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[tempetejovienne]

I've just finished my reread of the Watchmaker of Filigree Street and i've noticed two things:

there are references in the book to all of np's other books, even to the hymn to dionysus

what do you MEAN thaniel has grey eyes he is SO brown eyes coded

[linmellowss]

˖࣪ ᕻꪶ ✎ ❛『 ✧ ━━  intento fallido del 10 art style challenge.

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[tempetejovienne]

Alright. I’m 74% through the hymn to Dionysus, and I want to say, for posterity, just in case I’m right, that I think I know what’s going on. And if I am indeed right, then I’ll have a lot to say about Natasha Pulley’s narrators.

[tempetejovienne]

2, 3, 13 & 17 😘📚

thanks!

2: Did you reread anything? What?

im not sure actually! hmmm i've read the french translation of kingdom of copper by s.a. Chakrarborty for the first time, but i read the original version some years ago. Also i'm in the process of rereading RAVE by Hiro Mashima, because it's getting a reprint

3: What were your top five books of the year?

In no particular order! (actually, in reverse chronological order in which i've read them) novel edition:

The library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins, a very weird book involving very weird characters. i read a french translation which i actually wasn't a fan of, so i think i'll read the original version one day!

The square of sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson, this might acutally be my favourite read of the year. Historical mystery about a fortune teller looking for her birth family.

The Pairing by Casey McQuiston, ex lovers on a European road trip, will make you crave brunch like you life depends on it

The Mars House by Natasha Pulley, she's my fav author i can't not put it in the list. identity politics on mars, linguistics, and mammoths.

The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges, a classic short stories collection about... immortality and infinity and language and knowledge? i read a French translation which was really good. Loved the themes loved the words.

maybe i'll do a comics version later

13: What were your least favorite books of the year?

this is where i'm grateful for my journal because i completely forget the things i don't like. Again, just novels:

The folk of the air trilogy by Holly Black (no more YA in 2025), All our hidden gifts by Caroline O'DOnoghue (no! more! YA! in 2025!!), Ariah by BR Sanders (very boring), Total creative control by Joanna Chambers and Sally Malcolm (so forgettable i don't even remember what it's about) aaand that's it.

17: Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

Maybe the Square of Sevens! i picked it kinda at random at the library, had a really tough time getting through it because i read it when i was very sick, and also it's long and a lot of things happen, but the last 70 pages are so good. sooo so good. plot twist after plot twist. delicious.

Also A study in drowning by Ava Reid, the only YA book i've read this year i've actually enjoyed.

send more! or maybe i'll respond to all of them anyway just for fun

[tempetejovienne]

Book ask !

1, 3, 12, and 25 !

thanksss

How many books did you read this year? final count for 2025: 56 novels and 298 comics/mangas/graphic novels (that last number is for sure inaccurate because i don't actually know how many volumes of detective conan i read this year ahah)

What were your top five books of the year? in no particular order for novels: The warm hands of ghosts by Katherine Arden (probs my fav read of the year), Clear by Carys Davies, The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley, The City in Glass by Nghi Vo, and hhhh the last one is hard to choose im going to cheat and say the whole Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden.

And for graphic novels/mangas : Happy Endings by Lucie Bryon, Nepka by Séverine Vidal and Nina Ramsey, Le Jour du Caillou by Vero Cazot and Anaïs Flogny, Planetarium Ghost Travel by Sakana Sakatsuki, and The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren

Any books that disappointed you? Latest disappointment was the series True of Vamp. btw i'm always on the lookout for good homoerotic vampire stories 👀

What reading goals do you have for next year? i wrote down a list of 26 books i absolutely want to read in 2026, some of them are new releases, some of them are 2025 releases i didn't get to read, some of them are books that have been on my shelves forever. i'd say that's the main one, but i wrote down a few more challenges in my reading journal...

[tempetejovienne]

Board games night so fun my throat is bleeding

[tempetejovienne]

Wait stop everything the crow boy and plastic girl TikTok book is an actual book that has actually been published I thought it was just a bit

[tempetejovienne]

Something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy: moving in a 4th floor apartment with no elevator, during a heatwave, while struggling with depression and autistic burn out.