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biromanticwritergal · 2 years ago
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2023 Pinterest 50 Book Reading Challenge
23. A Book You Want to Read Based on It's Cover
Edie in Between by Laura Sibson
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battyaboutbooksreviews · 4 months ago
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🌙 What to Read After Watching Agatha All Along 🌙
❓ Who is your favorite fictional witch?
🦇 Enjoying Agatha All Along on Disney? Check out these books featuring witches, covens, chaotic queers, & everything in between, perfect for fans of Agatha All Along! List below!
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✨ Payback's a Witch - Lana Harper 🌑 How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) - Marie Cardno 🌒 These Witches Don't Burn - Isabel Sterling 🌓 This Spells Disaster - Tori Martin 🌔 The Scapegracers - H. A. Clarke 🌕 Beetle & the Hollowbones - Aliza Layne 🌕 The Twice-Sold Soul - Katie Hallahan 🌖 In Charm's Way - Lana Harper 🌗 Brewed with Love - Shelly Page 🌘 Carry On - Rainbow Rowell 🌑 So This Is Ever After - F. T. Lukens ✨ Spells to Forget Us - Aislinn Brophy
✨ Basics of Spellcraft - L.C. Mawson 🌑 How To Succeed in Witchcraft - Aislinn Brophy 🌒 Sweet & Bitter Magic - Adrienne Tooley 🌓 The Midnight Girls - Alicia Jasinska 🌔 Labyrinth Lost - Zoraida Córdova 🌕 The Shattered Lands - Brenna Nation 🌕 Otherworldly - F. T. Lukens 🌖 Coven - Jennifer Dugan & Kit Seaton 🌗 The Dark Tide - Alicia Jasinska 🌘 Queen B - Juno Dawson 🌑 Her Majesty's Royal Coven - Juno Dawson ✨ Wild and Wicked Things - Francesca May
✨ Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas 🌑 The Last Sun - K. D. Edwards 🌒 The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri 🌓 The Sun and the Star - Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro 🌔 The Witch and His Crow - Ben Alderson 🌕 Lord of Eternal Night - Ben Alderson 🌕 The Crimson Crown - Heather Walter 🌖 Tonight, I Burn - Katharine J. Adams 🌗 Witches of Ash and Ruin - E. Latimer 🌘 The Severed Thread - Leslie Vedder 🌑 Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist - Ali K. Mulford and K. Elle Morrison ✨ Love and Other Wicked Things -Philline Harms
✨ Off With Their Heads - Zoe Hana Mikuta 🌑 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 🌒 Two Broke Witches - Kate Starling 🌓 Bitterthorn - Kat Dunn 🌔 The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields 🌕 The Witch and the Vampire - Francesca Flores 🌕 Spell on Wheels - Kate Leth, Megan Levens, Marissa Louise 🌖 The Witchery - S. Isabelle 🌗 The Hummingbird Coven - Augusta Owens 🌘 Children of the Night - Cara Malone 🌑 The Hex Next Door - Lou Wilham ✨ Malice - Heather Walter
✨ Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall 🌑 The Balance of Fates - Raquel Raelynn 🌒 Edie in Between - Laura Sibson 🌓 Doughnuts and Doom - Balazs Lorinczi 🌔 A Spell for Heartsickness - Alistair Reeve 🌕 Evocation - S.T. Gibson 🌕 The Spells We Cast - Jason June 🌖 An Education in Malice - S. T. Gibson 🌗 Rise and Divine - Lana Harper 🌘 Not Good for Maidens - Tori Bovalino 🌑 A Dark and Starless Forest - Sarah Hollowell ✨ Netherford Hall - Natania Barron
✨ The Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste 🌑 This Poison Heart - Kalynn Bayron 🌒 Over My Dead Body - Boo Sweeney 🌓 Girl, Serpent, Thorn - Melissa Bashardoust 🌔 The Bewitching Hour - Ashley Poston 🌕 Pushing Daisy - Isla Winter 🌕 Daughter of the Bone Forest - Jasmine Skye 🌖 Keep Your Witches Close - Colette Rivera 🌗 Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu 🌘 Snapdragon - Kat Leyh 🌑 Runaways - Rainbow Rowell & Kris Anka ✨ Witchlings - Claribel A. Ortega
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Read in August 2024
my reads this month made a rainbow so I took a pic for a change :3 the standouts this month were Satisfaction Guaranteed and, as always when I read their work, Loose End by Ivan Coyote
it feels so good to be reading again after touching virtually nothing in July. I just hope I can have more luck with series in September 🙈 I've been really struggling with my series goal this year and I would like to make some progress on it between now and December
Series read: The Scholomance trilogy by Naomi Novik
A Deadly Education - DNF
Backlog books:
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones - DNF
The Arrival of Someday by Jen Malone - 4/5
Edie in Between by Laura Sibson - DNF
Familiar authors:
Loose End by Ivan E Coyote - 5/5
At Her Service by Amy Spalding - 4/5
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle - 3/5 (audio)
I’ll Be Waiting for You by Mariko Turk - 4/5 (audio)
Other reads:
Bunny by Mona Awad - 2/5 (audio)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg - 3/5 (audio)
Our Hideous Progeny by CE McGill - 2/5
Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis - 4/5
Satisfaction Guaranteed by Karelia Stetz-Waters - 4/5 (audio)
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hedghost · 2 years ago
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Pick a WOSO Player, Get a Sapphic Book Rec!
