#seth dickinson i’m in your walls | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

emeraldgreaves · 2 years

Note

1, 10, 17, 60, 133 for the book ask 👀🍿

send me some questions and i’ll talk about books 📚 !

1. a book that is close to your heart

this is a play, not a book, but i first read it in script format so i’m counting it because Arcadia by Tom Stoppard could have been made in a computer for me. this would have shaped my entire personality if I read it in high school. the idea that history and discovery are in of themselves an iterative process!! romanticizing differential equations!! the way it plays with time and perception!! yes, there’s a certain futility that pervades our lives with the knowledge that everything ultimately comes to an end, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t live. basically if i think about it too long i start losing it.

10. a book that got you through something

we’re going all the way back to fourth grade, folks, specifically to The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan-Long Shang. this was the first realistic fiction book I read as a kid that felt targeted to me. my life has yet to have the emotional stakes of amy tan and maxine hong kingston, but it’s more than likely you are going to mess up the Mandarin for dumpling and sleep, or you’re going to run into playground-level malice. it was nice to have a book where the struggles were relatable and mundane.

17. a book with a yellow cover

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon! an 800-page fantasy epic that still somehow manages to move at a breakneck pace. honestly, how could you not be tempted to pick up a book that looks like this?

60. a book that you think about at 3am

i’m always going to be a little bit obsessed with the way The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson tackles imperialism from the inside, even in the first chapter (cw for mentions of institutional homophobia and the slow creep of colonization). the Empire of Masks gets its ideological hooks in Baru long before she realizes it—our question isn’t how she’s going to take them out, it’s whether she’ll be able to pull out of her nosedive in time. the next two are on my TBR list because I’ll want to devour them in a day at the cost of spending the next week in a baru cormorant-induced fugue state

133. a book that you came across randomly and fell in love with

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple is a book I saw on the table at 2nd and Charles, picked up, flipped through briefly, and immediately bought and read twice. It’s epistolary, so I was already going to like it, but it also (a) skewers Microsoft corporate culture and (b) spawned one of my favorite quotes:

“I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.”

which, my own taste is questionable, but hard same.

#ask meme #emerald speaks #books!!!!!!!#i generated several different answers for each of these actually #emerald reads

1 note · View note

boundinshallows · 4 years

Text

The ever wonderful @mintjamsblog asked for some of my favorite books, so in no particular order:

1. Passing - Nella Larsen

You know, it’s been years since I’ve read this novel/la, but it’s one that’s left an impression. Passing encapsulates the complexities of early 20th century race relations in America through Clare’s racial (and sexual?) passing. There’s a lot happening in such a short book.

“Money's awfully nice to have. In fact, all things considered, I think, 'Rene, that it's even worth the price.”

2. Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman

I first read this back in 2011/2012, and I didn’t think it could ever be adequately adapted into a film. (I was wrong). Aciman has this incredible ability to articulate the most difficult to express emotions/yearnings, particularly those associated with young love. I also love the impossibility of it all (which the film as conveyed). Happy endings are great and all, but give me realism almost any day of the week tbh. I have fan fiction for the curtain fic.

“Did I want him to act? Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game going: not knowing, not-not-knowing, not-not-not-knowing? Just be quiet, say nothing, and if you can't say "yes," don't say "no," say "later." Is this why people say "maybe" when they mean "yes," but hope you'll think it's "no" when all they really mean is, Please, just ask me once more, and once more after that?”

3. The Winternight Trilogy - Katherine Arden

Technically three books, I suppose. Winternight is a great series for people who are uncertain about fantasy, but who are fans of historical fiction. The series features a lot of magic on the periphery of the real world, which is a trope I LOVE. And the magic isn’t high fantasy magic, but comes in the form of Russian folklore. The heroine is lovely and the romantic subplot satisfying.

“All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me.”

4. The Book of the Ancestor Trilogy - Mark Lawrence

Oof, THIS SERIES. This series is in the same vein as Harry Potter in terms of premise in some sense. However, instead of a wizarding school, our heroine goes to a nunnery where they train assassin nuns. Magical assassin nuns. LOOK, it’s just good, okay? The first two books were perfect. The final book could have been another 100 pages or so, but still felt like a solid conclusion. Also, girls in love.

“IT IS IMPORTANT, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size. For Sister Thorn of the Sweet Mercy Convent Lano Tacsis brought two hundred men.”

