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Bookish Roundup: February 2026

The Clan of the Cave Bear

They called her ugly.

They called her “Other.”

They treated her existence like a threat.

In a brutal Ice Age world where weakness meant death, a young girl is forced to live among people who fear her difference - and one future leader who wants her gone.

That’s Ayla.

That’s The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel.

A story of exile, survival, and quiet strength in a world that would rather erase her.

The tension is constant.

The stakes are brutal.

And Ayla never shrinks to make anyone comfortable.

If you’ve ever felt like the outsider, this book is for you.

The Village Cafe in the Loire by Gillian Harvey: A Book Review

In 2023, The Juggle Research of Bloom UK revealed a widespread mental health impact on working women. An overwhelming majority (93%) of women in the sector feel their mental health is suffering due to work-life imbalance. Over 40% (43%) are experiencing clinical burnout symptoms, a serious consequence of chronic work stress.

Project Hail Mary

Didn't expect Project Hail Mary to git his hard.

I thought it would just be a smart sci-fi read.

But somewhere between the isolation and the impossible stakes...

It stopped feeling like a space story and became about connection and redemption.

I highly, highly recommend Project Hail Mary.

This ended up being my favorite sci-fi book. ❤️

Amaze, amaze, amaze! 🥰

Right Thing, Right Here

Perhaps tens of thousands of books have been written about it, thousands of movies have been made about it, and hundreds of museums have been built to showcase its brutality. War destroys lives in many forms. The magnitude of its devastation ranges from large-scale catastrophe to the most basic of human beings—identity. War can annihilate a nation and even obliterate one's personhood.

B.A. Shapiro, author of the New York Times bestseller The Art Forger, painted how war affects people in every area of their lives in the book The Muralist. The spotlight is on an artist who fought for her family, for the country, and for herself. But her passion against war opened the gates of hell and threw her into oblivion.

Day 1

Hello, fellow book lovers!

Today is the first day of reading The Muralist by B. A. Shapiro. It’s a thriller that's related to art. I’m not really an artsy person, but at the same time, I am kind of interested in the combination of suspense and art. I think this book will give me a different kind of experience, so I’m looking forward to it.