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“How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?”
― Rachel Kapelke-Dale
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The Ballerinas, Rachel Kapelke-Dale
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The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
My Rating: 3 stars
Many thanks to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for the ARC! This book came out on December 6 2022 and is now available for purchase.
The Ingenue follows Saskia as she returns to her childhood home, the Elf House, upon the death of her mother. This former piano prodigy has mixed feelings about coming back, and things become even more complicated when she finds out the her…
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Reading My Entire Library
The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (2021) (288pgs)
June 11, 2022-June 12, 2022
#reading my entire library#the ballerinas#rachel kapelke-dale#fiction#hardcover#2020s#first time read
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How do we deal with all the people we’ve been? What happens when we have to confront them?
~Rachel Kapelke-Dale
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Rachel Kapelke-Dale
“I’m realizing that no matter where I go, I’l always be missing someone.”
Illustration by Laurent Guidali
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– On Ballet, and Passion, and Pain
"The Ballerinas" by Rachel Kapelke-Dale // Kazuha for ELLE August 2022 // "The death of an artist" by The Michigan Daily // "Tiny Pretty Things" by Sona Charaipotra // “Suspiria” (2018) // "Tiny Pretty Things" by Sona Charaipotra // “Black Swan” (2010) // quote by Edgar Degas // "Ballet Rehearsal", 1873, by Edgar Degas // "Ballet and pain: Reflections on a risk-dance culture", 2011, by Krista McEwan and Kevin Young // "The Toll of Perfectionism" by Claire Angyal // “Pink" on Flickr // "Black Swan" by BTS (2020) // “To A Dancer” by Arthur Symons // “Swan song” definition via Wikipedia
#ballet#balletcore#ballet academia#pointe shoes#ballet aesthetic#pretty and pink#edgar degas#black swan#bts black swan#kazuha#swan song#dancer#dance#dance aesthetic#ballerina#obsession#swan lake#web weaving#web weave#tiny pretty things#martha graham#perfectionism#nina sayers#suspiria#baby pink#coquette aesthetic
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February Wrap-Up
House of Flame and Shadow (Sarah J. Maas) ★★★★
The Heiress (Rachel Hawkins) (audio) ★★★★
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (Heather Fawcett) ★★★★
The Invocations (Krystal Sutherland) ★★★★★
One of Us is Dead (Jeneva Rose) (audio) ★★★1/2
Faebound (Saara El-Arifi) ★★
Flawless (Elsie Silver) ★★★★
The Fortune Seller (Rachel Kapelke-Dale) (audio) ★★★★1/2
Her Little Flowers (Shannon Morgan) ★★★★1/2
Let's be friends over on Goodreads (link)! I'd love to see what you're all reading.
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Mid-year 2022 Five-Star Books!
1. All’s Well by Mona Awad (tw for addiction, college professor puts on a production of All’s Well That Ends Well with mysterious benefactors)
2. We Hunt the Flame and its sequel We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal (Arab-inspired fantasy world)
3. The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (character-driven ballet drama)
4. House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (perfect balance of creepy and feminine)
5. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (everyone already knows this one, I know, but it’s so good)
6. Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl (it’s hard to discuss this one without spoilers, so I won’t, but this author is excellent)
7. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Woman tries to uncover the truth about Vlad the Impaler)
8. The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas (I know I’m late to the party on this, but it’s so good)
9. Unlock Your Storybook Heart by Amanda Lovelace (poetry collection)
10. The Belles by Dhionelle Clayton (What if plastic surgery, but magic?)
11. Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler (retelling of Taming of the Shrew)
12. A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat (Thai-inspired retelling of Les Mis)
13. Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough et al. (retelling of Little Women)
14. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (reread, but newly rated 5 stars, Think Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, but mostly light and fluffy with a gay romance)
15. Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe (retelling of The Tempest)
16. The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal (tw for death of a minor, a group of au pairs experience Paris)
17. Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur (cute lesbian romance, third in a series_
18. Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall (regency gay romance)
19. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden (lesbian romance, quintessential lesbian reading)
20. Sailing by Orion’s Star by Katie Crabb (seriously so good, if you read anything on this list, read this, Les Mis meets Robin Hood set during the Golden Age of Piracy)
21. Gallant by V.E. Schwab (feels similar to Coraline, but less creepy)
22. Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (retelling of the Ramayana, featuring one of its villains)
23. Ballots and Barricades by Ronald Aminzade (academic text about class politics in France during the 1800s)
24. Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman (poetry collection)
25. The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd (woman solves her father’s murder, featuring an old map)
26. Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune (think The Good Place, but gay)
27. Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake (cute lesbian romance)
28. A Bite-Sized History of France by Stephanie Henaut and Jeni Mitchell
29. King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye (retelling of Hamlet)
30. Portrait of a Thief by Grace Li (Heist with an all-Asian cast)
31. Ship of Theseus by Doug Dorst (basically an epistolary text between two college students trying to uncover the identity of an elusive author)
32. Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust (A poisonous princess learns to navigate her world)