5. Mysterious Skin - Scott Heim

This book is a trigger-palooza, so be warned. I mentioned this book at some point last year. It’s been a few months, but whenever it pops into my mind, I automatically think “fuck”. The thing that Heim pulls off masterfully in this novel is the reader is more knowledgeable than one of the main characters in the WORST way possible. As Brian slowly starts remembering bits of his abuse and thinks it’s alien abduction (but you KNOW it’s not it at all and can piece what really happened in this alien abduction scenarios...fuck), there’s this overwhelming sense of dread. I need Heim to write a sequel to this book where Brian and Neil get loads of therapy. Like, so much therapy.

“It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn’t, and we weren’t.”

6. The Masquerade - Seth Dickinson

This is an in-progress series, so I’m not sure what the final book count will be. It’s non-magical fantasy that digs deep into issues of colonialism and sexuality. There’s a war going on, and we see that war happen through the eyes of the most unlikely of all fantasy POV characters: an accountant. Yes, a whole epic series about war told from an accountant in service of the empire who settled her island home. The narrative is so complex that sometimes it makes ASOIAF feel as straightforward as Dr. Seuss. I struggled to keep up at times. It’s one of those books that you just have to let happen and try to hang on for the ride. I promise twists and turns like none other.

“Honor,” Apparitor murmured, “is just a credit rating for violence.”

7. American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Much like Winternight, what I love best about American Gods is the folklore and magic-at-the-periphery. As the title suggests, this feels like a uniquely American story to tell where Gaiman asks the question: what happens to the gods/beliefs of all those who immigrated to America? What happens when we no longer believe in those gods? (The STARZ adaptation does some stuff I really like, but drops the ball in other areas).

“Back in my day, we had it all set up. You lined up when you died, and you'd answer for your evil deeds and your good deeds, and if your evil deeds outweighed a feather, we'd feed your soul and your heart to Ammet, the Eater of Souls"

"He must have eaten a lot of people."

"Not as many as you'd think. It was a really heavy feather. We had it made special. You had better be pretty damn evil to tip the scales on that baby...”

8. Angels in America - Tony Kushner

So this is a play, not a book. However, I think it’s one of the most important pieces of fiction of the 20th century. Angels follows the story of Prior Walter, a gay man newly diagnosed with AIDS. I can’t quite explain exactly why I love it or why it’s so important really. I think it combines the uniquely American story (that I’ve mentioned in American Gods and even Passing) with complex storytelling and emotions (a la Call Me).

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change? Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching. Harper: And then up you get. And walk around. Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending. Harper: That's how people change.

#book rec #books I've read

10 notes · View notes

papercats · 5 years

Text

lgbt books i read, 2018 edition I guess. I didn’t include shit that everyone knows like Bechdel or Sarah Waters or even some more popular YA books because the list is long enough and those are already mentioned everywhere else. Or red sister because the first book didn't have enough gays to warrant inclusion and i haven't read the second one.

No one ever does this but if you want content warnings for a specific book DM me or send an ask.

also again, more lesbians than anything else.

2017

2016

All Good Children by Dayna Ingram: If you read a single book in this list let it be this. Unless you’re upset easily then maybe not because this book is surprisingly dark, though not gratuitous on page-violent it’s still pretty upsetting.

anyway that said this book is great only one on this list i have a 5 stars to. The plot is really hard to explain without it sounding stupid so I won’t risk it. It’s a dark dystopian, you follow 3 pov characters and they’re all great and so well written. 2/3 are lesbians. Please read it. N ONE KNOWS THIS BOOK BUT ITS SO GOOD. ! I wanna reread it now instead of writing the rest of this post.

Assume Nothing by Leanne Franson: I’m including this because I literally never heard about it? It has less than 20 ratings on goodreads as of writing this. It’s a autobiographic graphic novel about a bi woman about stuff in her life from discovering her sexuality, to finding a strip of human skin in her apartment. It’s alright.��

(series) The Wall of Storms by Ken Liu: it’s a Chinese based epic fantasy with gay characters of varying importance. This is the second in the series which you could read first if you really wanted to as it’s set a large chunk of time after the first book. Also the first book is much more straight and barely has female characters. It’s still good though as far as those things go. I’m not a huge fan of the f/f relationship in the second book involving two main characters but it’s there. Also Zomi is great as are all the other female characters.

Afterparty by Daryl Gregory: the main thing you need to know about this book is that it exists and has a lesbian main character. I didn’t believe the latter until I read it since no one ever talks about it having a lesbian main character even though it’s a fairly well known book. Anyway, this is a book about uhhh drugs and religion. Listen I can’t do the plot justice it’s really weird but really good.

