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welllpthisishappening · 1 year

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Hey there! You said to message you about what we're reading, and I felt like chatting about that (hopefully you won't mind). I really love hearing your thoughts on various books.

I've been reading the Rokesby series by Julia Quinn (Bridgerton prequels) which I am really having fun with. I'm also reading The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig, Darling by K. Ancrum, Impossible by Nancy Werlin, The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams, The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson, and An Unexpected Earl by Anna Harrington (second of a series called Lords of the Armory) As you can tell, I am really bad at picking just one book at a time!

What are you reading at the moment?

Please come here to talk about books with me whenever. I promise absolutely never mind. And gosh, do you have a lot of things to talk about! I am impressed, honestly. I would never be able to keep all those plots and storylines straight!

I'm a strictly one-book-at-a-time kinda lady. Which is not great for the number of books on my Kindle, actually. Because I have this horrible habit of just downloading them, so I don't forget that I want to read them, and then I wind up with, like, 15 books on there, and I make Justin pick a number as to what I read next or give him a general idea of what the genre is and make him pick from that.

I am horrible at making decisions, you see.

As to what I've been reading recently, I've been a bit all over the place. I mean, there's been kissing in.... all of them, but the type of kissing varies. Some of my recent ones ,though:

the last in a series where someone on this football team falls in love with some quirky™ girl, and the sports descriptions are only kind of incorrect

a historical romance that was truly TOP TIER where the main characters used to flirt in their first season, but then she got married because her father was going to die and he wanted her protected™ but the guy was an unfeeling, uninterested jerk and then he died and now his sister is threatening to take her children away and so she needs to prove there's a responsible male presence in the home, so she and her lawyer!brother devise a scheme to fake an engagement, and who is the perfect candidate for this fake arrangement than her former flirting partner who is now a decided rake and in need of funds???

a set of short stories set in the daevabad verse, which is a fantasy trilogy i read last year and LOVED, but it is INTENSE and the world building is vast and i'm still not sure i understood the first book at all, but the stories were gorgeous and some of them made me cry

the sequel to a modern-day supernatural book that has witches and demons and werewolves and everyone falls in love and i liked the first one way more

another sequel, but this one is part of a series that's a spinoff of a different series and is focused on this one candian family and they own a ranch and everyone is decidedly emotionally stunted and needs heaps of therapy but they fall in love really well and kiss even better and the last one was my favorite because they were idiots! and pining for years! and the dude played hockey

If you can't tell, I've been traveling a lot. And spending a lot of time on team buses. And planes. And, so, I read. When I'm not making more Instagram reels.

#laura reads books #snowbellewells #laura rambles #happy conference tournament week guys!#i will be on another team bus this week #and presumably reading more trashy books 10 feet away from a bunch of college kids

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displayheartcode · 1 year

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hiiiii do u know any books where the ocean is a heavy presence? not just a setting but rather a theme in the book? ive read the seas by samantha hunt & summer of salt and those r good but i want more emphasis on ocean. i just really love aquatic life/the sea in general and would love some fiction books that surround it :3 sry if this is a weird question, ty!!!

it's not weird! here are some books where bodies of water – seas, oceans, lakes, rivers, and the occasional pond – are featured heavily

feel free to add, people!

middle grade

sabriel by garth nix

deep wizardry by diane duane

the wedding planner's daughter by coleen murtagh paratore

paola santiago and the river of tears by tehlor mejia

the girl from the sea by molly knox ostertag

greenwitch by susan cooper

the coming storm by regina m hansen

young adult

the dark tide by alicia jasinska

the scorpio races by maggie stiefvater

a far wilder magic by allison saft

lakelore by anna-marie mclemore

the wicked deep by shea ernshaw

impossible by nancy werlin

monsters born and made by tanvi berwah

the last true poets of the sea by julia drake

adult

the lake of dead languages by carol goodman

into the blue by pene henson

the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune

the ten thousand doors of january by alix e harrow

the starless sea by erin morgenstern (the sea is made of honey so it counts!!!)

ninth house by leigh bardugo

a river enchanted by rebecca ross

into the drowning deep by mira grant

#anyone else need recs?#if i had a nickel for every time a liminal space where a character is between life and death is a river i would have several nickels #and it's a favorite trope!

