A Bookish Reverie

I’m happiest when I’m reading. ⚢

[manuscripts-dontburn]

[haleyslibrary]

just having a minor lotr hyperfixation don't worry about it!!!!

[sapphosdottir]

EBooks Available Now!

Official ebook versions of The Velvet Series and Familiar are now available to buy from your favorite retailers.

A post with all my ebook links!

I would also like to say that NO AI WAS USED DURING ANY PART OF THE PROCESS. 100% organic, free-range lesbians worked on every part of the process. A lesbian wrote it, edited it, proofread it, lesbians even did the cover art. I put my everything into these books. They were created with the power of lesbianism

[sapphosdottir]

The Velvet Series is now available to by on

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The Velvet Series is a collection of lesbian romance novellas inspired by the songs of Red Velvet. There are six novellas and one short story:

“Choices”- Medieval-esque fantasy with a light-hearted vibe. Rebuild the paradigm, we’re making the rules now.  “Lucid Dreamers”- Contemporary fiction with a dash of magic. Happily ever after is only for dreamers.  “Night Shift” - Urban fantasy. You’re supposed to be afraid of monsters lurking in the dark… Right?  “A Thief and a Canary”- Sci-Fi-lite set in space. Suns set and suns rise, the wheel keeps turning but she’s still the only one…  “Bad Days, Better Nights”- Contemporary fiction. Falling in deep, so hard to breathe, but she knows what to do with trouble.  “Wild Fruit”- Post-Apocalyptic. Within these walls, no one breaks the rules. But aren’t you curious, honey? “Just Friends” - What’s a woman to do when she has a crush on death? For audiences 18 and over.

What readers are saying:

“These are the fantasy and sci-fi stories I’ve always wanted. Stories where lesbians are front and center and get their happy ending. It’s the stories lesbians deserve.”

"I love that this series truly has something for everyone. it's so hard to find stories about lesbians that I enjoy in general, especially fantasy and sci-fi. so, I love that this series has both and all the stories feel so genuine and are so clearly written with lesbians in mind."

[sapphosdottir]

Now available on Google Play!

[sapphosdottir]

Familiar is now available to buy from:

Amazon

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So what's it about?

Life is hard when you’re a little stray cat. It’s even harder when no witch picks you to be their familiar because you lack any magical prowess. Despite the cards being stacked against her, one litter runt finds her magic and most importantly, her family. Suitable for all ages.

What readers are saying:

"An incredibly heart warming story about a little black cat and her found family. Cats and lesbians are just meant to go together.”

"I love how immersive this story feels. it's the perfect mix of whimsy and a heartfelt journey of true found family and discovering your gifts."

[sapphosdottir]

Now available on Google Play!

[a-ramblinrose]

JOMP BPC || June 2 || Currently Reading: “I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” ― Virginia Woolf

[kaitlin-writes]

My first semester of my Ph.D. is done!!!!!!!!

[a-ramblinrose]

I delve even deeper into Tolkien's gift of wordcraft with this stunning collection of poetry!

[mostlyghostie]

Found some 70s LoTRs this week to replace my crappy movie tie-in omnibus. Three quid!

Links

[auroraborealis22]

Hosio Hirotta

[inkliinng]

Having read ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Jane Eyre’, the latter multiple times over, I was greeted with, paradoxically, both a sense of familiarity and strangeness as I was going through ‘Agnes Grey’. Both ‘Wuthering Heights’ as well as ‘Jane Eyre’ were tempestuous in their own ways, illuminated intermittently with flashes of horror, or passion, or pain. ‘Agnes Grey’ felt like dusk in comparison, a softer darkness, a painting in watercolour instead of the other sisters’ heavier mediums. Anne did not give in to emotion overmuch, and so her characters felt somewhat distant, and left lighter impressions. But her protagonist growing from idealistic, pampered teenager to solemn adult governess- a crystallization that took place in what felt like a blink of an eye- remains with me. We are always believing ourselves to be grown far sooner than we actually are. And childhood clings and clings until one day we reach our hand out to grasp for its familiar presence only to find it gone forever. Maybe it’s my own nature that has magnified that little detail, because it isn’t the primary focus of the book at all. But every story has its own eccentricities and attributes that readers find themselves snagged onto, and this was one of mine.

[wine-darktea]

The Iliad and some coffee to keep me awake till the last verse.

[a-study-in-dante]

September 14th, 2024 | Rereading the Lord of the Rings (8/?)

After a few busy days of reading break, I finally started the Return of the King last night! Autumn is definitely settling in here, I'm so happy to wear soft jumpers again 🌹

[manuscripts-dontburn]

Currently reading

[froznpeach]

[books0977]

The Fairy-Land of Science. A.B. (Arabella) Buckley. London, 1879.

Introduction to the wonders of the physical world: sunbeams and the work they do, the aerial ocean in which we live, a drop of water on its travels, the two great sculptors—water and ice, the voices of nature and how we hear them, the life of a primrose, the history of a piece of coal, bees in the hive, and bees and flowers. 

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD THERE’S NEW ALAN LEE LOTR ART! I’M SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

These are from the new limited edition of LOTR published by the Folio Society