(series) The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson: If you're a. into fantasy or b. into lesbian books you probably heard of this. You also probably heard it’s very tragic. You heard right. Anyway this is a high fantasy about economics which is also pretty tragic in itself when you think about it.

Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner: Technically a series but I didn’t like the 2nd book so much and dropped it. I loved the first one enough that I still want to put it there though. Most people don’t seem to mind the rest of the series either so don’t let me stop you - especially if you like YA. This is a story about mermaid who kill humans and humans who kill mermaids, and also humans and mermaids who wanna do neither because they’re in love. yeah. Mostly it’s about some teens stuck on a ship having a really lousy time though. It’s great.

Nevada by Imogen Binnie: This isn’t a book about uh. It’s about....Okay it’s a very flow of consciousness ... “story” about a trans woman's life as she....lives her life. She has a lot of thoughts about a lot of things and she’s smart and funny and mostly she’s depressed so if you are also depressed you go like yeah. And if you aren’t depressed you probably still go yeah because her opinions and observations are pretty good. You probably don’t think you’Ll like it which is fair because I didn’t think I would until I read it and did.

Click by Sara Marx: I read this because I was looking at a list of indie lesbian books and I was like “my girlfriend is called Sarah and Marx was a pretty cool dude ill read her book”. It’s..uh. A drama? crime? story. It’s alright. which is more than I can say for most other super indie lesbian books.

Sabine by A. P.: this is fucking weird. Listen I’ll recc this only to people who really like weird gothic-y pretentious stuff that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. It’s a boarding school story..with possibly lesbian vampires. It’s written in a way you’Ll either love or hate check the first page and you’ll understand immediately if this book is for you.

(series) Criminal Gold by Ann Aptaker: this is a noir crime story with a butch lesbian protag. this sentence tells you everything you need to know about it. The writing was competent and the characters believable and interesting (which is again, more than I can say about most indie lesbian stuff I read). It’s a series but it would work as standalone, I haven’t read the rest yet though I intend to.

INSEXTS by Marguerite Bennett: just read my review for the first volume it’s short I don’t want to retype all that. Thanks.

Theft by B.K. Loren this is literary fiction with a lesbian main character which i felt i was too young to appreciate. beautiful writing. Mostly about loss and growing up, if it sounds up your alley check it out. I think if it was more well known it’d win awards and shit it feels like that kind of book. I felt under equipped to appreciate it so I hope other people do.

Silk by Caitlín R. Kiernan: Half of the cast is lgbt. They’re like...a bunch of goth and punk young adults..and there may or may not be angels. It’s...horror I suppose. Mostly it’s confusing. I don’t know if I recommend this book exactly but im including it in case anyone does read it so they can explain to me what the point was.

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages This is a book about lesbians in 1940 new york. there is some magic and there is art. Also beautifully written. It’s just over 100 pages though so I won’t say anymore lest it get’s longer than the actual book.

#lgbt books #lesbian books #wlw books #booklr #my recs

24 notes · View notes

allmimsyweretheborogroves · 6 years

Text

Updated Book List

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

Mandelbrot the Magnificent by Liz Ziemska

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Vol. 8 by Roberts, Milne, & Lafuente

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruins of Ymr by John Crowley

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Vol. 9 by Roberts, Milne, & Lafuente

The Book of Dust by Phillip Pullman

Orbital Cloud by Taiyo Fujii

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell

Killing Gravity by Corey J. White

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Vol. 10 by Roberts, Milne, & Lafuente

Dark Territory by Fred Kaplan

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Idoru by William Gibson

Virtual Light by William Gibson

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce

Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa, trans. Risa Kobayashi & Martin Brown

The House by the River by Lena Manta, trans. Gail Holst-Warhaft

Still Waters (Sandhamn Murders #1) by Viveca Sten, trans. Marlaine Delargy

The Great Passage by Shiwon Miura, trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter

Last Train to Istanbul: A Novel by Ayse Kulin, trans. John W. Baker

The Gray House by Miriam Petrosyan, trans. Yuri Machkasov

The Question of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak

The Light of the Fireflies by Paul Pen, trans. Simon Bruni

Ten Women by Marcela Serrano, trans. Beth Fowler

ワンパンマン by ONE and 村田雄介

Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best Non-Fiction from Tor.com edited by Bridget McGovern & Chris Lough

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham

Sabriel by Garth Nix*

Lirael by Garth Nix*

Abhorsen by Garth Nix*

Clariel by Garth Nix*

Across the Wall and Other Tales by Garth Nix*

Alanna: the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce*

In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce*

Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce*

Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce*

Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce*

Wolf-Speaker by Tamora Pierce*

Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce*

The Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce*

Goldenhand by Garth Nix

To Hold the Bridge and Other Stories by Garth Nix

Atomic Robo Vol. 1 by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener*

Atomic Robo Vol. 2 by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener*

Atomic Robo Vol. 3 by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener*

Atomic Robo Vol. 4 by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener*

The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones*

Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman*

The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman*

Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler*

おらおらでひとりいぐも by 若竹千佐子

* designates a reread of a particular book.

