Not the general consensus but this is my very favorite of the Slightly series!

Bitterblue is under the radar SUCH a dark and dystopian book.

I love Fire (and Cashore’s writing in general) - this is what I would like all romantic fantasy to be like, complex and beautiful.

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Items relating to a vague "dark academia" aesthetic with recommendations to read: Powerless by Lauren Roberts, Blood over Bright Haven by ML Wang, Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, Blood Trials by N E Davenport, Crave by Tracy Wolff, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Babel by RF Kuang, An Education in Malice by ST Gibson, A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik, The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Items relating to a vague "cottage core" aesthetic with recommendations to read: Prison Healer - Lynette Noni Honey Witch - Sydney Shields Emily Wilde - Heather Fawcett The Fair Botanists - Sarah Sheridan Chalice - Robin McKinley Late Bloomer - Mazey Eddings Iron and Embers - Helen Scheuerer This Poison Heart - Kalynn Bayron The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier

Items relating to a vague "queer/rainbow" aesthetic with recommendations to read: Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Faebound by Saara El-Arifi The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri The Sunbearer Trials - Aiden Thomas The Song of Achilles- Madeline Miller The Lesbianas Guide to Catholic School- Sonora Reyes Juno Loves Legs - Karl Geary

I present to you, #bluesky loves, book recommendations based on the vibes you bring to the function.

PSA: these are just for fun. You can bring any and all vibes.

Hope you like them, I got carried away and they took me 8h to make 😅

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I love Beauty so much although my number 1 Robin McKinley million reread is The Blue Sword.

Love IA and extreme competence is really their hallmark, isn’t it?!

I loved Tainted Cup and can’t wait to read Drop of Corruption!

Same. SAME. I’m just tucking them on the shelf in hopes I can watch without vomiting/bawling some day in the future.

Some people start canning during times of turbulence; I’ve started stockpiling DVDs like the long winter is upon us. #dvd #nostreamingnoproblem

Even though I knew the end is so so so excellent.

Kingfisher and Fawcett are two of my favorites! Great stack.

The Coelura is an aggressively early 80s novella by Anne McCaffrey and it is honestly very weird and not very good, but can we bring back the era of the lavishly illustrated space opera? #AnneMcCaffrey #BookSky

I love this book so much! Great audiobook, too. More badass 40year old women with sore knees, please.

My 8 year old, who just wrote a report on sloths, inform me that they only poop once a week…because it’s too much effort to come down the tree. That’s an energy I can endorse.

Yeah completely agree with this - I think it’s absurd to argue that people should continue to spend money through Amazon solely because Indie authors have chosen it as their exclusive market. I’ve never subscribed to KU and moved all my purchasing (book and otherwise) off Amazon 6 months ago.

This is by no means a great book but it is compulsively readable. It is aimed squarely at the ACOTAR market with an impoverished young female heroine entering a brutal far world with aggressive side helpings of fancy balls and rampant cruelty, as well as not one but two immortal love interests.

Ooh I haven’t read this one yet! I am not a horror reader in general but her brand of cozy horror is more palatable to me.

Or start with Wizard’s Guide! Theoretically middle grade but I think hits for everyone.

*deep inhale* Nettle and Bone is a great standalone with her signature humor, touch of horror, and humanity (the first chapter feels a little more horror ish but doesn’t continues into the rest of the book). The Paladin series is great low romantic fantasy with likable middle aged protagonists.

T Kingfisher never really misses but this has to be one of my favorites! I read it in one carb-craving sitting on vacation and then passed it off to my third grader. She loved the magical gingerbread man and sourdough Bob - how can you not! What’s your favorite Kingfisher book? #BookSky

Software engineer husband and I occupy very different parts of the internet but sometimes we hit that middle part of the Venn diagram and he’s got my back.

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.

For my booksta/booksky people with books on kindle - get going on your downloads before Feb 26! The option to download your books to computer will be removed soon. www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

Photo of the book Band Sinister held up against a window with snow barely visible in the background.

There’s never a bad time to read KJ Charles but after a strenuous clinic morning and more appalling public health news this seems like a particularly fine time to read aggresssively. Also it is snowing.

Yes! And then you get to the back of the backlist which is all the great historical romance authors that have fallen off social media radar! Jo Beverley, Mary Balogh, our queen Meredith Duran, Loretta Chase, our also queen Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas, Queen of angst Sherry Thomas…

Happy book birthday to Emily Wilde #3! Very tickled to find a signed copy at Third Place Books.

There is such a beautiful combo of skills on display here - garment construction AND quilting AND embroidery AND beading. This layering of techniques is what gets me really excited about some garments and this one is worth swooning over.

How is your Magnolia Sword experience?? I will accept magnificent, scintillating, and swoon-inducing as appropriate responses.

No carrion!

The enchantment of having this only an hour away from Seattle just never gets old.

Having read Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death I knew Maria Vale’s take on wolf shifters would be wild but I was not anticipating JUST how deep she would go. Enjoying myself tremendously.