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bigcats-birds-and-books · 5 months ago

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Books of 2024: ORDINARY MONSTERS by J. M. Miro.

Swinging from a teeny tiny read (A SHINING) to this behemoth, which weighs in at 658 pages (that's like. uh. nine (9) SHININGs, never mind about the word density per page).

Did I know this is the first book in a trilogy? No. Did I know the trilogy is not yet complete?? Also no. Will that stop me from reading it now anyway??? Wow, you guessed it: No.

I'm always down books featuring corvids in the cover art and kids with mysterious powers, AND the "man made of smoke" that the jacket promises sounds Very Intriguing. All I know going into this book is what the jacket tells me, though, so I'm excited to be surprised!

#books #books of 2024 #ordinary monsters #jm miro #book photography #my photography #okay yes listen #LISTEN!!#i may or may not also have bumped this up the list because a.) the shadowy man made me think of Welcome and #b.) i think there's dimensional fuckery of some sort???#i'm not totally sure but i think i saw a page shot of it somewhere #and yeah the random bit i flipped to in my flipping mentioned being afraid of a hotel and that's uuuuh. relevant #AND it's stylized like NORRELL AND STRANGE and i did love that #i got a new hardback as a remaindered copy for like. $12.#that's pretty good and i had a coupon so i figured Might As Well #i really am hoping i get some driscoll vibes out of this too tbh #it's on my Driscoll Adjacent Stack anyway so we'll see if that's real #i was not feeling particularly inspired with this photo but i was also racing fading daylight and tbh i don't hate how it turned out??#can never go wrong with a tree and some greenery i think #a slug started crawling up my ankle as i took this though which was ????#dude where did you COME from i was WEARING SHOES!!!#YOU WERE SO SMALL!!!#he's outside again now don't worry #(i may or may not have noticed him until i was inside but. now he's outside)

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