I re-read The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife (and didn’t quite have time to make it through The Amber Spyglass) in preparation for The Book of Dust, and I will tell you that Phillip Pullman is absolutely as good now that I’m chasing thirty as he was when I was ten and encountered him the first time.

Clive Cussler, on the other hand…. Well, let’s just say that one of the gorgeous female side characters whips off her bra to use as a bandage. Okay, y’all, I trained as a Wilderness First Responder, and I’d like to think that I have a better than average idea of what to use for alternative bandaging, and it’s not a bra.

I also picked up おらおら (Ora ora de hitori igu mo; I Be Goin’ Alone by Chisako Wakatake) from a local bookstore. It won the Akutagawa Prize for new literature in 2017, and is about an older woman from Tōhoku, now living in Tokyo, reflecting on her life. It’s my current study book, because I am rusty as all get out, but so far it’s pretty nifty. The parts written in dialect are hard as hell, though.

#rejecttyranny #fridaywriteday #late post tumblr ghost #book list strikes again!#wanna talk about books?#hit me!

1 note · View note

aion-rsa · 4 years

Text

Top New Fantasy Books July 2020

The Book of Dragons: An Anthology by Jonathan Strahan

Type: Anthology Publisher: Harper Voyager Release date: July 7

Den of Geek says: I’m always looking for a good book about dragons, and this incredible list of authors promises adventurous and unique stories. Anne Leckie, Zen Cho, Seanan Maguire, J.Y. Yang, Patricia A McKillip, Brooke Bolander … it’s an astounding, literary-flavored list of people qualified to write cool creatures.

Publisher’s summary: Here there be dragons . . .

From China to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imagination in myth and legend. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations.

Bringing together nearly thirty stories and poems from some of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers working today— Garth Nix, Scott Lynch, R.F. Kuang, Ann Leckie & Rachel Swirsky, Daniel Abraham, Peter S. Beagle, Beth Cato, Zen Cho, C. S. E Cooney, Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-Mohtar, Kate Elliott, Theodora Goss, Ellen Klages, Ken Liu, Seanan Maguire, Patricia A McKillip, K. J. Parker, Kelly Robson, Michael Swanwick, Jo Walton, Elle Katharine White, Jane Yolen, Kelly Barnhill, Brooke Bolander, Sarah Gailey, and J. Y. Yang—and illustrated by award-nominated artist Rovina Cai with black-and-white line drawings specific to each entry throughout, this extraordinary collection vividly breathes fire and life into one of our most captivating and feared magical creatures as never before and is sure to become a treasured keepsake for fans of fantasy, science fiction, and fairy tales.

Buy The Book of Dragons by Jonathan Strahan on Amazon.

Or What You Will by Joe Walton

Type: Novel Publisher: Tor Books Release date: July 7

Den of Geek says: Jo Walton is a writer’s writer, highly praised but still generally skating under the radar. I found her 2014 My Real Children to not nearly live up to its very high concept, but she’s one of those authors with technical prowess who is at least worth checking out for context for women’s science fiction. The metafiction plot sounds fun.

Publisher’s summary: He has been too many things to count. He has been a dragon with a boy on his back. He has been a scholar, a warrior, a lover, and a thief. He has been dream and dreamer. He has been a god.

But “he” is in fact nothing more than a spark of idea, a character in the mind of Sylvia Harrison, 73, award-winning author of thirty novels over forty years. He has played a part in most of those novels, and in the recesses of her mind, Sylvia has conversed with him for years.

But Sylvia won’t live forever, any more than any human does. And he’s trapped inside her cave of bone, her hollow of skull. When she dies, so will he.

Now Sylvia is starting a new novel, a fantasy for adult readers, set in Thalia, the Florence-resembling imaginary city that was the setting for a successful YA trilogy she published decades before. Of course he’s got a part in it. But he also has a notion. He thinks he knows how he and Sylvia can step off the wheel of mortality altogether. All he has to do is convince her.

Buy Or What You Will by Jo Walton on Amazon.

