Women of Myth by
@jennywilliamson.bsky.social & @gennmcmenemy.bsky.social
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: N/A
A wonderful collection of myths with feminist perspectives and insight. Great for mythology nerds and those just dipping your toes in.
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Murder by Memory by @oliviawaite.com
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: N/A
Such an amazing, imaginative story. It's short, but holy cow does it pack a lot in without ever feeling confused or rushed. Murder in space with queer and noir sprinkles!
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Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver

God this poem is haunting me again.

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Oh Bartholomew, it was most splendid! Interesting characters, world building through narrative not exposition, a story that had me gasping out loud in public places.

Full review:
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Pack Darling by Lola Rock
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Spicy fun omegaverse told in two parts. The first part is about trauma and breaking down, the second part is about healing and putting things back together. I loved it!
Full review:
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Dear Sylvia, Love Jane by Erin Hall
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️
A fun sapphic twist on the noir genre. It starts with a "and then she walked in..." moment. And then there's mystery and danger and tangled secrets.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Rating: ⭐⭐
Spice: None
I liked it, I didn't love it. It's probably more about me and the world right now. It's an okay book in the end. Fun, sometimes funny, often problematic, easy to read.
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Galatea by Madeline Miller
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️
I can't believe she fit this much story in so few pages. A beautiful statue brought to life and gifted to her creator as a wife. It touches on agency, cold perfectionism and sacrifice.
Full review:
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Dire Bound by Sable Sorenson
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Rating: ⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
It was fun but predictable and a bit too formulaic. Loved the wolves. Wish there was more of their story. All the romantasy tropes are here, but it feels like they were just shuffled
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Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: None
I loved this book so much. It's a story of a girl named January, her dog named Bad and all the doors they step through. Another wonderful book by Alix E Harrow
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Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🙅‍♀️
Like Princess Bride but in reverse. The prince goes missing, the window washer heroine sets out to save him. Charming, easy to read, engaging and fun.
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Alchemised by SenLinYu
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Rating: DNF😢
Spice: 🤷‍
It wasn't bad, well written and engaging. But too graphic and just a bit too triggering for me. Especially the medical trauma and being incapacitating while things are being done to the FMC
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Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️
A living retelling of the Psyche and Eros myth. The characters felt alive and the sprinkling of romance was very nice.
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I'm doing a reread of this book for book club and remembering why I love it so much all over again!

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I'm about half way through this one and loving it so far!

Bunny by Mona Awad
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️?
self aware fever dream about the process of creation, how pretentious and shallow the artist community can be. About how visceral, in a very literal sense, the act of creation can be.
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About 3/4 of the way through this book and starting to enjoy it. It took me awhile to really get into it but I'm liking it now.
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Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️🌶️
I absolutely adored this book. About an astronaut candidate in 1980s NASA. There so much love in this book. It's one of those reads that changes you for having read it.
Full review:
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Theirs for the Holidays by Eva Ashwood
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

Plus sized FMC, her ex is getting married to her sister. And three brothers start a fake-dating scenario to try to help her out.
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Listening to the first few chapters over again. There was so much in this book. And so much I missed the first time through.

Finished Bunny! There was so much in that book. I absolutely loved it though. I'm going to bake another batch cookies and go back and listen to the beginning now that I know how it ends.
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Making oatmeal raisin cookies and finishing bunny this morning.

Baking cookies and listening to Bunny by Mona Awad
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I finished The Gingerbread Bakery by Laurie Gilmore. It was a cozy fun holiday romance. Very much Stars Hollow with more sprinkles, but also surprisingly nice spice.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Spice: 🌶️🌶️
Full Review:
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Just silly me... in my favorite bookstore. In a skirt that literally has holiday ornaments on it. Yes... I make jingling noises when I wiggle.

I'm going to try to get back into the habit of posting little book snippets here.
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Currently reading "Theirs for the Holidays" by Eva Ashwood. I'm about a third of the way though. Absolutely loving it! Mildly spicy so far, but you can tell it's coming!

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omg Theo looks soooo dang good here! ❤️❤️❤️🔥