#Rebecca McGuire

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

You Miao/Li Zhifeng- To Rule in a Turbulent World by Fei Tian Ye Xiang

Kahlil (“Ravishan”)/John Toffler (“Jath'ibaye”)- The Rifter by Ginn Hale

Jack Wolcott/Alexis Chopper- Wayward Children by Seanan McGuire

Reyna/Kianthe- Tomes and Tea Series by Rebecca Thorne

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[npdclaraoswald]

Another crosspost from my Instagram! This time for International Women's Day! As far as I know, all of these authors identify as women, but please let me know if I'm wrong!

Details of the authors and their books under the cut, because this would be a long post otherwise

Kai Cheng Thom, author of From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea by (illustrated by Kai Yun Ching), Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World, and A Place Called No Homeland

Darcie Little Badger, author of Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to Earth and contributor to Love After the End: An Anthology of Two Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead and Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time edited by Hope Nicholson

Angeline Boulley, author of The Firekeeper's Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed

NK Jemisin author of the Broken Earth Trilogy (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky), The City We Became, Far Sector (illustrated by Jamal Campbell), How Long 'til Black Future Month?, and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Seanan McGuire, author of Into the Drowning Deep (under a pseudonym) and The Wayward Children series (Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Beneath the Suger Sky, In an Absent Dream, Come Tumbling Down, Across the Green Grass Fields, Where the Drowned Girls Go, and Lost in the Moment and Found)

Octavia Butler, author of Kindred, The Earthseed Duology (Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents), and Fledgling

Talia Hibbert, author of The Brown Sisters Trilogy (Get a Life, Chloe Brown; Take a Hint, Dani Brown; and Act Your Age, Eve Brown)

Rebecca Roanhorse, author of the Between Earth and Sky Trilogy (of which I have read Black Sun and Fevered Star), Race to the Sun, and Tread of Angels and contributor to Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids edited by Cynthia Lietich Smith

Cherie Dimaline, author of The Marrow Thieves Duology (The Marrow Thieves and Hunting by Stars), Empire for Wild, and Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

I have also read the Marvel Indigenous collection that Little Badger and Roanhorse contributed to and McGuire's Ghost Spider series, but as Marvel continues to support Isreal, I continue to not support or promote Marvel

[betterbooksandthings]

"All fantasy authors have to start somewhere. The best debut fantasy books ever written are a testament to what that starting line can look like. In fantasy, the delicate dance between worldbuilding, character, and craft is always difficult. Somehow, these authors got it just right with the first books they had published."

[authorkarajorgensen]

My 10 Top Reads of 2023

This week's blog is my ten top reads of 2023 in no particular order. Check it out to beef up your ever-growing TBR pile.

I have a love-hate relationship with so many end of year wrap-up posts, but I do want to give a shout out to some books that I really enjoyed this year. I decided to cut it off at ten books to avoid completely overloading the post, but I hope you will find some new books or authors to add to your to-be-read pile. The books mentioned below are not in any particular order. Tread of Angels by…

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Romance with a Twist

Romance with a Twist (2024) #MaxMcGuire #JocelynHudon #OlivierRenaud #CandiceLidstone #RebeccaApplebaum #DarrinBaker Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2024 (Januar) Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romantik Regie: Max McGuire Hauptrollen: Jocelyn Hudon, Olivier Renaud, Candice Lidstone, Rebecca Applebaum, Darrin Baker, Jamie Champagne, Tanya Clarke, Naomi Gaskin, Alice Hamid, Stephanie Herrera … Filmbeschreibung: Luna (Jocelyn Hudon) ist eine ehemalige Tänzerin, die diesen Traum aufgegeben hat, um ein bodenständiges Leben zu führen und das…

[allithebookgiraffe]

Tell Me Something Tuesday: Summer TBR

Hello readers! It’s time for my summer TBR, and this time I know I’m going to actually get to these books. I seriously have so many books I want to read. I know I can’t list them all or this wouldn’t even be obtainable, so I decided on eight. Tell Me Something Tuesday is a weekly meme created and hosted by That’s What I’m Talking About. Each week there is a prompt to talk about. If you would…

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https://ifunnyx.co/video/Lh4syzq7A?s=u