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postitsandpens · 1 year

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Read in December 2022

108) The Hollow Heart by Marie Rutkoski ★★★☆☆ 109) Memoirs of A Geisha by Arthur Golden ★★★☆☆ 110) The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle ★★★☆☆ 111) The Message in the Hollow Oak by Carolyn Keene ★★☆☆☆ 112) The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow ★★★★☆ 113) The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune ★★★★☆ 114) Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass ★★★☆☆ 115) Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi ★★★★★ 116) Unthinkable by Nancy Werlin - DNF 117) My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick ★★★★☆ 118) Opal by Maggie Stiefvater ★★★★☆

#reading recap #monthly recap #my reading #p&pposts

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searchingwardrobes · 2 years

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Scarborough Fair: 1/?

I know I said that I was going to wait until I finished this to post, but I changed my mind. I spend tons of time thinking about this story - way more time than I've spent actually writing it. So I thought going ahead and posting may give me a kick in the pants. I'm hoping to post weekly, fingers crossed.

I wanted to be extremely clear in the tags what this story entails, but I hope some of you will give it a chance nonetheless. Yes, it's going to have heavy parts, but there will also be swooning and epic true love. You'll also see in the tags that this angst, though heavy, will have a happy ending. So . . . trust me? I hope? Haha. This is a CS AU of the Nancy Werlin book Impossible, so if you're familiar with that book, you know what I mean. When I read it, it broke my heart, put it back together again, and gave me massive CS vibes.

Impossible itself was inspired by the folk song Scarborough Fair. Though the most famous version is by Simon & Garfunkel, there are many versions out there. I tweaked the lyrics to fit this story and the world of Once. Enjoy!

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Emma Swan has had a charmed life, despite being a foster child. She has a wonderful family who loves her, and the best friends in the world. The only thing that mars her idyllic existence is her birth mother: a homeless woman who mutters nonsensical rhymes and claims to be Snow White. One fateful night, however, Emma’s world is shattered. Perhaps her mother’s rhymes aren’t nonsense after all.

Rated: M for date rape, dubious consent, teen pregnancy, and sexy times (the good kind!)

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Chapter One

“O, where are you going?" "To Scarborough fair,"

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

"Remember me to a lass who lives there,

For once she was a true love of mine.

And tell her to make me a cambric shirt,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,

Without any seam or needlework,

And then she shall be a true love of mine.

And tell her to find the town which no one knows,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,

And reunite the lovers there with a kiss ,

And then she shall be a true love of mine

And there she must sow an acre with but one kernel of corn,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,

Upon the seashore before the tide comes,

And then she shall be a true love of mine

Emma saw the rusted shopping cart rattle past out of the corner of her eye. She tried to keep her gaze mostly trained on her friends or on her lunch, but she couldn’t help glancing over towards the fence that surrounded the lunchroom courtyard. Mary Margaret’s long dark hair was matted as usual and laced with drooping, dead dandelions. She had a thing with flowers. And birds. She liked to swipe lawn ornaments for that reason. Propped sideways in the front of her shopping cart was the same chipped and faded bluebird, missing one eye, that she’d had for as long as Emma could remember. The giant pink flamingo was new, though. It rattled against the sides of the cart, banging against the bottles and cans littering the bottom. A whirligig painted like a giant sunflower leaned against the garish flamingo. It spun in the breeze with a faint whir.

Emma forced herself to look nonchalant as she nibbled at her peanut butter and jelly. Maybe it was only a coincidence that Mary Margaret was just outside the schoolyard fence.

“That girl right there! She’s a princess! Princess of Misthaven!”

So much for coincidence. Emma’s gaze lifted and caught Anna’s across the lunch table. Anna arched her brow as if to ask what she could do to help, but Emma was frozen like the proverbial deer caught in the headlights.

