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books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 135
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
“Rose asked me why I was not more surprised by your feat. I told him the truth: in order to be surprised, I could not have known already that you are capable of anything.”
literature moodboards: station eleven by emily st. john mandel
“i stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life”
books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 132
Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova
“Stupid witch. It has nothing to do with power. The Zmey feeds on fear and insecurity. The only way to defeat him is to face that little, horrible voice in your head telling you that you’re not good enough and force it to shut the fuck up.”
books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 123
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
“If anyone were to claim greater happiness in their careers than I do in poking about sunlit wildwoods for faerie footprints, I should not believe it.”
5 star reads of 2024 ↳ a sorceress comes to call by t. kingfisher
Moodboard: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
every life has its kernel, its hub, its epicentre, from which everything flows out, to which everything returns
A WINTER’S PROMISE by Christelle Dabos
arthurian legend: lady of the lake
lady of the lake is a name or a title used by several either fairy or fairy-like but human enchantresses. she plays several important roles in many stories, including providing arthur with the sword excalibur, eliminating merlin, raising lancelot after the death of his father, and helping to take the dying arthur to avalon.
books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 082
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
“Her voice, it seemed, had been continuously decrescendoing since birth, so that by age twelve, she could scarcely be heard.”
books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 024
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
“Some nights, when he’s walking past her door, he has to whisper to himself: ‘Keep going.’”
books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 047
Where the Dark Stands Still by A.B. Poranek
“She is not the end of anything, but the beginning of everything. He has been dead a long time, and she is his resurrection."
books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 149
Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo
“Sometimes, you cannot survive and still be who you were.”
books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 036
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
“That’s the problem with figuring shit out — eventually you run into someone who’d prefer all their shit remain unfigured.”
books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 018
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
“I’m not supposed to just go around doing magic. But we’ll see about that.”
There is a scholar on these shores who breathes stories. He inhales all manner of them, holds each one in his soul, and when his lungs are too full of words, he exhales at last, daring to breathe his own stories to life. Thus he breathes in words and breathes more out, in and out and in again like the measured rhythm of the sea, until one day he finds a peculiar book that sets even the tides off their fated course.
curious tides by pascale lacelle.
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"Every atom in his body demanded that he flee. For a second, he considered it. Considered a world without Montserrat, sterile and icy. Magic is willpower, that’s what Momo said. He didn’t know what that meant, but he knew he needed Momo as much as the flames inside that building needed oxygen to burn...Even if the darkness never ended and swallowed him whole, he’d still run to her."