#GoldenFlakeWarriors

Right Out From The Dirty Dirty BackHole of Jillian LeAnn Quist Jones aka #SlurpyDoGPuSSY

[wondereads]

Aro/Ace Book Recs for Pride 2024

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (ace)

New Adult, low fantasy, 3.89 star average (my rating: 5 stars)

Beyond the Black Door by A. M. Strickland (demirom ace)

Young Adult, high fantasy, 3.73 star average (my rating: 3.75 stars)

Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran (demi)

Young Adult, high fantasy, 3.6 star average

Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody (demirom ace)

Young Adult, high fantasy, 3.68 star average

The City of Dusk by Tara Sim (ace)

Adult, high fantasy, 3.72 star average

All Systems Red by Martha Wells (aroace)

Adult, hard sci-fi, 4.12 star average (my rating: 3.5 stars)

Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer (aro/ace)

Young Adult, horror fantasy, 4.05 star average

Seven Devils by L. R. Lam and Elizabeth May (ace)

Adult, space opera, 4.03 star average

[hmslusitania]

Ted Lasso is a portal fantasy

I know, I know it's not in any way a speculative fiction show. I know. Bear with me for a second. Ted Lasso is a portal fantasy, but the real question is whether this is the story we know from the Wizard of Oz, or Mary Poppins. Ted himself is at once Dorothy and Mary, and I think my reaction to the end of Ted's story, specifically, depends on whether you take the show at it’s title, that it’s about Ted Lasso (Dorothy) or take the show at Ted’s word that it was never about him (Mary Poppins).

To Ted, he is very literally Dorothy.

He’s away from Kansas, he’s surrounded by the reminder that “there’s no place like home”, and he spent the finale wearing honest to god ruby red sneakers. The evil wizard stalked down from his curtained owners box and was removed from power. The lion got her courage, the tin man for his heart, and the scarecrow got his brain, and Dorothy went back to Kansas (leaving Toto behind). But unlike Dorothy, we didn't really get the build up that Ted had to go back to Kansas to get what he wanted -- Henry back in his life. Rebecca even offered him the choice to stay, and the means to bring Henry and even Michelle back to London with him. Exactly zero compelling reason was offered to explain why Ted wouldn't take that offer. But he's Dorothy, in a portal fantasy, and that's what Dorothy does -- she goes home. It is the ending of the vast majority of portal fantasies, no matter how much it will fuck up the protagonist (there's a whole series detailing that damage and undoing it by tumblr's own Seanan McGuire which I highly recommend btw). To me, this is an unsatisfying ending for Ted himself, since no reason was given for him to turn down Rebecca's offer.

However.

To the Richmond family, Ted is Mary Poppins.

One of the complaints I’ve seen about this season is that we don’t know where Ted is, emotionally. Much like Mary Poppins, whose internality as a character is, at best, an afterthought. Mary Poppins is not the point of Mary Poppins. The children she helps are the point of Mary Poppins, and when she leaves at the end, although you’re sad to see her go, you know the kids she left there have grown as people and will continue to grow by her example and her benevolent Julie Andrews ways. And by and large, you don’t really worry about the place Mary Poppins goes to. She’s Mary Poppins and she’ll do what she does and ours is not to question etc. ("Mary Poppins isn't a portal fantasy" yeah, I know, technically, but it's kind of an inside out portal fantasy since there's a character who came from another kind of realm, who swept in to be the answer to some problem, and then went home {or, wherever}; it's just we're seeing it from the pov of the locals rather than the person from the other realm.)

The Richmond Team have all grown as people under Ted's stewardship. As we’ve seen in the character progressions particularly of Roy, of Nate, of Rebecca, they will continue in the Richmond way that they’ve developed. Forever changed by Ted sailing in on his parasol, missing him certainly, but able to continue. More narrative weight is given to the Mary Poppins side of the story, and in this scenario, I take much, much less issue with Ted's the character's ending.

In conclusion, Ted Lasso is the story of Mary Poppins staring Dorothy Gale in the titular role.