“That woman is so weird,” Lily muttered, watching Mary Margaret let go of her shopping cart to clasp the chain link fence in a white knuckled grip.

“Don’t forget who you are! Princess of Misthaven! Daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming!”

Her voice had risen to a shriek, and the teenagers around Emma started to laugh at the homeless woman. A few boys yelled at her to shut up, and one threw his can of soda at her. It clanked against the fence, spraying brown liquid all over Mary Margaret, but the woman didn’t even flinch.

Please don’t say my name. Please don’t say my name.

“Hey, hey you! Emma! I’m talking to you!”

Emma pressed her eyes closed tight. Mary Margaret was so hysterical, it was difficult to understand her, and besides, Emma was a common name. Right?

“Is she yelling at you?” Lily asked, leaning across the table.

“I’m done,” Anna proclaimed, a bit louder than necessary as she jumped up from the table. “Let’s go to the restroom before the bell.”

“Okay,” Lily shrugged and stood up, gathering her tray of barely touched cafeteria food.

Emma followed suit, Anna looping her arm through hers after they’d both tossed their brown paper lunch sacks. Emma’s sister practically dragged her into the school building, and Lily hurried to catch up.

“That blonde right there! The really pretty one!” Mary Margaret continued to yell. “Stop her! I need to talk to her - warn her! You’re too pretty, Emma! Too pretty for your own good!”

That had been Mary Margaret’s obsession this past year and a half - that Emma was too pretty. For some reason, it stung worse than every other crazy thing she had ever said.

“Why was that homeless lady yelling at you, Emma?” Lily asked.

Anna laughed and waved her hand dismissively. “We saw her at the park a couple of weeks ago. We tried to be nice and talk to her, but that was obviously a mistake.”

Hm. Anna was a much better liar than Emma would have expected. Lily seemed to accept it, too.

“Well, I’d go tell the front office if I were you. Maybe the secretary will call the police. That’s harassment.”

Emma only had time to nod at Lily’s suggestion before the bell rang. When the brunette turned her back, Emma mouthed a silent thank you to her sister. As much as Anna could run her mouth, no one in the family would ever breathe the truth about the local homeless lady, the one who claimed to be Snow White.

Because the ugly, embarrassing truth was - “Snow White” was Emma’s mother.

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Ingrid Jones grinned as she saw the name flash across her phone screen. If he was calling her, that could only mean two things. Either he couldn’t reach his brother, or he wanted something. Something he didn’t think Liam would agree to.

“Killian!” she said blithely as she answered. “It’s nice to hear from you.”

“I’m glad to hear that,” he replied, and Ingrid’s lips ticked up into a smile. Yes, he wanted something.

Ingrid closed the files littering her desk and leaned back in her office chair. “How did finals go?”

“Well, I think. I mean, I felt pretty confident about everything but statistics. That class was tough.”

“You’ve always been too smart for your own good. I’m sure you did more than fine.”

Killian chuckled in a self-deprecating way. He was an odd dichotomy of cockiness and insecurity. It was part youth and part the tragedy he was born into.

“Listen, Ingrid,” Killian transitioned, clearing his throat nervously, “there’s been a slight change of plans, and I’m afraid it’s going to throw the entire summer off.”

Ingrid laughed merrily at his typical melodramatics. “Which is it, Killy, a slight change or an atomic bomb to the entire summer?”

Killian ignored the nickname that he only - rarely - tolerated from Ingrid and Anna. “If I wanted someone to tease me, I would have called Liam.”

“Sorry, sorry, what’s the issue?”

“Well, you know that on-campus summer job my roommate helped me get?”

“Yes. The job that broke all our hearts because you wouldn’t be coming home.”

“Broken hearts?” Killian asked, and she could practically feel his smug grin through her phone.

“Of course! Melodramatics are apparently a family trait.”

“In that case, maybe I worried for nothing. The job fell through, which means we have to move out of the dorm. I’ve already gotten a new summer job, it pays even more, actually. It’s just -”

“You need your old room back?”

“Please?”

