Fangs by Sarah Andersen

I've had this graphic novel on my wishlist ever since I saw some illustrations online. It's an adorable book, that has definitely made its way into my comfort book pile. It's just a bunch of scenes from the lives of a vampire and a werewolf who are in a relationship, it's funny and cute, and there's not much else to say. Sarah Andersen has a great sense of humor and I love her illustrations. This is one of those graphic novels I know I will reread over and over. I really recommend it, you probably have seen some of the illustrations here on tumblr as well, it's definitely worth it. Also the book itself looks gorgeous with the cloth cover, it's really a nice object to own to be honest.

Mad Honey by Katie Welch (Review)

Title: Mad Honey Author: Katie Welch Type: Fiction Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Mystery Publisher: Wolsak & Wynn Published: May 10, 2022 A complimentary physical copy of this book was kindly provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. When Beck Wise vanished, his girlfriend Melissa Makepeace poured herself into caring for the family farm, silently absorbing the fact that another…

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blackbird for avian august!

(Review) Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Besides the obvivous "how the hell did they go to the bathroom and clean themselves" part it was good!

What I hated so much was Axel, the main character, would NOT shut up about marrying his cousin. Also whining about wanting to see her and marry her. It was the most off putting thing of this entire novel

This year some of my favourite books I read were written by indigenous American authors and I just wanted to shout out a couple that I fell in love with

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Horror being my second most read genre, I did not think books could still get under my skin the way this one did lol. It follows four Blackfoot men who are seemingly being hunted by a vengeful... something... years after a fateful hunting trip that happened just before they went their separate ways. The horror, the dread, the something... pure nightmare fuel 10/10

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

An apocalyptic novel following an isolated Anishinaabe community in the far north who lose contact with the outside world. When two of their young men return from their college with dire news, they set about planning on how to survive the winter, but when outsiders follow, lines are drawn in the community that might doom them all. This book is all dread all the time, the use of dreams and the inevitability of conflict weighs heavy til the very end. An excellent apocalypse story if you're into that kind of thing.

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

This book follows Jade, a deeply troubled mixed race teenager with a shitty homelife who's *obsessed* with slasher movies. When she finds evidence that there's a killer running about her soon-to-be gentrified small town, she weaponises that knowledge to predict what's going to happen next. I don't think this book will work for most people, it's a little stream of consciousness, Jade's head is frequently a very difficult place to be in, but by the last page I had so much love for her as a character and the emotional rollercoaster she's on that I had to mention it here.

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Taking a bit of a left turn but this charming YA murder mystery really stuck with me this year. Elatsoe is a teenage girl living in an America where myths, monsters, and magic are all real every day occurrences. When her cousin dies mysteriously with no witnesses, she decides to do whatever she can, including using her ability to raise the spirits of dead animals, to solve the case. The worldbuilding was just really fun in this one, but the Native American myths and influence were the shining star for me, and the asexual rep was refreshing to see in a YA book too tbh

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

The audiobook, the audiobook, the audiobook!!!! Also the physical book because formatting and illustrations, but the audiobook!!! Tanya Tagaq is an Inuit throat singer, and this novel is a genre blending of 20 years worth of the authors journal entries, poetry, and short stories, that culminates in a truly unique story about a young girl surviving her teenage years in a small tundra town in the 70s. It is sad and beautiful and hard but an experience like nothing else I read this year.

Mother Nature for CR Fashion Book (2022) Photography: Erika Kamano

20.11.22, sunday

no I don’t actually just casually sit in the darkness all the time, it’s for the mood lighting pic lol

Pop quiz! which plot does NOT occur in Animorphs?

A) local teen does brain surgery on her alien friend using a slug for help

B) dogs built the pyramids

C) Atlantis is real and the people there want to kill you

D) a hawk caused the extinction of the dinosaurs

E) the kids went to another timeline and killed Hitler

F) a random kid at school pushes someone's cousin down a hospital elevator shaft and then gets trapped as a rat

G) girl vomits up alligator

H) god is a gamer

I) gay alien centaurs

J) kids infiltrate the CIA and borrow explosives from the government

K) a child almost dies of rabies while his friends are shrunken and fighting mini enemies inside of his body

The answer is.... L) none of the above. All of these things happened in Animorphs.

Lestat, Lelio, Wolfkiller

my first foray into art for this series :)) linktree

What People Read Around the World, 2022.

bunch of different pieces from a bunch of different zines! wooooo

Bunny by Mona Awad

I know everyone who talks about this book says it's really weird, and I was expecting it to be weird, but not this much. I had no idea where it was going for the whole time, but I had a lot of fun with it. It has been described as dark academia, mostly because we follow a group of creative writing students at uni, but that is just a frame for the story. There's some other typical dark academia elements, like a very closed off group of students in which the main character gets sort of accepted, but again the book is so much more than that. The base of the story is set around this group of girls who call each other bunny, and in general tend to act like little girls. It was the only thing that I knew before reading the book, and to be honest I think the less you know about this the more enjoyable it will be. As I was saying this is really weird. There's no way you can see what is coming next, only at the very end I could imagine where things were going, but it's such an absurd story it's worth diving into not knowing much. This is described as a psychological horror as well, and I can see why. There is a sort of tension in the background at all times, and I found myself anxious while reading it. I think it's really worth the hype, I have no idea how the author came up with the ideas behind this book, because as I was saying it's totally absurd. It's also really fast paced and the writing flows amazingly, I think I read it in just a two or three of days, and I am a slow reader. I definitely recommend giving this novel a try, and I think it will stay in my mind for a while now.

I read this for the studybr w/ knives horror reading challenge for the psychological horror challenge.

Reasonable Adults by Robin Lefler (ARC Review)

Title: Reasonable Adults Author: Robin Lefler Type: Fiction Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Publisher: HarperAvenue Date published: December 13, 2022 This post is sponsored. A complimentary digital copy of this book was kindly provided by HarperCollins Canada in exchange for an honest review. Everything has fallen apart for Kate Rigsby: she is freshly single—separated from an ex she never…

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my final piece for @turnabout-cinema! had an absolute blast working on this one :]

Let's be immortal together.

Tim and Bernard

Dick and Barbara