Part Three: for the anon who wanted 'chaotic gay ruesha littlejohn' - i got you ;)
note: please check content warnings before reading as some may have adult or triggering content - feel free to ask me about anything!
Links: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 | Part 5
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Ruesha Littlejohn: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
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Jen Beattie: Behind the Scenes by Karelia Stetz-Waters
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Niamh Charles: Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan
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Lucia Garcia: In At The Deep End by Kate Davies
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Lena Oberdorf: Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
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Ingrid Engen: Lies We Sing To The Sea by Sarah Underwood
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Laura Weinroither: Season of Love by Helena Greer
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Sveindis Jonsdottir: Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour
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Maz Pacheco: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
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Jessie Fleming: Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins
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Jill Roord: Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun
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Sam Kerr: Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler
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Millie Turner: Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake
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Steph Catley: In The Event of Love by Courtney Kae
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Victoria Pelova: Edie in Between by Laura Sibson
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any requests for more players lmk and i'll do a part four phaha
follow me here on storygraph for more recs 🤭🤭
Hedge xx
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whisperinyourdream · 9 months ago
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1, 16, 17, 24! 📚
Jess! tysm for asking
1.) Name the best book you've read so far this year
that's really tough because i have read a lot of amazing choices so far! but i think off the top of my head i would choose significant others by zoe eisenberg
16.) Favorite trilogy
the me before you series by jojo moyes easily
17.) Favorite finished book series
i don't read series much but to give a different answer i will provide another trilogy i really loved, which was the hidden gifts series by caroline o'donohughe
24.) Favorite young adult book(s)
ah my favorite genre i can't pick one!! but i can tell you that one i have loved for years is the art of breaking things by laura sibson
bookworm asks!
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lgbtqreads · 3 years ago
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Fave Five: Sapphic Witches
Fave Five: Sapphic Witches
Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley Edie in Between by Laura Sibson Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova Bonus: These are all YA, but if you’re looking for Adult, check out Payback’s a Witch by Lana Harper and, for a bi witch in an m/f romance, Witch Please and Boss Witch by Ann Aguirre
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2021ya · 4 years ago
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EDIE IN BETWEEN
by Laura Sibson
(Viking, 8/24/21)
9780451481146
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A modern-day Practical Magic about love, loss, and embracing the mystical. It’s been one year since Edie’s mother died. But her ghost has never left. According to her GG, it’s tradition that the dead of the Mitchell family linger with the living. It’s just as much a part of a Mitchell’s life as brewing cordials or talking to plants. But Edie, whose pain over losing her mother is still fresh, has no interest in her family’s legacy as local “witches.” When her mother’s teenage journal tumbles into her life, her family’s mystical inheritance becomes once and for all too hard to ignore. It takes Edie on a scavenger hunt to find objects that once belonged to her mother, each one imbued with a different memory. Every time she touches one of these talismans, it whisks her to another entry inside the journal—where she watches her teenage mom mourn, love, and hope just as Edie herself is now doing. Maybe, just maybe, Edie hopes, if she finds every one of these objects, she can finally make peace with her loss and put the past to rest for good. But this journey to stake her independence from her family may actually show Edie who she truly is…and the beautiful gifts that come with being just a little different. Tinged with a sweet romance with Rhia, who works at the local occult shop, Edie in Between delivers all the cozy magic a budding young witch finding her way in the world needs.
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the-book-ferret · 5 years ago
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In the tradition of Laurie Halse Anderson and Sara Zarr, one girl embraces the power of her voice: rules are meant to be broken and she won’t stay silent.