Ingrid laughed again, able to hear the puppy dog eyes and pouting smile in that one emotionally laden word. The boy could charm his way into - or out of - anything.

“Of course you can, Killy.”

“Liam won’t mind?”

“Not if I tell him I already told you yes. And the girls will be thrilled. If only Elsa wasn’t interning on the Titanic.”

“It’s a research ship in the North Sea, Ingrid.”

“Still sounds like she could hit an iceberg or something.”

“Nope, that’s the Atlantic.”

“It’s really annoying having such smart kids, you know.”

Killian laughed, and Ingrid found her heart filling up at the thought of him being home. Truth be told, she had been a little down lately over her college kids foregoing summer break at home. Summers and holidays were supposed to ease the whole “letting them go” thing.

“If Liam’s not mad about it -”

“You really think your brother will be pissed that you’re coming home?”

“I know he loves me and wants to see me, but we argued over that on campus job when I applied for it. I don’t know, I guess I just didn’t want to hear him rub it in. Or find out he’d finally changed my room into a music room.”

“He’d have to get through me first. I’m the sentimental one, remember? So, what was your other request?”

“Help moving out this Saturday? It’s probably gonna take all four of you, but I really need Liam’s truck.”

“First of all, I find it hard to believe a nineteen-year-old college student has that much stuff. Second, the girls and I can’t help. We’re prom dress shopping this Saturday.”

“Emma’s going to the prom!”

Ingrid thought she heard a thud followed by scuffling noises. “Did you just drop the phone?”

“Uh no, of course not.”

“And you did hear me say girls, plural. Anna’s going too.”

“Oh, like a group thing.”

“No, they both have dates.”

“I knew Anna was seeing that idiot, but since when does Emma date?”

Ingrid sighed and turned her chair towards the window. A spring breeze tossed the leaves of the trees. “The idiot’s name is Hans, and for Emma it’s just a date. She’s a junior. She wants to go to the prom. A guy asked her. That’s it.”

“What guy? I mean, Emma’s always gone on and on about how foolish girls get about boys in high school, and how that’s never gonna be her.”

“His name is Neal Cassidy.”

“And?”

“I don’t know. He goes to school with Emma. They have a few classes together.”

“You mean you haven’t met the guy!”

“Well, no” Ingrid frowned as she watched sparrows flit amongst the branches of the tree. Did Killian have a point? Should she have invited this Neal kid over? It was amazing that after seventeen years, she still second guessed herself at this parenting thing. Even a college freshman seemed to be more concerned about prom than she was. She shook her head at how ridiculous that sounded. Killian had always been over protective of his sisters. He’d gotten into his share of fights over Elsa in middle school when she’d been bullied, he’d crawled through a thorny bush on a camping trip to get to Anna when she sprained her ankle two years ago, and then there was Emma. Perhaps because of the specter that was Mary Margaret, he was particularly protective of Emma.

“Listen, Killian, I know you take the over protective big brother gig very seriously, but I really think you’re making a big deal out of nothing. Emma told me she has no romantic interest in this guy. Common interests, those were her words. Honestly, she sounded like she was picking out a sensible car instead of a prom date. She’ll go, she’ll dance, she’ll eat, she’ll come home. It’s not quite the crisis situation you're imagining. This is Emma we’re talking about. Now Anna with that creep Hans, on the other hand . . .”

Killian let out a shaky breath. “I suppose you’re right. Emma’s the smartest girl I know.”

A voice behind her chair made Ingrid whirl around. Linette, her level-headed yet compassionate human resources director stood there looking a bit dazed, her hands fluttering nervously at her waist.

“Um, Killian, I need to let you go okay?”

“Sure. And thanks, Ingrid.”

“We’re family. No thanks needed.” She ended the call, then focused her gaze on Linette. “Everything okay?”

“More than okay,” the woman replied with a dreamy sigh.

Ingrid narrowed her eyes. In the past twenty years working together, she had never seen her like this. “Just spit it out, Linette.”

“I hired someone.”

“For what? We have no openings!”

