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The art of reading tarot is the art of telling stories. Finding stories, claiming stories, shaping them and making them …
As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the …
boring. cant remember who suggested it to me, but i hate them now.
i won't read a "how to write" book for a long while.
also, the author acts all like girlboss-i-eat-men-for-brekkie and then every single example is from a white cis het dude. lol.
As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: "For centuries …
Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he’s navigated …
it's a teen queer story, but one that feels real for once, unlike some shitty tv series. there is doubt, there is mess, there is poetry, there is sex. but the teen sex, the one full of questions, discoveries, possibly dangerous, but in a naive way. i dont know what dean atta did, but i truly believe he was a 20 years old writing this. lol. anyway, very smooth and lovely read. it's classified as young adult and i found it in the children's section, but for that same reason it costs only £8, which is an amazing deal. eheh!
Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he’s navigated …
took it for the cover. bought it for the prose written like poetry.
@unsuspicious yeah, right? really brought you were others wouldnt even think of going. i loved it.
@unsuspicious i really want to see where Sieh (and the triad) is now and how are they doing.
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Description A chance meeting on a beach. A last-minute rescue. Secret pledges and disapproving family …
Content warning CW: Suicidal Ideation, Brutal Execution attempt,
I was given a free copy of this book with the request to write an honest review.
This is a paranormal sort-of romance with a Happily For Now Ending. It has what I assume are bondage / kink elements, but nothing explicit happens in this book.
Anyway, Lilah (Ey/em + He/Him) has been attacked and become a wereperson (I assume wolf, due to mentions of a snout and "pack" and "cub", but if the word "Wolf" was ever used, I missed it) and ey and eir family live in a country unkind to werepeoples. So when the guards of the country find out Lilah is a wereperson, they capture em and eir family and tie them up to die of exposure / the sun.
They are rescued in time, from nobility from a country much kinder to were people, and Lilah takes an oath to serve. And then the rest of the book is about building the bond of trust (Though ironically not with the siblings) and traveling to where they can be safe.
I left some stuff out, as I'd like y'all to read it.
I think I've said this before, but I really liked the worldbuilding. Basically, Pronouns are Elverson-variants of the Spivak Pronouns (so Ey/Em/Eir) unless you get to know someone. Then you can use their informal, gendered (?) pronoun. So "He" for Lilah, that sort of thing. It's a really cool setup.
I want to say despite the darker subject matter (like suicidal ideation, your very existence being considered at threat) the book gave me warm fuzzies.
I know there will be future books in this series, and I just wish I had ALL of it, Right this second.
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In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger …
this is helping me build stability in in a time of uncertainty. I love doing the exercises :)
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disabled. Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about the last …
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As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant …
“Move thoughtfully,” she whispered. “And bring freedom to others.”
— Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett (The Founders Trilogy, #2)
This resonates with me a lot more than "move fast and break things"
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We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that ‘they’ must never do it again. But who …
This compact volume is a wealth of knowledge on Neapolitan witchcraft, with a primary focus on the folklore behind the …
As Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the …
let's see if this can be a good companion to le guin's carrier bag theory of fiction.
