#The Familiar

[dailydanielewski]

"It's not helpful to a reader to say 'You will find angels walking among us'. Because people will then go out and look for those angels and they are not gonna see them, because they won't have had that visceral experience. And that is what the novel wants to give, to expose you to the ordinary and then allow you to understand how the extraordinary is suddenly within it."

— Mark Z. Danielewski, KCRW (podcast) 2017.

[edenfenixblogs]

My new copy of The Familiar just arrived and the author inscription inside talks about trees and gardens and feeling content in your kitchen with your beloved pet snoring beside you and passing down Jewish traditions in a way that makes you feel close to your grandparents.

Leigh Bardugo, you’ve never met me, but if you ever read this please know your inscription found the right person.

[james-farrow-did-nothing-wrong]

Leigh Bardugo said today at an event that all the diverse characters she portrays come naturally at her because the world is diverse. She's not looking for a black character, a disabled one nor a queer one, they are just part of the world so they are part of the worlds she creates. She also said that what is not normal is having a story full of white hetero and abled people, reality is diverse and so are her stories.

When she was explaining this she had to stop a few times because the auditorium kept cheering at her. Hope she felt all the love the audience was trying to show.

[rosiethorns88]

I'm sitting on a backlog of unposted artwork since last year, and only have recently scraped together some free time to catch up with tidbits in my to-do list! It's out of order, but I'm posting the artwork I provided @illumicrate as a bonus print for their edition of The Familiar by @lbardugo -- because it's very leafy, and I've been recently enjoying planting some new annuals for my neighborhood pollinators! A scene from early in the book with Luzia is reviving a withered grape vine as a demonstration with her singing. (captured in foil!) This was such a fun set of character designs, for two very fun characters. Luzia and Santángel are like a pair of spicy cats meeting for the first time before eventually seeking each other's warmth for naptime. Santángel especially, I wanted to capture in his expression the stirring curiosity pushing out through his exhaustive apathy. More art dumps to come!

[magicalbookwyvern]

Me every time a scrawny disheveled heroine with dirt under her fingernails and magic in her blood and a guy that is not entirely human and looks so pale he might be dying are forced to form an alliance:

[angelaanimates]

I really loved The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo so here’s some Luzia and Santángel 🖤🖤

[bonnieot7]

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo Aesthetic

[waxscoralpants]

The new Leigh Bardugo is really good

[marvinthecrow]

I guess Leigh Bardugo managed to make me fall in love with another demon!

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[tyrannosaurusprex]

Leigh Bardugo really wrote a fantasy series with a mysterious, powerful, shadowy magic man whose morals range from questionable to straight up evil, she gave him intense chemistry with the female main character, and then she revealed that he was actually awful and killed him in the end. And now she’s spent the past three fantasy stories writing about variations on the same thing, except she makes the shadowy magic man a little less evil and he ends up with the female main character instead. Like she’s trying to…fix something.

Like. Take a look at Kaz Brekker, Darlington, and Santangel. Then take a look at Mal Oretsez, and take a look at the Darkling. Only one of these belongs with the others is what I’m saying

(Give us the alternate timeline where the Darkling could have joined Kaz and Darlington and Santangel as the freaky shadowy endgame love interests please)

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

“If the bread hadn’t burned, this would be a very different story”

Folks I am already HOOKED

[lunarthecorvus]

Information I got from Leigh's tour Q&A

- Matthias was inspired a bit by Zuko (from alta)

- Leigh didn't realise, but there are aspects of Kaz being a self insert. She feels like she's like Wylan at heart. She feels like Nina on a good day

- Writing her second novella at the moment, and hopefully plans to write the next Alex Stern book next

[rotzaprachim]

the thing about the familiar that’s so fascinating so painful so aching is that it is in every way a post apocalyptic novel. It’s not about what the Jews suffered in 1492, it’s about the great grandchild of those who converted to save their lives, the ones in the last grasps of being able to hold on to their tradition, who they are as jews, those who know what hamotzi is but can no longer say the words. There’s a ticking time bomb on the story - luzia, whose great grandfather saw the Talmud burned, will need to hide who she is entirely if she wants to marry or have children; in so many practical ways, she is the last Jew standing

[dailydanielewski]

"It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine." ― Johnny Truant, House of Leaves

[academtits]

Ninth House - The Familiar easter egg: Darlington mentions just before the Halloween party that Scroll & Key’s tomb contains enchanted orange trees from the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain.