#certaindarkthings

[ashlightgrayson]

Another of my most recent book hauls. I pre-ordered Certain Dark Things by @silviamg.author & ended up picking Velvet was the Night and The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by @zoraidasolo because I couldn't resist. All of them have beautiful covers & I'm always happy to see my culture represented through wonderful #Latinx authors. Any Latinx books on your TBR? I'm looking forward to reading about Mexican vampires, government corruption, and Ecuadorian lore. #certaindarkthings #velvetwasthenight #theinheritanceoforquídeadivina #silviamorenogarcia #zoraidacordova #latinxbooks #fiction #books #readinggoals #reading #bibliophile #fantasy #magicalrealism #noir #noirbooks #latinxauthors #latinoauthors https://www.instagram.com/p/CTxoMiRLGb7/?utm_medium=tumblr

[herwitchinesss]

bath time & book to keep me company #booklr #book #certaindarkthings

[jujiepoo]

OMGEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE LIBRARY'S OPEN YAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!! After several months of remodeling @cadlibrary downtown is reopen! Obvs went a little nuts lol #cadl #allthebooks #ilovebooks #ilovereading #yafiction #graphicnovels #fantasy #fairytales #sciencefiction #neilgaiman #sandmancomics #blackscience #rickremender #lumberjanes #noellestevenson #silviamorenogarcia #certaindarkthings #melissalanders #starfall #sjaejones #wintersong #nicolekornherstace #archivistwasp #ljsmith #theforbiddengame #patrickness #amonstercalls #bookstagram

[readdiversebooks-blog]

Are you planning to participate in #DiverseAThon? It starts January 22nd and runs all week through the 29th. It's very low-stress, just read as many diverse books as you're comfortable reading in one week and join the Twitter chats whenever you can! If you create a sign-up post with a TBR of diverse books, you can earn 1 badge point for #ReadDiverse2017. If you need more info #DiverseAThon or #ReadDiverse2017, click the link in my bio or ask me questions. The book in this picture, Certain Dark Things, is part of my TBR for this readathon. I'm done putting it off and must read it soon! Let me know what books are on your Diverse-A-Thon TBR. / / #bookstagram #bookphotography #bookphotos #bookgram #instabook #instaread #diversebooks #diversereads #sff #fantasy #vampires #certaindarkthings #silviamorenogarcia #tbr #bookstack #hardcovers #latinxlit

[drfitzmonster]

"i just have a very hard time letting myself feel things freely" is exactly me. and most of the time i dont and really struggle with remembering that i can choose to give myself kindness because i also really feel that i dont deserve it. but you do. i do. we all deserve to be allowed to feel what happened, what we went through, and how its impacted us. im so sorry youve been hurt too bc no one deserves that. im sending a mental hug rn if thats ok. youve helped me process sm w/ certaindarkthings

thank you, friend, i really appreciate your message and your mental hug

but i’m so sorry you can relate

i’m glad that fic has helped you

it has been difficult and painful to write

necessary, i think, but it’s not something i can say i enjoyed writing or am particularly proud of

i’m mostly embarrassed by it

maybe even ashamed

it exposes me, the part of me i hid from everyone (including myself) for 30 years

which is something i’m not always comfortable with

but i tend toward revisionism when it comes to my own history of abuse

as in i have a pattern of admission and hasty denial, of recovering and reburying

which becomes more difficult to maintain every time i am seen, every time i share my story openly and honestly with someone

including with all of you here, and everyone who has read that fic

it is a way to hold myself accountable

because i cannot afford to do what i did in my early 20s

which was tell someone, including my best friend, what i knew happened to me

but it was too much for me

i told her i was sexually abused as a child

we talked about it one time

and i didn’t speak of it again for 12 years

twelve. years.

one of the first things i asked her after i talked about it again was if she believed me the first time i told her

she said “of course i did”

but she never tried to bring it up, never breathed a word

she just waited 12 entire years for me to be ready to talk about it again

bc she knew i would be, eventually

this time though i can’t go back

i can’t be dead inside and dissociating all the time, disconnecting from everyone, including my family, my friends, even my wife

i can’t undo what happened

i can’t pretend it or wish it away

i can’t lie to myself about it

not anymore

i have too much to lose to go any direction but forward

[beckysbook5]

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - ARC Review!

Today on my blog I have a review for the genre-bending #CertainDarkThings by @silviamg. Thanks to @JoFletcherBooks & @ellakroftpatel for the review copy. #ARCReview #BookReview

Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, is smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Domingo is mesmerized. Atl needs to quickly escape the city, far from the rival narco-vampire clan…

[effandrade]

#certaindarkthings

[booklalaland]

For my last post of the year 2021 here are sons of the books I got in the last few months. You can expect my favorite books of the year list in January. Hope you all have a good time tonight and I wish you a very happy New year! #bookhaul #bookstagram #winternighttrilogy #acotar #velvetwasthenight #thenightbeforechristmas #certaindarkthings #aspindlesplintered #theinvisiblelifeofaddielarue #assassinsapprentice #smallspaces #thetakingofjakelivingston #mladenkakostonoga #thescapegracers #thejaguarknight #thispoisonheart #thecitywebecame #beguiled #silviamorenogarcia #katherinearden #sarahjmaas #daryndajones #nkjemisin #veschwab #alixeharrow #kalynnbayron #ryandouglass #annaguirre #robinhobb #hannahabigailclarke (at Rukavac, Primorsko-Goranska, Croatia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYKMszRrlu2/?utm_medium=tumblr

[drfitzmonster]

im so sorry its hitting you all now. cascades is kind of a perfect term for it and i hate that i can relate to much to everything youre saying. the last ch did hit me right where i live tbh calling me out in ways i might have not been expecting. but since then it has been such an honest reflection for me to examine my own trauma and history too. idk how to articulate this right butreading similar trauma effects and internal dialogue/coping patterns of characters i love... 1/2

i guess. idk if my last asks made any sense. but just. your writing as hard and personal as it might be. and as stark as the confrontation might feel when confronted with it. like in ch9 of mommates. or even differently in the deepest and clearest of ways in certain dark things, its moments ican later examine and understand my experience through the empathy and compassion i have for the characters and they way you write them and the comfort yougive them. and try to apply alittle ofthat to myself

tumblr must have eaten it? :'( i mean i sent 3 asks total but idk i mean i cant get it back cause it was in an ask and i closed the browser earlier? so it prob makes no sense now. :/ sorry feel free to ignoreallofit, i feel kind of stupid for that. but uh like the gist of it was thank you. and that reading ch9 and certaindarkthings was so hard for how starkly i related. but reading it w/ a character i love, i responded with understanding and compassion and it helped me see myself that way too.

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don’t feel stupid, you’re totally fine. i do understand what you’re saying.

i really want to thank you for sending me this. it is at once reassuring and heartbreaking to talk to someone who knows what it’s like and who can connect with those stories on a visceral level.

i’m so sorry that you’ve experienced trauma similar to mine, that it has affected you in the same way. i am very, very glad that my stories have helped you understand your own experiences better and that they have helped you be kinder to yourself.

i hope that you continue to show yourself compassion, and i hope that my stories continue to help you. 

thank you so much for sharing your feelings with me, it really means so much that you’ve reached out to me. 💕💕💕💕

[readdiversebooks-blog]

I have a terrible habit of saying I will read a book on a specific month and then feel terrible when I don't actually do it. My hope is that people forget I ever said anything, but some people probably remember. 🙈 This post is to encourage me to read Certain Dark Things in December LIKE I SAID I WOULD. If I don't at least read & rate it on Goodreads, someone call me out, please. 😅 / / #bookstagram #bookphotography #bookphotos #diversebooks #diversereads #certaindarkthings #silviamorenogarcia

[readdiversebooks-blog]

I bought Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno on release day, October 25th, hoping that I could make time for it on in December and write up a review. But now I'm doing 2 readalongs in December & recently added the huge Swing Time (Zadie Smith's new novel) to my December TBR... So I don't even know if I'll be able to read Certain Dark Things as originally planned. Why do I do this to myself? I should know better than to commit to any kind of reading schedule. 🙈 I'll just have to read it whenever I can and be ok with that. / / #bookstagram #bookphotography #certaindarkthings #silviamorenogarcia #SFF