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Hiya! :3 I absolutely love your reviews, my tbr list is like a mile long now lmao wkdbkahskaja!! Was wondering if you’ve read Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield, and if you have any book recommendations like it? Doesn’t need to specifically be ocean themed (would love if it was though lol), but rather melancholy and dealing with themes of grief (and preferably not YA?)
I have read it and love it! Here are some adult books that kinda vibe the same way
The Seep by Chana Porter this is my number one rec as a reads like, not because the plots match, but because that abstraction from reality creating a new kind of loneliness a layer away from the mundane loneliness it might have been in a world/situation you recognized. This one is also about the sudden change of a partner too!
Self Portrait With Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka is a very down to earth type of absurdity that keeps that very human feeling to it that Armfield does so well. This one is about a family member's disappearance and an uncovering of something being not quite right there, but it's the MC's birth mother who she's grappling with even partially being in her life at the same time.
Foe by Iain Reed is one of those quiet pieces.l of domestic horror as you wait with dread for something to change your known existence, as your loved ones pull away, and as you question your place in the world. This is definitely more grief for what you expect to be lost than a concrete grief.
A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgen is the most out there of these suggestions, and YMMV, but if you want something weird and unsettling all playing out alongside a girl who doesn't know her worth and who you grieve for even as she perpetuates the humdrum horror, this is your book. The grief is far more subtle and twisted here!
And if you just want ocean, Drowning in the Deep by Mira Grant is great piecemof oceanic horror with some very well created characters and complex emotions!
Hi Starr!! I wanted to ask this to you because you seem like an expert and Google is giving me vague answers :/ Does buying a book from major retailers (who will get it from distributors) support the author in any way? I would directly buy from the author but shipping is horrendous for a non-US person and I’m a broke uni student who really adores their books and wants to support as much as I can :’)
Hey! So it does and it doesn't, as far as I can tell. If it's a traditionally published author then they are paid their advance and most of the time that's all the money they make off of their work (unless it's an unexpected hit!). So buying a book in general isn't going to directly effect them. However, buying a book also adds a tiny drop into the overarching statistics of how well that book is doing, and that will determine if the author gets to publish another book/how much they get paid for the next one. So a buy is a buy in that regard!
If it's an indie author, then they get much more money if you buy from them directly as they're usually selling their books after printing a run (expensive) or they're printing on demand and able to price the book in a way where they can recoup that money. If Amazon prints it instead then they get the teeny tiny percentage of what's paid and there's no negotiation.
Hey all! Weird request! I got really curious if pulling cards for someone could help them get out of a reading block/figure out what they want to read, so if you're in that position and are willing to having someone casually read your tarot, lemme know!