#tk klune

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last book i...

thank you @bonheur-cafe for the tag! I'm really trying to get back into reading books more, I'm lacking this year.

bought: house of hunger - alexis henderson

what can I say? lesbian vampires. that's all you need to say and I'll buy it.

borrowed: into the drowning deep - mira grant

this is the latest request from the library, as to not repeat books on this list.

was gifted: she gets the girl - rachael lippincott, alyson derrick

my sister gave me a signed copy of this book for my birthday last year, I really love this book, and I think it's a very soft, beautiful must read for any sapphic out there. I'm not a huge romance reader and loved this.

gave/lent to someone: the ballad of songbirds and snakes - suzanne collins

I don't lend books out a lot, I think I let my sister borrow it, then she never read it and gave it back lol

started: wolfsong - tj klune

I just started this and was influenced by a certain someone *wink wink*, I've only read a couple chapters but really enjoying it!

finished: a short history of queer women - kirsty loehr

ugh this book. i was told every lesbian needs to read this book. I read it. and was greatly disappointed. the information was decent, but it was written in a very millennial humor style and it was cringe. this book failed to discuss trans or poc in queer history, we'd be nowhere in the queer community without poc trans women so I take a lot of issue with that. let's just say I forced myself to finish it and didn't give a nice rating.

gave 5 stars: we have always been here: a queer muslim memoir - samra habib

now this book, i loved. I've been on a nonfiction kick this year which is not usual for me. this is really a beautiful book and I think every person ever should read it.

gave 2 stars: the housemaid's secret - freida mcfadden

this book was just horrendous, a generous two stars honestly. it was a sequel and I didn't love the first one I don't know why I even read this one, the plot twist is incredibly predictable and almost a carbon copy of the first book with new characters.

didn't finish: one last stop - casey mcquiston.

please don't attack. i just really don't think contemporary romances are for me, I just didn't care enough

I really don't know who here reads books but no pressure tagging some people I feel like I've seen post about books before?:

@captain-gillian @your-catfish-friend @carlos-tk @pt-soulmate @welcometololaland @chicgeekgirl89 + open tag!

[chicgeekgirl89]

9 Books to Read in 2024

Thanks for tagging me @lemonlyman-dotcom! Books are my first love so I have a never-ending list. Here are a few that are the top!

Heartstopper Volume 5- Alice Oseman

Destroy the Day- Brigid Kemmerer

The Blood Traitor- Lynette Noni

Somewhere Beyond the Sea- TJ Klune

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking- T. Kingfisher

A Winter in New York- Josie Silver

The Fragile Threads of Power- V.E. Schwab

The Unmaking of June Farrow- Adrienne Young

Dolls of Our Lives- Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

My reading goal is set at 45, so we'll see how it goes!

No pressure tags for @bluenet13, @mashmaiden, @ejzah, @bonheur-cafe, @thisbuildinghasfeelings, @carlos-in-glasses, and @carlos-tk!

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I saw one of Vil's lesson lines mentions he likes reading, and that sparked my curiousity. What do you think is the favourite book of each Housewarden? (can be novel, novella, nonfictional, anthology, comic book, etc., just as long as it is some sort of book!) I love reading and I know you love reading, so I eagerly await your answer!!!

Oh, what a good ask for me! I certainly love books (I know, shocker), so I am very excited to answer this.

For everyone else note that I am going to pick books that I've personally read, so I can actually talk about the book in depth. Also, since we're picking books I've personally read they're going to be all fiction books. I'm sorry everyone, but I don't usually read non-fiction.

Each of the Housewarden's Favourite Book/Story

Riddle - Howl's Moving Castle by: Diana Wynne Jones

I picked this book for Riddle because it has what I think Riddle deserves: some whimsy and magic with fun, silly characters. He probably grew up forced to read boring textbooks or "classics" from his mother. Thus, I think Riddle deserves something that she would have never allowed him to read.

Leona - "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson

A classic short story and one of my favourites from Shirley Jackson. I picked this one because I think Leona would like one of the main themes of the story: the questioning of tradition and the blind following of it. I also think he'd like the tone of the story and how it leads the reader on a journey before revealing the ending. I also picked this for Leona because it's not a novel, since I think Leona generally reads non-fiction/isn't a big reader.

(Note: My runner up for Leona was "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. I think Leona would enjoy the story of revenge and murder.)

PS: I know "The Lottery" is a short story and not exactly a "novel" or even a "novella" but it could be in a collection, so I counted it.

Azul - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Easily one of my top ten favourite books of all time, I think The Night Circus suits Azul. We have: magicians with their apprentices pitted against one another due to a bet, magic is real but the apprentices are doing their best to pretend they don't have magic as they "fake" their acts, and a sprinkle of romance. This book is a fantastic read and I highly recommend it.