[bookcub]

Hey hey, I was wondering if you have any ace book/books with ace characters recommendations? I’ve only read Loveless so far (since it is as you said The Ace Book), but I want to read some more for pride month and I don’t know where to start. I know you’ve read a couple but I can’t remember which ones you liked so I was hoping you could help me out?

ooooo yes I absolutely can! I will start with my favorites and then some others I enjoyed. Let me know if you have any questions about content warnings or genres I didn't cover!

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger- urban fantasy, Ellie's ace identity isn't the focus but is canon and the central relationships are familial and platonic. it's part murder mystery, part magical journey

(Little Badger's A Snake Falls to Earth also has an ace mc but I remember less of the plot)

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen- goose girl retelling from the maid's perspective and she's demisexual!! high fantasy and action packed.

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan Mcguire- a magical school book where kids who come back from their portal fantasy adventures. Nancy is ace and there's a murder mystery plot within.

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee- my favorite ace contemporary ya romance

How to Be a Normal Person by TJ Klune- contemporary adult romance. the love interest is explicitly ace.

Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda DeWitt- a group of ace internet friends plan a heist.

How to Be Ace by Rebecca Burgess- A graphic memoir

(I liked Ace by Angela Chen and Refusing Compulsory Sexuality by Sherronda J Brown for heavier reading)

That Kind of Guy by Talia Hibbert- adult contemporary romance, one of the mcs is demisexual (he knows before the book starts)

Role Playing by Cathy Yardley- adult contemporary romance, one of the mcs is demisexual (he realizes within the book)

That's Not What Happened by Kody Keplonger- YA contemporary, follows a group of students after a school shooting.

Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann- ya contemporary romance.

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@thoughtfulfuri sorry this took me so long! A revised list of books you should look into reading this year. I could have added more ahaha, but this will keep you plenty busy.

Deeply informed by your list and the brief of:  “Books that have deeply influenced the thrust of the genre and media broadly” 

I also went for breadth over depth--you had some authors with a TON of books on your list, and if you’re looking for understanding of media influence I’m not sure that’s the best use of your time. THis isn’t a perfect list but I think it’ll provide a better net than your original. I do not know what you have an haven’t read. Spots where I think you might have read my recommendation I supplied a second. An incomplete list, because no list is ever complete, and always has huge gaps in judgment. WE can always make a new list next year! 

Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None This was already on your list and it’s perfect. I prefer Murder On the Orient Express, but in fairness, those are the only two Christie novels I’ve ever read. And I’d keep it to one from each author. 

The Art of War — Sun Tzu  From your list, I have no issue with it

Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse Five  This is his best and most enduring work. IF you’re looking for incredible influence, this is the one. 

Octavia Butler -- Kindred  I winnowed down your multiple Butler works to this big hitter. 

Isaac Asimov -- I, Robot From your list, make total sense

Daphne DuMaurier -- Rebecca You had My Cousin Rachel, which is great fun, but Rebecca is THE DuMaurier book. 

Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace I replaced Crime and Pnishment with this not because I don’t like Crime and Punishment, but because if you’re going to commit to a russian novel, you may as well make it the most influential one ever written. This is routinely hailed as the best fucking novel ever written. It is in fact great. I will reread it with you this year! 

Frank Herbert -- Dune. This is from your original list and it’s fine I guess. I think reading Dune is a waste of time unless you’re super into sci-fi, but I won’t fight it. 

JRR Tolkien-- The Fellowship of the Ring From your original list and yeah absolutely. Cannot hope to ujnderstand fantasy as a genre without reading this. If you like it I recommend the whole series, but Tolkien can be hard for people. 

Harper Lee -- To Kill A Mockingbird From your list. Yes, this is an incredibly important American piece. 

Jane Austen -- Pride and Predjudice. There is no more influential Austen novel. You gotta. If you’ve read P&P read Sense and Sensibility, which has the added benefit of being at least four times better (according to people named Doc, who are me, who do not like P&P) 

Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451. I actually prefer Something Wicked from your list, but F451 is much more influential. If you’ve read Farenheit, read 1984 by George Orwell. IF you’ve read that, read Brave New World by Huxley. If you’re read that, scrap totally, your list is very sci-fi weighted anyhow. 

Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray. Replaced A Woman of No Importance, which most people haven’t even heard of, with Picture, a deeply and widely referenced novel. If you’ve read picture, read “The Importance of Being Earnest” or better, watch a proshot of a play. 

Gregory McGuire--- Wicked. I dunno that I think this deserves a spot on your list, but I get that everyone’s talking about it right now. And I like the book! But it’s just not very genre influential, it’s more deeply influenced BY the genre. I left it, because I get wanting to engage with everyone talking about it, but those are my reservations.

WE ARE OFF YOUR LIST TOTALLY NOW. So I took a bunch of repeats off your list. I admire wanting to track influential books, and broaden your understanding of media generally, but I think you were sorta getting into the weeds. So I added a few others that have huge media impact. 

Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield    Boy did this suck for me to try and pick. I fucking love Charles Dickens. He was a dick in a lot of ways, revolutionary in others, and the man could write his ass off. He knew how to write a serial style that also keeps track of itself, and there is stuff that blows my mind as a modern reader even now. (If I hadn’t unintentionally made last years book clubs essentially Brit Lit 2: Brit harder i would be doing a Dickens novel for book club. I do have an idea of theming this year as “The American Answer” so like, we did Brideshead last year and the, well, an, American answer to that book is the Secret History. Here On Earth for Wuthering Heights. I don’t know. Actually, there’s an AMerican restyling of David Copperfield in my to-reads for this year) BUT ANYWAY, I ended up picking David Copperfield. It was Dickens’ own favorite, it’s one of his only first person novels, and it is the clearest example of Dickens’ tendency to impress himself upon a character. It has its flaws, of course, but I think centering yourself on David, a nostalgic, emotional writer trying to make his way in the world up from poverty, gives you a great understanding of both Dickens’ incredible influence and his own understanding of HIMSELF. Wow that was a lot of words. I have feelings about Charles Dickens. Sorry. 

Toni Morrison -- Beloved I didn’t like this book, when I read it. But it is good, it won the fucking Pulitzer Prize. I think Song of Solomon is better for me though. Anyway, you have to read Toni Morrison. The way she weaves in the Black American experience with undertones of magical realism impacts the way stories of what I’m going to call “difficult narratives” are allowed to be told today, influencing even people outside of the Black community. 

Salman Rushdie -- The Satanic Verses A masterwork of parallel storytelling, people keep trying to kill Rushdie over this book, a fantastic story about the immigrant experience in Great Britian. 

And some genre stuff for flavor: 

Spy Novels:

Ian Fleming -- Casino Royale  You know who james fucking Bond is. He was a book character first! 

John LeCarre -- The Spy who Came in From the Cold Okay, I am gonna level with you that this and fleming are two opposite poles, but I think they are two opposite poles that give you a really good look at what the spy novel can be and has been. I really enjoy John LeCarre despite not being huge into the genre

Horror: 

Shirley Jackson -- The Haunting of Hill House  This is the novel that launched Stephen King of all people, among others. Jackson is a fucking genius. 

Stephen King -- The Shining Horror is hard, because I read and love a lot of it. But The Shining had a huge influence on both horror and the American consciousness broadly. 

Fantasy:

TH White-- The Once and Future King. Were you at the book club for this? I cannot fucking remember to save my own life. Anyway, if you weren’t, this and LoTR changed fantasy forever. Same time period, even. How we understand fantwasy broadly today comes out of how Tolkien and White were thinking of it. If you read this, read The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis. 

Grr Martin-- A Game of Thrones Oh, I’m gonna get letters. But genuinely this book changed the game in fantasy, and had a huge cultural impact on America and many other Western countries.

[betterbooksandthings]

"Even though we love them, we have to admit there are some fantasy books that would be impossible to adapt into movies or TV shows. Not all magic and world-breaking fantasy elements are film-friendly.

Although book-to-film adaptations of fantasy novels have been getting better over time, there are still a few things even the best visual effects (VFX) and Computer-generated imagery (CGI) cannot pull off. I am a big fan of well-done practical effects, even if they are mechanic at times. For me, the way actors tend to engage with practical effects reads as more sincere. So, when it comes to this list of fantasy books, I mostly included books I think would require too much green screen or CGI to be worth it. Sometimes, magic is best left on the page and off the screen."