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bookaddict24-7 · 6 years ago
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New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (June 18th, 2019) ___
Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know! ___
New Standalones/First in a Series:
All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
Last Bus to Everland by Sophie Cameron
Risking it All by S.M. Koz
Something Like Gravity by Amber Smith
The Art of Breaking Things by Laura Sibson
___ New Sequels:
Soul of the Sword (Shadow of the Fox #2) by Julie Kagawa
___ Happy reading!
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biromanticwritergal · 1 month ago
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2025 Owned TBR Shelves Reading Challenge: January 16th
I have read 4 books so far this year and I'm currently reading 3 books!
I've read Nana volumes 10, 11 and 12 by Ai Yazawa and Seducing The Demon: Writing for My Life by Erica Jong
I'm currently reading Moshi Moshi by Banana Yashimoto, Cowboys are My Weakness by Pam Houston, and Come as You are by Dr. Emily Nagoski.
The following books are still on my TBR shelf for 2025:
Nana volumes 13 and 14 by Ai Yazawa (I plan on buying further volumes)
One Good Dog by Susan Wilson
Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and The Great War by various authors (short story collection)
Astrophyics For People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
One Day by David Nichols
Rebecca by Daphne Du Mauier
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving by Mo Rocca
Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
Genocide of The Mind: New Native American Writing by various authors (a collection), edited by MariJo Moore
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown
Gluck: 1895-1978: Her Biography by Diana Souhami
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuinston
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler
Working by Studs Turkle
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation by Daisy Hay
The Twelfth Enchantment by David Liss
Byron, Walk with Me by Robert Brall
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Airs Above The Ground by Mary Steward
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Strange Meeting by Susan Hill
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
White Noise by Don Delillo
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Bostonians by Henry James
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The Unlit Lamp by Radclyffe Hall
The Cemetary Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Liar by Stephen Fry
Kids These Days: Human Capital and The Making of Millenials by Malcolm Harris
Hear us Out!: Gay and Lesbian Stories of Struggle, Progress and Hope from 1950 to The Present by Nancy Garden
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran Foer
Scanty Particulars: The Scandalous Life and Astonishing Secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria's Most Eminent Military Doctor by Rachel Holmes
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean
Edie in Between by Laura Sibson
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise of The Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen
Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault
Go Tell it on The Mountain by James Baldwin
Under The Net by Iris Murdoch
Bittersweet by Nevada Barr
This Monstrous Thing by Mackenzi Lee
Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee
The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte by Syrie James
Tales of Angria by Charlotte Bronte
I Wrote This For You by pleasefindthis
The May Queen: Women on Love, Work, and Pulling it all Together in Your 30s by Various Authors (a collection)
I have a lot of classics on here. I don't really follow the reading trends either so most of my books are least a few years old. I'll update this list as I read through or DNF these books. My goal for this year was to read at least 50 books this year and I'm going to try to use my TBR to try to reach that goal.
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battyaboutbooksreviews · 5 months ago
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🐈‍⬛ Queer Witchlit for Spooky Season
✨ Witch please (add these witch reads to your TBR, perfect for spooky season)! Posting this from my first Pride!!
