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read in 2025: the incandescent by emily tesh

Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us.

[untalented-but-opinionated]

Books I Loved In 2025: A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

Judgement is not a terribly satisfying task, is it? The Engineer can see a bridge span a river, and marvel at what they made. The Legionnaire can look upon the carcass of a leviathan, and know that they saved countless lives. And the Apoth can watch a body mend and heal and change, and smile. But the Iudex... we are not granted such favors.

[anneofgreengablesthings]

“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭, 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲.”

Please enjoy this page from Valancy’s scrapbook! She’s got her string of pearls from Barney laying across the page, a liniment similar to Redferns’, a 1926 car ad to remind her of when the automobile ran out of gas…There’s also a copy of her favorite naturalist’s work, a snapshot Roaring Abel took of her and Barney coming in from canoeing, and two magazine covers reminding her of Mistawis days :) oh and if you want to read The Blue Castle and haven’t here’s the free link from project gutenberg.

[voidcreations]

Look at my birthday cake...

[cacioybebe]

esjan, iceland

35mm 2015

[wildhoneyvalancy]

I have found it in the most random bookshop, while not even searching for it.

[shevyvision]

“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines – it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.” ― Robin Sloan

Librairie Ancienne et Moderne, Galerie Vivienne, Paris

[batrachised]

Valancy dropped Thistle Harvest like a hot coal and fled downstairs to her patches; but she felt the strange exhilaration of spirit that always came momentarily to her when she dipped into one of John Foster’s books. Valancy did not know much about woods—except the haunted groves of oak and pine around her Blue Castle. But she had always secretly hankered after them and a Foster book about woods was the next best thing to the woods themselves.

what woman amongst us has not had a secret hankering for the woods

[gcantread]

Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher Endpaper illustration by Ursula Vernon

pretty endpapers 11/?

[bangbangwhoa]

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.”

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reading The Incandescent and I'm loving how every single description of Laura is like "the hottest dyke you'd ever seen in your life butched lesbianly across the room"

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my other favorite part so far is when Nikki is freaking out about student loans and Walden is like "calm down kid this isn't america"

[halogencat]

“It’s nice in a way, how books change. If the magic and illumination isn’t in the story any more, the magic and illumination was always in you. The story caught a reflection of you at the right time.”

- Sarah Rees Brennan, All Hail Chaos

[1five1two]

Jane Fisher.

[heemwonen]

[greengableslover]

ANNIHILATION (2018) dir. Alex Garland

[rosegardendeprofundis]

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