the last two novels I read did not hit the spot so if nothing else this should be a splash of cold water deviation from dragging myself through historical fantasy
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mouse started reading I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
mouse finished reading Too Much to Know by Ann Blair
mouse started reading A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske (The Last Binding, #1)
mouse started reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
mouse reviewed A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos (The Mirror Visitor Quartet, #1)
like re-reading a childhood favorite
5 stars
I think on some spiritual level, even though this wasn't published until I was an adult, I feel like I read and loved this as a young teen. Reading it now felt like wrapping myself in the coziest blanket of imaginary nostaliga. I stayed up late reading this and read it instead of doing other things I needed to do. It's been a very long time since I have felt this immersed in a world.
It reminded me a little of The Goblin Emperor in its depth of humanity, and its portrayal of cruelty that doesn't make light of it, and, weirdly, I feel like there's some backstory parallels with Gideon the Ninth, although it couldn't be more differently tonally.
There were times were I did find it a little moralizing, and when the writing rang a bit off, but I loved it very much and if you don't …
I think on some spiritual level, even though this wasn't published until I was an adult, I feel like I read and loved this as a young teen. Reading it now felt like wrapping myself in the coziest blanket of imaginary nostaliga. I stayed up late reading this and read it instead of doing other things I needed to do. It's been a very long time since I have felt this immersed in a world.
It reminded me a little of The Goblin Emperor in its depth of humanity, and its portrayal of cruelty that doesn't make light of it, and, weirdly, I feel like there's some backstory parallels with Gideon the Ninth, although it couldn't be more differently tonally.
There were times were I did find it a little moralizing, and when the writing rang a bit off, but I loved it very much and if you don't like it I don't want to hear about it because it's been retrconned into my cherished childhood lore.
mouse started reading The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
mouse finished reading Thrilling Stories of the Railway by Victor L. Whitechurch
mouse finished reading Drowned Country by Emily Tesh
mouse started reading Too Much to Know by Ann Blair
mouse finished reading Little Women (Little Women, #1) by Louisa May Alcott (Little Women, #1)
mouse commented on The Oldest Cuisine in the World by Jean Bottéro
mouse started reading The Oldest Cuisine in the World by Jean Bottéro
mouse finished reading Future Feeling by Joss Lake
mouse rated Summer Fun: 5 stars
Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans identity
Gala, a young trans …