a Prompt a Day
Following along as I take on Writer's Digests 100 Prompts in 100 Days.
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If We Were Villains: Everyone Lied and Somebody Died (opens the original)
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⚠️ Content note for this post on If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio: we discuss a mysterious death investigated as a possible murder, on-page violence between partners, drug use, a brief mention of disordered eating, and themes of self-harm. We’ve kept the specifics non-graphic, but this is a full spoiler breakdown, so read at your own pace.Seven Shakespearean conservatory students. One senior class. One body pulled out of a lake on Halloween night. If that sentence alone doesn’t get you to pick up
Dungeon Crawler Carl, The Cruel Prince & Our August Reading Highs and Lows (opens the original)
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August Was a Month of ExtremesEight books. Two hosts. One very unhinged LitRPG series, one literary neighborhood novel that lost us at chapter one, and three Ryan La Sala books that fully rearranged Joseph’s brain ahead of an interview with the author himself. This month’s Book Report is a lot — in the best and worst ways.a Prompt a Day is a reader-supported publication
We Read a Trad Wife Book So You Don't Have to Have a Public Meltdown About It (You're Still Going To) (opens the original)
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If you’ve seen a single book account online in the last month, you already know about Yesteryear. If you haven’t, this is your sign to find out why the internet is losing its mind over it. This month on The Book Report, Joseph and Jessie go through every single book they read in June, book club picks included, no single-title deep dive required. It’s the buzziest debut of the year, two Riley Sager thrillers, a Lisa Jewell trigger-warning situation, a lipstick-based murder cover-up, and a broken
The Lipstick-and-Donna-Summer Scene Lives in Our Heads Rent Free: Why We're Obsessed With The Only One Left (opens the original)
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Content note: this post and the episode it accompanies discuss murder, psychological abuse, forced separation of a parent and child, and a suicide attempt as they occur in the book's plot. Full spoilers ahead — up to, but not including, the finale.If you haven’t read The Only One Left by Riley Sager yet, this is your sign. If you have, you already know why we couldn’t shut up about it for a full episode.a Prompt a Day is a reader-supported publication. To receive new
Your Blood Turns to Orbeez in This Book: Why We're Obsessed With The Dead of Summer (opens the original)
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This month’s Gay Panic! Book Club pick is queer YA horror at its most inventive: a coral-based zombie apocalypse that tears through a small, aggressively gay tourist island, told through the eyes of a teenager reuniting with his newly cancer-free mother right as everything falls apart. It’s body horror, found family, grief, and camp, all stitched together with the kind of specific, community-fluent humor that only a genuinely queer book can pull off.Why This Book Works for Queer Horror FansIf yo
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