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i have seen the tea alignment charts half a dozen times already on fb and the comments bring me such delight thank u
dsljksdjglhjk on FACEBOOK??
i deleted the original post so my activity would stop being clogged by like, british people losing their marbles over microwave tea, but i did see some very funny comments before i banished it
My co-worker @sophietck75 tagged me in the #7bookcoverschallenge: no reviews, no explanations*, just 7 days of covers from some of my favourite books.
Day 5: THE CALCULATING STARS by Mary Robinette Kowal.
Today I tag @asexualbookbird
*Book talk is one of my favourite things in the world, though, so feel free to engage, to ask me about the books, or to offer your own thoughts.
25 in 2025
here are 25 fiction books (plus 5 nonfiction books, because of who i am as a person!) that i want to read in 2025, color-coded!
The Fic:
Craft: Stories I Wrote For The Devil by Ananda Lima
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark
Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Metal from Heaven by August Clarke
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
Catchpenny by Charlie Huston
Between Earth and Sky Trilogy by Rebecca Roanhorse
The Future by Catherine LeRoux
A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry
Look No Further by Rioghnach Robinson and Siofra Robinson
Aces Wild by Amanda DeWitt
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu
The Archive Undying by Emma Meiko Candon
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Bright by Duanwad Pimwana
How to Dance by Jason B. Dutton
Even Though I Knew The End by CL Polk
Whirlwind Romance by Sam Thompson
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
the blue this year are Just Because books--i've gotten a zillion novellas in the last couple years that i'm super hyped to read, and i do like stacking my reading material with the season, so i'll try to do CAMP ZERO and BLACKFISH CITY while it's still wintry out there.
purple things are still driscoll-adjacent (writing project coded)--either weird or YA or sentient settings or crisis of faith or community, this year (i'm starting to Reach haha)(hopefully i'll finish these revisions this year though!!).
green starts my NaNo prep, because my aro ass is going to write some weird aro horror/romance hot mess in november, and i need Romance Novel Fodder--i've got a few other things on deck as the time approaches, but this is the start of my list for now >:D
The Nonfic, presented with neither pomp nor colorful circumstance:
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube by Blair Braverman
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
A Taste for Poison by Neil Bradbury
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
shout out to @e-b-reads for promising to tag me, which was apparently all the invitation i needed lmao.
tagging @asexualbookbird, @sixofravens-reads, @alloreli, @agardenandlibrary (although you may have already done this?), and anyone else who wants to play!
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 BIRTH 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
thank!!!! 💜
HAVE YOU HYDRATED ADEQUATELY TODAY
i had um. a vodka/tequila shot, on top of a decaf, on top of a moscato, on top of a champagne, on top of a cocktail, and,,,,at least like more than two water so. yes? going with yes.
TOP CHARACTER OF ALL TIME (bigcats-birds-and-books edition)
hi yes hello @asexualbookbird tagged me to do the TOP FAVE CHARACTERS thing. in the name of Gender Balance (with a pivot point of "N/A"), i have gone with seven (7) options for you all to vote on. choose wisely.
CHOOSE
Laverne (of NOTHING BUT THE RAIN by Naomi Salman)
Floralinda (the eponymous princess of THE FORTY-FLIGHT TOWER by Tamsyn Muir)
Isabella Camherst, Lady Trent (of THE LADY TRENT MEMOIRS by Marie Brennan)
Murderbot (of THE MURDERBOT DIARIES by Martha Wells)
Eliot Spencer (of LEVERAGE)
Victor Vale (of VICIOUS and VENGEFUL by VE Schwab)
Marco (of ANIMORPHS by KA Applegate)
(no non-option option, if you don't know any of these people but still want to push a button, show laverne some love, i think she'll need it most and she's a fucking delight)(and then go check out NOTHING BUT THE RAIN, because it's SO GOOD)
i tag: @sixofravens-reads, @emoclone, @e-b-reads, and @pyr0clast, if you wanna play!! no pressure, as always
Books of 2024: GHOST STATION by S. A. Barnes.
I've been intrigued by this one since the hardback release, but since I'm more of a paperback person I Waited™, intending to preorder said paperback.
Un/fortunately: In the course of my waiting, @asexualbookbird read it, and ey had Beef. Like. Enough Beef that I canceled my preorder and checked out a library copy instead. Library copies suck to photograph, my lighting setup for this was unhinged. So! We'll see how this goes!
Daisy Chaining; Or, Connecting the TBR!
Does anybody besides me like to find Connections between Seemingly/Largely Unrelated Books and use those connections to plot a route through the old TBR?? I don't know about you, but I have a LOT of books I want to read, and sometimes I get Whelmed™ by my choices. So I'll either pick a small stack and make that a particular month's micro-TBR (good if I have specific Goals!), OR I'll start with something I really want to read, and I'll daisy chain from there.
For example: I'd been waiting for TRANSLATION STATE to release in paperback since the hardback was announced (because Translators, my beloveds). So I annihilated that in a couple days (it was very good, all right??), and then I had to figure out where to go next despite cruising on the Translators High.
Because the Translators' fucked up body horror (which I mean mostly affectionately, but I'm side eyeing the matching pretty hard) was at times....goopy...I thought a book about a shapeshifter whose default form is an amorphous lump would be good next, which got me to SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (which I also enjoyed!! shout-out to @asexualbookbird for gifting it to meee!!).
Since NEST is Monsters in a Fantasy Forest with a side of Politics and Power, my next read is THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST (because it's also...wait for it...Monsters in a Fantasy Forest with a side of Politics and Power). And after that, I'll come OUT of the forest with AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS, which promises to be weird and vaguely monstrous but with a literary bent (I put it on one of my writing TBR lists, and my general "read this by the end of 2024" list).
So, yeah! That's how you daisy chain to get from SF to fantasy/horror to fantasy to weird Lit Fic in the span of four (4) books, while maintaining something like a continuity. By the end of the year, my Books Read shelf looks a little chaotic, but there generally really is a rhyme AND a reason about it!
(Please click on the photo for better image quality! I edited it weirdly compared to usual and it looks good on my screen but ah. Less So, in tungledlandia.,.,)
