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Do you know how much my heart just got ripped apart by Emily Habeck's "Shark Heart"? I was expecting a silly shark romance story but what I got was a heartcrushing meditation on love and humanity versus personhood and moving on after tragedy. I CRIED THROUGH A GOOD THIRD OF IT. Gods, what a fantastic book.
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The world is a big and small place, and life, a terrifying and sublime journey.
Emily Habeck, "Shark Heart"
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Shark Heart: A Love Story
By Emily Habeck.
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‘See?’
Emily Habeck, from Shark Heart
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November reads. Highly recommend Shark Heart and that you listen to Britney’s memoir.
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Review: Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
Author: Emily HabeckPublisher: S&S Marysue Rucci BooksReleased: August 8, 2023Received: Own (BOTM)
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Book Summary:
Lewis and Wren may seem like an unlikely couple, but they are perfect for one another. So it is only a matter of time before they wed. Only fate does not seem inclined to give this perfect couple much time to create new…
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This was…such a trip. A poetic and beautiful trip, but still a trip! A newly married man who is slowly turning into a shark? The story is as bizarre as the concept, but it was so beautifully written. I’ve never read anything like it before.
I felt like this book was a float down a lazy river. It wasn’t the fastest paced, but it was enjoyable and the scenery was beautiful if abstract.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Have you read Shark Heart by Emily Habeck? If so, what did you think?
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Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
Published: August 8, 2023
S&S / Marysue Rucci Books
Genre: Literary Fiction
Pages: 415
KKECReads Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I received a copy of this book for free, and I leave my review voluntarily.
Emily Habeck has a BFA in theater from SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts as well as master’s degrees from Vanderbilt Divinity School and Vanderbilt’s Peabody College. She grew up in Ardmore,…
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10 August 2023 Book Releases to Keep on Your Radar
There’s so many good books coming out this month, especially if you’re into fantasy or thriller. I compiled a list of the 10 best books coming out in August so that you can find them all in one place. Let me know which books you’re most looking forward to reading!
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How on earth do you read that much?!?!
Mental illness, mostly. It's directly connected to my life sucking right now.
More seriously, I've adapted the "pitch it" strategy of books I don't like. Since I work at a library that has a free books table, if I read something and I hate it, I can just put it there if the book is physically in bad condition. If it's in good condition (like Immortal Longings, my Book of the Month pick for July), I will donate it to the library itself and my coworker will take it back to our main branch to get it catalogued.
Oh, also, the Book of the Month service. It is prying my mind open to new books. This month I have selected "Red, White & Royal Blue" by Casey McQuiston (the son of the US president starts a PR nightmare with a UK prince and the two PR teams are like "pretend that you're making up and becoming friends so we don't start another fucking war" but they end up dating), "Shark Heart" by Emily Habeck (which is very absurd and refuses to pay attention to reality, which I love, and it's also a love story about a guy turning into a great white shark and his wife dealing with the implications of that), and "Vampires of El Norte" by Isabel Canas (a historical horror involving cowboys and vampires). Treating myself to this stuff has been lovely.
And now, the library I work at has started a book club that we're supposed to sponsor, so I'm going to be reading one book a month for said book club. For September, I'll be reading "Anxious People" by Fredrik Backman, and then in October our theme is "Pick Your Own Frankenstein".
I also get a lot of mileage out of bitching about the book I'm reading. Ask anyone I share a Discord server with and they'll tell you how much I've been bitching about The House Witch. The worse the book, the louder I bitch.
I've definitely slowed down this month as far as reading books goes, though. I needed a gotdamn break.
~Jasper
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My 2024 TBR List
*Ahsoka - EK Johnston
*Order 66 - Karen Traviss (Along w/ 501st)
*Happy Place by Emily Henry
*Weyward - Emilia Hart
*Shark Heart - Emily Habeck
*Advika & the Hollywood Wives - Kirthana Ramisetti
*What the River Knows - Isabel Ibanez
*Stories of Light & Dark - Lou Anders
*Into the Dark - Claudia Gray
*A New Dawn - John Jackson Miller
*Picking Daisies on Sundays - Liana Cincotti
*Dark Disciple - Christie Golden
*Black Spire - Delilah S Dawson
*Alphabet Squadron - Alexander Freed
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10 books you've read reacently?
Ask Me My Top 10/Top 5 Anything
All summaries copied from Amazon.
1: Codex Black book 1: A Fire Among Clouds | Camilo Moncada Lozano
Donají is a fearless Zapotec girl who, even though she’s only fifteen, is heralded as a hero by her village. In Codex Black, Donají sets out on an adventure--accompanied by the god that lives inside of her poncho--to find her missing father. Along the way, she meets a 17-year-old winged Mexica warrior named Itzcacalotl, and over time their temporary partnership blooms into an incredible friendship.
The search brings the young pair closer to danger and deeper into mystery than either could have predicted. What exactly was Donají’s father involved with? And how did a simple search for a missing relative lead Donají and Itzcacalotl into a fight with a terrifying bat monster to defend an entire village?!
2: Red, White & Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston
When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius―his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse.
Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations.
3: Shark Heart: A Love Story | Emily Habeck
For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. As Lewis develops the features and impulses of one of the most predatory creatures in the ocean, his complicated artist’s heart struggles to make peace with his unfulfilled dreams.