“I know.” Linette blinked, as if trying to focus, “but when you meet him . . .”

“I assume this is the lovely director?”

The man standing in the doorway was in no way a heartthrob. He was older, for one thing, with shoulder length, messy gray hair. He also walked awkwardly, leaning heavily on a cane. Yet there was something about him, an aura. Ingrid felt light headed, and a silly giggle tumbled from her lips when the man leaned over her hand and kissed it.

“Charmed, dearie,” he said to her in a dulcet voice.

Ingrid’s gaze was drawn to the amulet about his neck which he touched with long, thin fingers. The longer she gazed upon it, the hazier her thoughts became.

“Now,” he said, putting an arm firmly about her shoulders, “let’s talk about my new position here. More importantly, however, I want to know all about you and your family . . .”

Tagging: (let me know if you wish to be removed or added): @snowbellewells @teamhook @kmomof4 @jrob64 @xhookswenchx @winterbythesea @thisonesatellite @welllpthisishappening @spartanguard @ohmakemeahercules @tiganasummertree @sparlecorn93 @sals86 @pirateprincessofpizza @xarandomdreamx @zaharadessert @huntressandlioness1 @jamif @undercaffinatednightmare @onceratheart18 @sparlecorn93 @sals86 @pirateprincessofpizza @xarandomdreamx @zaharadessert @huntressandlioness1

#cs ff #cs fanfic #captain swan ff #captain swan fanfic #angst #heavy angst #angst with a happy ending #cs impossible au

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mssarahmorgan · 15 days

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Book 23 of 2024: Zoe Rosenthal is Not Lawful Good by Nancy Werlin

This was a damn delight. Zoe has her life all planned out, including how she and her perfect boyfriend, Simon, will apply to colleges together & go to the same place and stay together forever. Just one problem: Zoe can't talk to Simon about her fandom. She starts by sneaking off to one con to see the season 2 premiere of her show. Soon she's made friends, gotten involved in a fan campaign to save the show, and let her lies spiral out of control. This is a love letter to fandom with lots of hijinks and a great, complex main character who (as the title implies) is still learning about who she is.

What to read next: The Princess and the Fangirl, by Ashley Poston, for another delightful YA romp set at a con/in the world of fandom.

#books #books i've read #read in 2024 #ya

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farnwedel · 1 month

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Masterpost - (nicht ganz) 31.12.2023

P.C. und Kristin Cast: House of Night

Bestimmt

Verloren

Entfesselt

Erlöst

Neferets Fluch

Kalonas Fall

Lucinda Riley:

Der Lavendelgarten

Das Mädchen auf den Klippen

Der Engelsbaum

Stefan Wolf: TKKG

Der blinde Hellseher

Die Makler-Mafia

Anschlag auf die Achterbahn

T.M.Williams: The Apocalypse: Undead Winter

Celine Kiernan: Schattenpfade

Angela Dorsey: Engel der Pferde: Kampf gegen die Angst (Comic)

Nicola Cornick: Eine pikante Weihnachtsüberraschung (aka Cornichons)

Gemma Halliday: Mörderische Schlagzeilen

C.C.Hunter: Shadow Falls Camp - Geboren um Mitternacht

Barbara Kingsolver: Flight Behaviour

Angie Westhoff: Die Klapperschlangen

Rache rot wie Erdbeermarmelade

Jungs sind wie Fliegenpilze

Klassenfahrt und rosarote Katastrophen

Eine Bandenchefin sieht grün

Kein Sommer ohne Bandenzoff

Träume sind wie Seifenblasen

Sarah Harvey: Wiedersehen in Stormy Meadows

Katharina Lang: 150 Days to Date

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Die Nebel von Avalon

Nancy Werlin: Der Fluch von Scarborough Fair

Helen Dickson: Ein Ritter für Lady Arlette

Terry Brisbin: Im Bann des verführerischen Feindes

Ella Lindberg: Das Leben braucht mehr Schokoguss

Kiersten White: Flames'n'Roses - lebe lieber übersinnlich

Kate Hardy: Silberner Mond über Venedig

Farnfiction

Adventskalender

2015

2016

2017

2018 (mit Auflösungen)

