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mayasynth · 4 months

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My beautiful unhinged daughter, Mary Elizabeth Frankenstein <3 I know this was not at all how the scene actually went, but humour me

(Pssssst everyone please read Our Hideous Progeny, pleaseee 🙏)

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somerabbitholes · 4 months

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2023 in books, minus e-books, audiobooks, and borrowed and lent ones. a crisper list of favourites is on the rabbit hole

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luciehercndale · 9 months

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2023 books a darker shade of magic by v.e. schwab (reread)

Magic was a living thing---that, everyone knew---but to Kell it felt like more, like a friend, like family. It was, after all, a part of him (much more than it was a part of most) and he couldn't help feeling like it knew what he was saying, what he was feeling, not only when he summoned it, but always, in every heartbeat and every breath. He was, after all, Antari.

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c-e-mcgill · 2 years

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Hey

Do you like unhinged, angry women?

Do you like mad science?

Do you like the exquisite homoerotic tension of two Victorian ladies just barely brushing hands?

Do you think that Frankenstein would have gone a lot better if only Victor had been less of an absolute weenie?

Do you look at the story of the Loch Ness Monster and think “...but what if a dinosaur got in the lake”

THEN BOY, DO I HAVE THE BOOK FOR YOU!

Move over, chemists, it’s time for mad paleontologists to shine!

Years ago, Mary’s great uncle Victor Frankenstein mysteriously disappeared in the Arctic; now, in 1853, Mary and her reckless husband Henry are struggling to make a name for themselves as paleontologists in the old-boys'-club that is the world of Victorian science. But when Mary discovers her great-uncle's old notes, detailing his gruesome attempts at creating life, she comes up with a plan — one that will finally make them some money, prove Henry's radical paleontological theories right, and get Mary some of the respect she goddamn deserves...

Our Hideous Progeny is out NOW! Available wherever good books are sold, and also at your library if you yell (politely) at your local librarians to acquire it! 🖤💚🧡

Thanks all, byeee!

(P.S. You can find the content warnings for OHP here!)

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elizmanderson · 10 months

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free shipping with BookShop.Org this Prime Day

on July 11 & 12, 2023, BookShop.Org will offer free shipping to entice book buyers to buy from them rather than Amazon. BookShop is an independent seller owned by a small group of investors, the American Booksellers Association, and employees, and they donate to and partner with independent bookstores around the U.S. to benefit brick-and-mortar indies.

(you can read their "about" here.)

unfortunately, BookShop only ships within the U.S., although they do have a UK branch. (I'm not sure whether the UK branch is offering free shipping for Prime Day, but if you're UK-based it's worth checking!) but if you're U.S.-based and would like to buy The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher (or any other books) with free shipping and WITHOUT supporting Amazon this Prime Day, you can order through BookShop!

additionally, Edna's fantastical journey canonically begins on July 11 - the same day the free shipping starts. what better time to buy the book than the very day it begins?

orders over $100 will also receive a BookShop branded tote bag, which according to the email I received about this whole thing is their first-ever merch.

(I am not associated with BookShop. although I did sign up as an affiliate and do get a small commission when people buy through my affiliate links, which the buy links in this post are. but they didn't ask me to advertise. I'm just an author whose book starts on July 11, just like the free shipping.)

anyway, this Prime Day please consider buying The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher through not-Amazon. the book is an adult contemporary fantasy about an 83-year-old who leaves the nursing home for fantastical adventure and gets oodles of found family.

hardcover | paperback

#books and reading #bookshop #bookstores #fantasy books #book recs #queer books #2023 books #the remarkable retirement of edna fisher

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tianawarner · 1 year

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5 sapphic ✨ graphic novels ✨ launching in 2023

Here are five graphic novels featuring a sapphic romance launching this year! Enjoy!

1. Mermaid Huntress (Ice Massacre graphic novel, Volume 2)

A forbidden romance. A battle for control of the seas. Will Meela choose to save her people or the mermaid she loves?

2. Cosmoknights (Volume 2)

Sapphics in space!

3. Belle of the Ball

High school wallflower Belle Hawkins ends up in a love triangle after tutoring the girlfriend of her crush.

4. Grand Slam Romance

A second-chance romance, softball-playing babes, and magical girl drama.

5. The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

In this romcom, Lady Camembert wants to live life on her own terms, without marriage. Well, without marrying a man, that is.

Please add any I missed! :)

#graphic novel #comics #sapphic #wlw #f/f #sapphic books #gl comics #wlw books #2023 books #queer books #book recommendations #teen books #YA Books #ya fantasy

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shinigami-striker · 11 months

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Danny Phantom 2023 | Thursday, 05.18.2023

In two months, Danny Phantom returns with a new graphic novel entitled "Danny Phantom: A Glitch in Time".

release date: Tuesday, July 18, 2023

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terrypratchettestate · 7 months

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Happy publication day to A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories, featuring 20 rediscovered tales from decades ago by Terry Pratchett, complete with a foreword by Neil Gaiman.

