Read MISLAID IN PARTS HALF-KNOWN by Seanan McGuire if you love thrift stores, maple syrup, reunions, mischiefs of magpies, classrooms, nonsense, running as fast as you can, dinosaurs, goblins, beautiful girls, seeking justice, vegetarian food, croquet, crushes, and goodbyes.
For #DecRecs 18, allow me to DecRecommend Ed Yong's book 'An Immense World', which is a fascinating exploration of how animals perceive the world, and what sensory perception is, anyway. I picked it up a year and a half ago, because I LOVED 'I Contain Multitudes' and respect Yong's work as a scientific journalist enormously. But I've never cracked it until now, and I don't even regret delaying, because now it means I get to enjoy his work over this break!
Read LOST IN THE MOMENT AND FOUND by Seanan McGuire if you love trauma narratives, grief, the uncertainty of childhood being exploited, magpies, lost things, found spaces, running away, the moment everything changes, teeth, journals & the addiction of novelty.
Read ACROSS THE GREEN GRASS FIELDS by Seanan McGuire if you love horses, centaurs, satyrs, fauns, minotaurs, kelpies, unicorns & all manner of hoofed creatures; secrets, expectations, destinies, best friends, found family, ridiculously soft denim, breaking cycles & going to the fair.
Read COME TUMBLING DOWN by Seanan McGuire if you love horrifying murder worlds, reanimation, lightning, body swapping, revenge, heros, actions having consequences, bone ponies, the last vestiges of sanity, cruel light, killing dark, deep sea terrors & endings.
Read IN AN ABSENT DREAM by Seanan McGuire if you love ordinary & remarkable children, goblin markets, birds, besties, delicious pies, wanting & needing, losing yourself in books to avoid the pain of reality, loopholes, pencils, fair trade, being sure, sisters & debts.
Read BENEATH THE SUGAR SKY by Seanan McGuire if you love girls falling from the sky, human statuary, confectionery delights, turtles, quests, soda pop, time travel, spirits, nonsense, mermaids, bones, bakers, and righting wrongs.
Read DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES by Seanan McGuire if you love emotionally absent parents, horror movies, creepy twins, blood moons, running through the moors, pretty girls, mad scientists, learning to be yourself, wearing gloves, avoiding eye contact & playing dress up.
Read EVERY HEART A DOORWAY by Seanan McGuire if you love pomegranates, what happens after, boarding schools, wearing black, murder mysteries, attics full of books, creepy girls, beautiful boys, Wonderlands, Underworlds, hope, hurt, finding doors, dancing bones, and being sure.
Read THIS COULD ALL BE DIFFERENT by by Sarah Thankam Mathews if you love first jobs, immigration narratives, queer love, building community, restaurants, fishing for memories, terrible landlords, recessions, navigating white America as a POC, lofty dreams & planting seeds.
Read VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE by Isabel Cañas if you love interesting vampire lore, supernatural western historical romances, colonialism narratives, sneaking around at night, class dynamics, young love, big dreams, grief, salt, rosemary, coming home, Yanquis as villains, and desert road trips.
Read THE MEMORY THIEVES (Conjureverse Book 2) by Dhonielle Clayton if you love New Orleans, secrets, rewriting history, perfume, pandemic narratives, elections, familial legacies & the passing down of knowledge, standing up to oppression, fear responses, uncovering the truth & masks.
Read THE MARVELLERS by Dhonielle Clayton if you love magic schools, jollof rice, The Underworld, floating cities, best friends, diverse cultures, starlight, twilight, integration, mysteries, something new, feeling different, maps, spices, creepy dolls, and circuses.
Read HEARTSONG by TJ Klune if you love sad gay werewolves, finding your way home, eyeglasses, memories, trauma narratives, ace love interests, sitting beneath trees, the scent of lake water, traditions, loss narratives, crackers, and waves of blue.
Good morning, @bookstodon , just popping in to remind you that 'The Betrayals' by Bridget Collins is FUCKING BRILLIANT.
(Still only half done, but I have never resented needed to go to work as much as I do this morning.)
Read OPEN THROAT by Henry Hoke if you love big cats, the big city, small towns, scarcity narratives, poetic prose, trying to understand people, queerness, crises, fear, hunger, loneliness, developing the language to describe your existence, the American hard rock band Slaughter, adaptation & longing.
Finished Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles this morning. I went in expecting a book about the outdoors and was pulled into a book with a diverse cast of historical women in history and their affinity for the outdoors. Highly recommend this short book on women's history. I came away with much more than I anticipated for 128 pages.
I finished All Boys Aren’t Blue today. What a powerful memoir. I’m so glad George M. Johnson got to tell their story and wrote a book for the next generation of queer black kids to let them know that they are not alone and they deserve to do more than just exist. #bookrecs#bookstodon@bookstodon
Dear Hollywood, for the sake of Clever Natalya, please settle your labour dispute and immediately adapt M. A. Carrick's Rook and Rose trilogy into a twenty-eight-part series so I can see the costumes realized on people.
Anyone else: I don't know actors, but if you want to cast Vargo, Ren, Grey, Tess, Varuni, and the rest of them, I would be THRILLED to see some pictures.
Not a horror fan & up to my earlobes in TBR stuff right now, so likely won't read but goddamn I Iove this short take! TY!
(I swear if I read another blurb or review with the words "real page turner" "couldn't put it down" and/or "quirky characters" in it I may cough up something unpleasant.)