings of Fire: The Flames of Hope
At long last, I've finished the 3 arc of the Wings of Fire series. Weirdly enough Luna is feeling Blue, and Blue is feeling like an ancient dragon-hating hive mind. Can Luna and her 11 dragon/person stealth crew rescue him and the rest of dragonkind?
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The End of Reading is Here
People won't stop talking about The Atlantic's new article, which is crazy, because how would they learn what it says without reading it? How mysterious. But I thought I would throw in my 2 cents about 'The End of Reading is Here' by Rose Horowitch . While I was in rant mode, I decided to revive…
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A Song of Ice and Fire
These past three months I've been making my way through these books- and finally I am free. Free in that I might have a lifelong obbsession with them- but at least I can read other things now.
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Murderbot Diaries
My Platforms! They're Decaying! In anticipation of Platform Decay coming out I decided to reread all of the Murderbot Diaries- and now it's my sacred mission to convince you to read them too.
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Sunny Side Up
Even though it's one of our most popular graphic novel series, I had never looked twice at the Sunny series. That was until I read a School Library Journal article about an attempt to ban it. To my surprise, this book was funny and thoughtful. It depicts a little girl, Sunny, who is sent to spend...
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Princess Academy
A book I'm nostalgic for was just released as a graphic novel- so I'm taking a break from my 'regularly' scheduled dragon books to talk about it.
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Monstress
Sometimes a family is a traumatized one-armed girl, the fox child that won't leave her alone, a cat, and the monster inhabiting your body that yearns for human flesh. In this episode, I talk about my favorite ongoing comic series: Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda.
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Tana French
Sister: I see him everywhere... him being harry du bois My little sister tasked me with finding an Irish book for her to read, so I talked her into reading Tana French's the Dublin Murder Squad with me. In this episode I recomend her two series, Dublin Murder Squad and the Cal Hooper Trilogy, as...
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Wings of Fire: The Dangerous Gift
If you recall, I had a weird fixation on Glacier- the toxic yuri IceWing queen who Darkstalker magically murdered with a racially targeted plague. Well now that she's gone we're left with the 7th best Queen (out of 8 total Queens, and I'll remind you one is a genocidal slave owner), Snowfall. Can...
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Year of the Horse: Presley and the Impossible Dream
It's been a while, so I'm coming back with a short one. Presley has wanted to be an equestrian her entire life, but her mom's fear of horses has kept her away from them. Until now, when she tags along with her vet stepfather to a local stable. Can Presley change her mom's mind- and is her mom…
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Wings of Fire: The Poison Jungle
Our heroes have tactfully retreated to the forest that eats dragons and fail to find an adult to care for their infant. We follow Sundew as she confronts her mom and tries to tone down her anger so she doesn't give her girlfriend the ick.
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Wings of Fire: The Hive Queen
The one good HiveWing, Cricket, is tasked with convincing her new friends not to do a terrorism on all the other HiveWings.
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Year of the Horse: A Horse Named Sky
Now here is some A+ horse content. Sky is a colt in Nevada in 1860 whose life is ruined by those no-good water-polluting humans. If you love a children's book with some excellent backmatter this is the book for you.
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Year of the Horse: Pony on the Twelfth Floor
Kizzy dreams of being an Olympic showjumper despite never having been on a horse- put her luck changes when she finds a fat pony munching on donuts at the grocery store. All she has to do is keep him fed and hidden in the big city.
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Year of the Horse: All the Pretty Horses
Yes I also read books for adults. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy is about a 16 year old cowboy who decides that modern 1949 American has no use for 'men' like him so he heads south.
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Year of the Horse: The War That Saved My Life
Once again, I'm too impatient to wait for the actual year of the horse. In this episode, I'm reviewing Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The War That Saved My Life & The War I Finally Won. These two middle-grade books are about a young disabled girl Ada, who at the start of WW2 is evacuated from London...