Kalim - The House in the Cerulean Sea by: TK Klune

For Kalim I think he'd enjoy a light, breezy book. For me this is the most recent book I've read that fits that description. I also think Kalim would love seeing someone who is closed off and lonely (the narrator, Linus Baker) discovering love with Arthur as he navigates between fulfilling his job duties and opening his heart.

Vil - Clytemnestra by: Costanza Casati

A spin/retelling of the Greek myth in a similar vein to The Song of Achilles, I think Vil would love this book because we have a female character who has many grey areas to her. The reader can understand her plight and dilemma. However, her actions could also be read as villainous, making people question and have doubts. I think that vibe perfectly suits Vil.

(Note: My runner up for Vil was The Great Gatsby because it's a classic and I think classics suit Vil.)

Idia - Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

The sheer willpower to not just pick a light novel was astonishing. However, I decided to stick to books mostly because I don't read light novels often and so my knowledge of them is limited. I also considered sci-fi novels, but in the end I think Thistlefoot is a good pick. I picked this for two reasons: one, it has folklore at the core (Baba Yaga) and two it has siblings (brother and sister) unwillingly inheriting a family heirloom and that sort of vibes in my brain with Idia.

Malleus - The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

My favourite murder mystery novel, I picked this one for Malleus because of all the moving parts. There is not just the mystery of Evelyn's death, but the narrator stuck in a timeloop as well as switching bodies every reset which adds to the complexity of the story. I think this would intrigue Malleus and keep him hooked in the world of the story.

And there you go, friend! My pick for the housewardens' favourite books. I hope you like my answer! Let me know what you think and what your picks are!

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I'm sorry is tk klune's new book about. an asexual. and a bunch of robots.

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Jade City (Fonda Lee) - in the capital city of a small island nation, one of the ruling families has to struggle to maintain power in the face of internal and external pressure, all while keeping a strong hold on the mining and distribution of Jade, which grants those of the proper lineage powers beyond that of the average person.

The Way of Kings (Brandon Sanderson) - a very spartan kingdom, armed with magic swords and magic armor, has been at war for years trying to kill the people who killed their king, but it seems like no one fighting cares much about why anymore. An ex-surgeon turned sergeant is drafted into that war, and takes it upon himself (and his new magical fairy best friend) to train up one of the most demoralized and expendable units in the war. Meanwhile, a nobleman’s daughter is off to rob a princess of an extremely powerful magical artifact via asking to be her student. In a totally Not bisexual way. (This book is so hard to explain but TRUST me is it fucking amazing) (honestly just go read all of Sanderson’s Cosmere series it’s so so so worth it and will keep you occupied for so long)

the bones beneath my skin (TK Klune) - you may know him as the author of Under the Whispering Door and The House in the Cerulean Sea, but TJ Klune has been writing beautifully queer found family stories for a long time. This book follows an ex-journalist trying to take some time away from NYC in his family’s old cabin, where he finds that a man and a young girl(?) have been squatting there, on the run from… something.

All Systems Red (Martha Wells) - all Murderbot wants to do is chill out and watch its shows, but alas, it is still pretending to be under the control of a capitalist space company, and it has to go on missions to deserted planets to keep its humans safe. FINE. but it better get a chance to zone out and watch its favorite serial.

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (Hank Green … yes, that Hank Green) - a graphic artist at a startup tech company makes a vlog of some street art and accidentally becomes the first contact for an alien species

Storm Front (Jim Butchner) - a Chicago PI (who is also a wizard) gets cases from all sorts - people who believe in magic, people who don’t, beings that aren’t necessarily human at all… and solves them, all while attempting (and failing) to maintain his ~cool~ vibes

Red Rising (Pierce Brown) - the Reds are the first ones to go out to Mars, to prepare it for the rest of humanity to follow. Their lives are hard and short, but they get by. It’s becoming clear, however, that their lives are held under an even greater oppression than it seems, and a miner’s wife speaks out against it, only to be immediately silenced. But her final song is broadcasted beyond their little mining community, and starts to cause bigger ripples than she could have ever dreamed.

listen I ended up regretting saying anything about this on my old blog because people will interpret literally any and every statement maliciously on this hellsite but I want to start like. a helpline for people who are like “hey I pretty much only read YA but I’m like 22 now and don’t relate to teenagers as much, it’s such a shame that there are no fun books written for adults :(” because boy HOWDY are there some fun books for adults 

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Screenshoted from the comments system of Reads with Rachel’s video TJ Klune | authors behaving badly by @ katalinilles1177 (cw: child abuse and death, erasure of culture, genocide)