2019

2021

2023 (Adventskranz)

#intermezzo #masterpost

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booksformks · 2 years

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Book Review: Healer and Witch

Healer and Witchby Nancy Werlin (Goodreads Author) 4 out of 5 stars This YA fantasy takes place in the Middle Ages, and Sylvie is terrified that an Inquisitor from the Holy Catholic Church could denounce her as a witch. She has a special ability to heal which she believes is from God, but being a good Christian won’t save her from being killed as a witch if the wrong people find out about what…

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#book #book review #books #fantasy #fantasy book #fantasy books #fantasy novel #fantasy review #read #reading #review #ya fantasy

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icedteaandoldlace · 8 months

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Last night I dreamed I was watching a Flash AU where Kamilla was under some sort of curse, and the only way to break it was for someone to complete a series of impossible tasks for her, and she was just resigned to the fact that no one would ever break the curse or even try to because it was too hard. But she told Cisco about it shortly after they started dating, and he decided he was going to be the one to complete the tasks and free her from the curse, but he wasn't going to tell her what he was doing until afterward, because he didn't want to get her hopes up in case he failed. And the story was heavily Barrisco (platonic) centered, because he had recruited Barry to help him figure out ways to accomplish the tasks.

There were maybe five or seven tasks in all, and I can't remember what all they were, but he had already completed three of them before I woke up, and they were all things that would be easier for him to do if he and Barry had their powers, but this was set in a world where metahumans don't exist. I do remember that the third task was to travel through time, and everyone in the audience was expecting Barry to develop super speed and run back in time and take Cisco with him, but instead they went to this place at the border between Michigan and whichever state is just west of it, called like The Gateway of Time, or The Passage Through Time, or something like that (which in the dream was a real thing in our world that was a big tourist attraction). And it was this arch that you could see just a bright light through, and if you passed through it at a certain time, you would be walking from full darkness of night to that short time between sunset and dusk, when you can't see the sun anymore but it's still light out. The time on the clock would also say it was earlier than it was in Michigan, because you had entered a different time zone (which I'm pretty sure is inaccurate but it was a dream).

And the first or second task, which he completed on accident, was to survive something deadly, which everyone expected to be the Reverse Flash killing him, but instead that one happened when he was crossing a rough river and got sucked in and drowned, but Barry pulled him out and resuscitated him.

So basically, Cisco was completing all these tasks by exploiting technicalities and finding loopholes, like the plot of Nancy Werlin's Impossible, and the final task was gonna be something big that involved facing off with EoWells (who had cast the curse in the first place), and once again it was something where everyone was expecting superpowers to finally come into play, because Vibe could've handled it easily, but Cisco was gonna solve it some creative other way, and it was gonna be really cool and exciting, and I wish I knew what it was.

There was also a side plot where Mae Whitman (as a mix of Lindsay and Annie) played a high school student who got a bunch of homophobic bullies together and made them sing songs about Jesus turning their life around to guilt them into not bullying anymore, and it was awkward and hilarious and it actually worked. I have no idea why this was happening in the same story, but they were connected somehow.

#dream #The Flash #Cisco Ramon #Kamisco #and now I have Scarborough Fair stuck in my head because Impossible #it's a great book btw

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winningthesweepstakes · 2 years

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Healer and Witch by Nancy Werlin

Healer and Witch by Nancy Werlin, Candlewick, 2022. 9781536219562 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 4.5 Format: Hardcover Genre: Historical Fantasy What did you like about the book? France. 1531. Sylvie’s Grand-mere, a wisewoman healer, has just died. Fifteen-year-old Sylvie, leaves her mother, also a healer, in search of a wisewoman healer to help her undo the harm she has…

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dangerously-human · 1 year

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Tagged by the one-of-a-kind @grimaom, thanks bestie <3

comfort movie: Honestly I'm not really one to watch a movie when I'm stressed? I was going to say The Princess Bride because I don't think I'm capable of being upset while watching that movie, but the actual answer is probably more like Inception, and I don't really know what to do with that.

