#GennaRose Nethercott

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A few days prior, at a Q&A after one of my readings, a young man in the audience raised his hand: Do you believe in ghosts? “Well, that depends.” I told him. “What is a ghost?” What I love most about ghost stories is their malleability. A ghost can be a heart beating beneath a floorboard. A father, appearing to his son to beg for vengeance. A party dress worn by your husband’s first wife, which you, the new wife, now don. A ghost can be a house, or a mirror, or a shadow. It would be reductive to define ghost-hood as simply a deceased person’s spirit appearing in the mortal realm. So then, how do we define a ghost? I personally have one, simple definition: a ghost is a manifestation of longing.

GennaRose Nethercott, from her essay ““A Ghost Is a Memory.” On Bodies, Belief, and the Places Ghost Stories Live”, published in Lit Hub, October 31, 2022

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gennrose nethercott "a ghost is a memory." on bodies, belief, and the places ghost stories live

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Winnie and Bellatine from Thistlefoot!

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...I was a girl, like you. What, you think this impossible? You think huntresses are one sort and you, something completely different? I understand why you would think that way. It's easier.

Dead Boy Detectives x Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by GennaRose Nethercott - Maren, "The Autumn Kill"

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JOMP BPC || May 14 || Should Win An Award: Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart by GennaRose Nethercott

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Writing is painful as a life. I feel that even after decades. Doesn't get easier, which surprised me. The yearning and failing parts don't get easier. And then there are the miraculous times when fluency is effortless. Or even the times of just being absorbed deeply. Can't think of anything better. I regret being unable to occupy that state constantly but to be there at all seems a marvel beyond all others.

— Louise Gluck, from an email message sent to one of her students and writer Gennarose Nethercott on November 2, 2017 (via Dylan O'Sullivan)

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Isaac thistlefoot should have been a tumblr sexyman but alas not enough people on tumblr read books

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Thistlefoot is so damn good. The representation of generationsl trauma knocks me on my ass every single time. It's beautiful and sad and I just adore this story

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“How do you ruin a people? Is it with fire? Is it with bullets? You can drag a man through the street tied to the back of a horse. You can incinerate a village. Can line families up in rows against a brick wall and fell them, one by one, like a forest. But all it takes is one survivor, and the story lives on. One survivor to carry the poems and the songs, the prayers, the sorrows. It isn’t just taking a life that destroys a people. It’s taking their history.”

GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

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It is impossible to take a step without walking through a ghost. Every memory creates one. Every version of ourselves leaves a shadow self behind. Every regret and every promise and every touch of skin against skin.

GENNAROSE NETHERCOTT: THISTLEFOOT (P. 183)

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Yet another book haul…

I need to stop going to my local bookstore on my day off… but in my defense, these first two were books that I had ordered last time I was there and they just came in, so I did have a reason to go!

I adored The Lumberjack’s Dove when I read it last month, and I knew I needed my own copy of it, and when I also found out that GennaRose Nethercott was releasing a short story collection this year, I absolutely had to get my hands on it!!! I can’t wait to get into it soon!

And then I went to check out the sci fi/fantasy section and, well…

When I saw Gideon, Harrow, and Nona (all in my beloved paperback!!!) over there, I just had to get them. I haven’t finished Nona yet, but I KNOW I’m going to love it and I’ll want to reread all of them eventually. I’m fully on the Locked Tomb train, and I’m riding it wherever it takes us!!!

I definitely have to steer clear of the bookstore for a little while now…

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What happens when the walls we raise outlive the dangers they were built to keep out? At what point does a fort become a cage?

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

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2024 reads / storygraph

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart

fantasy short story collection of dark and quirky fairytales, including:

sapphics working at a roadside attraction called the eternal staircase

a clique of teen girls dabbling in witchcraft told in first person plural

an outcasted goat girl and vampire who become a family

and women who turn into houses, a girl who regularly magically drowns, a boy made of thread,

interesting writing styles & illustrations included

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As anyone who has known loss understands full well, lack is not in fact, an absence at all. It is a presence. A person we love dies, or leaves, or changes, and a gap forms. It takes on their shape. Mimics their movement. Echoes their voice like a mockingbird. We feel this gap take up space, filling every place our lost one once was, and now isn’t. It reflects in mirrors. Flickers in candle flames. A phantom. Do you believe in ghosts? Of course. I have seen longing grow legs and follow me.

GennaRose Nethercott, from her essay ““A Ghost Is a Memory.” On Bodies, Belief, and the Places Ghost Stories Live”, published in Lit Hub, October 31, 2022

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Nothing is a surprise to us. We can read any omen—an orange sky, a rotten peach, a stained T-shirt, a pop song on loop, a kiss-and-tell, a dropped phone call. When new girls come, we know what to do with them. We know how to fix them. We have a way of knowing every good thing there is to know.

Dead Boy Detectives x Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart by GennaRose Nethercott - Crystal, "A Diviner's Abecedarian"

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✨️The Birthday Book Haul!✨️