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island-of-bees · 1 year

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HEY YOU YEAH YOU

If you’re looking for a fantasy book that has:

- copious amounts of ✨unhinged gays ✨

- incredible worldbuilding and immersion into a wonderous mystical society

- great LGBTQ+, religious, disability, and other representation

- an incredible plot where there’s always more to be uncovered

- GORGEOUS illustrations

- a fire-breathing cat

GO READ: Elemestrin by Felix DeLune

(I swear it’s so good I promise)

(Available on Amazon and Barnes&Noble)

You’ll thank me later

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retoreview · 7 months

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The Book Thief: An In-Depth Review of One of the Best Novels of All Time 2023 - retoreview

Introduction: In the vast and ever-expanding literary universe, where countless narratives have been penned and cherished by bibliophiles ar...

#The Book Thief #books #novels #fiction novels #The Book Thief review

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iambookseater · 1 year

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Books to Read: My Three Favorites

The year has started on a good note. I read twenty books in total, five of which are novellas. And among these are three books I know will stay with me for a long time. I love reading, that’s no secret. For me, reading fiction is very much like breathing, with no exaggeration. Yet, most of the time I read and I forget. The characters blur into one another, and stories merge together, making it…

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#a familiar stranger #between the pages of a book #book lovers #Book Recommendations #book reviews #books to read #books to share #books unite us #fiction novels #Readers #the night of many endings #things we never got over

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therogerclarkfanclub · 11 months

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"Vein Pursuits"

Authors: Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle Narrated by: Roger Clark Book Series: Black Badge, Book #2 Length: 11 hours, 2 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023

Listen to a couple of samples below:

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Overview:

The path to Heaven runs through miles of icy Hell …

James Crowley has ridden the road to Crescent City before, but never with companions like these. Never with a woman whose very presence jeopardizes everything he’s fought for over the past two decades.

The swamps are a brutal, nasty place filled with creatures most people think only exist in nightmares and fever dreams. When Crowley, along with Rosa, Bram Stoker, Harker, and Irish stumble upon such a creature, and one of their party finds themselves mortally wounded, they must find help in the most unlikely of places.

But that wasn’t James Crowley’s mission. As a Black Badge, a Hand of God, he’s been tasked with hunting down the worst Hell has to offer, and at Shargrafein’s beckoning, he must suss out the Betrayer—a mysterious being about whom no information is given.

What he finds is something he never could have guessed. The city is overrun with vampires, werewolves, and worse, including an old acquaintance with nothing good in mind.

Meanwhile, Rosa has continued her pursuit to reconnect with her dead husband, Willy Massey. With the help of a Voodoo Queen, she must do the unthinkable. Only Crowley stands between her and a choice that would forever scar her soul. But will he be able to escape the clutches of Hell in order to keep her from destroying everything and everyone in her path?

With the question of right and wrong always nagging at Crowley’s undead heart, he must decide where his loyalties lie in this pulse-pounding sequel to the hit Cold as Hell. The Witcher meets The Dresden Files in this weird Western series by the Audible number one bestselling duo behind Dead Acre.

Vein Pursuits is available from:

Audible ✰ Audiobooks.com ✰ AudiobooksNow.com ✰ AudiobookStore.com ✰ Barnes & Noble ✰ Blackstone Publishing ✰ Downpour ✰ Google Play ✰ Rakuten Kobo

Also available in paperback and hardcover from Amazon, Blackstone Publishing, Barnes & Noble

#roger clark #roger's audiobooks #vein pursuits #roger clark audiobooks #cold as hell #black badge series #james crowley #dead acre #rhett c bruno #jaime castle #westerns #fiction novels

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minutiaewriter · 1 year

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Allow Me To Introduce A Few Of My Other WIPS

I'm not doing a full blog rebrand, ok guys..?

I've just updated my blog colors/pfp + header/switched up the aesthetic a bit.

It’s mostly because I’m dying to embrace and share the part of myself and my new WIPs that got me out of my quite chronic writer’s block, which had lasted for much too long.

I've kept my usual writerblr intro, added a few more things about me, and below are the details on a few WIPs I'd like to share! It’s experimental for me because this is my first venture outside the typical fantasy genre but writing something different has been so healing.

WIPS

Bear with me guys, these are super experimental and not very developed, but take a look and see if anything piques your interest:

Us, Right Now

"Sometimes you don't realize you've lost someone until they've faded before your very eyes." An intimate account of two lovers' quiet descent into turmoil. A recollection of losing a lover.

Focuses more on little details and emotion rather than plot, because I wanted to explore/process the feelings and mindsets one can adopt when they're losing someone, or once they've lost them and have just now realized it.

