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Cursed Bread || Sophie Mackintosh ★★★★★ Started: 07.10.2024 Finished: 30.10.2024 One of my favourite reads from last year, Cursed Bread is a short, but stunningly well-written character study of the inhabitants of the small town of Pont-Saint-Esprit, the setting of a 1951 mass poisoning, suspected to be caused by pain maudit (cursed bread). Most notably, the novel follows Elodie, the baker's wife, and her unhealthy infatuation with the ambassador and his mysterious, alluring wife, Violet.

January 2025 reads!

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi || S.A. Chakraborty ★★★★☆ Started reading: 01.01.2025 Finished reading: 07.01.2025 This was a lot more fun than I thought it would be! I can't wait to see what the sequel has in store for us!

All the Lovers in the Night || Mieko Kawakami ★★★☆☆ Started: 28.12.2024 Finished: 18.01.2025 Hmmm, given how popular Kawakami is, I expected more from this book… not that it was bad, per se, just that it wasn't particularly remarkable or even memorable. Maybe I should have tried "Breast and Eggs" first

Anxious People || Frederik Backman ★★★★★ Started: 24.01.2025 Finished: 30.01.2025 Buddy read Trust Frederik Backman to make you cry with his heartwarming novels about found family.

The Will of the Many || James Islington ★★★★★ Started: 25.12.2024 Finished: 31.01.2025 Favourite read of January 2025 ♥ Where do I even begin with this incredible book? I loved the worldbuilding, I loved the characters, I loved the writing - it could not have been much better, and I had some pretty high expectations going in. James Islington managed to surpass them all. Safe to say I'm impatiently waiting for "Strength of the Few"!

𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔨 𝔬𝔯 𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱! 🎃 happy halloween my friends!

halloween turtle 🎃

Trick or treat!

I give you, a very respectable, distinguished homeowner 🐾

Trail therapy

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“Love the erasure of everything else, a blinding worse even than the sun.”

— David Vann, Bright Air Black

“She can’t take the same path back . All her life she’s avoided that, always making a circle, afraid to return for what she might find waiting along the way. The sense always of being followed.”

From Bright Air Black by David Vann

“Who she is makes no sense to her. How she became. What she will become still.”

— David Vann, Bright Air Black

★★★★☆ “She gazes at Agamemnon and says, “I do not forget.” As far as post-Madeline Miller myth retellings go, this is fairly good. Sure, Helen is still a frail waif, but this novel isn't about her, per se, so I can't take much issue with that, not with how Clytemnestra is written - brutal, unforgetting, unforgiving. Testament to how much a story is set to gain if authors choose to give their mythical heroines a spine, truly. Much like in Daughters of Sparta, I would have loved for the story to cover her death, especially since I have a feeling Casati would do the scene justice, but nevertheless, Clytemnestra was a worthwhile experience.

[2023|46] Clytemnestra (2023) written by Costanza Casati

I am not an artist but I couldn't get this image out of my head

"She found a cage for him. It felt appropriate that she should put him back in one, and Crow had a couple of the appropriate size for keeping messenger birds.

It broke Tress's heart to leave Huck inside, huddled against the bars, refusing to face her."

(rat foto i traced below the cut ^^ )

(Bonus: without the front cage bars)

Tress of the Emerald Sea

Shoutout to Charlie single handedly ruing the 'all arranged marriages work out in Brandon Sanderson works' statistic

Arranged marriage ruiner Georg

Men often described the girl as having hair the colour of wheat. Others called it the colour of caramel or honey. The girl wondered why men so often used food to describe women's features. There was a hunger to such men that was best avoided.

- Brandon Sanderson: Tress of the Emerald Sea

compilation of all the beautiful illustrations by Howard Lyon in Tress of the Emerald Sea. for the audiobook girlies

If bravery is the wind that makes us soar like kites, fear is the string that keeps us from going too far.

Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

December 09, 2023 - Favourite Page Design

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

August 13, 2023 - Published This Year

Brandon Sanderson || art: Karl Gussow // Jean Claude Kabongo // George Frederic Watts