Bee’s Book Hollow

27 | Queer | Black | Bookish | Mother of Cats & One Tiny Human | 🐾📚

[fatimazainab]

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

[forsapphics]

She is the poem

by June Bates

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

Magical forest..

[theywerenobody]

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

[forewordreviewsmag]

Indigenous-Owned Bookstores in the USA and Canada

Check out this directory of Indigenous-owned, independent bookstores!

To promote and support Indigenous businesses, Libro.FM put together a directory of Indigenous-owned bookstores based in the USA and Canada. Check each listing for the store’s website, as well as how to follow them on social media.

[soracities]

“Fairy tales — the proper kind, those original Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen tales I recall from my Eastern European childhood, unsanitized by censorship and unsweetened by American retellings — affirm what children intuitively know to be true but are gradually taught to forget, then to dread: that the terrible and the terrific spring from the same source, and that what grants life its beauty and magic is not the absence of terror and tumult but the grace and elegance with which we navigate the gauntlet.”

— Maria Popova, “The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear”

[hammondpubliclibrary]

[guerrillatech]

[aizel-kon]

All the covers I painted for “Deal With a Demon” series by Katee Robert so far. More to come!  ┬┴┬┴┤( ͡° ͜ʖ├┬┴┬┴ Just something for my monster appreciators 

[prinnay]

All 13 Weapon Fairies

[beesbookhollow]

Spending my evening diving into Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang for my bookclub Pages & Prose. I’m a huge fan of R.F. Kuang after finishing The Poppy War Trilogy last year. That series chewed me up and spit me out and I have never recovered, I’m actually planning on re-reading that devastating masterpiece in December with another bookish friend. I’m a masochist obviously.

I purchased this special edition of Babel from The Broken Binding Bookstore because of its stunning red edges and it’s so much more beautiful in person. I just know this one is going to be just as much of a rollercoaster as her previous novels and it’s already world’s apart, but her love and education in history shines through every page of this Dark Academia (not to mention the audiobook narrator is fantastic to follow along with)

See y’all on the other side 🥀❤️📕

[iambrillyant]

“there is nothing more powerful than realizing that your wholeness is not defined by anything but you. people may add onto the beautiful pieces that already exist within you, but nothing they do could ever complete you. the keys to your acceptance have always belonged to you.”

— iambrillyant

[celesse]

Fall vibes 🧡🍂 🐱 🍂🧡

[withwild]

Autumn Valley

[biandlesbianliterature]

Would you believe that more than 26 sapphic books come out this month? It’s true! Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to find out which books have queer representation, or what kind of representation they have. So here’s a big list of bi and lesbian books out this month, sorted by genre.

26 Bi and Lesbian Books Out November 2022!

[robert-hadley]

Church of St. Corona, Vicenza: a detail of the marble and semi-precious stone inlays of the main altar (1669). Work of the famous Florentine family Corbarelli.

FMR Magazine Gen/Feb 1989. Photo by Roberto Ponzani

[justrandomwholockstuff]

Storygraph

Storygraph is a tool for keeping track of what you've been reading. Here are some reasons why it's great:

1) It's not owned by amazon (goodreads is)

2) It gives you graphs to summarise the genres and type of books you've read

3) You can find challenges to do or set your own

4) Its use of neutral language means there's no judgement of what you read or how you read.

5) It gives you pretty good book recs based on what you've read and what genres you tell it you prefer

6) You can search books and find relevant info about them, such as content warnings

[beesbookhollow]

I’ve been using StoryGraph this whole year instead of Goodreads and I honestly prefer it. I love the graphs and the challenges, you can also add books to the database if you can’t find them plus the content and trigger warnings are always there. It’s not that interactive as far as being able to comment back and forth to other users but I’m very okay with that. PLUS IT’S BLACK OWNED 🤎📖