Lotion

"I can't stop thinking about the way you held me last night."

"What? When did I...?"

The story centers around protagonist Mai, who dreams in crystal-clear color, every detail immaculate--which causes her to mistake her sleeping fantasies as events that have actually occurred in the waking world. Needless to say, chaos ensues.

I'm aiming for this one to be a tad more lighthearted compared to these other two, and to explore what happens when fantasy and reality are no longer distinguishable from one another.

Frogs

A vibrant exploration of youth, adolescence, and the transition to adulthood. So far what I've written hasn't let me in on what the main plot is, but this story contains themes of growing up, losing friends, becoming outcast. The title references one of my favorite quotes, the Japanese proverb "A frog in a well knows nothing of the sea."

And, as always, there's the Hera trilogy, my love letter to the fantasy and science fiction stories that raised me. It's releasing very very soon, in early 2023, so be sure to stay tuned and check out the Hera tags on my blog: #hera: to catch a star and #hera trilogy to see more!

Thanks for reading this far if you did, I'm feeling good about announcing these WIPs. Have some tea and cake... 🍰 ☕

#writerblr #writers on tumblr #writers of tumblr #writerblr intro #writerblr reintroduction #WIPs #current WIPs #tumblr intro #currently writing #aspiring author #writer #fiction novels #fantasy novels #fiction writer #upcoming novels

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whatcha--reading · 2 years

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Top 10 Books Read In 2022

Alright, first post on this blog, absolutely terrifying I guess to start out I'll just do some favorite’s from this year. Top 10 books of 2022 so far:

Babel: An Arcane History by RF Kuang: a fantastic treatise on anticolonialism interwoven with fantastic elements. When linguistics have magic that can be harvested, the British Empire collects foreign students to fuel their war machine. What happens when enough is enough? (cw: racism, child abuse, gun violence)

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix: After a disastrous acid trip, a teen notices strange changes in her friend. What or WHO has gotten into Gretchen? (cw: exorcism, gore, body horror, eating disorder, animal death)

Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum: When Chernobyl melts down, Soviet physicist Anna Berkov, unlocks the ability to time travel. Will she be able to save her family and stop that calamity? (cw substance abuse, nazis, torture, brief police brutality)

The City We Became by NK Jemison: New York City is alive and selected a human avatar who is attacked by a being of cosmic annihilation. Will NYC’s five boroughs be able to protect its champion? (cw xenophobia, homophobia, attempted sexual assault)

Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimoore: No one has seen Sasha’s sister in 10 years. When famous magician Violet Volk vanishes mid disappearing act a decade ago, she hasn’t been found. The whole world is clamoring to know what happened to her but Sasha is just looking for peace.

My Heart Is A Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones: Jade Daniels has spent rhe last 7 years watching every slasher under the sun. When people start dropping like flies in her sleepy Idaho town, she trains the new girl to become the final girl. (cw gore, self-harm/suicide, child sexual abuse)

The Wolf And The Woodsman by Ava Reid: Evike, the only girl in her pagan village without magic is chosen as a blood sacrifice to a despotic king. When the monster hunters escorting her to the capital are attacked on the road, she forms a tentative truce with the captain to prevent an authoritarian coup. (cw gore, self-harm, antisemitism)

When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole: Sydney Greene's neighborhood is changing so quickly. Someone is gone, everytime she blinks. It's just normal gentrification, right? Right? (cw racism, forced hospitalization, police brutality, attempted abduction)

Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev: An update of Jane Austen's Persuasion. In a bid to save her late father's restaurant Ashna enters a reality cooking show to gain exposure.But what will she do when the soccer star celebrity she's partnered with is also the one who got away. (cw marital rape, substance abuse, suicide)

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschotts: When she is left seriously injured by a superhero, a hench woman uses her powers of data analysis to make his life a living hell. (cw violence, abduction, nonconsensual surgery, body horror)

#books #bookblr #fiction novels

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shafershouse · 3 months

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The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

Laura Pearson released on August 4, 2023

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I downloaded this book on my Kindle a while ago and completely forgot what it was about when I chose to read it.

I initially thought it was going to a cute story about how a widow was going to learn through her newfound friendships that she actually loved her late husband more than she thought she did. I thought it was going to be a cute story about the widow, who initially was more of an introverted homebody, would learn to love life and the mistakes that come with it as she inserts herself into her friends' personal lives. I thought there was going to a moment of overcoming homophobia to care for a child who deserved a family.

I was wrong in some ways.

