#The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley

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Title: The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley | Author: Sean Lusk | Publisher: Doubleday (2022)

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I’m halfway through The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley and really enjoying it but I’m also on my way back to London after six weeks with my parents and feeling very sad. Christmas Shopaholic is the only thing that will do.

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The TBR Shelf

Before the new year begins, I wanted to share my To-Be-Read shelf. Not the whole thing of course. As I previously mentioned in my Book-Buying-Ban post here, the number of books on my shelves that I haven’t read is embarrassingly large so I won’t share all the titles; but I was thinking of sharing those that really stand out on my shelf. The House of Sorrowing Stars by Beth Cartwright is one I’m…

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The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk

A coming-of-age book about a boy with extraordinary abilities who embarks on a quest to find his father when he disappears

I really enjoyed Lusk’s book, an impulse purchase on a recent bookshop visit. It tells the story of a number of people, despite what I have written in my short comment, as it is about Zachary, yes, but it is also in many ways about the people who surround him too. The book begins with Zachary’s birth and from this moment, we centre on Abel, Zachary’s father as he tries to balance taking care of…

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THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT MY FELLOW WRITERS

Thanks for tagging me @littleplasticrat <3 These questions are fun!

Last book I read: 'The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley' by Sean Lusk - a really inventive, immersive tale set in mid-18th century London & Constantinople where a young, gifted lad tries to solve the mystery of his clockmaker father's disappearance.

Greatest literary inspiration: I too haven't written enough to make an interesting analysis on this, but my favourite authors over the years have included - Christopher Brookmyre, Haruki Murakami, RJ Ellory, Stephen King, Adam LG Nevill, HP Lovecraft and James Herbert.

Things in my current fandom I want to read but I don't want to write: This may be a bit of a non-answer, but: nothing really. There is so much out there now, you will find what you want.

Things in my current fandoms I want to write but I think nobody would be interested in them but me: Durgetash banter/pure intellectual back-and-forth.

You can recognise my writing by: Uh, I guess, good banter? And character dynamics development. I'm fond of using italics for emphasis, too.

My most controversial take (current fandom): I have one or two, but I'm too much of a wet blanket to say them publically lol.

Top three favourite tropes: I enjoy a large variety of tropes to be honest, but let's go for - 'Enemies to lovers', 'doomed romance', and the 'twist ending'.

What’s your current writing mood (10 – super motivated and churning out words like crazy, 0 – in a complete rut): Probably around a 4-5.

Share a random frustration: This is indeed very random, but my Prismacolors keep breaking today - the curse of soft-core pencils I guess :)

No pressure tags for: @timesthatneverwere, @unreadpoppy, @sassyandsodone, @sky-kiss and @inaconstantstateofchange. And of course anyone who reads this who wants to give these a go!

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Our Hideous Progeny now has a book trailer! 🤩🤩 I'm so grateful to @doubledaybooks for putting this together, and can't believe OHP is coming out in less than 2 weeks!

In case you haven't heard...

OHP is a spin-off of Frankenstein starring Mary (née Frankenstein) Sutherland, a paleontologist living in Victorian London. Fifty years ago, Mary's great-uncle disappeared in the Arctic, raving about monsters... Now, as Mary and her geologist husband Henry struggle to establish a scientific reputation by coming up with something to top the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs recently unveiled by Henry's rival, Mary rediscovers her great-uncle's notes - and decides to bring to life a monster of a very different kind.

🌟 "A wonderful book; dark, passionate, multi-layered and rich with enticing detail." — Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat and the Strawberry Thief 🌟 "Exquisitely written... this daring debut makes the rivalries of the Victorian scientific establishment thrilling and urgent, bringing us a story worthy of Mary Shelley." — Sean Lusk, author of The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley 🌟 "A fantastic read; I felt everything about Mary, her simmering anger and her intellectual delight, so very clearly. "— Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous Light

You can preorder my weird, queer, Frankensteinian Gothic wherever books are sold! 😊📚 Releasing May 4th in the UK/commonwealth and May 9th elsewhere!

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Back to School Readathon 2023

Starting a few days after the fall semester starts for my university, Liv is helping to host another readathon, except that this one is not 24 hours, its almost a week long! With both reading prompts and photo prompts, each based on particularly school themed events and classes, there is about to be so much going on from August 25-August 31!

Unlike the graphic novels and manga readathon, I do not plan to try to read more than the books I'm selecting for each reading prompt this time, unless I read way faster than I'm expecting! As far as the photo prompts, based on the spirit week we all know and love, we don't actually have to dress up or even have our faces in any of the photos! As mentioned in Liv's announcement video, you can simply use props to do flat lays with books, and I'll be mentioning one that I'm already planning out (and will likely take the picture super ahead of time!).

Gwen has put out some awesome movie suggestions for the "study hall" prompt as well, specifying that the prompt is just that the movie needs to take place in a school, not necessarily a dark academia or anything like that (literally you can watch High School Musical even!) and if you are a patron of Gwen, she'll be hosting a live viewing of Heathers!

