#Alix Ohlin

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Books Read April 2024

White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

I've been told to read Link for years, and, well she lived up to the hype. These are some gorgeous re-interpretations of classic fairy tales and folklore which is exactly what I love. I would say I only loved about half the stories and found the rest meh but Link is clearly a gifted writer and this was an easy read.

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

This felt weirdly like a really good companion novel to Study in Obedience. Both feature an unnamed narrator living in Europe which is not their homeland. Yet while SiO examines the eeriness of the countryside Intimacies is about the eeriness of the city. Loved this one better than SiO though. Will definitely be retuning to Kitamura though I admit that I read this early in the month and despite enjoying it it has faded a LOT. I guess that's what happens with plotless novels.

Dragonwyck by Anya Seton

Historical romance fiction. IDK this was okay but never got as weird as I wanted it to. A solid read though.

The Great State of West Florida by Kent Wascom

Made a bit of a mistake in picking this up as an ARC based on the cover only to later realize it was the last in a 4 book series. Still an enjoyable read that stands on its own. A weird modern western about a family trying to establish West Florida as an independent state and an alternate white supremacy movement trying to do the same. It's weird but interesting.

The Adults by Alison Espach

Went into this blind after hearing this raved by several people and just absolutely loved it. It's hard to describe but it's basically about a snarky, wealthy white 14 year old and how her life is jutted off course by decades. Don't want to share more than that but I love Espach's voice and will be reading more of her in the future.

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

A wonderful, alternate history crime novel. The ending didn't stick for me but this is still a full five stars. Gorgeous writing, a lived in world. I will be returning to this one.

Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin

I love books about sisterhood but I found this entire book underdeveloped and kind of boring. Colour me baffled by another Giller choice.

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🐈‍⬛ Queer Witchlit for Spooky Season

✨ Witch please (add these witch reads to your TBR, perfect for spooky season)! Posting this from my first Pride!!

🧹 Spells to Forget Us - Aislinn Brophy 🧹 Reverie - Ryan La Sala 🧹 The Witch Boy - Molly Knox Ostertag 🧹 Carry On - Rainbow Rowell 🧹 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 🧹 Spell Bound - F.T. Lukens

✨ This Spells Disaster - Tori Anne Martin ✨ All the Bad Apples - Moïra Fowley-Doyle ✨ Her Majesty's Royal Coven - Juno Dawson ✨ A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske ✨ Runaways - Rainbow Rowell ✨ Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall

🐈‍⬛ Blood Debts - Terry J. Benton-Walker 🐈‍⬛ The Scapegracers - H. A. Clarke 🐈‍⬛ So Witches We Became - Jill Baguchinsky 🐈‍⬛ Three Dark Crowns - Kendare Blake 🐈‍⬛ B*WITCH - Nancy Ohlin and Paige McKenzie 🐈‍⬛ Remedial Magic - Melissa Marr

🧹 Witchlight - Jessi Zabarsky 🧹 The Dark Tide - Alicia Jasinska 🧹 Coven - Jennifer Dugan & Kit Seaton 🧹 Payback's a Witch - Lana Harper 🧹 These Witches Don't Burn - Isabel Sterling 🧹 Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft - Various

✨ Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker & Wendy Xu ✨ Summer of Salt - Katrina Leno ✨ The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea - Maggie Tokuda-Hall ✨ Basil and Oregano - Melissa Capriglione ✨ The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow ✨ Spell on Wheels - Kate Leth

🐈‍⬛ An Academy for Liars - Alexis Henderson 🐈‍⬛ Over My Dead Body - Sweeney Boo 🐈‍⬛ Wild and Wicked Things - Francesca May 🐈‍⬛ A Sweet Sting of Salt - Rose Sutherland 🐈‍⬛ The Last Sun - K. D. Edwards 🐈‍⬛ The Witches of New York - Ami McKay

🧹 The Midnight Girls - Alicia Jasinska 🧹 The Witchery - S. Isabelle 🧹 The Spells We Cast - Jason June 🧹 Now, Conjurers - Freddie Kölsch 🧹 Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas 🧹 That Self-Same Metal - Brittany N. Williams

✨ The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields ✨ Wild Beauty - Anna-Marie McLemore ✨ The Invocations - Krystal Sutherland ✨ Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches - Kate Scelsa ✨ Flowerheart - Catherine Bakewell ✨ Snapdragon - Kat Leyh

🐈‍⬛ Labyrinth Lost - Zoraida Córdova 🐈‍⬛ The Witches of Silver Lake - Simon Curtis 🐈‍⬛ Sweet & Bitter Magic - Adrienne Tooley 🐈‍⬛ Witches of Ashes and Ruin - E. Latimer 🐈‍⬛ Edie in Between - Laura Sibson 🐈‍⬛ When We Were Magic - Sarah Gailey

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@orionfalling this is a bit late but thank you for the tag!!

currently reading: crush by richard siken, we want what we want by alix ohlin

favorite color: orange

last song: i miss you, i’m sorry by gracie abrams

last movie: the woman king

sweet/savory/spicy: sweet 100%

currently working on: getting back into gifmaking and finishing a fanfic

tagging: @greta--gill @tiffanyvalntine @inejghcfa @daenerys-tarrgaryen @ohlexa @elliewillaims @avasillva

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Alix Ohlin

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Alix Ohlin?

[walrusmagazine]

Seahorse

What Skye remembered later was the collective breath of the crowd, an intake of air so sudden and unified that it sounded like a wave breaking. This could not have been true. There must have been screams; there must have been the ear-splitting grind of emergency brakes; there must have been the sound of the collision itself. She couldn’t find any of this in her memory. She couldn’t locate the body as it fell. She could find only this ocean roar, this almost shapeless sound, so powerful a wind that it raised the hair on her arms.

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

Illustration by Michelle Theodore (michelletheodore.com/).

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We Want What We Want by Alix Ohlin 

https://amzn.to/3ilV34d 

https://bookshop.org/a/17891/9780525654636

Prepare Her by Genevieve Plunkett 

https://amzn.to/3j9HrYP

https://bookshop.org/a/17891/9781646220403

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Bridget stood in her kitchen, watching the wind twist maple leaves off a tree in the yard. The kids were upstairs in their rooms. Bobby was going away to college next year; Mellie the year after that. Sam was travelling more for work these days. Bridget would soon be stripped back to herself. Sometimes she thought of this aloneness as a luxury. Sometimes she was afraid of it. Sometimes she saw her life as a tender thing that was separate from herself, a tiny animal she had happened upon by chance one day and decided to raise. It was terrifying to think how small it was, how wild, how easily she could fit it in the palm of her hand.

Alix Ohlin, “Quarantine”

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9, 14 and 18! xxx

Jess! Helloooooooooo!!!

9: Did a book scare you?

Nope. Read a couple mystery novels that were, unfortunately, predictable, and then Grady Hendrix’s The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, which I gotta rule Super Gross But Not Frightening.

14: Did you give up on any books halfway through?

I would never read that far into a crap book lol For the sake of my sanity and taste, I gave up on The New Wilderness by Diane Cook, The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey, and Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin.

18: Did you call any plot twists?

Oh hey, I get to continue my answer to #9! Yes, I did! I was unsurprised by the ending of The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson (still a great trilogy for anybody looking for a YA mystery series), The Guest List by Lucy Foley (also still a good book), A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (decent - I am gonna give the sequel a shot), and Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (in her defense, I usually don’t guess her twists).

