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Out In The Wild no.16 featuring The Realm in Florence.

Visited;

🇮🇹 The Cattedrale Di Santa Maria Del Fiore (Duomo)

🇮🇹 The Le Gallerie degli Uffizi

Florence was a new city I had never been to before and a place I will definitely have to go back to.

Keep an eye out for pictures of The Realm in different cities across the northern hemisphere.

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pov: soaking up the sun☀️

#finished immortal longings and CANT BELIEVE i have to wait for the next two books #i get why a lot of people didn’t like this book #but i am a simple gal and enjoyed the hell out of it #booklr #books #book #reading #bookish #mine #bookblr #reading outside #current read

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JOMP BPC - 22nd April - Three Word Title

A beautiful little book of short nature poems - the spells - with gorgeous illustrations by Jackie Morris. Standing next to a Californian poppy that opened this morning.

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books + peaceful reading destinations. 🌿

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The Devourers by Indra Das is a richly written, artistic fantasy telling the story of shapeshifters who have lived in India since the Taj Mahal was first being built. A young professor named Alok meets a mysterious stranger who insists he's half-werewolf. He asks the professor to type up two manuscripts for him—manuscripts that tell the story of a human woman named Syrah who lived 200 years before them, a woman who became the object of a shapeshifter's deadly desire.

It's a book about greed, about a relentless, single-minded desire to violate and conquer. It is slow-paced yet difficult to put down, a slowly unspooling mystery, a mythological story that feels epic, historical, bloody, visceral. It's impressively new and feels very grounded in a sense of its own ancient folklore. It reminded me of NK Jemisin's talent for carving a world that feels convincingly, terrifyingly real and old.

I will mirror some reviewers' thoughts that at times the descriptions of bodily fluids could be a bit much. The amount of "piss" I understood, they're animals, there's a certain marking of territory. But there was so much of it. Part of me also wondered how necessary Fenrir's part to the book really was. The narrative picks up tremendous momentum once we begin Syrah's story, and I struggled to get a sense of what Fenrir really wanted. I almost wonder if it would have been better for us to get his journals within her portion of the narrative.

Still, I've been wanting to read this book for a long time, and wasn't disappointed. The explorations of trust, sex/physicality, gendered violence, and queerness, alongside an interpretation of werewolf as a being with two selves, two skins, was fascinating. I really enjoyed this read despite its difficult topics, and am so glad to have finally gotten to it.

Heavy content warnings for sexual assault, body horror. Also for homophobia, violence, physical abuse.

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Cozy autumn days make me want to sink into a good book and put off all of the work I have to do for my actual job 🍁📖

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even the pages are pink

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Recent bookish endeavors <3

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this book felt like a love letter to the PNW ⛰️🌲

#sammy espinoza’s last review #tehlor kay mejia #booklr #books #book #reading #bookish #mine #book recs #book recommendation #reading outside #bookblr #library book

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books and tiles around lisbon

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge

February 05 - Pink Books 🩷

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Peeta: *tells Katniss his favorite color*

Katniss, 5 seconds later:

Underrated everlark moments 3 / 2 / 1

#and that's LOVE #thg

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commute views 🌤️

#I’m obsessed with taking the shuttle to work #my reading has increased tenfold #booklr #books #book #reading #bookish #mine #currently reading

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Hello! Any book you read recently that you didn't like but finished anyway? 😅

oh gosh, unfortunately I do this quite often because I really struggle to dnf 🥲 most recently I did this with King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St Claire and All the Feels by Olivia Dade.

Even if I’m not enjoying it I will wait it out in case it gets better / to see how it ends. i feel like i can’t really say i didn’t enjoy a book if i didn’t see it all the way through

thanks sm for the ask!!!! heartbreakingly a relevant question

#i know if i dnfed more i could get to more books in general #but i just can’t bring myself to #luckily been a pretty good year though! #less should’ve-dnfed than usual #asked and answered #books #reading #dnf

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A wonderful maze of books.

Book Barn in Niantic, CT. There’s three Book Barns, this is just the third location.

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🌲🌲🌲 🚗 Road Trip Reading! 🚗 🌲🌲🌲

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JOMP BPC || April 30 || Read In April:

What Feasts At Night by T. Kingfisher ★★★★

Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver ★★★★★ [RR]

A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian ★★★★

Unlikeable Female Characters by Anna Bogutskaya ★★★

Dragon Post by Emma Yarlett ★★★★

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures Vol. 2 by CRC Payne ★★★★

War of the Foxes by Richard Siken ★★★★ [RR]

Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson ★★★

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott ★★★★★

The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale ★★★★★

Guardian Vol. 2 by Priest*

*Guardian is still being read but I'm 99% sure I'll finish it before midnight so it belongs here! Probably going to be a 4 star read as it goes.