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

Murphy’s death was just the latest in a seemingly endless, parade of crimes against women that have horrified the country.

Two weeks after Murphy went missing, another woman was killed in Ballarat, a city with a population of just over 100,000, in a separate and unrelated case. Rebecca Young, a 42-year-old mother of five, was allegedly killed by her partner in a suspected murder-suicide.

On 5 April, in bushland near Ballarat, a car was set on fire. Inside it, police found the body of a 23-year-old named Hannah McGuire. Her ex-partner has been charged with her murder…

On 22 April: 28-year-old Molly Ticehurst; 23 April: 49-year-old Emma Bates; 26 April: 30-year-old Erica Hay; 29 April: 78-year-old Joan Drane.

It was the death of Samantha Murphy that prompted a sense that something in Australia was very wrong.

The 51-year-old mother of three left her home in Ballarat in regional Victoria to go for a jog at around 7am on a Sunday morning in early February and did not return.

Murphy was not the first woman to be killed in Australia this year, she was the twelfth. The country followed along as police conducted extensive searches of bushland near her home, appealed for information and released CCTV showing her setting off for her run wearing exercise gear, and with blonde hair pulled back into a messy ponytail.

More than one month later, police arrested and charged a 22-year-old man with her murder. Her body has still not been found.

Murphy’s death was just the latest in a seemingly endless, parade of crimes against women that have horrified the country.

Two weeks after Murphy went missing, another woman was killed in Ballarat, a city with a population of just over 100,000, in a separate and unrelated case. Rebecca Young, a 42-year-old mother of five, was allegedly killed by her partner in a suspected murder-suicide.

On 5 April, in bushland near Ballarat, a car was set on fire. Inside it, police found the body of a 23-year-old named Hannah McGuire.

Her ex-partner has been charged with her murder. The deaths are all separate and unrelated. Here, in the space of two months was another death of another woman in the same small city.

The grief bubbled over, prompting an urgent conversation about violence against women and what will be done about it. Especially pressing is the situation faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, who are disproportionately affected by family and domestic violence.

On 12 April, hundreds of Ballarat residents marched in the streets holding signs asking for the names of the women to be remembered and demanding action to end violence against women.

And then, the next day, on a balmy autumn Saturday afternoon in Sydney, a man entered a shopping centre in Bondi Junction armed with a knife. He murdered six people, five of them women. Twelve people, including eight women, were injured, including a nine-month-old baby girl whose mother was murdered in the attack.

Police announced they would investigate whether the killer, who was shot dead by police, had deliberately targeted women and children. But it seemed they had already reached a conclusion on that matter, with the New South Wales police commissioner Karen Webb, saying videos of the attack “speak for themselves”.

“It’s obvious to me … that the offender had focused on women and avoided the men,” she said.

There were vigils; surfers made a heart with their boards out past the break at Bondi beach; the prime minister granted residency to two men who had fended off the attacker and praised the heroism of the female police officer who – without backup – chased the murderer through the centre and when he lunged at her with his knife, shot him dead.

And still the deaths did not stop.

On 22 April: 28-year-old Molly Ticehurst; 23 April: 49-year-old Emma Bates; 26 April: 30-year-old Erica Hay; 29 April: 78-year-old Joan Drane.

And with the relentless drumbeat, fury and grief erupted across the country.

In people’s homes, at barbecues and cafes, in furious editorials in the newspapers and in segments on radio and television, the same questions were being asked. Why are women still not safe to go for a morning jog, to take their baby to a bustling shopping centre, to exist in their own homes without being killed.

According to the Counting Dead Women Australia project, run by researchers from Destroy the Joint, 28 women have died this year – 27 of them alleged to be at the hands of men. This compares to 15 by this point in 2023, 18 by the same point in 2022, 14 in 2021, 16 in 2020, meaning that even excluding the Bondi stabbing attack, the numbers this year are high.

“It’s time we started talking about it not in terms of just ‘violence against women’,” Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young told Guardian Australia’s Australian Politics podcast. “This is the terrorising of women in their homes and on the street. Women don’t feel safe.”

Figures indicate Australia does have a particular problem with intimate partner killings.