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Year of the Horse: Will's Race for Home
Happy Year of the Horse (almost)! Will's Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes is a short children's book about a Black boy taking part in the Oklahoma Land Rush. With his father, his best-friend-Mule Belle, and their new ex-Union officer friend they will stake a claim and build a legacy for...
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Wings of Fire: The Lost Continent
Now listen up, here's a story. About a little guy that lives in a new world. And all day and all night and everything he sees is just- Okay the bit is just that he's Blue. Our little fella is just a peaceful little student in the police state of this brand-new dragon continent.
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Wing of Fire: Darkstalker
2,000 years ago we learn the tragic backstory of our man baby male manipulator Darkstalker.
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The First State of Being
Reading the most recent Newbery winner: Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being. I am not reading this for noble reasons though- it was purely based on spite because I had an argument with my coworker about the importance of Newberries.
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Best Book of 2025
Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger & Illustrated by Rovina Cai The City in Glass by Nghi Vo The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison...
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Wings of Fire: Darkness of Dragons
Time to wrap up the second arc of The Wings of Fire. Our boy Q has got to save the continent and win his love's heart (while not breaking his second love's heart) all while being bitter that he has no magic.
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Wings of Fire: Talons of Power
In this book, we catch up with the Seawing teenage leader of the Talons of Peace, Riptide. He is having trouble with the purpose of his organization now that peace has finally been achieved, and worse, the complicated emotions that come from having your girlfriend hire your absent father as a...
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Wings of Fire: Escaping Peril
There is only one person who loves Clay more than I do- and that's our girl Peril. Peril has decided the best way heal from the abuse she faced from her evil foster mother is to murder her. Joining her is Turtle who is kind of regretting letting his friends run off in the last book. Will the…
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Wings of Fire: Winter Turning
Our guy is having a rough one. His sister has become a terrorist, his dead brother is secretly alive/imprisoned, and his crush is a mindreader. Join me as I talk about the 7th Wings of Fire Book
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Wings of Fire: Moon Rising
With the first arc done we have established that prophecies are a means for facist adults to control you and that you can make your own destiny greater than any one forced upon you by a controlling adult. Anyways here is Moon, who has not one but two magic powers previously thought to not be real.
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Wings of Fire: The Brightest Night
I have reached the end of the first Wings of Fire arc! What are our kiddos going to do without a prophecy to guide them. Who will get to be queen? Should they let Smolder just rule instead? And will the kill count be raised!
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Banned Book Week
Currently Reading The Book Censor’s Library Censored Books Speak Pet Julian is a mermaid Milo Imagines the World Islandborn New Kid Drama Snapdragon The Hate U Give The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Icebreaker Gender Queer Last Night at the Telegraph Club Dear...
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Wings of Fire: The Dark Secret
Catching up with our favourite emo boy, StarFlight, and his adventures in Dragon England. Will he fall in love with a new manic pixie dream girl (this one's got superpowers!) or stay true to the girl next door (aka his adopted sister). And will he uncover whether or not pink dolphins have any...
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Wings of Fire: The Hidden Kingdom
I've finally caught up to my nephew, I read the 3rd Wings of Fire book and its graphic novel.
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Wings of Fire: The Lost Heir
I read, recaped, and reviewed The Lost Heir (Book 2 of the Wings of Fire) which stars our best girl Tsunami.
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Summer Reading Program 2025
My Summer Reading! Death of the Author House of Open Wounds How Could You Navigating with You Of Her Own Design Saga Saint of Bright Doors You Dreamed of Empires Hijab Butch Blues Elatsoe/ Sheine Lende Pearl Ginseng Roots The Raven Tower The Bruising of Qiwla Trans History Rare Flavours Next Stop...
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Wings of Fire: The Dragonet Prophecy
My nephew and little (6 ft tall) sister both wanted me to read this series. So a recap and my thoughts on the first Wings of Fire book!
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Are you more of a Cat Boy or a Cat Man?
This episode I read Benji Nate's Catboy and Parari's Cat Man.
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A librarian and her cat discussing books.A podcast formerly called Books for Beliebers
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Winnie the Librarian is created and hosted by Librarian Winnie.
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