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What We Can Learn From Grief, Magical Thinking, and Joan Didion

April 17, 2026

Grief is a universal experience, but its ubiquity does not make it any easier. To cushion the blows of a loved one’s death, magical practices have had their own special place in grieving processes. Magical rites are enacted at the time of death, at funerals, at memorials, at graves. Some practice magic every day in […]

April Horoscope 2026

April 13, 2026

Culture & Magic | Featured Reads | Library

Holding a Mirror to the Mirror Hello to the inquiring minds of the Inglenook readers. I am bringing you an offering as your Transformation Features Writer. Just as in my last reading, I was drawn first to my box of magnetic words, a toy from the early 2000s used to make poetry or silly phrases […]

The Best Fairytale Retellings for Adults

April 10, 2026

Book Recommendations | Books About Magic | Featured Reads

What makes a story a fairy tale retelling? Some faithfully recast characters that we know well in modern-day settings, like the characters in Helen Oyeyemi's Gingerbread, who live in present-day England and use toxic gingerbread to travel to a distant, mystical land. Other retellings are set in the past and use the fairy tale as […]

Books Like The Hunger Games

April 8, 2026

Book Recommendations | Library

It’s been over 15 years since Suzanne Collins published the first book in The Hunger Games trilogy, a fact that staggers its original readers. The series’ dystopian setting, teen love triangle, and hierarchal societal structure were ideas that once dominated the young adult genre, but today The Hunger Games has built a larger legacy on […]

Books About Hauntings

April 2, 2026

Book Recommendations | Library

Where to find your next haunted female protagonist Ghosts are, by far, the most versatile of the creatures who stalk English literature. In a clever writer’s hands, a specter can travel through time, remember the long-forgotten, revive long-dead secrets, all while bringing dread to the current narrative and its characters. But not all hauntings require […]

The Best Speculative Nonfiction Books

March 31, 2026

Book Recommendations | Featured Reads

Within the umbrella of “creative nonfiction” there exists a subgenre known as “speculative nonfiction.” It’s not a widely-used term. You’re not likely to find it on Publisher’s Marketplace or the shelf labels of bookstores. But as the art of writing about life has become more popular, it’s an undeniable trend that memoirs are becoming less […]

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