🧹 Spells to Forget Us - Aislinn Brophy 🧹 Reverie - Ryan La Sala 🧹 The Witch Boy - Molly Knox Ostertag 🧹 Carry On - Rainbow Rowell 🧹 Practical Rules for Cursed Witches - Kayla Cottingham 🧹 Spell Bound - F.T. Lukens
✨ This Spells Disaster - Tori Anne Martin ✨ All the Bad Apples - Moïra Fowley-Doyle ✨ Her Majesty's Royal Coven - Juno Dawson ✨ A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske ✨ Runaways - Rainbow Rowell ✨ Mortal Follies - Alexis Hall
🐈‍⬛ Blood Debts - Terry J. Benton-Walker 🐈‍⬛ The Scapegracers - H. A. Clarke 🐈‍⬛ So Witches We Became - Jill Baguchinsky 🐈‍⬛ Three Dark Crowns - Kendare Blake 🐈‍⬛ B*WITCH - Nancy Ohlin and Paige McKenzie 🐈‍⬛ Remedial Magic - Melissa Marr
🧹 Witchlight - Jessi Zabarsky 🧹 The Dark Tide - Alicia Jasinska 🧹 Coven - Jennifer Dugan & Kit Seaton 🧹 Payback's a Witch - Lana Harper 🧹 These Witches Don't Burn - Isabel Sterling 🧹 Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft - Various
✨ Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker & Wendy Xu ✨ Summer of Salt - Katrina Leno ✨ The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea - Maggie Tokuda-Hall ✨ Basil and Oregano - Melissa Capriglione ✨ The Once and Future Witches - Alix E. Harrow ✨ Spell on Wheels - Kate Leth
🐈‍⬛ An Academy for Liars - Alexis Henderson 🐈‍⬛ Over My Dead Body - Sweeney Boo 🐈‍⬛ Wild and Wicked Things - Francesca May 🐈‍⬛ A Sweet Sting of Salt - Rose Sutherland 🐈‍⬛ The Last Sun - K. D. Edwards 🐈‍⬛ The Witches of New York - Ami McKay
🧹 The Midnight Girls - Alicia Jasinska 🧹 The Witchery - S. Isabelle 🧹 The Spells We Cast - Jason June 🧹 Now, Conjurers - Freddie Kölsch 🧹 Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas 🧹 That Self-Same Metal - Brittany N. Williams
✨ The Honey Witch - Sydney J. Shields ✨ Wild Beauty - Anna-Marie McLemore ✨ The Invocations - Krystal Sutherland ��� Improbable Magic for Cynical Witches - Kate Scelsa ✨ Flowerheart - Catherine Bakewell ✨ Snapdragon - Kat Leyh
🐈‍⬛ Labyrinth Lost - Zoraida Córdova 🐈‍⬛ The Witches of Silver Lake - Simon Curtis 🐈‍⬛ Sweet & Bitter Magic - Adrienne Tooley 🐈‍⬛ Witches of Ashes and Ruin - E. Latimer 🐈‍⬛ Edie in Between - Laura Sibson 🐈‍⬛ When We Were Magic - Sarah Gailey
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TRCC's Backlog Books of 2024
so one of my reading goals this year is to work through the books that have been on my TBR the longest. I struggled a bit with this goal last year because it was hard to quantify what counted as "longest". so this year, I'm just gonna be upfront with my list
Seven Devils by Lam & May
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
Kings, Queens and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju
Bruised by Tanya Boteju
Afterlove by Tanya Byrne
The Nesting by CJ Cooke
Breaker by Kat Ellis
I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick
Payback's a Witch by Lana Harper
A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell
Hideous Beauty by William Hussey
Hani & Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott
The Arrival of Someday by Jen Malone
Nightrender by Jodi Meadows
The Love Song of Ivy K Harlowe by Hannah Moskowitz
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi
Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi
Edie in Between by Laura Sibson
The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
Starling by Isabel Strychacz
Coming Up for Air by Nicole B Tyndall
The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder
Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters
The River Has Teeth by Erica Waters
Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells
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mobilepubliclibraryteens · 6 years ago
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Seventeen-year-old Skye has her sights set on one thing: getting the heck out of Dodge. Art school is her ticket out and she’s already been accepted to her first choice, MICA. All she has to do is survive her senior year, not get too drunk at parties, and be there for her little sister, Emma. Sure, she’s usually battling a hangover when she drives to pick Emma up, but she has everything under control. Until he returns. When her mom’s ex-boyfriend slithers his way back into her family, it’s all Skye can do to keep the walls of her world from crumbling. Her family has no idea Skye has been guarding a dark secret about her past–about him–and she never thought she would have to face him again. She knows she has to get away from him at all costs. But how can she abandon Emma? Skye’s heart is torn between escaping the man who hurt her years ago and protecting her loved ones from the monster in their midst. Running away from her fears isn’t an option. To save her sister–and herself–she’ll have to break all the rules.
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malerek · 4 years ago
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Book Spotlight | Edie in Between
📚 BOOK SPOTLIGHT 📚 Edie in Between by @lauraosibson is a new YA modern modern-day fantasy inspired by Practical Magic about love, loss, and embracing the mystical. #BookBlogger #Booktwt @tbrbeyondtours #TBRBeyondTours #EdieinBetween #BookSpotlight
Title: Edie in BetweenAuthor: Laura SibsonGenre: YA | FantasyPages: 392 pages Trigger Warnings: Parental death Publishing Date: August 24th, 2021 A modern-day Practical Magic about love, loss, and embracing the mystical.It’s been one year since Edie’s mother died. But her ghost has never left.According to her GG, it’s a tradition that the death of the Mitchell family lingers with the living.…
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sapphicbookoftheday · 2 years ago
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Edie in Between by Laura Sibson
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Today's sapphic book of the day is Edie in Between by Laura Sibson!