The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal

Type: Graphic Novel Publisher: First Second Release date: July 14

Den of Geek says: The Adventure Zone is a wildly popular humorous fantasy podcast. It’s part of the big 2010s wave of Dungeons & Dragons coming back into the geek space. Especially for someone who might not want to listen to hundreds of episodes of a podcast, the illustrated version does a good job of smoothing out the story into a graphic novel format without removing the goofy chaos of the original podcast.

Publisher’s summary: START YOUR ENGINES, friends, Clint McElroy and sons Griffin, Justin, and Travis hit the road again with Taako, Magnus and Merle, the beloved agents of chaos from the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novels illustrated by Carey Pietsch, The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins and The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited.

Our boys have gone full-time at the Bureau of Balance, and their next assignment is a real thorny one: apprehending The Raven, a master thief who’s tapped into the power of a Grand Relic to ransack the city of Goldcliff. Local life-saver Lieutenant Hurley pulls them out of the woods, only to throw them headlong into the world of battle wagon racing, Goldcliff’s favorite high-stakes low-legality sport and The Raven’s chosen battlefield. Will the boys and Hurley be able to reclaim the Relic and pull The Raven back from the brink, or will they get lost in the weeds?

Based on the beloved blockbuster podcast where three brothers and their dad play a tabletop RPG in real time, The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal has it all: blossoming new friendships, pining for outlaw lovers, and a rollicking race you can root for!

Buy The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal on Amazon.

The post Top New Fantasy Books in September 2020 appeared first on Den of Geek.

from Den of Geek https://ift.tt/30f7KEw

#aion-rsa #Den of Geek

0 notes

allmimsyweretheborogroves · 6 years

Text

‘Tis the Season for Readin’

We’ve been having a bit of a heatwave and it’s been too hot to work much outside, and I’ve recently been reconnected with my beloved paper book library. Long story short: I’ve been reading more than I’ve been writing and I feel absolutely no shame whatsoever. This year’s reading list is going quite well. Updated list below the cut.

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty

Mandelbrot the Magnificent by Liz Ziemska

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Vol. 8 by Roberts, Milne, & Lafuente

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao

Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruins of Ymr by John Crowley

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Vol. 9 by Roberts, Milne, & Lafuente

The Book of Dust by Phillip Pullman

Orbital Cloud by Taiyo Fujii

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

Witches of Lychford by Paul Cornell

Killing Gravity by Corey J. White

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Vol. 10 by Roberts, Milne, & Lafuente

Dark Territory by Fred Kaplan

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Idoru by William Gibson

Virtual Light by William Gibson

Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce

Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa, trans. Risa Kobayashi & Martin Brown

The House by the River by Lena Manta, trans. Gail Holst-Warhaft

Still Waters (Sandhamn Murders #1) by Viveca Sten, trans. Marlaine Delargy

The Great Passage by Shiwon Miura, trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter

Last Train to Istanbul: A Novel by Ayse Kulin, trans. John W. Baker

The Gray House by Miriam Petrosyan, trans. Yuri Machkasov

The Question of Red by Laksmi Pamuntjak

The Light of the Fireflies by Paul Pen, trans. Simon Bruni

Ten Women by Marcela Serrano, trans. Beth Fowler

ワンパンマン by ONE and 村田雄介

Rocket Fuel: Some of the Best Non-Fiction from Tor.com edited by Bridget McGovern & Chris Lough

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham

Sabriel by Garth Nix*

Lirael by Garth Nix*

Abhorsen by Garth Nix*

Clariel by Garth Nix*

Across the Wall and Other Tales by Garth Nix*

Alanna: the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce*

In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce*

Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce*

Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce*

Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce*

Wolf-Speaker by Tamora Pierce*

Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce*

The Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce*

* designates a reread of a particular book.

I’ve been pretty busy recently—in addition to the heat wave, I’ve been moving house and am in the process of changing jobs. That plus the unexpected monster that is A Ghost in the Walls, has made me a busy, busy lady. Still, I’ve been reunited with my beloved library, which means that my priorities have shifted briefly to visit with my old favorites before I’m forced to leave them behind again.

Besides, Tamora Pierce has come out with a new book, and I am absolutely obligated to reread all of her books in celebration, given that she is one of my foundational authors.

Never fear—I am making steady progress on A Ghost in the Walls, and I anticipate finishing it out in about three more chapters.

#rejecttyranny #fridaywriteday #late post tumblr ghost #moving is hard #changing jobs is hard #but change is good

2 notes · View notes