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French book lover, 28. I love fantasy, YA, history, classics, sci-fi and graphic novels.

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The Science Fiction Bookstore in Stockholm, 31st March 2017

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home is where your books are 📚

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“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines    

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Witchy books are the best books

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302 | Farmers Market raspberries and cider donuts - a very respectable breakfast platter, if I do say so myself

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Which mythical creatures can’t you get enough of?

I. Love. Dragons. 🔥🐉 If something has a dragon on it, in it, whatever form it may be, I want it.

I have a dragon collection at home and if a book has dragons I’ll buy it 😂

Do y'all do this for anything?

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“There is a certain irony here, because many of the first werewolves to be outed in society from the 16th through the 18th centuries were actually women. Just as our American ancestors had their Salem Witch Trials, Europe had its Werewolf Trials, and a large number of the so-called “werewolves” tortured and burned at the stake were female. […] In the 17th-century werewolf trials of Estonia, women were about 150 percent more likely to be accused of lycanthropy; however, they were about 100 percent less likely to be remembered for it.”

“Here’s also a pronounced lack of female werewolves in popular culture. Their near absence in literature and film is explained away by various fancies: they’re sterile, an aberration, or—most galling of all—they don’t even exist.Their omission from popular culture does one thing very effectively: It prevents us, and men especially, from being confronted by hairy, ugly, uncontrollable women. Shapeshifting women in fantasy stories tend to transform into animals that we consider feminine, such as cats or birds, which are pretty and dainty, and occasionally slick and wicked serpents. But because the werewolf represents traits that are accepted as masculine—strength, large size, violence, and hirsutism—we tend to think of the werewolf as being naturally male. The female werewolf is disturbing because she entirely breaks the rules of femininity.”

— Julia Oldham, Why Are There No Great Female Werewolves?

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It’s such a lovely day to read some Tolkien

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