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From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans …
I forgot I read this this year; has to win the award for most dissonance between the vibe suggested by the cover and the actual vibe
Aura is a short novel written by Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, first published in 1962 …
my recollection of high school Spanish is getting me approximately 30% comprehension; luckily it's a bilingual edition
A self-teaching manual of Akkadian, the language of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), this unique text …
just got this from the library in a real "sickos: hahah yes" moment for me
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll …
Stoked!
all I wanna do is read about Sumer
In this intriguing blend of the commonplace and the ancient, Jean Bottero presents the first …
I love this book, but it has no index??? Infuriating
Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a …
it's hard to imagine ever feeling "finished" with this because I still have so many things bookmarked to try
Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is …
I enjoyed this but dang is this plot complicated and subtly conveyed. I expect I'll be kind of lost by the time Alecto comes out, but I am ready to accept that.
Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a …
one of the few books that I bought a copy of because the idea of returning it to the library was too hard to bear
Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is …
Each book in this series seems to get me interested enough in a character and then end with a lot of cliffhangers which don't get addressed for another 600 pages while the story does something completely different and I'm coming into this one grumpy about having to care about completely different people while getting cryptic allusions to the previous characters' fates
After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the …
I remembered a lot less of this one than of Gideon
After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the …
I discovered a flaw in my re-read plan which is that this is a FOUR book series, so unless I retain the plot very well through this round I'm going to be back at sea when the final volume comes.
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian …
the re-read begins!
Her city is under siege.
The zombies are coming back.
And all Nona wants is …
Content warning a conundrum
I want to read this but I'm not sure if I want to read it without re-reading the previous books and I'm not sure I want to re-read the previous books
Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold’s decadent queer literary debut immerses readers …
this was incredible