#alaskan book

[rachel-sylvan-author]

"The Snow Child" by Eowyn Ivey

Thank you @paperivore for the rec! ❤️

[books-life-alaska]

The cutest void. ❤️

[billfinarts]

Predator: Tales of the Hunt

Pg. 3

Oooooooooo, new page has arrived as promised for Wednesdays :D

The first to fall has been claimed by the beginning hunt ✨️

What shall the preds target next 👀

Colors done by the amazing @kenosisofabrami

Lineart and storyboard by yours truly 😆

[wonderwhump]

My book "Alaskan Heartbeat" is available for sale!

I’m thrilled to announce that my first romance novel, Alaskan Heartbeat, is now officially available! 🎉📚

In Alaskan Heartbeat, ex-SEAL Matt Johnson and heartbroken redhead Emma Nolan aren’t looking for love, but fate has other plans. As they navigate personal scars and challenges in small town Alaska, they must decide if they’re ready to take a chance on love.  💕 

📖 Available on Amazon now: https://a.co/d/5kSmLX6

It has love, drama, humor, trauma, healing, second chances and relatable, endearing characters. 

And there is whump too! A lot of emotional thump with PTSD and panic attacks throughout, hurt and comfort, and some real, proper, whumpy whump near the finale. (with blood and all) 😈

I’d love for you to read my book and fall in love with Emma and Matt too—just like I did.

Your support (buying, reading, sharing, gifting, commenting, reviewing, tagging…) means the world to me—now, as an indie author even more than when I was „just“ writing fan fiction. I'm counting on you, dear whump community!  😍

Thanks so much!  😘

[vintagedean]

okay, because i won't leave reviews for these books on goodreads, i have to do it here, so i'm going to try and present some level-headed and sincere critiques of k. webster's "laska" (and her writing more generally)

k. webster clearly thinks incest is hot. she thinks rape is hot. she thinks age gaps are hot. i think 2 out of those 3 things are hot myself (FICTIONALLY OBVIOUSLY BUT JUST TO BE CLEAR). but my issue is that she doesn't seem to appreciate that any story, regardless of how shocking and taboo and smutty it's intended to be, benefits from build up. and taboo topics become more interesting, more complex, and more gratifying to get off to, if i'm gonna be so fucking for real about this, when you actually give them weight. the taboo being broken has to matter.

idk, maybe it's just me, but i would just prefer if a story like "laska" (which is quite short) still did more than it does to get at why these two brothers like to fuck, why they like to eat people, why they're corrupted in these particular ways. maybe there are people who, the fact of these things is enough to be arousing, but i just think that's boring. under the read more i'm including the last two pages because i think they give a good example of what has me rolling my eyes at this story. shock for shock's sake is just meh to me.

[cassettoicecream]

Some of my favourite dog breeds shown in 'Il Richiamo della Foresta' of Geronimo Stilton. The siberian husky design has a body structure that remembers me Shasta though he wasn't exactly a purebreed husky (he had no pedigree)

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Damn Right the Perfect Queen Uses a Cane

Fairbanks is somehow simultaneously too small and too large a town. Apparently one of my very best friend's partner has been friend with Elva Birch since they were both teenagers, so that's a degree of Kevin Bacon I was super not expecting but shouldn't have been surprised by, because I KNOW how small a town Fairbanks is. None of which is strictly relevant to why we're talking about the second book in the Dragon Prince of Alaska series, but it is a fun little Fairbanks Fact. Which is even wilder because this book starts in Florida. So let's talk The Dragon Prince's Librarian.

This is, as is typical on this blog for sequels and mid-series books, a SPOILERIFIC REVIEW. Be warned.

Ok guys, I swear we aren't going to do all six books of this series here, and I know I am way overdue for the next Dresden Files book, but where I take just...every single possible issue with how the Dresden Files handles disability, this book handles it SO FREAKING WELL. Tania is realistically tired, realistically has good and bad days, realistically uses mobility aids, and realistically has that all-too-familiar feeling of "No, no, you don't even get to DREAM of being rescued from this situation because a) it will be too painful when it doesn't happen and b) you getting rescued doesn't fix the hideous inequities of the US healthcare system and frankly, that shit NEEDS fixing."

Additionally, I appreciate that Tania doesn't hate her cane. She recognizes that it lets her move and stand independently and it can up her quality of life, if only in small ways. What she hates is that the cane is UGLY. And that is entirely fair, because there is nothing worse than a boring, utilitarian mobility aid that stands out from you and your aesthetic rather than integrating with you. And Rian, absolute PRINCE that he is (pun fully intended), doesn't try to fix or cure Tania, he gets her a beautiful cane that integrates with her personality and aesthetic. That level of support literally made me cry. And then I cried MORE because while Rian couldn't fix the American healthcare system, what he COULD do was donate a ton of equally beautiful canes in Tania's name in such a way that the people who need them most can access them, the process for getting them is as simple and barrier-free as possible, and Rian took care of ALL of this so Tania did not have to expend spoons on it. The care and attention included in how thoughtful and well-executed this was was absolutely breathtaking. Literally, our reality is not this good, and I love that this book took such care and respect with how disability/chronic illness and mobility aids are handled. At no point did any of it feel patronizing, infantilizing, catastrophizing, or an attempt to "fix" something that was "broken" or "lesser." Just A+ no notes, and I don't say that often about representations of disability in books.