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wormwoodandhoney · 1 year

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some 2023 books read: the goblin emperor, katherine addison

It was the first time in his life Maia had been surrounded by people who were like him instead of only snow-white elves with their pale eyes, and he missed several names in the effort not to faint or hyperventilate or burst into tears.

#2023 books #the goblin emperor #katherine addison #bookedit #books #photoshop hard

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sardinesinthegarden · 6 months

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My fave reads of 2023 in a collage zine :•)

#super happy with this tbh #zines #web weaving #book recommendations #books #2023 books #death and the penguin #klara and the sun #the marriage portrait #we have always lived in the castle #the dutch house #people from my neighborhood #collage #collage zine #zinester #book zine #My zines

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apolline-lucy · 9 months

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marketing my book is so hard because I don’t wanna be like ‘hey I wrote this cute but kinda spooky sapphic fantasy with witches and monsters and mystery, please add it to your tbr on Goodreads and buy it next month when it comes out’ but at the same time that’s exactly what I should be doing lol oh to be a writer in this economy

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redxluna · 9 months

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2023 books ∞ a taste of gold and iron, by alexandra rowland

#2023 books #a taste of gold and iron

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aroaessidhe · 1 year

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2023 ACE & ARO books - part 2

LOVE LETTERS FOR JOY - June 6 - pan ace MC

A SONG OF SALVATION - July 11 - demi MC

ETHERA GRAVE - July 18 - ace MC , sequel

THIS DARK DESCENT - Sep 26 - ace-spec MCs

BEING ACE - Oct 10 - ace anthology

LET THE DEAD BURY THE DEAD - Oct 17 - ace lesbian MC

part 1 / part 3 / part 4

#asexual books #aroace books #asexual #2023 books #ace books #love letters for joy #a song of salvation #ethera grave #this dark descent #being ace #let the dead bury the dead #wren martin ruins it all #the siren the song and the spy #queer books #fourth world #one world #i should have just labelled this ace books bc there's no aro ones here (from the info i have) :/#2023 aroace books

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luciehercndale · 4 months

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2023 books - happy place by emily henry

It doesn't matter how busy life's been, how long the five of us have gone without seeing one another: meeting at the cottage is like pulling on a favourite sweatshirt, worn to perfection. Time doesn't move the same way when we're there. Things change, but we stretch and grow and make room for one another. Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.

You belong here.

#happy place #emily henry #bookedit #romanceedit #litedit #harriet kilpatrick #wyn connor #contemporary romance #chick lit #2023 books #my posts 3

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hsincerely · 10 months

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BOOKS READ IN 2023: the raven boys by maggie stiefvater

“The road isn’t awake.” “The … ley line?” Blue suggested. A little wistfully, she added, “But that doesn’t explain why only you and Noah can hear it.” The trees murmured, Si expergefacere via, erimus in debitum. “If you wake the line, they’ll be in your debt.”

#the raven boys #the raven cycle #gansey #richard gansey #blue sargent #ronan lynch #noah czerny #adam parrish #maggie stiefvater #2023 books #my edit

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elizmanderson · 1 year

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happy Edna Fisher release day to all who celebrate!!

You're never too old for adventure.

When you’re a geriatric armed with nothing but gumption and knitting needles, stopping a sorcerer from wiping out an entire dragon-fighting organization is a tall order. No one understands why 83-year-old Edna Fisher is the Chosen One, destined to save the Knights from a dragon-riding sorcerer bent on their destruction. After all, Edna has never handled a magical weapon, faced down a dragon, or cast a spell. And everyone knows the Council of Wizards always chooses a teenager—like the vengeful girl ready to snatch Edna’s destiny from under her nose.

Still, Edna leaps at the chance to leave the nursing home. With her son long dead in the Knights’ service, she’s determined to save dragon-fighters like him and to ensure other mothers don’t suffer the same loss she did. But as Edna learns about the abuse in the ranks and the sorcerer’s history as a Knight, she questions if it’s really the sorcerer that needs stopping—or the Knights she’s trying to save.

“Beyond the utterly charming premise of this wonderful book, you will find dazzling wit, a cast of delightful characters, and a plot that will sweep you away. At heart, this is a love story, but one that shows the depth and complexity of love in all its permutations. But my very favourite thing about this book is how it makes me believe in a kinder, better world.” - SJ Whitby, author of the Cute Mutants series

buy The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher now, rsvp to a book event, or preorder the audiobook!

#the remarkable retirement of edna fisher #e.m. anderson #book release #queer book recs #fantasy books #lgbt reads #debut author #2023 debuts #2023 books #indie publishing #book recs

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