Amor Vincit Omnia @virgilean - Tumblr Blog

“You once tore my hand with yours,” she went on. “Smeared your fingers in my blood. Later, you healed the mark you’d made. Can’t you remember? Remember the dark, the dead thing, the night I went into the forest for snowdrops?”

the winternight trilogy by katherine arden

#the winternight trilogy #the bear and the nightingale #katherine arden

poetlcs

books I’ve read in 2026 - no. 1

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

#the thursday murder club #richard osman

viinas

MAYBE I JUST WANTED TO DRAW BREE WITH A PRETTY DRESS AND A SWORD. AND WHAT ABOUT IT

#bree matthews #legendborn #bloodmarked #oathbound #tracy deonn

pigeon-princess

I've recently started reading the Realm of the Elderlings series for the first time and I've never fallen in love with a book series so fast!! I feel CRAZY! Here's some Fitz + The Fool (pls no spoilers in the replies I beg)

#the realm of the elderlings #fitzchivalry farseer #the fool #robin hobb #fitz #farseer trilogy #rote

parkayquarts

nonthreatening male feminist

#the half life of valery k #natasha pulley

virginiadre

"I was a soldier once. A bad soldier."

'The Warm Hands of Ghosts', {Katherine Arden}

#the warm hands of ghosts #katherine arden

diangelosnico

At first it was a matter of survival. Later it became a matter of vengeance.

#kate daniels series #ilona andrews #kate daniels

purplebass

2026 books - agnes aubert's mystical cat shelter by heather fawcett I’m not going to poison you. Wouldn’t be much point, given that you’re nothing but moonlight and cobwebs.

#agnes aubert's mystical cat shelter #heather fawcett

nox-in-a-box

I drew a tiny September in my sketchbook a few days back. Just realised I never posted her.

#september morning bell #the girl who circumnavigated fairyland #the girl who circumnavigated fairyland in a ship of her own making #catherynne m. valente

mournfulroses

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from "The Karamazov Brothers," originally publ. in November 1880

#fyodor dostoevsky #the brothers Karamazov

bones-clouds

books i read in 2026:

"mickey 7"

edward ashton

"they’d glossed over the reasons for the war, and i’d always assumed it was over the kind of stuff that civil wars are usually over—race, religion, resources, political philosophy, blah blah blah. according to this piece, though, the stated casus belli was the question of whether a native corvid-like avian species was sentient, and therefore deserving of protection and respect, or delicious, and therefore deserving of a spicy dry rub and an hour on the grill."

#mickey 7 #edward ashton