#miraniel

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Hi, since you say you're finishing up with the Dogfather, I just wanted to mention how much I've loved it and how it's something I haven't been able to shut up about all year, you and your story have helped me through a really tough couple of months and I just wanted to say thanks.

oh man, thank you so much and I’m really glad I could help.

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14 and 18 for the new year’s ask? Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

14. Favorite book you read this year?

Oof I have been in a massive reading slump since April but probably the Loki: Agent of Asgard bind up. It was the first book I read this year lol. (And I’m not counting rereads which made up about half of the books I managed to finish.)

18. A memorable meal this year?

Zoom Passover seder with friends! We probably would have done it anyway, since it was the first Passover we were apart since college, but the pandemic made it necessarily virtual.

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miraniel replied to your post: I’ve had the dates September 3 (Where Mischief...

I did not know about the existence of Where Mischief Lies until this exact moment and now I, too, can’t handle it.

Omg I am so glad you know about it now, now we can freak out together lol

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miraniel replied to your post “Just so you know, if you’re sending me messages on here, I’m not able...”

This happened to me! Check your sideblogs.

It looks like the messages are just to my main blog?? And it’s not showing my message history either.  It looks like I’ve never messaged anyone ever.  I’m going to post some screenshots so you can see what’s going on and so I can @ staff

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@miraniel Oh god that sounds awful and also is totally something I would also do.  I’m honestly so bad at spelling, I’m just also really good at hitting backspace really fast to compensate 😂

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15, 21, 35?

Ahh!! thank you for the ask!

15. What book changed your life?

Oh man, that’s a hard one.  I’m going to go with the most recent book(s).  That would be the Captive Prince trilogy by CS Pacat.  They are masterfully written books with beautifully complicated and complex characters and relationships.  I aspire to write as beautifully as CS Pacat.  Though if you’re interested in reading them, definitely check the trigger warnings first and maybe talk to someone whose read them if you want more details, because there are a lot of sensitive issues and topics in the books. (Talk to me if you want.  I am nice and friendly and will warn you about what parts come where, and that chapter 10 of book 1 is not at all what you think.)  (Also, Les Miserables would totally also be the answer to this question, but I technically haven’t finished the book yet.)

21. Best winter read?

This is another difficult one (mostly because I haven’t thought about it before, but I have thought about summer).  I’m going to say either A Game of Thrones (or one of the other books in the series, I just read this last year over winter break and plan on reading the second one this winter) or a Harry Potter book.  It depends on what kind of mood you’re in.  (For the Harry Potters, right now books 4-6 feel attractive to me in terms of Christmas-y/holiday-y-ness if that’s what you’re looking for, but really all the books have great Christmases, I just tend to prefer certain ones at certain times based on my mood.)

35. Name a book you consider to be terribly underrated

I’m going to say two actually.  Tell the Wind and Fire by Sarah Rees Brennan.  I mean, I was attracted to it because it’s a magical dystopian retelling of one of my favorite books, A Tale of Two Cities, but it’s actually amazing in its own right?? and I never see anyone talking about it???  Same thing with The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson.  This one’s even more incomprehensible to me because it’s got all POC characters and lots of queer characters and a polyamorous character (it sounds like it has a love triangle but I swear it does not) and it’s set in futuristic Brazil and it’s so cool!!!  Both these books are so cool and amazing!!!  Read them!!!  

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miraniel reblogged your post and added:

SOBS JUST TELL ME THAT ADRIEN AND PLAGG WILL BE...

@miraniel Don’t worry friend, Plagg and Adrien are ~absolutely fine~

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17 and 35 please.

Thank you for the ask!  :)

17. If you owned a bookshop what would you call it?

Okay, I actually have a weird fantasy of opening a bakery bookshop (that also sells coffee obviously) and if I did that, I would call it Café Musain because I am Les Mis trash.  But if it was just a bookshop…I don’t really know. I’d have to think about it for awhile longer.

35.  Name a book you consider to be terribly underrated

Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld.  This book should be huge, it’s so good, and it’s such a wonderful book about writing.  I wish more people knew about it.  I mean, a fair amount of people do, but I want it to be big like The Hunger Games or something.