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gon let s just roll with it because honestly hope the catdragon is absolutely adorable and i would like to be adopted by one too and the people of the town just go with it too magic butter noodle garlic pasta sounds great the whole town is painted random colors pretty but the genuine acceptance in this story isn t just for random magical occurrences it s also for people everyone is given a chance based on their own behavior and characteristics even before certainty starts getting to know aurelia she tries to be kind in whatever way she can certainty gives aurelia a chance and makes no judgments even when they have a chat about how certainty may not always agree with aurelia but she promises to at least least to her other types of magic and the desire to do non standard jobs were just accepted certainty s supportive parents were a prime example of just accepting and loving their children oh you want to be an apothecary cool we ll figure something out oh you might not ever be a mage that s okay too we ll figure something out and of course aurelia s parents were the juxtaposition of acceptance as they approached her with the purpose of controlling her and attempting to force her to fit into whatever mold they wanted they wanted status not a free and happy daughter i also honestly laughed and am still amused by the feline paradox of magical super positionality page 125 and the handling of cats in general in this story is fantastic as they can travel at desire through closed empty boxes and how the wards to the storage building had to decide if cats complete immorality counted as ill intent the catdragon is fantastic i appreciated the kindness on every single page of this book here was a book where random unwanted strangers in a dying rural town aren t exactly welcomed but they aren t thrown out and no one is cruel to them even the first morning after they arrive a welcome basket is sent though the townsfolk don t like magic and all that it stands for and though the townsfolk weren t extremely generous towards certainty and aurelia when they first arrived they still sent a welcome basket all of the small kindnesses in this book add up and things get better for the town because everyone tries and everyone is willing to think the best of people that s what community is all about that s what real magic friendship and love are all about this book was exactly what i needed light hearted relatable characters low stakes fantasy and a world full of hope compassion and magic this book is an easy four on my rating scale and even though i borrowed it from the library i intend to buy a copy for myself the next time i head out to a bookstore leong julie the keeper of magical things penguin random house llc 2025 posted in book reviews tagged book review books cozy fantasy fantasy julie leong the keeper of magical things leave a comment movie review jumanji posted on february 7 2026 by c a jacobs i decided to do a jumanji marathon for my next movies because i wanted something fun and positive but that also makes me think a little bit when young alan parrish discovers a mysterious board game he doesn t realize its unimaginable powers until he is magically transported before the eyes of his friend sarah into the untamed jungles of jumanji 26 years later alan reunites with sarah and together with judy and peter tries to outwit the game s powerful forces the movie begins in 1869 with two young boys burying a box in the forest at night and then jumps a hundred years in the future to 1969 in brantford new hampshire and then jumps to twenty six years later a game for those who wish to find a way to leave their world behind i know when i was a younger human i often wished to have some sort of grand adventure and i still sometimes think about that today the world we live in seems like a bigger and bigger pile of garbage every day and it s so easy to wish for some sort of magical escape from everything going wrong in the world one of the points of this movie is to show that you can control your own fate and as much as you think things are horrible they can always get worse judy and peter are absolutely hilarious especially judy and her story telling about what happened to their parents but also judy s first inclination when the giant mosquitos show up is to grab a racket and bat it out the window which is pretty awesome for someone so young judy and peter do really great in this movie combining cleverness determination and caring it s really interesting to watch alan demonstrate all of the behaviors from his own childhood the same behaviors that his dad showed to him but when you re stuck in a jungle by yourself for twenty six years you really don t have the opportunity for much growth and learning but then when alan makes it back to his 1969 beginning the first thing he does is to hug his father apologize for his harsh words and then tell the truth about the conveyor belt incident at the factory earlier that day this demonstrates the growth alan does achieve while working with people he cares about a little kindness and understanding goes a long ways even when nothing seems to be going well and you have monkeys shooting at people and destroying discount markets aunt nora and carl really did a wonderful job in this movie and it s maybe a shame that winning the game resets the world back to 1969 so we don t get to even meet nora or see how much she loves her family and is genuinely trying at least carl gets his dream of continuing on as the sole man at the factory and clearly becomes like family to alan and sarah i think one of the really striking things to me is how vastly different movies are these days this movie in theory is a kid s movie but it s absolutely not the watered down version of kid s movies we see these days some of the things judy and peter see and go through are truly horrifying and would give them nightmares for the rest of their lives if they actually remembered the events of jumanji on the reverse side alan and sarah do remember the events of jumanji so much so that they make certain to keep judy and peter s parents alive by offering their dad a job in marketing before the canadian car crash that would have killed them overall this movie mostly holds up to the test of time i d say it s a solid three on rating scale i m glad i own it and i do rewatch it fairly frequently jumanji directed by joe johnston performances by robin williams bonnie hunt david allen grier kirsten dunst bradley pierce jonathan hyde and bebe neuwirth tristar pictures 1995 posted in movie reviews tagged jumanji movie review leave a comment book review novice dragoneer and daughter of the serpentine by e e knight posted on february 3 2026 by c a jacobs my library knows to send me books about dragons with women as main characters so they sent me novice dragoneer young adult fantasy 489 pages and daughter of the serpentine young adult fantasy 473 pages by e e knight novice dragoneer fourteen year old illeth grew up in an orphanage and thanks to her stutter was never destined for much beyond kitchen work and cleaning but she s dreamed of serving with the dragons ever since a childhood meeting with a glittering silver dragon and its woman dragoneer for years she waits and as soon as she is old enough to join ileth runs away to become a novice dragoneer at the ancient human dragon fortress of the serpentine while most of her fellow apprentices are from rich families ileth must fight