The other thing that I just felt in my bones about this book is how the end of Tania's academic career played out. She literally got gatekept and gaslighted because the Small Kingdoms erased every single trace of her master's thesis, her primary sources, and even her ADVISOR (who was paid to disappear, not killed). This very handily gets Tania kicked out of school, and as her health worsens, she also loses her job and health insurance, so by the time Rian shows up at her front door in Florida, Tania's life has literally fallen apart and it is 90% Rian's fault. Which makes the whole fated mates thing SUPER awkward, because she's rightfully pissed with him for torpedoing her degree and academic career, and also he then gaslit the hell out of her about that until he realized they were fated mates, came clean, apologized, and...proposed. It was awkward as hell, you guys.

And let me say, as someone who went to grad school, had someone gone from admitting they torpedoed my life and gaslit me about it to proposing marriage, they would have been super mega deadsies. Like, no questions asked, they just would have been annihilated by the sheer force of my rage.

But fated mates and romance novel, so Tania just mostly spends the whole book going "remember how you torpedoed my thesis?" in varying tones. Rian is literally never living that down, and he shouldn't, because frankly he was lucky to SURVIVE admitting that.

Overall though, I was so happy with the representation of disability and a healthy, positive relationship that includes a disabled person, as well as Tania and Rian as characters, I was willing to overlook insufficient consequences for fucking with a grad student's thesis. Because this book was a delight to read, and it is UNQUESTIONABLY my favorite book in the series.

[dancelikeanarchitect]

Although, as anyone who has ever lived in the far north will tell you, duct tape would NOT work on Mars.

According to the company, the minimum application temperature for best performance is 50 F (10 C)

It tends to stop sticking to things at about -10 F (-25 C).

Mars is -85 F (-65 C).

People who don’t want to read The Martian in case the science is too complicated should be informed that it contains the lines “The best way to store the ingredients of water is to make them be water”, “It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft”, and “If I cut a hole in the wall of the hab, the air won’t stay inside any more”.

[techdriveplay]

Best Cruise Line for an Alaskan Cruise for Every Type of Traveler

Taking an Alaskan cruise is on most cruise enthusiasts’ bucket lists, and for good reason. Alaska is one of the most ruggedly beautiful, unspoiled locations I have ever visited. However, due to its remote location and large size, exploring Alaska can be a daunting and expensive feat. This is where cruising can help. You don’t want to just book any cruise, of course. They definitely aren’t all the…

[sandythereadingcafe]

REVIEW:

HIS RESCUED MATE (Alaskan Tails 1) by Delta James at The Reading Cafe:

'The premise is entertaining and engaging'

https://www.thereadingcafe.com/his-rescued-mate-alaskan-tails-1-by-delta-james-review/

[little-shiny-sharpies]

Guess who’s sporting the partner drip ✨✨✨💖

[books-life-alaska]

So prim and proper.

[traveling-madness]

At what point does an alternate version of a canon character become an oc... asking for some corpse in a lake.

[jolenes-book-journey]

A Sister's Secret by Nora Bloom

A Sister's Secret by Nora Bloom

   Get swept away by Nora Bloom’s romantic Always and Forever trilogy!  A Sister’s Secret The Forever and Always Series Book 3 by Nora Bloom Genre: Contemporary Romance Newly married, Oliver and Lisa are having the time of their lives in their small Alaskan town. The kids are thriving, and so is the family business. The café and woodshop are everything Oliver and Lisa dreamt of, and they…

[vintagedean]

related, i went to k webster's site and she's added to the wild & free saga and so i guess i know what i'm reading next.

[fair-itself]

There's a lot I could say about The Subtance as an unflinching, gruesome close-up portrait of systemic misogyny, internalized sexism, self-hatred, and the brutality of fame, but more importantly, you know what I bet? I bet there is exactly one customer of The Subtance who is doing everything right. Week one, makes a living as a fitness influencer; week two, enjoys a lavish retirement funded by her other self's earnings. Week one, jogging, yoga, filming tiktoks, enjoying the vitality of youth; week two, Alaskan cruises, mahjong with the girls, enjoying unlimited free time and liberation from the crushing weight of the societal expectation to care what other people think of you. Keeps her other self on a nice air mattress with a quilt and always cooks a big recovery breakfast to be waiting for her when she switches. Walks out of that creepy alley every week whistling. Has no idea potential complications even exist. Every other user is living a psychedelic horror show of trauma, goop, and rage, and she's just at Barnes and Noble picking up the latest selection for book club. I know I'm alone in this, but I would happily watch that sequel.