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Books I Loved in 2026: Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer

I can't return this haunting now. I cannot put it back into the outskirts of my perspective. The truth is mine, and I will kill it before I pretend I haven't seen it.

drchucktingle

it has been such a dang WHIRLWIND on tour right now that i havent even had time to mention fact that CAMP DAMASCUS was a usa today bestseller AGAIN this week at 91 which is the highest it has ever charted. WHAT THE HECK? how dang cool. so glad even more buckaroos are discovering this book

clementine-kesh

elucubrare

i dreamt of a house with too many rooms, which sounds lyrical and all except most of them were just full of different kinds of couch

elucubrare

frat house piranesi :(

puddinginthemix

"the hall with the beer-stained microsuede sectional"

"the year i found a squirrel eating pretzel sticks under the cream-colored faux-leather love seat"

ashlgcostumes

I pull up my slide show. The first slide says “I do not want to financially support the Church of the Latter Day Saints in any way”. There are murmurs of agreement and approval from the room

Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone

“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

I’m sweating. The following slides explain tithing rules. The vibe of the room has shifted. I start to doubt I’m getting out of here alive

fuckblast

derinthescarletpescatarian

#huh#i wonder how much of his success is due to the support of the mormon church#that's the sort of grassroots i fluence they'd be able to pull off#or just church leaders 'asking' people to buy his books till he becomes a bestseller#and well once you do that a few times money prints itself a bit

Actually this is a big part of why you see so many successful mormon authors! Not necessarily people being deliberately pressured to buy the books, I've never heard of that happening, but there's a big writing culture and it's generally easier for mormons to get published in the first place because of their accessible English university classes and their internal book distribution network giving many authors a leg up. It's worth noting that while I'm unaware of any deliberate attempts to game bestseller lists like these tags imply, simply being mormon authors helps sell books to other mormons, because mormons tend to be very wary about reading inappropriate content. A mormon picking out a book for themselves, or especially picking out a book for their children, will likely favour a book available through their mormon bookstore or a book written by a mormon in a bookshop, because they know that the material in the book will be appropriate and morally acceptable. (That or Disney, which is al,so apparently very popular among mormons.) Since mormons tend to have a strong reading and writing culture, this captive audience certainly isn't nothing.

faemorrigan

im realizing very fast that people do not in fact know that sometimes things in stories suck on purpose and it sucking is the point

faemorrigan

"this story is misogynistic!!"

>looks inside

>about the pressures of societal misogyny and how its bad

lobster-tales

Books Read in 2025

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

“It’s the house," Francis murmured. By now the black gates with their snakes were in sight. The ouroboros, casting shadows upon the ground. “It wasn’t made for love, the house.”

bruiselikeviolets

read in 2025: mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia

You like a hint of danger, but back home they wrap you in gauze, to keep you from breaking. But you’d like to break, wouldn’t you? You play with people and you wish someone would have the guts to play with you.

stellaluna33

We want Flawed Female Characters! No, not THOSE flaws. 😕 Those aren't sexy, COOL flaws. You know, the ones that I don't think actually SHOULD be considered flaws, that I might even feel personally judged for. The "unjustly martyred by the court of public opinion" kind of flaws. So like a "flawed" woman who's actually kind of a Saint in a way. I didn't want, like, FLAW flaws. What she did was WRONG and that makes her a BAD PERSON, and how can you justify that? If you still like her after what she did, that makes YOU a Bad Person too. Ugh, disgusting. 😕 But anyway, WHY isn't anyone writing flawed female characters?

awesomebutunpractical

"He wouldn't say that" has a beautiful cousin, and her name is "That's Not What This Story is About".

so-many-ocs

YEAHHHHHHH

terrorignitis

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

h-chia

It took me a long time, but I finally finished this illustration!!! So much work but so much fun (yeah, I did this just for fun)! This is a Mexican Gothic inspired piece, which is a novel I read recently. I absolutely loved the story and characters. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s writing is so mesmerizing.(*¯︶¯*) If you’re a gothic fiction fan like me and haven’t read it, do it now!

(Thanks to this book, I may have found my new obsession: fungi (≧∇≦) If you know any fun facts about mushrooms, feel free to drown me with them.)

Hehe, just sharing something that made me really happy lately. Oh! And if you haven’t heard the news yet, I’ll be exhibiting at Polymanga (18-21.04. Lausanne) and Fantasy Basel (29-31.05. Basel). Come find me. It’s gonna be fun! ٩(˃̶͈̀௰˂̶͈́)و