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But Joe’s longing to find love is tripped up by his own troublesome past as well as the lure of a mysterious hunk he keeps seeing around the island—a man Howie and Lenny warn may be a harbinger of impending doom. The Disco Witches need to find help—fast—if they’re to save Joe and the island from the Great Darkness. 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As characters from one chapter appear as side characters in the next, we follow a young woman who cannot help pushing away the man who loves her; a recently widowed grandfather whose grandson refuses to leave his room; the family of a young woman who struggle to understand each other, and an anxious man who works at a cat shelter seeking to show how the most difficult cats can be the most rewarding. 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Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world--no matter how out of place they feel. Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother's life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly? And why did she vow never to return? But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew--a reclusive, real-life gentle giant--she realizes that mysteries aren't solved in Mullaby, they're a way of life: Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes.Everyone in Mullaby adores Julia Winterson's cakes--which is a good thing, because Julia can't seem to stop baking them. She offers them to satisfy the town's sweet tooth but also in the hope of rekindling the love she fears might be lost forever. Flour, eggs, milk, and sugar . . . Baking is the only language the proud but vulnerable Julia has to communicate what is truly in her heart. But is it enough to call back to her those she's hurt in the past? Can a hummingbird cake really bring back a lost love? Is there really a ghost dancing in Emily's backyard? The answers are never what you expect. But in this town of lovable misfits, the unexpected fits right in.From the Hardcover edition.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2k55ggsdfp03dvtjz66x79.jpg?v=a1254e0c7b","L79@L-j]00S500ax~payEQofxZV@",2010,269,[559],{"id":560,"slug":561,"name":562},"01kx23dvwtvj0q2d73thhb3yp1","sarah-addison-allen-qdhk","Sarah Addison Allen",[564,565,566],{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":20},{"id":132,"name":133,"slug":134,"is_fiction":20},{"id":321,"name":322,"slug":323,"is_fiction":20},[],{"pace":56,"complexity":7,"audience":58,"mood":569,"themes":571,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[528,527,570],"nostalgic",[],[573],{"id":574,"slug":575,"title":576,"user":577,"work_id":4,"is_draft":19,"verified_reader":20,"featured":19,"body":584,"overall_rating":93,"depth":7,"momentum":7,"atmosphere":7,"craft":7,"impact":7,"spice":7,"spoiler_level":585,"locale":7,"feed_item_key":586,"like_count":17,"comment_count":17,"top_likers":587,"viewer_can_reply":19,"created_at":588,"updated_at":588},"01kwdx5zadwwn3ga7af7ykp79g","review-of-the-circular-ruins-by-patient-bookworm","Review of \"The Circular Ruins\" by patient_bookworm",{"id":578,"name":579,"username":580,"avatar_url":581,"is_system":19,"published_reviews_count":582,"books_read_count":583},575,"Patient Bookworm","patient_bookworm","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Favatars\u002F575.webp?v=1782877720",369,461,"★★★★½ 4.5 \u002F 5 stars\n\nEntering the Dream\n\nI did not feel oriented while reading this, and that felt right.\n\nThe story begins with a man arriving at some forgotten ruins with a single, impossible intention. He wants to dream a person into existence. Not imagine, not write, but dream so precisely that the imagined body becomes real. The premise is simple on the surface, but the atmosphere resists clarity from the first paragraph.\n\nI found myself reading slowly, not because the language is difficult, but because each line seems to carry more weight than it admits.\n\nWhat stayed with me most was the patience of the process. The man does not succeed quickly. He fails, starts again, refines, focuses. There is discipline in the act of dreaming here, almost like craft.\n\nIt began to feel less like fantasy and more like a reflection of artistic creation. The exhaustion of trying to bring something into the world that feels complete. The strange intimacy with something that does not yet exist. The quiet obsession that takes over everything else.\n\nI could feel that strain in a very physical way while reading.\n\nThere is something unsettling about how calmly everything unfolds. No dramatic spikes, no loud revelations. The story moves with a kind of stillness that makes the ground beneath it feel unreliable.\n\nDetails slip past without explanation. Time feels stretched, then compressed. People appear almost as if they were already imagined before they entered the page.\n\nI stopped trying to make sense of it midway. That is when the story opened up.\n\nThe ending does not announce itself. It lands softly, and then it keeps expanding in your mind long after you finish.\n\nI sat with it for a while, replaying earlier moments, noticing what I had missed. There is a quiet shock in realizing what the story has been doing all along.\n\nIt does not feel like a twist. It feels like recognition arriving late.\n\nBorges writes with extreme control. Nothing spills over. Every sentence feels placed rather than written.\n\nThere is no excess, no decoration. The language carries clarity even when the meaning does not. That contrast creates a strange tension that pulls you forward.\n\nThis is a very short piece, but it does not read as small.\n\nWhat lingered for me was the feeling that creation is never fully owned by the creator. That what we bring into the world might carry its own reality, separate from intention.\n\nThere is also a quieter thought underneath it. That we may not be as original as we believe ourselves to be.\n\nI finished the story and felt a kind of stillness that I could not shake off for a while.\n\nRating: ★★★★½ 4.5 \u002F 5 stars\n\nWriters who enjoy metaphysical fiction, readers who sit with ambiguity, those who found themselves pulled into works like Italo Calvino’s short pieces or Kafka’s quieter stories, anyone interested in creation as an act that blurs the boundary between imagination and existence.","none","rv-01kwdx5zadwwn3ga7af7ykp79g",[],"2026-07-01T03:57:20.000000Z"]