Links also here in order of appearance:

https://www.nadleh.com/lejac-residential-school

https://globalnews.ca/news/4387921/regina-indian-industrial-school-cemetery-plaque-highlights-dark-chapter-in-canadian-history/

https://www.fnesc.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/IRSR11-12-DE-1906-1910.pdf

https://c2cjournal.ca/2021/08/digging-for-the-truth-about-canadas-residential-school-graves-part-one/

https://larongenow.com/2021/07/19/radar-search-for-graves-at-site-of-former-residential-school-in-delmas-a-long-process/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tk-eml%C3%BAps-kamloops-indian-residential-school-215-exhumations-1.6460796

https://undark.org/2022/03/28/how-radar-is-helping-track-down-lost-indigenous-grave-sites/

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Heat Wave tj klune spoilers

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Gibby: I dont think we should trust TK

Seth: dw they probably won't betray us or anything

TK: *betrays them*

Seth: ...... anyway

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You have been warned.

So I am reading the heat wave book by Tj Klune (which I love so much). And I am confused? But also outraged?

So in the story the main character Nick Bell is a teenage boy who is in love with extraordinaries. He loves them. He had a crush on one shadow star (extraordinary in his own city and his own sort of ex-boyfriend Owen Burke), he even wrote fan fiction about him and shadow star. Though it ends up that shadow star was one of the real villains all along (the second one being his own father Simon Burke) and the one they thought was the villain, pyro Storm ends up being the hero but also Nick’s childhood best friend Seth Gray. They end up falling in love and started to date.

Anyways, in the first book it’s said that Nick’s mom had died two years before the story took place, she went to the bank and she never came back. Him and his father grieved…a lot, which is understandable. But it was this incident that made Seth Gray decide to become pyro Storm and keep the city safe. To protect Nick and the ones he loves (which I’ve never heard anything more romantic in my entire life).

In the second book, flash fire, Nick ends up finding out that 1) his own mom used to be a telekinetic extraordinary that kept the city safe years ago that went by the hero name Guardian and 2) that he inherited those powers. A lot of shit happens afterwards but they end up saving the day (Nick and Pyro Storm aka Seth Gray). By the end of the book two things happen (again) 1) Nick receives a suit by one of his superhero colleagues which is an homage to Guardian, his mom and 2) that his mom is actually alive and moonlighting as a new extraordinary called TK.

When TK was revealed I was like: oh it’s the mom. I never expected to be right. But by the end of the book when she is actually the mom all I could think of was: wtf happened? How is she just going to come back and resume her life? What about nick?

And then this book starts and at the beginning of the book there were some scenes where Nick will remember something that didn’t quite add up (well several scenes). First, he recounts a happenstance in the first book where he, Nick, fell from a bridge and he stopped midair, just floating. Because of the second book we were lead to believed that it was Nick but in this book he remember his mom being there next to the dad and that she was the one who saved him. But I’m the real scene it was just the dad and he is normal so he couldn’t have done that. I thought, hm that’s weird. But also when he was remembering a moment when he found his dad crying after the funeral and Nick couldn’t do anything, or rather, didn’t know what to do. Which is understandable. But then he decides it was just a dream. However I felt that the emotion he’s feeling at that “dream” feels to real for him.

Second, there’s this thing where he keeps mentioning Before and After, this is how he identifies the timeline of before his mother’s death and after it had happened. So he keeps saying them, but then he always keeps questioning before what? After what? But also memories of when Nick would meet TK and wonder why he would act as if it wasn’t his own mother. That’s when I could see a humongous red flag coming. I started to theorize that the mom was manipulating all of their memories. And I mean of all of them, the dad, Nick, Seth, his parents, Gibby, her parents, jazz and her parents. As well as other people involved in their lives. But I thought there’s no way she would do something so cruel. Because of how they describe her constantly, she was an amazing woman. Nice. Beautiful. Smart. Yes, we don’t know what actually happened in that bank or during those two years, but never to alter the memories of everyone.

Third, Nick had a dream, but it was actually a memory. It was of the day that the mom had died. When she told him she was going to the bank. In the dream he knew he would receive a call from his father, and that he will say that something had happened to the mom. Nick ended up waking up remembering what had happened and then the mom came in and he was scared. He was scared and she used her powers on him. I was livid. I can’t believe what I am reading. That cannot be the mom. I don’t know there’s something fishy going on right now. Nick constantly forgets that his mom is around, that she lives with them. He was setting up the table and forgot about her, he talks to his father as if they are just the two of them.