33. Macbeth by Jo Nesbo (MAJOR tw for drug use, what if Macbeth was a cop and Hecate was a drug lord?)
34. Guardians of the Louvre by Jiro Taniguchi (translated comic about a man and his experiences in the Louvre and meeting artists)
35. Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf (Scrabble tournament but add murder)
36. Elektra by Jennifer Saint (feminist myth retelling, which is what Jennifer Saint does best)
37. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (wildly acclaimed, triple perspective story about an apothecary who helps women)
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Have you read The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale? I think you'd really like it.
I haven't, but I'll add it to my list!! thank you!! <33
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#arc review#arc reader#arc reviewer#book review#book reviewer#book blog#book blogger#netgalley#st martins press#the ingenue#rachel kapelke-dale#coming of age#suspense thriller#amateur sleuth#literary fiction#upcoming release#upcoming book#upcoming book alert#upcoming book release
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Thursday Book Reviews | Lone Wolf by Gregg Hurwitz (#thriller), The Fortune Seller by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (#WomensFiction), and Not Your Crush’s Cauldron by April Asher (#WitchyRomCom)
Thriller
Thank you @stmartinspress for the free book!
🌹❤️🌹
Lone Wolf by Gregg Hurwitz (Orphan X, Book 9)
One-word review: Incredible
Emojis: 🫣🫢🤫
Rating: 5🌟s
My thoughts:
Lone Wolf by Gregg Hurwitz develops Evan Smoak more than I could have hoped for or imagined. I’ve loved watching Evan get in touch with his humanity book after book, and Lone Wolf showed sides of him I never dared to…
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April 2023 Wrap Up
Butters insisted that he must be in the this month's wrap up pic! 😆 April went by way too quickly. Time's just flying by!
Books Read: 15
Look at all these books! I mean, sure, a lot of them are rereads or picture books, but that's fine! My favorite of the month was Little Thieves, which is just a new favorite in general. My least favorite was The Ingenue, but it was still an enjoyable read. Starred titles are audiobooks and ones marked with ® are rereads.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - 5 stars ®
"The Lifted Veil" by George Eliot - 3 stars
The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale - 3 stars
Snow White by the Brothers Grimm, retold by Paul Heins, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman - 5 stars ®
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave retold by Marinna Mayer, illustrated by Kinuko Y. Craft - 4 stars
The Goose Girl by the Brothers Grimm, retold by Anthea Bell, illustrated by Sabine Bruntjen - 3 stars
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - 4.5 stars ®
Little Thieves by Margaret Owen - 5 stars
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 4 stars
Many Furs by the Brothers Grimm, retold and illustrated by Jacquelyn Ilya Sage - 3 stars
Snow White & Rose Red by the Brothers Grimm, retold by Kallie George, illustrated by Kelly Vivanco - 4 stars
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden - 5 stars
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter - 4.5 stars ®
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys - 4.5 stars ®
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard - 5 stars ®
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It's just all polls. I'm having way too much fun with them.
March Wrap Up
Fairy Tale Retelling Authors Poll
Elizabeth Gaskell Book Poll
Jane Austen Book Poll
Charles Dickens Book Poll
Hyperspecific Poll
Shakespeare Tragedy Poll
Shakespeare Comedy Poll
Shakespeare History Poll
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There's one thing here! Yay! But it's still not the Fairy Tale Friday post for Snow & Rose...oops...
Review: The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
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But hey, there's a Fairy Tale Friday post here at least!
April TBR
The George Eliot Project: Adam Bede
March Wrap Up - 7 books!
The George Eliot Project: "The Lifted Veil"
Currently Reading 4/18/23
The Quarter Year Crisis Book Tag 2023
May TBR
Fairy Tale Friday: The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
#booklr#april wrap up#monthly wrap up#books#wrap up#butters and pippin#except it's actually just butters
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the ingenue by rachel kapelke-dale! i’m really enjoying it
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Mystery/Thriller Monday
Thriller and Ballet. Definitely a good combination.
Ava is a ballerina, and a good one, a great one. She’s the best. And someone is watching her. Add to that the twisty, turny, intense competitiveness of the ballet world and it’s both a disturbing and so much fun read.
I’ve read other ballet novels, and, so, some of the pain, suffering, and even blood wasn’t surprising to me. The characters were all great, some of them more reliable than others. Also, the author kept the plot bobbing and weaving and keeping me guessing, literally until then end. It was a great read.
You may like this book If you Liked: The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale, Temper by Layne Fargo, or The Turnout by Megan E. Abbott
Watch Her Fall by Erin Kelly
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