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Continue reading →: A little bit of lore to get you started
Hello, Dearies! Welcome to my book corner – a little nook for all my ramblings, rants, and otherwise obsessing over the tree ink that I adore so much. For more about me, gander over to ‘The Reader’ page. You’ll find info like my favorite books, why the heck it’s “Book…
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Continue reading →: Travel Companions
The hardest decision while travel planning: what books to bring. The second hardest decision: what to read first.
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Continue reading →: We Are the AntsHenry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button. Only he isn’t sure he wants to. After all, life hasn’t…
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Continue reading →: Where You End
Welcome to the intricate, disquieting world of the Bird twins, where one sister’s lies send the other back into their dangerous past. When Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees her mirror image: Jude, her twin sister. Kat remembers nothing except Jude, who must take on the momentous…
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Continue reading →: Binti
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars…
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Continue reading →: The Greenhollow Duology
I picked both Silver in the Wood and Drowned Country up on a whim from a local bookstore – old magic and Green Man vibes, how could I not? – and disappointed, I was not. They are both novellas, being around 129 and 154 pages respectively, which means they are…
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Continue reading →: 3 Old Forest Magic Duologies for Springtime
Some whimsical duologies with old forest magic and soft romance to breathe some life into your spring. And Hyde, because she’s apparently Mothman’s new book-modeling partner. The Shepherd King Duology (One Dark Window) Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay…
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Continue reading →: Thrum
Ami awakes from years in stasis to find she’s at the edges of deep space, and the only surviving member of her crew. Utterly alone and unable to contact Earth, she sends out a distress beacon, not expecting a response. When she gets one from a being who calls himself…
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Continue reading →: A Cosmology of Monsters
By the time I had checked this out from the library, looked at it promisingly over the top of the other library book I actually prioritized, returned it to the library without having picked it up with the intent to actually start it, and found it as an audiobook on…
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Continue reading →: So ThirstyJust finished So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison, the second of hers I’ve read – the first being Such Sharp Teeth – and thus far I’ve noticed two things. One, she has a consistent, almost monotonous voice. Maybe it’s simply how I read it, but even the action scenes provoke the…
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Hello Dearies
I’m Lyn, lover of fantastical tales and good drink.
Welcome to my book corner.
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