I don’t know. I don’t think that person is the mom. I am sad though. Because if I’m right and that is not the mom, then…that’s a whole new level of cruel. If it’s not the mom then I believe Simón Burke is the mastermind behind this. Because Nick has gone through the grieving process, he accepted that his mom was gone and while I understand that if she was protecting herself by faking her own death why not just say it? It will be hard to accept but I know that Nick and her father would come around. So why wipe their memories and pretend she was there all along? I don’t know. I have no idea how this could be the better way of going about this. Because it’s cruel. And it will end up breaking Nick’s heart.

Also why hasn’t Seth said anything about this? Originally he decided to become Pyro Storm because Nick’s mom had being murdered. Because he wanted to protect him. So if she never died what does he think his motivation was to put on that suit?

I am confused and I am outraged. I can’t believe what I’m reading with the more I read. I don’t know. I think the mom really is dead and this is just one sick trick of Simon Burke to get all the extraordinaries he can to experiment on them and getting rid of them.

We’ll see I guess. I’ll post an update later.

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I highly recommend the Murderbot series by Martha Wells although it's high-key sci-fi so you may not prefer but you said to rant about favorite books so here I go :D

Our MC "Murderbot" is an agender aroace human/robot construct (prefers it/its pronouns) who is capable of going rogue and causing huge destruction but it chooses to watch media because it is also high-key anxious and very autistic-coded. Despite everything, it gets dragged into Situations. There's also a snarky AI who is murderbot's bestie. Very fun books and murderbot was highly relatable to me as a character. The world the story is set in has a lot of casual queerness thrown in.

I haven't personally read this series yet but the Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir might fit your bill

The house on the Cerulean sea by TK Klune – this one felt very good omens-esque to me.

The extraordinaries by TK Klune – takes place in a high school but it's a queer fantasy setting, was a very fun quick read.

Have you considered getting into Chinese web novels? 👀 Specifically books by MXTX: Mo dao zu shi, Heaven Official's blessings, Scum villain's self saving system?

These are worth looking into, might check a lot of your boxes!

Hi! Yes you're more than welcome to rant about your favourite books!

Honestly sci-fi has never really been my thing but you also kinda intrigued me by purely the word "murerbot" so????????

Anything good omens-esque is very appreciated thank you!!

And yes I'll check out the rest too thank you!

@sansarawheelvictim

I've read good omens + pride & prejudice but holy shit thank you for the rest!

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Rule: tag nine people you want to know better

tagged by: @howdoistormspirit *waves*

Three ships: geralt/jaskier, gavin/angua/carrot (don’t look at me), dinluke and i will physically fight the disney corporation

First ever ship: TK/Kari from Digimon. Where is the fucking justice

Last song: northwest passage by stan rogers!

Last film: uhh encanto, i think?

Currently reading: i am listening to the audio book of the new TJ Klune book, Under the Whispering Door. i’m only four hours into it and i’m not sure how i feel about it just yet

Currently watching: PBS’s broadway beyond the golden age. just me and my PBS subscription baybee

Currently consuming: water!

Currently craving: i made brownies earlier. with peanut butter frosting helloooo

tagging: whoever is currently wearing fuzzy socks

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Flash Fire

By TJ Klune

My rating: 5/5

*spoilers ahead*

This book was SO good. I got through the first book super quickly (a fantastic audiobook) and I was really excited to read Flash Fire as an arc. The ADHD rep was great, and while reading the first book I thought "concentra" was a mispelling of "concerta" but the absolute mic drop of the significance of concentra with Burke in Flash Fire.... so good. The ending makes me so excited for another sequel (I hope) - I thought maybe there was something going on after TK said a similar line to what Nick's dad says at the dance and the ending was pretty unexpected even when I had an inkling of an idea! 

I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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I was tag by the always lovely mccall @blainesebastian and I'd like to know everybody a little bit better!!!

Rules: Tag 6 people you’d like to get to know better

Top 3 ships: Kanvers (Kate/Kara), Seblaine (Blaine/Sebastian), Tarlos (TK/Carlos)

Lipstick or chapstick: lipstick; if I remember of course, my favorite color is purple.

Last Song: Je vole by Luanne, her voice is amazing.

Last Movie: Little Women

Reading: Brothersong by TJ Klune

3 random things to make me happy: my best friend (she always makes me smile), my puppy Ciruela, singing.

Taggy tags! I’d love to see responses from: @jamwriites @zoemurphyrps @crayonstoperfume @takaraphoenix @light-miracles @na-page

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tj klune heat wave and flash fire spoilers

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i was so obsessed with the mentor & student dynamic TK and nick had in flash fire that I honestly cried when it turned out TK was the traitor :( they were so fun

also i wish tj klune wrote about how seth would definitely feel guilty when TK was revealed as Patricia because seth was the one who originally brought her onto the team