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T Kingfisher books are like "Here's an average woman who is very relatable. She's going to experience The Horrors. There is at least one person who will experience The Horrors alongside her, as a treat. The Horrors change her as a person and also occasionally make her have a complete mental breakdown. Sometimes she goes to a coffee shop."
#and goddamn i eat it up EVERY TIME#t kingfisher#ursula vernon#the hollow places#the twisted ones#a house with good bones
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Hey it's Monday! Let's try that
Week-In-Review?
I am definitely doing these more as an adulting accountability post I think, but regardless!
Reading:
Finished The Hollow Places, highly recommended, deeply disturbing and yet ultimately wonderfully comforting/validating/humane. Can't quite think of the word I want? But it makes you glad to be a People on This World of Ours! (If also very glad that the specific adventures in the book are fiction and you do not have to worry about them spreading to anyone else 😅)
Am currently re-reading a series I recalled from when I was, idk, 10 or something, called The Time Keeper which holds up pretty well. I'm enjoying them... they're VERY 80s-SFF-Juvenile Fiction, though, if anyone is familiar with that niche of a sub-genre. 😄
My mother and I had a weird conversation awhile back: do you remember those books with the time travel and the stepping stones when I was a kid? and did eventually figure out the series with only that! Then she found the ebooks re-issued by the author and got them for me. 🎉
Playing:
Murder by Numbers, which is a mystery VN plus a slew of those pictogram puzzle things, and I am enjoying it a lot. Though I got a low(er) score on the third case and am not sure what I missed, so it may be a bit before I go back to finish it... It goes gloriously hard with its 90s aesthetic/setting too, so that's fun.
Adulting:
I have not been making my bed or doing anything beyond the bare minimum of laundry, but the dishes are being held in check and I've been taking my meds and no one missed an appointment or starved, so that's pretty much a win, I think?
Creating:
I did work on the Current Cross Stitch, but it's a bit of a slog atm (and I think I screwed up a color) so that didn't last long...
No writing either.
Instead I made a Crochet Kit Piggie!
She's a little crooked, but I'm pleased by my first attempt. 💕 Next I'm trying an Elephant and they'll go sit on the picture book shelf with Thing 2's old Elephant & Piggie Books, since I still remember those pretty fondly myself.
And that's about it? We got a bit of snow today, which was nice, but otherwise it's been the same old around here.
What have you been up to, my dears & darlings?
#jilly spam#week in review#mental health post#the hollow places#t. kingfisher#the time keeper#child of tomorrow#when dreamers cease to dream#barbara bartholomew#jilly reads#jilly has a gaming problem#murder by numbers#I think I had a crafting tag and yet?#elephant & piggie#mo willems#faves forever tbqh
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NEW GIANT OTTER JUST DROPPED @tkingfisher
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Have you read...
Pray they are hungry.
Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring the peculiar bunker—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more you fear them, the stronger they become.
submit a horror book!
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It's official, I need to read everything T. Kingfisher has ever written!
#i've read#nettle and bone#what moves the dead#a house with good bones#i've purchased#the hollow places#the twisted ones#clockwork boys#the wonder engine#booklr#t. kingfisher#favorite authors
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T Kingfisher: here's a new character
Me: ok
T Kingfisher: you love them
Me: yes I do - wait how did you do that so fast
#t kingfisher#what moves the dead#the twisted ones#the hollow places#a wizard’s guide to defensive baking#how does she keep doing this to me
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#booklover#booklr#books#booksbooksbooks#books and reading#book lover#current read#t kingfisher#the hollow places
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the twisted ones: about the horrors of cleaning out an old house
the hollow places: about the horrors of renovating an old house
#t kingfisher: houses are scary. me: you sure are making them so!!#haven't read a house with good bones but i believe it's about the horrors of having to back home to live with your parents?#pie says stuff#pie reads#the twisted ones#the hollow places#t kingfisher#books
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Currently reading: The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
Nothing beats a good T. Kingfisher horror novel.
