Abby's Book Bag

Abby| 25 | She/They | Book Nerd | 2024 Reading Goal: 22/30 Just another place for me to share my book/writing thoughts!

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Hello, hello!

Welcome to the blog(ish) version of Abby's Book Bag. Normally you can find me over on Instagram, Goodreads, Storygraph, and occasionally Pinterest (all under the same username), but I wanted to have another space to share book/writing related things. Because... you know... obviously I don't have enough places haha!

So consider this an introduction post! My name is Abby and I'm a fellow book lover! I'm a relatively slow reader most of the time, but I love chatting books. Here's a little bit about my reading tastes/what you can expect:

What genres do you read?

A little bit of everything, honestly! I really enjoy a good fantasy or romance but have been diving a bit into horror recently. I've been known to pick up a thriller/general fiction every now and then. I also read middle grade, YA, and adult. So like... there's a lot of variety you'll see on here!

Go-to book recommendation(s)?

The Shades of Magic series by V.E. Schwab is easily my favorite recommendation to give people. It's a beginner-friendly fantasy given its simple magic system, but is engaging enough even for die-hard fantasy readers to get into it (in my opinion). The writing is incredible, the characters are amazing (many are my comfort characters at this point), and it's just overall a great trilogy now being expanded on. Not to mention it's one of the few series I have reread multiple times and has made me cry every time.

Basically anything V.E. Schwab I will recommend. Other authors I love are Alison Cochrun, Jonathan Sims, Martha Wells, and Erin Morgenstern.

Other hobbies?

I'm attempting to write a book of my own if the ideas would settle and let me focus on one at a time haha! I also love to craft and will randomly pick up crafts to do. The latest has been bookmark-making and bracelet-making. I also love listening to a good story podcast. Highly recommend The Magnus Archives and now The Magnus Protocol (my latest obsession).

What kind of content should we expect?

For sure reviews when I have them and remember to bring them over here. (I'll be working on moving some from this year/some of my favorites over soon!) I might do reading updates, possibly live blogging my reads/sharing thoughts throughout if I feel like it (spoilers will be tagged!), and I'll obviously share pretty book pictures I share on other platforms. So there should be a variety. Maybe some blog posts too? I have some ideas for those... We'll see what my brain comes up with basically!

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

Let's fight crime with mama

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Happy Halloween!

Have this Halloween-themed, very unserious, Cascade Failure Fanfic no one asked for! <3

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

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Reblog if you're okay with people coming into your DMs with the "you seem really odd and your blog intrigues me, do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters"

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Be proud of the dumb, little thing you wrote, just because you wanted to write a dumb, little thing. Your writing doesn't need to be serious and award-winning for you to be proud of it.

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Okay so y'all gotta let me know when you finish Gravity Lost because I need more people to SCREAM WITH ABOUT IT!

I'm already rereading it on audio (which is phenomenal) and I don't think I'll be over this book any time soon.

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Not only is there a coffee AU from my friend... but we've got a Bar AU from me now haha

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Read for general shenanigans including Nash and Jal being Chappell Roan stans haha

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Okay one of my friends over on IG and I have been brainstorming a Team Ambit coffeeshop AU and she wrote the first chapter of it so I had to share (after getting permission of course)! (There will be more chapters, we had too many ideas to throw around haha)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Can we be considered an officially established fandom now?? I feel like all the established fandoms have coffeeshop AUs

(p.s. y'all may get a Bar AU from me in the possible near future if I can focus on writing more than the second chapter)

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This one may end up getting a rewrite down the road because I'm not totally in love with how it turned out... but I present to you all the SECOND (as far as I know) fanfic for the Ambit's Run fandom haha

(P.S. I do have a running list of fics I plan on writing for this fandom and it keeps growing by the day I swear)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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I wanted to add some sort of light source into the drawing to make it more interesting and contrasty so I decided to show the door opening then after I finished remembered Jal cannot see, and so the get blinded idiot doodle was born.

Scene is from @abbysbookbag 's ambit fic!! Go check it out here!

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Omg I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!! Thank you for drawing this ❤️

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It's come to my attention that the Cascade Failure (book by L.M. Sagas) fandom has been hiding on Tumblr all along so I'm just gonna... drop this poorly written fanfiction here... do with it what you will and know more will be coming haha

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Books I currently have on preorder (and why)

I've quickly become a preorder kind of person. I used to only do preorders online, but the book wouldn't get to me for a week. Now, I place my preorders through my independent bookstore and I get to pick them up on publication day! It's my favorite thing to do now haha

I will say I have cut down on my book buying in general however given my out-of-control TBR. So anything that gets preordered is kind of special right now.

So, here are a few of my current preorders and why I've preordered them:

Gravity Lost by L.M. Sagas

Publish Date: 7/23/2024

I am OBSESSED with this chaotic, queer found family and need more of their wild adventures in my life. The first book is one of my most recent 5-star reads and you'll see me post about it a lot I'm sure. This sequel to Cascade Failure is probably my most anticipated read for the rest of 2024 overall.

Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune

Publish Date: 9/10/2024

I was fortunate enough to receive an excerpt from Tor of this sequel and it sold me. It has the most hopeful, cozy vibes and I can just tell it's going to be as good if not better than the first book.

The Hunger Games: Illustrated Edition by Suzanne Collins

Publish Date: 10/1/2024

I'm a sucker for a good illustrated edition and The Hunger Games is a book that I remember I couldn't put down when I was younger. Therefore I did let myself splurge a little and preorder it.

A Study in Drowning: Special Edition by Ava Reid

Publish Date: 11/5/2024

This was one of my top reads in 2023 that I finished in about 3 days. Plus, it has an excerpt from the SEQUEL that will be coming out. Catch me selling my current copy and holding onto this one for that reason.

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

Publish Date: 3/18/2025

I'm just really interested to see what direction this book goes in and I know that I'll end up enjoying it because of the author. There are so many possibilities and theories surrounding this book that I'm intrigued to learn more and probably binge this once it comes out.

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

Publish Date: 6/10/2025

You'll quickly learn that V.E. Schwab is my favorite author. Anything they write, I will read and proudly display on my Schwab Shelves.

Have you placed any preorders for the back half of the year? If so, what books have you preordered?