To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
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I'm hyped! I'll be picking Menewood up asap. Thank you for all you've put into these books!
The cover of the novel Hild by Nicola Griffith, showing a young woman dressed in chainmail with wisps of hair escaping against a forest backdrop.
I thoroughly enjoyed Hild by @nicolaz.bsky.social ! The historical detail about daily life was so vivid--I don't think I've ever felt so clearly what it might have been like 1,000+ years ago. But my favorite was just Hild existing in nature. I couldn't get enough of those bits. #booksky 📚💙
This is a very difficult read, TWs galore, including child sex abuse. It's so much worse and more deeply messed up than I thought (which was bad enough). I appreciated how well written and thoughtful this piece is. I hope his son and his victims are doing OK.
This isn't a hot take or anything, but my goodness, Terry Pratchett was brilliant. Currently reading Feet of Clay and it's sneakily blowing my mind. #booksky 📚💙🪐
Starting off the new year right with a flurry of Terry Pratchett. Finally got hold of Wyrd Sisters, so I'm excited to spend the next few days hanging out with Granny Weatherwax!
Oh fun! Here goes:
Mossflower
I Shall Wear Midnight
Ring of Endless Light
Alanna: The First Adventure
Navigator's Children
Deerskin
Amber Spyglass
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
I come back often to the quote about believing in the Hogfather and the tooth fairy as practice so you can later believe in love, duty, and justice. ❤️
Good choice! Don't miss reading The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms eventually, but this is a lovely book to layer in there, one of my favorites.
"It becomes a great, twisted thing of dark leaves and thick, winding vines that chokes and withers whatever good things grow in your heart; it feeds on all the hatred your heart can bear-- That is what is in me."--Patricia A. McKillip
Seriously if you haven't read this, do it now.
"How did you hate? Did you nurse revenge from a tiny, moon-pale seedling in the night places in your heart, watch it grow and flower and bear dark fruit that hung ripe--ripe for the plucking? ...
"I gave it to you with my name that night and you are its guardian, to treasure it, or let it wither and die. I do not understand you. I am angry with you. I am hurt and helpless, but nothing would fill the ache of the hollowness in me where your name would echo if I lost you."--Patricia A. McKillip
"What do you think love is--a thing to startle from the heart like a bird at every shout or blow? You can fly from me, high as you choose into your darkness, but you will see me always beneath you, no matter how far away, with my face turned to you. My heart is in your heart ...
Cover of The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip, featuring a cover illustration by Thomas Canty showing an ivory-haired woman standing with a dragon, falcon, lion, and cat.
I just finished The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip and I am so angry with myself that I slept on this book for so long. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed the actual act of reading words so much--it was so beautifully written!
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Me: 2025 will be the year I really work on my TBR list!
Also me: *giddily adds books to TBR list before January 1*
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🦊You can now buy signed and dedicated copies of Reynard of Fox from my Etsy shop - just in time for Christmas! The perfect stocking filler! 🦊
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Folks, I've got trouble! My workhorse writing/bookcreating Macbook has developed keyboard & (just now) power issues that mean it's got to go into the shop pronto. Can I point you (tho not UK folks, sorry) at some ebook bundles to help defray the cost? Thanks! (& repost plz?) dduane.link/EBDBundles
1. A teacher in Ohio who has worked at the same public school for 34 years was suspended without pay and threatened with termination for offering four books in her classroom library that contained LGBTQ characters.
She's fighting back.
Clay's Ark messed me up! (Side note for anyone new to the Patternist series: I recommend reading in publication order.)
Having read the sequel, I thought I was prepared, but I was not. This was brutal and unputdownable. She was a prophet. #booksky 💙📚🪐
Front cover of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, showing a stylized image of a Black woman in a red dress
A few years ago, I read Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents because I had picked up the ebook at some point. But I still haven't read Parable of the Sower! Now that I have both on my shelf, time to fix that...
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Just finished The Sword of Kaigen, which I loved for its action but also for the way the emotional weight of the story actually has a chance to breathe. After this and Blood Over Bright Haven, I cannot wait to see what M.L. Wang (a fellow Knox College grad!) writes next! #booksky 💙📚🪐
Terry Pratchett, stat. Or anything by Becky Chambers!
My daughter checked out the first Phoebe and Her Unicorn by @danacorn.bsky.social at the library but lost interest (she's a bit too young). Husband and I keep checking them out to read ourselves. They are always a bright sparkly spot in our week--and we can always use those. #booksky 💙📚🪐
Yes! Blue Turtle is my go-to reading music for fantasy books. 💙 📚🪐
As an English major back in the day, I've had my share of forays into medieval lit, but I've never enjoyed any so much as Anne Louise Avery's vibrant and thoughtful retelling of Reynard the Fox. I'm 80 pages in and it's such a delight. Thank you for this @annelouiseavery.bsky.social ! #booksky 💙📚🪐
