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• Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

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  It's a hug. In the form of a movie. Best watched from a cozy place with a blanket.

• The Story of Gumluck the Wizard

  Rex, Adam

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  It's about wanting something. And getting it. But getting it through others and not minding. And it's sweet.

• Legends & Lattes

  Baldree, Travis

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  It's a coffee shop. It's a romance. It's also a D&D campaign that went waaaaaay off the rails.

• A Confederacy of Dunces

  Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969

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  Sometimes a hero just disrupts the dominant paradigms in inexplicable ways. A book of valves, Medieval outlooks, Communists, hot dog vending, family, and horrible people doing their not best. Every moment in this book could have the Curb Your…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Prayer for Owen Meany

  Irving, John, 1942-

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  IT IS A STORY TOLD FROM SOMEONE WHO TALKS LIKE THIS. AND IT IS ULTIMATELY SATISFYING.

• Doctor Who

  the Fourth Doctor. Vol 1, Gaze of the Medusa

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  Who best represents a different sort of hero? The Doctor, of course! And everyone has a favorite or a few of them. I've enjoyed aspects of all of them, but the Fourth is the one I encountered first. His greatest enemy may have been the special…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Summer Book

  Jansson, Tove

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  This one is going to be a movie soon. It's about a young, willful girl and a Summer on an island with family but not enough of her family. It's charming, beautiful, poignant, sweet, and even a touch sentimental. And Tove Jansson herself has a biopic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tove

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  A biopic of Tove Jansson, best known as the Finnish creator of The Moomins. Less known for her other art, her unconventional loves, and her willful pursuit of all her passions. I said it was charming and sentimental, and it is.

• Good Omens

  the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  Gaiman, Neil

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  It's not often that the humble sorts of heroism can be found in such powerful beings, but Aziraphale and Crowley aren't the typical representative angels and demons. They just want to be left alone and for the world to be left alone, because they've…Read moreRead more of this annotation