for her place in the world even if it includes a duel with her boss at the fish gutting table her path will lead her places she never imagined whether it s joining the dragon dancers or taking charge of a sickly old dragon with a mysterious past and to new heights as she takes her first flight into enemy hands daughter of the serpentine sixteen year old illeth is now an apprentice dragoneer with all of the benefits and pitfalls that her elevation in rank entails but her advancement becomes less certain after she s attacked by an unknown enemy and ileth begins to suspect that someone deadly may be hiding within the walls of the academy outside of the walls there is a different challenge the rari pirates are strangling the vale republic what they lack in dragon firepower they make up for in the brutality of their ever expanding raids making hostages or slaves of the republic s citizens surrounded by enemies ileth will need to learn what kind of dragoneer she wants to be and as she makes decisions about her future ileth will have the chance to uncover the secrets of her past both will irrevocably change the course of her life this is not a spoiler free review this review also contains mention of sexual assault sexual assault against a minor purity culture and ableism i spent a long long time trying to decide whether or not i would actually type up a review for these books the author of these books is still living but this series has some problems generally i don t post or publish books where the author is still living and some of my comments might not be that stellar i know how hard writing is and i know how easy it is to see negative comments and decide you re never going to write again but at the same time i did read these books and it s possible there are other people like me who see the two back of the book synoposises and think these books are going to be fantastic and provide a fun story with a happy ending about a girl who breaks all the odds and gets to ride dragons because dragons that s not this series maybe it will be in the future if there are any more books in the series after these two but that s not where it is now i very much liked ileth she s determined in a way fantasy readers and maybe even young adult fantasy readers don t often see she s not determined in a stubborn way she s determined in a i will find a way to make this work even if it s not how i dreamed or imagined way like nothing works for her she s not special in any way no special powers no secret finances no secret family lines she s got absolutely nothing and no one there wants her there she has no real friends no possessions and no skills but she tries anyway she keeps going anyway she does the best she can anyway the serpentine is dirty and messy and busy but still she keeps going at the same time though she s also absolutely passive with no actual ambition she doesn t take action on her own nor does she seek out opportunities to help her situation she allows everyone to influence her and she s a total pushover which goes maybe a little bit against her characterization as being extremely determined she agrees to go on a lengthy mission to function as a prisoner because her and the other girl they sent were the most expendable they were both expendable because they didn t come from rich and socially influentional families and because the even more misogynistic galantine culture wouldn t hurt girls the really really really hard part about this series for me is the blatant misogyny and the distinct lack of compassion by anyone in this entire series we meet ileth as a young girl of seven who meets a dragon argath and his dragon rider annis this is her first experience of women being something other than a wife maid or prostitute in ileth s experience this moment gives ileth her dream of creating her own life as a dragoneer annis is a significant contributor in the second book as well because it s annis strategy to remove the rari pirates from the vale republic s shores though annis is killed in battle before ileth gets to the academy and a very old frail male takes the credit in the papers at the end of the book for annis strategy during ileth s time at the serpentine everyone makes fun of ileth s stutter except the master of novices caseen and an elderly dragon everyone just calls lodger the most common insults involve mentioning how she must be broken because her mother was someone who was free with her sex or because of her mother s sins or some other such nonsense everyone also makes special effort just to be mean and make comments along the lines of how she ll never get married because no husband would ever suffer through her talking but just because they make fun of her stutter doesn t mean they can t objectify a fourteen year old girl who looks like she s twelve an older boy convinces her to attend an after hours against the rules party by telling her that the girl she looks up to galia will be there and ileth is desperate for a friend or mentor someone she can learn from without being worried about the social implications but drunk and high galia is busy having intimate relationships with drunk and high boys and then the boy who brought ileth to this party sexually assaults her but is stopped before things get too bad by one of her peers nothing happens to the older boy who assaulted her and nothing happens to any of the other teenagers breaking the rules ileth is now considered tainted and must be moved from the respectable lodging she had in the girls manor to the dragon dancers of ill repute who serve a valuable function to the dragons by dancing in front of them and any other audience present in barely her underclothes boys and men leer at her and even the dragons are sexist because they like smelling the sweat of girls dancing for them because it calms them down or bewitches them the entire series spends significant energy with even the characters trying to convince themselves that their dancing isn t erotic in any way the other girls mentioned in this series are all stereotypes filling stereotypical roles a moon faced friendly girl named quith spends the series focused on gossip fashion and prospective boys a rich beautiful girl named santeel dun troot is cruel to ileth often secretly sabotaging her though we re supposed to believe they re friends by the end of the second book and there are definitely some aspects of friendship there but not in the sense that santeel would ever voluntarily be seen socializing with ileth gandy is seen as chatty shallow and nice galia is the girl who came from nothing who decided to give up her dragon oaths so she could marry into foreign royalty lady raal does she even have a name of her own is the refined disabled governess with impeccable manners and those in charge of ileth in the second book say that maybe she s better with the dragons because of her masculine aspect because she keeps her hair short and doesn t partake of the feminine pursuits this is after the dragoneer trainees all have to complete physically exhausting manual labor tasks but ileth qith and another girl in their group who carry food and refreshments while the boys in their group move rocks and also after ileth wins a strategic board game against one of the masters who then conveniently gets sick when it looks like she might win a second game the icing on the misogyny cake is in the second book where it s mentioned that the academy allows girls in 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