While there are enough prompts for a full school day, there is no particular order required or even recommended to my knowledge of how to follow each prompt. It certainly is not expected for you to knock out more than one prompt in one day unless your second prompt is the "study hall" aka movie prompt!

Here are some examples that I had to sift through of my own books to narrow down to my final selections!

English

Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress

My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin

The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrews

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Only a Monster by Vanessa Len

Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs

Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl by Brianna R. Shrum

Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Bunny by Mona Awad

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro

Math

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake

The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond by Amanda Glaze

The First Bright Thing by J. R. Dawson

Seven Faceless Saints by M. K. Lobb

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow

Master of One by Olivie Blake

One For My Enemy by Olivie Blake

The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk

Once a Queen by Sarah Arthur

Physical Education

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

We Are the Song by Catherine Bakewell

Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton

Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

Lunch

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Heartless by Marissa Meyer

Science

Red Dust, White Snow by Pan Huiting

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan

Dragonfall by L. R. Lam

The Sun and The Void by Gabriela Romero-Lacruz

Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko

How High We go in The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska

Book of Night by Holly Black

Study Hall

Grease

Love, Simon

Easy A

Edge of Seventeen

Legally Blonde

The Breakfast Club

High School Musical

Superbad

Booksmart

Dead Poet Society

Heathers

Social Studies

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Weyward by Emilia Hart

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

Furyborn by Claire Legrand

If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

First Bright Thing by J. R. Dawson

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland

How High We Go in The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Final Results:

English:

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

Math:

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

PE:

A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross (activity is music)

Lunch:

Poison by Bridget Zinn

Science:

How High We Go in The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Social Studies:

Weyward by Emilia Hart

Art:

Nimona

Study Hall:

Easy A

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Woke up bleary eyed but awake if you know what I mean.Dreaming again of a Vrahassi type place, very disjointed.

After the usual lazy start to the day and breakfast I decided to get ready for a walk and made up a packed lunch.

I plan to follow the Trans Pennine Trail to Elsecar and then on to Wombwell still following the TPT.

Leaving home at Birdwell I crossed over the motorway footbridge to Lower Tankersley where I joined this section of the trail.

It was a good walk but I noticed my feet were starting to hurt a bit, that is when I realised I had forgotten to change my socks. So it was with some reluctance that I cut my walk short at Elsecar and caught the bus home.

Still a good walk and 5 miles covered.

Did a bit of tidying up in the garden in the afternoon with some of my new found spare time. 😀

This evening I started reading 'The Second Sight Of Zachary Cloudesley' by Sean Lusk. Looks OK so far.

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ah thanks for the tag!!!! Mmm

Favorite color: perhaps a nice dark green

Last song: volcano by Maisie Peters

Last movie: WEST SIDE STORY with the besties!!!!!

Currently watching: ?????

Other stuff I watched this year: Only Murders In The Building and Game of Thrones both fantastic

Shows I dropped this year: idk man

Currently reading: JUST FINISHED THE SECOND SIGHT OF ZACHARY CLOUDESLEY AND IT SLAPPED

Currently listening to: Maisie Peters and Hozier that's literally it I've got brainrot

Currently working on: my Animal Crossing island, crochet, and too many fanfics lol

Current obsession: forever and always The Starless Sea but also madly in love with The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley now

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Tagged by @aduckwithears - thanks!

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favorite color: Purple, but I really like blue too

last song: Rockixe - Raul Seixas (100% Crowley-coded song in Portuguese)

last movie: Slaughterhouse Rulez (yep, I've been watching everything with DT and/or MS in it)

currently watching: Doctor Who (but complety out of order)

other stuff i watched this year: Staged, Sandman, The Fall of the House of Usher, Inside Man, Black Mirror, Transatlantic

shows i dropped this year: American Gods - I never seen to get into it, for whatever reason

currently reading: Re-reading Good Omens (the first time around, I skipped many parts with Adam and the biker gang)

currently listening to: The Killers, The Doors, Raul Seixas and a ton of brazilian true crime podcasts (my faves are Modus Operandi and Café com Crime)

currently working on: My irl job

current obsession/s: Good Omens. For show that was not renewed yet, there sure is news every week.

Thanks for the tag! Now I tag (non-pressure):

@eybefioro @53rdcenturyhero @songbird-is-crying @sylvestris123 @ineffablefood @hobgoblinns @grntaire @spook-yles @im-the-son-of-rage-and-lov3 @theeminentlyimpractical @embracing-the-ineffable @justmori @hellogoodomens @technicolouredmonochrome @vidavalor @myprotagpersona

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The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudlesley by Sean Lusk

The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudlesley by Sean Lusk

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Doubleday (9 Jun. 2022)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 085752805XISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0857528056 SynopsisLeadenhall Street, London, 1754. Raised amongst the cogs and springs of his father’s workshop, Zachary Cloudesley has grown up surrounded by strange and enchanting clockwork automata. He is a happy child, beloved by his father Abel and the workmen who…