Just finished listening to #IfWeWereVillains by #MLRio. I know it’s early in the year but this is my favourite read so far. I was totally hooked, and while I pieced together how it might end, I was still caught off guard in a good way. The foreshadowing and setup was just 👩🍳
Come with me to one of my FAVORITE local bookstores, Old Firehouse Books! Book haul today was a new release and two off my long awaited TBR
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, September 24
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Oliver and James from “If We Were Villians” by M. L Rio @mlrio.bsky.social
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"Sometimes it's not about being better, it's just about the simple joy there is in being." -CA67-
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And today is all about finding joy wherever & whenever I can 📖 and it starts with beginning a new book.
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#Horror #Fiction
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Bon matin à tous ☕️
The pitch that #mlrio gave to her agent for #HotWax. Interview on the podcast now. #thelmaandlouise #spinaltap
#RalphWaldoEmerson #LailaLalami #EmilyStJohnMandel #JohnMilton #Shakespeare #MLRio #SilasHouse #HankPhillippiRyan #ZosiaMamet #ChristineEstima #RonRindo
Hot Wax is written over a black vinyl record in vivid dripping pink. Quotes are written across the centre of the record and the authors name in written in a white chalk font at the bottom.
Straight from hearing RRs memoir I was hoping to keep that music vibe going. If you want a character with a passion for music, an absentee musician parent and a parent that hates music, who is now having a mid-life crisis, then this is the one for you!
#HotWax by #MLRIO
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📚 #GraveyardShift séduit par son ambiance brumeuse et son mystère subtilement dosé. Entre spleen, insomnie et fascination macabre, #MLRio orchestre une petite fable nocturne qui happe son lecteur jusqu’à la dernière ligne (…)
#Horreur #Thriller #Fantasy
Completed audiobook for Grave Yard Shift by M. L. Rio on a phone in front of a plant
Grave Yard Shift by M. L. Rio- 4/5 ⭐
I have a sweet spot for Rio's writing and her self-insert here. I would have preferred the plot across a Whole novel and a little more worked out, but the prose are good. 4 on the high end but still really good
📚💙🎧🩸⚡ #booksky #bookreview #MLRio #darkacademia
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio (2017): A Review
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SO stoked to finally have an event on the books for Ireland! Big thanks to @easonireland.bsky.social and @headlinebooks.bsky.social @wildfirebooks.bsky.social More details here: ti.to/eason/eason-... #books #mlrio #hotwax
It's episode three of my Botanical Gothic Series! Please check it out and don't forget to like/subscribe/comment and have a wonderful day. Thank you!
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Finished If We Were Villains a few days ago. 4.75/5 🌟. I loved this so much. Weirdly co-dependent college kids is one of my favorite genres. This is right up there with The Secret History.
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Back at it with one I’ve been meaning to get to for a while. Just starting Act II and loving the dark academia vibe. Reminds of The Secret History and The Likeness.
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Falling behind on posting my reads. Another January entry was Graveyard Shift. I loved IWWV, and while this is much shorter and the characters are deprived bc of that, I still love the authors style and dark mood setting. #graveyardshift #booksky #mlrio
#insomnia
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
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Secretly quite impressed it took until day 9 before I failed at this. Here is the window for day 9. Han is back this time with #MLRio #GraveyardShift
Han suggests best enjoyed in the late hours, perhaps whilst on the …
"Since no man knows aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?" I said. ... "James, please. Let be."
The fact Oliver just whips out two pieces of Shakespeare to convince James and it actually works is astounding. I get being a theatre kid but really?
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Holding the novel "If We Were Villains" in SUB Göttingen library, in front of bookshelves filled with old, leather-bound books
A new addition to our #darkacademia collection: M. L. Rio's novel "If We Were Villains" about a class of drama students embroiled in murder and intrigue, with lots of #Shakespeare references & in a beautiful anniversary edition:
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#IfWeWereVillains #MLRio - now a major film!
