You could never truly finish reading such a book, for the contents changed at need at the original maker's whim, or to suit the phases of the moon or the patterns of the weather. Some of the books had contents you couldn't even remember till certain events might come to pass. Invariably, this was an act of kindness from the creator of the book, for such contents invariably dealt with things that would be a burden to recall with every waking day.
lirael cosplay / 📷 havecamerawillsnap
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Someone You Can Build A Nest In:
I have never once annotated a book before, but I was struck with the inspiration while reading this one. I planned to only annotate when something caught my attention, and well... it got out of control pretty fast.
It was a beautiful Sapphic ACE horrormantasy told from the POV of the monster Shesheshen. Parts of the story are cozy, but it also contains graphic body horror/gore throughout and massive family abuse with broken characters. If you are a fan of tentacle, shape-shifting inhuman monsters, check it out!
Edit: I forgot to include mentions of oviposition and vore. Which I love but I know is not everyone's cup of tea
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do I just have to accept that this is how much I'm gonna have to pay if I want to buy my favourite books these days
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so tragic to be confronted with the fact that people buy my bookmarks and then use them to read sjm books 😔
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Read in April
audio favourites
The Skin and Its Girl - 4.75
Lord of the Empty Isles (arc) - 3.75
Icarus - 4
Someone You Can Build A Nest In - 4.5
Song of the Huntress - 3.5
Compound Fracture (arc) - 4.5
A Botanical Daughter - 2.75
An Unkindness of Ghosts (reread) - 4.5
Dear Wendy - 4.5
Calling of Light (arc) - 4
Party of Fools - 4
Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart - 4
Camp Zero - 3.75
graphic novels
I Want to be a Wall vol 1 & 2 - 3.75
Rain - 3.5
The Marble Queen - 3
nonfiction
How Dare The Sun Rise
Gathering Moss
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Doodles from This is how you lose the time war (read it for class and it was very good)
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bookmark collection 12/?
madame bovary bookmark by hollydunndesign with the tensorate series, the art of prophecy, & the bruising of qilwa
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something ironic about me and my aroace flatmate who I met at uni & have lived with for the 8 years since, both getting Dear Wendy (a book about two aroaces who meet at uni and decide to live together at the end of the year) out from the library at the same time
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The Feast Makers, H.A. Clarke
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THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES
By Alix E. Harrow
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2024 reads / storygraph
A Botanical Daughter
historical fantasy
a taxidermist and botanist who live in a greenhouse in a botanical garden, far away from the disapproval of Victorian London
when they receive a shipment of a strange sentient fungi, they cultivate it inside a corpse of a recently murdered girl - who was the best friend/lover of their new housekeeper
as she grows and expands her desires they have to deal with their feelings about the potential monster they’ve created
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obsessed with this library card sticker I got from mallowdraws.png last weekend
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Song of the Huntress
historical fantasy set in 8th century Britain
follows three characters:
a woman who has spent centuries leading the wild hunt & reaping souls after being tricked into it, who disguises herself as a human to enter the kingdom
the queen of Wessex who never lives up to the demands of the court, despite leading their people in battle - and after a battlefield defeat they turn against her
and her husband, the king, deals with magic and political upheaval as his brother tries to usurp him and conflict arises between new and old religions
bi woman MC, lesbian MC, ace man MC
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But when it came time to dress, she once again donned the working clothes of a Second Assistant Librarian. That was what she was, she told herself. She had earned the right to the red waistcoat. No one could take that away, even if she wasn’t a proper Clayr.
lirael cosplay / 📷 havecamerawillsnap
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Someone You Can Build A Nest In
adult fantasy with some cozy romance and horror
follows an amorphous monster who shapeshifts by absorbing creatures and objects
when she’s injured by hunters and chased out of her lair, she’s nursed back to health by a sweet human woman
when the human reveals her family is cursed by the monster in the area and they’re hunting it - she has to figure out why they think she cursed them (she didn’t) while keeping her identity secret
and figuring out that human love doesn’t involve planting your eggs in someone for your young to devour inside out.
ace love interest, essentially ace-coded MC
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A few store updates!
new rock pool sticker!
new crab sticker!
some I'd rather be watching my shows/entertainment media stickers I've been giving away with murderbot bookmarks but also you can buy one if you want
rearranged my general book fanart listings a bit - there's two A5 listings now (one for YA and one for adult, still slightly in the process of rearranging))
new scapegracers miniprint, and I also made scapegracers into its own listing
restocked my ofmd oranges bookmark with a variant without the name on the handle
I've also been running out of some stickers so I'll be rearranging those listings a bit soon - but also might wait til I make some new designs
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