At first, Wren internally resists her husband’s fate. Is there a way for them to be together after Lewis changes? Then, a glimpse of Lewis’s developing carnivorous nature activates long-repressed memories for Wren, whose story vacillates between her childhood living on a houseboat in Oklahoma, her time with a college ex-girlfriend, and her unusual friendship with a woman pregnant with twin birds. Woven throughout this bold novel is the story of Wren’s mother, Angela, who becomes pregnant with Wren at fifteen in an abusive relationship amidst her parents’ crumbling marriage. In the present, all of Wren’s grief eventually collides, and she is forced to make an impossible choice.
4: Straight | Chuck Tingle
When a strange tear in the cosmos appears within Earth’s annual path, the consequences are disastrous. For one night a year, the vast majority of humans now undergo a frightening mental change, transforming into hateful, rage-fueled zombies who will stop at nothing to satiate their desire for brutality.
While not much is understood about this horrific mass hysteria, the demographic it effects is very specific: cisgender straight people.
A few years after the first of these tragic events, four friends from across the queer spectrum look for safety in solitude, hunkering down in a remote desert cabin for what is now known as Saturation Day. With a vaccine available for straight people to curb their violent episodes, some predict the worst is over. Others aren’t so sure.
As night falls, it becomes clear that survival isn’t guaranteed this Saturation Day.
(Also read Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle, preorder Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle, and also get into the erotic Tingleverse alongside the horror Tingleverse. That's a threat.)
5: Legends & Lattes | Travis Baldree
After a lifetime of bounties and bloodshed, Viv is hanging up her sword for the last time.
The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success ― not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is.
If Viv wants to put the blade behind her and make her plans a reality, she won't be able to go it alone.
But the true rewards of the uncharted path are the travelers you meet along the way. And whether drawn together by ancient magic, flaky pastry, or a freshly brewed cup, they may become partners, family, and something deeper than she ever could have dreamed.
6: The Locked Tomb series 1: Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.
Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will be become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon’s sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.
Of course, some things are better left dead.
7: The Complete Chi's Sweet Home part 1 | Konami Kanata
Chi is a mischievous newborn kitten who, while on a leisurely stroll with her family, finds herself lost. Separated from the warmth and protection of her mother, feels distraught. Overcome with loneliness she breaks into tears in a large urban park meadow, when she is suddenly rescued by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. The kitty is then quickly and quietly whisked away into the warm and inviting Yamada family apartment...where pets are strictly not permitted.
8: Lady Tan's Circle of Women | Lisa See
According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations—looking, listening, touching, and asking—something a man can never do with a female patient.
From a young age, Yunxian learns about women’s illnesses, many of which relate to childbearing, alongside a young midwife-in-training, Meiling. The two girls find fast friendship and a mutual purpose—despite the prohibition that a doctor should never touch blood while a midwife comes in frequent contact with it—and they vow to be forever friends, sharing in each other’s joys and struggles. No mud, no lotus, they tell themselves: from adversity beauty can bloom.
But when Yunxian is sent into an arranged marriage, her mother-in-law forbids her from seeing Meiling and from helping the women and girls in the household. Yunxian is to act like a proper wife—embroider bound-foot slippers, pluck instruments, recite poetry, give birth to sons, and stay forever within the walls of the family compound, the Garden of Fragrant Delights.
How might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions, go on to treat women and girls from every level of society, and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later? How might the power of friendship support or complicate these efforts? Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a captivating story of women helping other women. It is also a triumphant reimagining of the life of a woman who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today.
9: The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure | Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro (who is CARRYING the book may I say)
As the son of Hades, Nico di Angelo has been through so much, from the premature deaths of his mother and sister, to being outed against his will, to losing his friend Jason during the trials of Apollo. But there is a ray of sunshine in his life—literally: his boyfriend, Will Solace, the son of Apollo. Together the two demigods can overcome any obstacle or foe. At least, that's been the case so far...
Now Nico is being plagued by a voice calling out to him from Tartarus, the lowest part of the Underworld. He thinks he knows who it is: a reformed Titan named Bob whom Percy and Annabeth had to leave behind when they escaped Hades's realm. Nico's dreams and Rachel Dare's latest prophecy leave little doubt in Nico's mind that Bob is in some kind of trouble. Nico has to go on this quest, whether Mr. D and Chiron like it or not. And of course Will insists on coming with. But can a being made of light survive in the darkest part of the world? and what does the prophecy mean that Nico will have to "leave something of equal value behind?"
Nico will have to face demons both internal and external as his relationship with Will is tested to the core in this standalone adventure featuring two of the most popular characters in the Percy Jackson saga.
10: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne (David Coward: editor and owner of the funniest name ever)
In this thrilling adventure tale by the father of science fiction, three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine, the Nautilus. Over the course of their fantastical voyage, they encounter the lost city of Atlantis, the South Pole, and the corals of the Red Sea. Along the way, they must battle countless adversaries both human and monstrous. This triumphant work of the imagination shows the limitless possibilities of science and the dark depths of the human mind.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
I've just been really enjoying reading again as of late.
~Jasper
PS: Most of these come down to the moral of the story being community building. I think I may be yearning for community.
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Ugh. This looks like another one of those boring super hetero contemporary novel- wait a fucking second.
(The book is Shark Heart by Emily Habeck)
#ramblings of a bystander#i still don't care enough to read it#but LMAO i respect the author for this
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August 2023 Indie Next List
August 2023 #1 Great Read is “Shark Heart: A Love Story” by Emily Habeck
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Book Review: Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
“Wren saw now how passion was delicate and temporary, a visitor, a feeling that would come and go. Feelings fled under pressure; feelings did not light the darkness. What remained strong in the deep, the hard times, was love as an effort, a doing, a conscious act of will. Soulmates, like her and Lewis, were not theoretical and found. They were tangible, built.”
Few weeks after Lewis and Wren get…
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