comfort book: I mean, the Bible is probably cheating for this one, even though I do really like reading the Psalms when the anxiety is getting to me. I think the best answer is Impossible by Nancy Werlin, I find myself rereading my favorite sections of that book a lot.

comfort food: Bring on the carbs!! Mashed potatoes or mac n cheese if possible, though tbh it's been Wawa soft pretzels lately. And chocolate, I am a big believer in keeping emergency chocolate around for times of need, especially stressful work days.

comfort clothes: Now that I work from home a lot more, I've finally embraced sweatpants and dang, there really is no going back, is there? I got a sweatshirt in the airport on the way back from Ireland and that's been a favorite, or the old Phillies sweatshirt my grandparents gave me in early high school, which is great because it's big enough that I can do the flappy thing with the sleeves.

comfort game: I don't actually play video games for comfort (because I don't actually own any? Sad), but if I did, it would probably be Animal Crossing.

comfort show: New Girl! I've seen every episode at least two dozen times and can quote most from memory.

I tag: @loubuttons, @contagiousgrace, and @clawedandcute, no pressure though!!

#personal

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ninja-muse · 3 years

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The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England was starting to bug me, so I put it aside last night and binged this to clear my brain! Zoe Rosenthal Is Not Lawful Good contains:

a Jewish MC

an aroace enby

an autistic guy

the greatest show nobody’s heard of

multiple comicons

bullet journals

Master Plans

the lies we tell ourselves

technically legal kidnappings

found family

so much cosplay

a definite good time

#books #booklr #bookblr #book covers #book photography #young adult #ya #fandom ya #new releases #book recommendations #zoe rosenthal is not lawful good #nancy werlin #read in 2021 #my photos

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starrlikesbooks · 3 years

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Check out these new books!

I’ve actually read more than half of these already thanks to a lot of bingeing this year 😅 But that means you know I mean it when I hype them!

As always, you can check under the cut for more on each

Sistersong by Lucy Holland is a retelling of a British folk ballad and stars an ancient magical Britain. Apparently this book is not just about sisterhood but also gender identity and destiny. It’s also marketed for fans of Madeline Miller so, of course, I’ve got high hopes from that alone.

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland is a truly unsettling horror novel I’ve already had the chance to read. If you liked Wilder Girls or Sawkill Girls you’ll probably enjoy this book of sisterhood, paranormal secrets, and aggressive nature. Following 3 sisters who disappeared for days when they were childen, only to return different and with unexplainabl abilities, and the search for the oldest when she disappears yet again.

Zoe Rosenthal is Not Lawful Good by Nancy Werlin is a cute, fandom filled coming of age story. Zoe prides herself on being logical and organized- just like her boyfriend- which is why she’s so desperate to hide her silly obsession with a scifi show. I’ve already read this one, and I absolutely love the fandom friendships, the light hearted silliness of it all, and getting to see Zoe come into her own.

The Light of the Midnight Stars by Rena Rossner I’m super excited for because I loved her novel The Sisters of Winterwood. Like that one, this book is historical Jewish fantasy, and I’m certain it’s going to be just as lush and well written. Her stories feel like hearing a folk tale at the foot of a fireplace, and I think everyone needs that coziness and beauty in their life.

Kate in Waiting by Beck Albertalli was my first real experience with the author and now I think I get what everyone’s been talking about. This is a story about friendship and independence on a backdrop of a shared crush, and as, well, silly as the summary sounds this book feels so real. The romance is also pretty cute!

Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen O’Neal I’ve been waiting to finally come out since last year! If you like internet friendships, chronic illness rep, and werewolves, boy oh boy do I have your new favorite book right here. If lycanthropy treated as a genuine medical condition and an excellent portrayal of modern friendship isn’t enough for you, there’s also a tumblr-based discord (I kid you not) that shows up to rick roll you.

Enjoy these books- I know I did! What other books are you guys looking forward to?

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