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I'm reading this book where the protagonist is in an alternate dimension, and the monsters there can hear your thoughts, but only if you think about them specifically. So she distracts herself by thinking about her ex, which leads to thinking about...fandom woes. 😁
The book is The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher, and I love it so far.
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November 2023 Reading Wrap Up
I read a total of 9 books in November, which was a better reading month than I've had in a while. I also found some new favorites and new releases this month. My workload for classes was much lighter, and I had significant more reading time. I read 7 physical books and 2 audiobooks.
1.Shadows of Self (Mistborn 5) by Brandon Sanderson, 3/5 stars. Another crime mystery set in Elendel. I read this one entirely as a physical copy, but I probably would have enjoyed the audiobook more. I wasn’t as engaged in the plot as much, and it felt a bit like a ‘filler’ book to me. Crime thriller high fantasy
2.The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher, 4/5 stars. This was a creepy portal fantasy horror with interdimensional monsters and a museum of curiosities. A good spooky season read, and a book that I couldn't put down. I stayed up past 2am to read it. Horror, portal fantasy
3.The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater, 5/5 stars. My annual reread of this book starting every November 1st. I listened to this on audio, and I made November cakes in honor of my tradition.
4.Starling House by Alix E Harrow, 5/5 stars. This book was everything I enjoy in stories, and is about a struggling Appalachian town, siblings trying to survive, a sentient house, tragic dark fairy tales, gothic horror, and a beauty & the beast retelling. The pace of this book is slow, and I would consider it a deeply character driven story. Contemporary fantasy.
5.Steelstriker (Skyhunter 2) by Marie Lu, 3.5/5 stars. This is a post apocalyptic dystopian ya fantasy that touches on real world events, and certainly feels relevant to some events that have happened over the past few years. This is a fast paced, action packed duology that kept me hooked and wanting to turn the pages. Sci-fi/fantasy
6.Leviathan Falls (The Expanse 9) by James S.A. Corey, 5/5 stars. I've been reading the Expanse books for three years now, and I started Leviathan Wakes in Jan 2021. This really built up to a huge finale and gave a satisfying ending, I don't think I could have asked for better. The last ~20 pages of this were spot on. I'm very glad I read this series, even if it took me several years. Science Fiction Space Opera.
7.The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn 6) by Brandon Sanderson, 4/5 stars. Very entertaining and enjoyable, reading this series on audio is 1000% the best way for me to consume these books. This book had a lot of cool moments, parts that made me go “what?!” and some neat new cosmere/worldbuilding things in it. Crime thriller high fantasy
8.Murtagh by Christopher Paolini, 3/5 stars. Murtagh was a decently good book. Murtagh is my favorite character of the Inheritance Cycle, and I was looking forward to reading this. I enjoyed most of this book, although I thought it could have been trimmed down, and there was one section and significant trope that I did not enjoy, which affected how I felt about this book. High Fantasy.
9. Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher, 5/5 stars. This novella was exactly my type of fairy tale and brand of faeries. I also enjoyed a good representation of the middle ages, and T. Kingfisher's excellent writing. This was such a sweet story (even though it has darker moments), and I'm glad I decided to pick this up. Fantasy/fairy tale
That's it for November! See my December tbr below
December tbr:
The Lost Metal (Mistborn 7) audiobook
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows (reread)
All the Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows
Howl's Moving Castle by DWJ (reread)
Castle in the Air by DWJ
House of Many Ways by DWJ
The Damar duology (The Blude Sword and The Hero and the Crown) by Robin McKinley
A Winter's Promise by Christbelle Dabos
Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard
Nonfiction on audio
#reading wrap up#november reading wrap up#fantasy books#mistborn era 2#thornhedge#the hollow places#t kingfisher#Murtagh#christopher paolini#starling house#Alix E Harrow#Steelstriker#marie lu
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#t kingfisher#nettle and bone#what moves the dead#a wizards guide to defensive baking#the hollow places#the twisted ones#fantasy book tournament#fantasy books#booklr#polls
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Books of 2023: THE HOLLOW PLACES by T. Kingfisher.
