hawt & smoggy august autumn reads!
hello, and welcome to our collection of august’s weekly reading book reviews!
videos & links to each title on bookshop.org appearing every monday mornng of the month! :D
✨📖 weekly reading book review august 2026: episode one!! 📖✨
🥰 i finished ZERO books this week, but have bookmarks hanging out in:
🧡 HOW (NOT) TO RENOVATE A HAUNTED HOUSE by jenny l. howe
(spooky YA fat rep + inclusivity romcom!!)
🩵 SEMICOLON: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF A MISUNDERSTOOD MARK by cecelia watson (nonfiction; some of it’s great; some of it, my eyes glaze over 😵💫)
💛 HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD by haruki murakami (absurdist surreal this that who knows what japanese fiction in translation)
🖤 SYLLABUS by lynda barry (art/research notebooks from teaching visual communications to college students of diverse/non-art majors)
📚 maybe reading soon/next:
🤎 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA by wm shakespeare
folger library edition: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/troilus-and-cressida-william-shakespeare/1116788673?ean=9781982170127
💚 & 💜 AMARI & THE DESPICABLE WONDERS & AMARI & THE METALWORK MENACE by b. b. alston
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i’ve also got tickets to FOUR staged readings & musicals for the SOUTH CAROLINA PLAY FESTIVAL this week!! (tickets are FREE on their website, so you can go, too!!)
https://www.southcarolinanewplayfestival.org
👉🏽 so expect lots of blogs & posts about THAT excitement!! 🤩🎭🎪🎤
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otherwise i’ll be working & writing in my studio and sending this month’s CRAYON BOX HAPPY STICKER MAIL!!!!
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links to all the fun below!
with confetti frosting for a soul,
💖xo,
*hallie 🤓
stay tuned for our next epsidode on august 10!
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