Amanda Lovelace

I'll have the link to grab that.

um in the show notes so you can check that out um but yeah so I actually got some new decks from a family friend that I like grew up with and saw that I do a tarot podcast and they had some decks they wanted to pass on to someone and so I was like sure send them to me so um shout out to kimberly um but yeah so the first one i'm going to pull from is believe in your own magic oracle deck it's by amanda lovelace and artwork by janana medeiros um and again amanda lovelace is the two-time goodreads choice award-winning poet and usa today best-selling author who made this deck, an oracle deck.

So it's based on her celebrated poetry series, Women Are Some Kind of Magic.

And then art by fairy tale illustrator, Janina Medeiros.

And it's pretty much just about 100 pages of them learning to live on their own and make the most out of their life in the woods.

problem is the dialogue wasn't really adapted at all updated at all so it feels very old fashioned the cadence of the dialogue is almost sometimes like that fun with Dick and Jane primer dialogue where the kids are just directly stating what they're doing so kids will pay attention I do think it's an interesting concept although it was tied up very neatly in the first volume so I definitely think this is more for younger kids But I think everything I read this week was pretty good, including my number eight pick, Books, Iced Coffee, and A Side of Dragons, which is a cozy LGBT graphic novel by Amanda Lovelace and Raquel Trave.

It's set in, it's set on the Jersey Shore.

in a world where dragons are real.

There was Atticus, I think his name, or Arsene Langliave, I always pronounce her surname wrong, but amazing, amazing talent.

Amanda Lovelace was another one.

So, you know, they were all kind of...

this group of poets that were having really huge success in this new