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The Impossible Fortress Book Review: 1987, Floppy Disks, and the Best Love Story About BASIC Programming
The Impossible Fortress is set in 1987, and it absolutely nails it. Jason Rekulak wrote a coming-of-age novel about a fourteen-year-old boy named Billy Marvin whose initial goal — stealing a copy of Playboy from the local convenience store — accidentally leads him into a friendship with the store owner's daughter, Mary, who is the best computer programmer he's ever met. What follows is a novel about first love, betrayal, and the Commodore 64 that is far better than it has any

Luke Stoffel
2 min read


A Wrinkle in Time Book Review: The Children's Book That Terrified Me
A Wrinkle in Time is one of those books that gets classified as a children's novel because the protagonists are children, but Madeleine L'Engle was writing about the nature of evil, the structure of the universe, and the terrifying power of conformity, and she wasn't simplifying any of it.
Meg Murry is thirteen, angry, brilliant at math, and terrible at fitting in. Her father, a physicist, has been missing for over a year. Her mother — also a scientist, also beautiful, whi

Luke Stoffel
3 min read


The Stardust Pirates Book Review: A Queer YA Horror That Feels Like a Sunset You Cannot Look Away From
Different book, different rules. This one is not a memoir and it is not part of The Warboy Chronicles. The Stardust Pirates is a queer YA horror novel loosely inspired by Peter Pan, set on a Philippine island where the magic is ancient and the grief is fresh. I wrote it. Early readers on Goodreads and NetGalley had things to say. Here is what they said.
The Stardust Pirates follows Jack, a teenager who has taken on far too much responsibility far too young, and his best fr

Luke Stoffel
3 min read
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