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3, 5, 10, 18, 23, 27 for the ask game please?🌷 (I really love your fics by the wayy💕)

thank you!! 😊

3. your favourite “grounding” activity (anything that involves using the hands/doesn’t involve “spacing out” or escapism - something like gardening, knitting, dancing, cooking) I’ve been doing a lot of baking lately and doing everything by hand. There’s something really satisfying about creaming butter and sugar together yourself

5. 5 tv shows that cheer you up Most of these are a nostalgia thing... Castle, Agents of SHIELD, Buffy, Galavant, and B99

10. something you’ve created in the last year that you’re proud of (a playlist, a piece of art, some writing, a craft hobby, a social media account, etc) This is.. hard. It would be easy to say my novel but I did the real ‘creating’ aspect of that much more than a year ago. tbh the past year hasn’t been super productive for me creativity wise, it’s been more about getting comfortable in my life. But I guess to take this not very literally I could say my apartment? Not like I literally built it obviously, but creating a home space that is really mine for maybe the first time, I’m proud of that

18. a book series you can always escape in It’s been a while since I’ve read a good series... harry potter I guess? to be a bit obvious. And it’s not a series exactly but Naomi Novik’s Uprooted and Spinning Silver are some of my favourite fantasy (although they do always make me feel a little like I shouldn’t bother writing they’re so good lol) 

23. the book you just finished and what you thought (no spoilers!) Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin! It was amazing, loved the voice and it’s probably the most accurate sister relationship I’ve ever read, how the two characters come in and out of each other’s lives felt very real. I’d definitely recommend it!

27. your favourite flavour and brand of tea Boring but probably tetley orange pekoe just for the nostalgia factor. It’s the tea that my granny always drank when I was a kid so it reminds me of summer afternoons at the lake

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The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 158

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 158

Short story: Quarantine by Alix Ohlin, from the New Yorker, January 2017. Highly Recommended.

Poem: Elegy for the Parents by Lynne Knight, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from January 2017. Recommended.

Essay: Chinese Zhou Ritual Vessel, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects, from February 2010. Highly Recommended.

What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?

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Some (but not all) of the new releases we’re looking forward to this month!

June 4

The Book of Dust - Philip Pullman

Calypso - David Sedaris

City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert

Donna Has Left the Building - Susan Jane Gilman

Dual Citizens - Alix Ohlin

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell - Neal Stephenson

Ghosts of the Shadow Market - Cassandra Clare

The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai

Lake Success - Gary Shteyngart

The Last Pirate of New York - Rich Cohen

Number One Chinese Restaurant - Lillian Li

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

The Outsider - Stephen King

She Has Her Mother's Laugh - Carl Zimmer

Siege - Michael Wolff

Sorcery of Thorns - Margaret Rogerson

This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us - Edgar Cantero

We Have Always Been Here - Samra Habib

Why My Cat Is More Impressive Than Your Baby - Matthew Inman

June 11

The Chai Factor - Farah Heron

The Ditch - Herman Koch

Honestly, We Meant Well - Grant Ginder

Immigrant, Montana - Amitava Kumar

The Labyrinth of the Spirits - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Lethal White - Robert Galbraith

My Parents / This Does Not Belong to You - Aleksandar Hemon

Providence - Caroline Kepnes

Recursion - Blake Crouch

The Sol Majestic - Ferrett Steinmetz

Tell Me How You Really Feel - Aminah Mae Safi

Turtles All the Way Down - John Green

June 18

The Body Lies - Jo Baker

The Deal of a Lifetime and Other Stories - Fredrik Backman

The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind - Jackson Ford

The Porpoise - Mark Haddon

The Stationery Shop - Marjan Kamali

The Travelers - Regina Porter

Trickster Drift - Eden Robinson

June 25

Ball Lightning - Cixin Liu

Big Sky - Kate Atkinson

Cherry - Nico Walker

The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs - Katherine Howe

The Falcon of Sparta - Conn Iggulden

Front Desk - Kelly Yang

I Owe You One - Sophie Kinsella

Kingdom of the Blind - Louise Penny

My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

Season of Storms - Susanna Kearsley

The Throne of Caesar - Steven Saylor

Time's Convert - Deborah Harkness

We Sold Our Souls - Grady Hendrix

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Episode 102 — Alix Ohlin

Alix Ohlin is the guest.  She's the author of several books, the most recent of which are the story collection Signs and Wonders, available now from Vintage, and a novel called Inside, available Knopf.  Both were published in June of ... Continue reading →

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