TW for parental death mentioned in summary
Summary: "A modern-day Practical Magic about love, loss, and embracing the mystical.
It’s been one year since Edie’s mother died. But her ghost has never left.
According to her GG, it’s tradition that the dead of the Mitchell family linger with the living. It’s just as much a part of a Mitchell’s life as brewing cordials or talking to plants. But Edie, whose pain over losing her mother is still fresh, has no interest in her family’s legacy as local 'witches.'
When her mother’s teenage journal tumbles into her life, her family’s mystical inheritance becomes once and for all too hard to ignore. It takes Edie on a scavenger hunt to find objects that once belonged to her mother, each one imbued with a different memory. Every time she touches one of these talismans, it whisks her to another entry inside the journal—where she watches her teenage mom mourn, love, and hope just as Edie herself is now doing. Maybe, just maybe, Edie hopes, if she finds every one of these objects, she can finally make peace with her loss and put the past to rest for good. But this journey to stake her independence from her family may actually show Edie who she truly is…and the beautiful gifts that come with being just a little different."
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erintoknow · 2 years ago
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And what have i read this year?
a fuck ton of YA books to be frank - as a YA librarian, I kind of feel like it’s my job to focus my reading within my ‘field’ so to speak so I can try to provide better advisory to kids. It’s a fool’s errand of course, because like, the field is fucking huge as hell and anything i can read is a drop in the bucket but still!!
Of the YA titles I’ve read this year, I’d have to give a shout out to Andrew Joseph White’s Hell Followed With Us, a post-apocalyptic zombie survival story about a trans boy named Benji who may or may not be the foretold second coming that will finally end humankind’s existence on earth
Wendy Heard’s She’s Too Pretty to Burn is a fun sapphic thriller involving some avant garde activist art gone to far.
If you liked Malin Ryden’s Fallen Hero interactive fiction story, you might be down for Tess Sharpe’s The Girls I’ve Been, where the bisexual daughter of a serial con-artist is held up at a bank and forced to come clean about her past.
Special mention to Cristin Bishara’s Vial of Tears, Laura Sibson’s Edie In Between, and Mary McCoy’s Indestructible Object. All worth a look if you want something in the YA space to read.
I was able to fit in some quote unquote adult fiction as well. Robert Jackson Bennett’s Founders Trilogy staring a sapphic woman with the unique ability to ‘hear’ the spellwork writing that her world uses to do magic with was a fun read.
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue deserves special mention here too. Set in Ireland during the Spanish flu, a young woman working as a nurse and caretaker for her brother who suffers severe PTSD from the war meets and falls in love with another woman who shows up at the hospital one day as a volunteer. Equal parts heartwarming and tragic book, the ending broke my heart into a thousand pieces, 5 stars.
I also finally got to get started on the Locked Tomb series after bouncing off the first book hard a year ago. I’ve only read the first two and found them both extremely engaging, at times funny, in other parts heartbreaking. These two poor girls. I can see why the caught on in Tumblr so hard. Extremely homestuckian movements going on in there.
And of course Ryka Aoki’s Light from Uncommon Stars, a tale of a transgender runaway violinst, the legendary teacher who needs her to sell her soul to the devil in order to get own back, and the alien refugee running the doughnut store down the way said violin teacher falls in love with remains by far my favorite thing I’ve read this year. Please go read this, I beg you.
Finally I want to mention two ongoing serial fiction works I’ve been reading, one is Unjust Depths by Madiha Santana. What if Gundum, but under the ocean and also they’re communists? I’ve only read through the first arc so far – Arc 3 is currently under way as I type, I believe. It’s been a fun read and I intend to get back to it soon.
The other is a bit more unconventional, and that would be Nora [LastNameHere]’s Blood in the Bosphorus Paradox Megacampign Let’s Play. Which started as a let’s play following the eastern roman empire through an increasingly alternate history and has transformed into some kind of amazing communism versus fascism war epic. Nora’s writing and approaching LP updates through various in and out of universe textual perspectives have been extremely enjoyable to follow with over the years with a creativity, humor, and humanity I don’t often see even in published books never mind a screenshot let’s play and I consider it something of a personal victory to have gotten my partner, who has never touched the something awful forms (probably for the better on the whole) into reading it now too.
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