we're all mad here
This may shock you, but Halloween is not actually my favorite holiday. I am a huge fan of Christmas, but not because of the presents. I like how quiet the world gets around Christmas, how everything slows down until it’s just my family sprawled across the couch, not doing anything, not even really talking all…
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I’m not doing my usual full blast of Halloween posts for the entirety of October, so it only seems fitting that I tackle this week’s That Artsy Reader Girl and scare the bajeezus out of myself in the process. I was recently talking with one of my rock gym friends about the type of horror…
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Lol @ me pretending I wasn’t going to have a chaotic Halloween TBR and then putting eight books on it anyway, four of which are witch books. I was really going to try to spread them out so I didn’t overtax myself on witchy books, but I’ve still got more outside of those four, and…
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Okay, here’s the deal. At the end of May, I talked about why I occasionally do book buying bans and how they’re actually really helpful for me. At the beginning of this year, I threw away my handwritten TBR list that was organized chronologically by when I’d bought something. It was bringing me a lot…
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(This doesn’t get salty. It started there. Also, every book cover you see has positive queer rep!) Literally why, though? Why is there ever homophobia in fantasy? If you’ve created an entirely separate world from Earth that includes magic and your own cultures and faiths, why would you include any of the bullshit that takes…
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I’ll be honest, I’m never going to leave the North Shore. My proximity to both Salem and New Hampshire makes me so happy that I’ll forever stay right here. New England is a beautiful place, and it will never relinquish its hold on my heart. Thus, though this week’s That Artsy Reader Girl topic is…
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IT’S SPOOKY SEASON! I am never not going to post this gif during Halloween. I remember when this first happened, and I will love it until the end of my days. I read and watched a lot of spooky things this month, and though I am definitely done reading those kinds of books, I had…
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When I was trying to come up with Halloween posts for this year, reviewing the House of Furies trilogy by Madeleine Roux was the first thing that I thought of. I read the finale of the trilogy last year for Halloween, and it’s just truly one of my favorite series, horror or otherwise. I really…
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TCHAU, VERÃO! Gosh, I’m so glad to send summer right out the door and welcome in the best season ever: SPOOKY AUTUMN! It’s going to be so much fun, and I have so many exciting plans that I’m just bursting with joy over here. I wasn’t able to sleuth my way into figuring out who…
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Bold of me to assume I actually managed to find books in between my panic in August and now. But I kind of did? This is way less ambitious than my 17 books for last year’s Halloween, which might mean that I’ll actually read them all, but we’ll see. Almost all of these are new…
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Mary and the Words 