It turned out to be the story of a widow who acknowledged that she loved her late husband -- that there are different kinds of love -- and that life can be built around it. It turned out to be the story of a widow who learned to accept herself and learned to love life again from her newfound friends. She learned that being around people and doing things weren't a bad thing, even in old age. She learned that it brought her closer to her true self that she knew when she was in her early 20s.

And what I find the most fascinating is that even though she was 86 and just then accepting herself wholly, she had no regrets. That's what I think is super important to note.

As much as I loved reading this to learn about Mabel's journey through life, I enjoyed learning about her friends as well. I didn't pick up where the story was going because I wasn't fully paying attention, but it was a quick read and I was pleasantly surprised at where it went.

We all have a lot of love in us and there are so many different kinds of love and we see it presented in this book. It's important to remember that there's so much love and different kinds of love in this world and in our lives. And there is no right or wrong time to accept ourselves and live the way we want to live.

#book reviews #book review #the last list of mabel beaumont #laura pearson #romance books #lgbtq #romance novels #fiction novels #shafers house #avery reviews

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tomavitabile · 3 months

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I’m sitting in P.J. Clarke’s

A neighborhood bar in midtown Manhattan that is known worldwide. It was a favorite watering hole for the Madison Avenue crowd, back when they constituted a crowd. Lawyers and their clients discussed strategy over oysters. Agents and their artists bickered over percentages. P.J.’s opened in 1884 and is a time capsule of a bygone New York. I moved out of the city two decades ago, but just…

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#fiction #Fiction Novels #manhattan #NYC #PJ Clarke&039;s #thrillers #writing process

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writersshitpost · 6 months

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talestreasure · 8 months

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"Discover a world of books at Tales Treasure. Explore a vast collection of bestsellers, classics, and hidden gems. Find your next literary adventure here."

#book #books and reading #romance novels #novels #booktok #fiction novels

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prokopetz · 8 months

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Contemporary Japanese light novels and classic American sci-fi are basically evil opposites when it comes to their titling conventions: both titles will be long and rambling, but the former will be a prosaically descriptive phrase that lays out the story's entire premise, while the latter will be a line from a poem the author liked that tells you absolutely fucking nothing.

#media #literature #light novels #science fiction #sci fi #titles #nameology #tropes #swearing

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catfayssoux · 1 month

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langernameohnebedeutung · 1 year

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ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.

#'all those tiktok girls who only like marvel films and' - why do you always say girls and women? are the guys filling opera halls instead?#'women in their mid 20s who still only read YA novels' okay sure that's an example and relevant discussions can be had #but it reminds me of the mocking tone in which people speak of 'chick-lit' to use women's interest as an indicator of lower value #while in fact women are reading more than men in EVERY single genre of fiction. Women are doing a lot of (often unpaid) labour #supporting libaries supporting theatres supporting cultural events #meanwhile there is a pretty big overlap between toxic masculinity and anti-intellectualism #(especially misogyny and homophobia)#especially when it comes to things like ballet or opera or musical or generally dance #in fact it is often the female investment in specific things that makes them less 'valuable' in general consciousness #for thousands of years the theatre was well-respected and a high form of art - and now it's a 'wife-thing'#the father who will teach his son that theatre and dance are for girls - how is that never an example for anti-intellectualism

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therogerclarkfanclub · 2 years

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"The Beasts They Turned Away"

Author: Ryan Dennis Narrator: Roger Clark Audiobook Release Date: September 27, 2022 Run Time: 7 hours, 22 minutes

Care to listen to a sample of this audiobook? Click on the media player below 👇

Overview:

"Íosac Mulgannon is a man called to stand. Losing a grip on his mental and physical health, he is burdened with looking after a mute child whom the local villagers view as cursed. The aging farmer stubbornly refuses to succumb in the face of adversity and will do anything, at any cost, to keep hold of his farm and the child. This dark and lyrical debut novel confronts a claustrophobic rural community caught up in the uncertainties of a rapidly changing world." ⚠️ CONTAINS MATURE THEMES ©2020 Ryan Dennis (P)2022 Tantor

The Beasts They Turned Away is available from: Audible ✰ Audiobooks.com ✰ AudiobooksNow.com ✰ AudiobookStore.com ✰ Barnes & Noble ✰ Chirp Books ✰ Downpour ✰ Google Play ✰ Hoopla ✰ Libro.fm ✰ Overdrive + Libby ✰ Rakuten Kobo ✰ Scribd

#Roger Clark #roger clark audiobooks #roger's audiobooks #fiction novels #ryan dennis #book: the beasts they turned away #audible #thrillers

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minutiaewriter · 1 year

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#lotion #currently writing #novel aesthetic #story aesthetic #fiction #fiction novels #current WIP #writerblr #writers of tumblr #writers on tumblr #writing community

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