Previously I tried not to read and write fiction simultaneously, but this turned out to be Unsustainable with how long Driscoll revisions are taking me. In the name of Balance, the new strategy this year is to read books that Are The Vibe while revising or writing, so I started my Driscoll-Adjacent-Stint with THE HOLLOW PLACES (horror, portal-ish liminal spaces, ~Weird Vibes~, sad family situation, Pratchett book mention in-text, also she drives a Subaru, like c’mon this is Perfect).
I liked this one a lot!! Finished on January 11, and I stayed up Way Past My Bedtime reading for at least three (3) days.
#books of 2023#books#book photography#my photography#the hollow places#t. kingfisher#i gave it 4 stars on goodreads!!#very dread inducing in the beginning#i felt like the middle sagged a little but. Being In The Willow World With Simon was EXCELLENT#also love me some indulgent wrap ups so that was gr8!!
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If there's a way into hell, someone will always find it.
T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
#the hollow places#t kingfisher#horror#dark academia#book quotes#book recommendations#bookworm#hell#life#reading#books#fall reading#dark and stormy#spirits#souls
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There is a sound at the edge of your hearing, a high-pitched whine you can't pinpoint. Sometimes it's loud and insistent, sometimes you can almost tune it out, but it never stops. It lurks. And you know it's the sound of something failing, something priming itself for catastrophe, that you could fix the problem if you could find it and avoid the fallout but you can't.
That's sort of how it felt to read The Hollow Places. Which was honestly kind of a relief because I like Kingfisher's fantasy so much, I was wondering why I kept finding her horror just "fine". Turns out, I was reading the wrong ones if I wanted to be creeped out and not just vaguely and occasionally unsettled. Several days after finishing The Hollow Places, I still have shivers.
So, first off, Kingfisher is fantastic at both finding and describing eerie and off-putting places and concepts and coming up with truly horrifying images. "What the heck is wrong with you?", "How do you sleep at night?" levels of horrifying. (I slept at night by not reading this after 7 pm. Seemed like the easiest way.) Every time I got to a point where I thought surely this was the worst it was going to get, that this museum and the liminal space behind its upstairs wall had shown their hand and now Kara just had to work out how to stop and/or survive everything, NOPE. Not until the last chapter did I feel truly safe and even then…
Kingfisher is also great at characters. Kara and Simon are perfect for this sort of book, because they're relatable and endearing but also their baseline levels of background weird and self-preservation are wildly off, but in believable ways. A creepy hallway has nothing on a childhood in Florida, for instance. You can't help wanting good things for them—such as not dying horribly—which means you can't look away. You have to keep reading.
But of course, this being Kingfisher, there's also a lot of warmth, a good dose of humour, and the occasional bit of whimsy, Southern oddness, or other gentle note. Every interaction Kara had with her ex was absolute perfection, for instance. It gives just enough breathing room to break up the awful and yes, that means this is a perfectly paced horror novel. It's never so much doom that you can't handle reading it, never so much cheer that you can't sense the horror welling up again, and you just keep going and going.
This is definitely on my list of great horror novels now. Kingfisher delivered! And while I am definitely going to be reading The Twisted Ones, it's not going to be for a good while, I don't think. Next year maybe. That seems like a good amount of time in which to repair my emotions.
#books#booklr#bookblr#adult booklr#book covers#book photography#my photos#book reviews#horror#t. kingfisher#the hollow places#book recommendations#read in 2023#ebooks
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Anansi Boys and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, please? Plus the Clocktaur War duology and The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher and In A Garden Burning Gold by Rory Power?
ah, and the Ashtown Burials trilogy by N. D. Wilson?
Added most of them; Anansi Boys and Neverwhere are already on the list
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