🔖📚 Read …and a partridge in a pear tree (19913 words) by strangehunger.

This is a beautiful and perfect Gideon the Ninth mall employee AU. Gideon works at Spencer Gifts. Harrow works at Hot Topic. And my boy Palamedes works at B&N, of course.

Currently reading: Season of Love by Helena Greer 📚

I’ve read 141 pages in this book since I picked it up yesterday afternoon.

📚 I’m sure there are a lot of things I’ll want to tell you about Season of Love but the first is that there’s a Veronica Mars reference and a shout-out to the coolest member of the Babysitters Club on the same page.

Finished reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko 📚

Finished this in 2 or 3 days. I was drawn to it because of the cover & buzz. I stayed in it because of the magic of connection & my love of kind teen girls with a sense of justice. Gorgeous, evocative writing, highly recommend.

Currently reading: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko 📚

Finished reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo 📚

I loved it so much. I know Leigh Bardugo is done with the Grishaverse for a while but I hope not for always.

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“None of this had been fated; none of it foretold… They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.
But maybe that was the trick of it: to survive, to dare to stay alive, to forge your own hope when all hope had run out.” Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

Woodland Goth: The Goblins of Labyrinth by Brian Froud 📚

Yep, I created a whole Woodland Goth bookshelf. Goblins of Labyrinth is a collectible. I don’t want it to get lost in my massive want-to-read list.

Currently reading: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Kind of resent that I have to do anything besides read this book, even though I love a lot of the other stuff I do.

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“I am most interested in confessional writing when it allows us to move into the personal as a way to go beyond it. In all my work I invoke the personal as a prelude.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work