In 2022-23, while the overall homicide rate was lower in Australia (5.6 deaths per million of population) compared with England and Wales (six per million), Australia had nearly double the rate of women killed by a current or former partner, with 34 intimate partner homicides against women in Australia and 35 in England and Wales, despite Australia having a population nearly half that of England and Wales.

The country’s Labor prime minister, Anthony Albanese has declared violence against women a “national crisis”, convened an emergency meeting of national cabinet – the meeting of all the premiers of states and territories, as well as the federal leadership – and on Wednesday announced a $925m package to help victims of violence leave abusive relationships.

Albanese said on Wednesday the suite of measures was “a further step forward” but that he could not be satisfied when a woman was killed in Australia, on average, every four days.

There is a palpable fury in the air. In the last weekend of April, thousands of people took to the streets in 17 rallies across the country, calling for greater action. But there is fear too, that nothing will change.

“I find myself saying [in media interviews] please don’t forget about us next week when the news cycle moves on,” says Karen Bevan, CEO of Full Stop Australia, a sexual, domestic and family violence response and recovery service.

“This isn’t the first time that there’s been a coalescing of national conversation around issues of gendered violence, sexual assault, domestic violence. We’ve certainly had other moments.”

In particular, Bevan is thinking of 2015, when Rosie Batty, whose 11-year-old son Luke had been murdered by his father at cricket training the year before, was made Australian of the Year. Her advocacy catapulted family violence to the top of the public conversation, for a time.

“She, in a moment, changed the conversation,” says Bevan. “And I don’t think her moment was a flash in the pan either. I think she created extraordinary change.”

Since then, changes in the public conversation, media reporting and in the legislative space have made a difference, says Bevan, pointing to the introduction of affirmative consent laws, the passing coercive control legislation, reform of family law, and a review into the funding of legal aid services.

“The other piece we can’t ignore here is that we have a more receptive political environment to the conversation,” she says, of the Labor government, which announced tackling domestic violence as a key priority when it came to power in 2022.

“I do think it matters that governments aren’t only saying ‘thoughts and prayers’, they are also doing things,” she says.

But, there are still huge systemic issues: a national housing crisis and a drastic underfunding of refuges that means women choose between remaining in a violent relationship and homelessness; a lack of funding for women seeking legal help; a scarcity of services particularly for rural and Indigenous women. Experts have also pointed to bail laws, inadequate and sometimes downright harmful policing practices, to show there is much that needs to change before women are safe.

On 1 May, thousands of people turned out in parks, on foreshores, on the lawns of Parliament House for candlelit vigils in honour of all women who were the victims of violence.

Antoinette Braybrook, the CEO of Djirra, an organisation that provides support to Indigenous women experiencing family violence, spoke of the country’s grief in a video ahead of the events.

“Tonight we light not one candle but many … for every woman, for every Aboriginal woman, whose life has been violently taken. For our children, our future, who will never again be embraced by their mum’s love. For every family who has lost a mother, sister, daughter, auntie, grandmother.

“We want you to know we will never give up on our fight for women to live a life free from violence.”

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

25 in 2025

@bigcats-birds-and-books had an open tag for this so I'm joining in :3

Smothermoss by Alisa Alering

Leaving the Station by Jake Maia Arlow

Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

There is a Door in This Darkness by Kristin Cashore

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

any of my Ivan Coyote books

Feast While You Can by Onjulie Datta & Mikaella Clements

Mary, or, The Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout

A Wilderness of Stars by Shea Ernshaw

Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Spread Me by Sarah Gailey

What the Woods Took by Courtney Gould

Fallen Gods series by Hannah Kaner

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jasinska

American Rapture by CJ Leede

Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist

The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan

Ghost Roads trilogy by Seanan McGuire

If We Were Villains by ML Rio

The Undetectables series by Courtney Smyth

A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

The Skin I'm In by Steph Tisdell

Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning

and so many more 🙈 something I noticed reorganising my shelves is how excited I am to read pretty much everything on my TBR? there's so much stuff on there that I'd love to read right now but alas, human capability and library holds are keeping me from it 🤭

tagging anyone else who's been anxiously waiting to be tagged - now's your chance!