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• Spooktober Daily Posts Debrief

  What a month it has been! I always forget just how involved daily posting is, but I am successfully on the other side and ready to have a nice long nap, or read a cosy book to gently guide me back into casual reading. Spooktober daily posting has been and gone for 2024 and here…

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  November 2, 2024

  Discussion Posts

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• My October 2024 Reading Summary

  Overall mood: preoccupied. As October has been the final month of postgrad classes, personal stuff, and the exam season, I have been rather busy. Finding the time to read when other things should take precedence can bring about a lot of guilt, so I haven’t read as many books as I thought (mainly the first…

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  October 31, 2024

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• What to Expect From Scott Lynch’s The Republic of Thieves

  I am so excited to finally read The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch. It has been a busy month of spooky reads, finishing uni papers, work and PhD activity, and this is the kind of book you just know will be worth the wait. I started it yesterday, so this will be a slightly…

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  October 30, 2024

  adult fantasy

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• A Queer Bookish Mystery in Rough Pages by Lev AC Rosen

  Lev AC Rosen is back with Rough Pages, another brilliant instalment in the Evander Mills historical fiction mystery series. This time, books are at the heart of the story and a little of the history behind queer literature in the 1950s is dabbled throughout the plot. With wonderful prose, extremely relevant themes and messages, and…

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  October 29, 2024

  Historical Fiction

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• Hester Fox’s A Lullaby for Witches Has Everything You Want in a Witchy Novel

  Hester Fox strikes again with A Lullaby for Witches, and what a deliciously dark and captivating novel it is! I wasn’t sure what to expect with this one as this is the first novel of hers to be semi-set in the present day, but what A Lullaby for Witches contains is more than incredible. Trigger…

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  October 28, 2024

  Historical Fiction, YA Fantasy

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• Familiar Patterns in Sherlock Holmes The Valley of Fear

  Here we have the final novel in my Sherlock Sundays mini-series, The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I can’t lie – I was a little disappointed with this one. While I understand that the Sherlock Holmes story world is vast and covers a great many narrative structures and frameworks, not to mention…

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  October 27, 2024

  Classic Fiction, Crime Fiction

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• What Makes a Scary Book?

  Scary books are not restricted to a genre, nor do they have to contain the same formula or tropes as other scary books. Here are a list of things that make a scary book in my eyes. If you have some favourite scary tropes or elements you want to talk about, leave a comment! An…

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  October 26, 2024

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• The Dark Academia Read of the 2020s is R.F. Kuang’s Babel

  Dark academia is a popular genre among young readers, and it has made a resurgence over the last decade or so. Babel, R.F. Kuang’s powerhouse of a novel published in 2022, is the dark academia book of the 2020s, sitting next to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and M.L Rio’s If We Were Villains of…

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  October 25, 2024

  dark academia, Historical Fiction

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• Siobhan Harvey’s Ghosts is Chilling, Powerful and Unforgettable

  I am not a huge poetry reader, but Siobhan is very near and dear to my heart as she was my supervisor throughout my masters, as well as my undergrad lecturer from Creative Writing. A lot of what I know came from her, so to have a copy of her 2021 collection Ghosts to read…

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  October 24, 2024

  Contemporary Fiction, NZ Fiction, Poetry and Short Stories

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• The Red Scrolls of Magic is a Cute Shadowhunter Adventure

  The Red Scrolls of Magic has been out for years, but I never got around to reading it until now. Why it took me so long, I don’t know, but what I do know is that this is an absolutely adorable addition to the Shadowhunter universe. There are so many parts of this novel that…

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  October 23, 2024

  YA Fantasy

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