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Elfundertheshelf commented on Storyteller's review of Manimekalai: Tamil Classics for English Readers

Storyteller

Dec 27, 2025

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: Plot:

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A gorgeus Tamil classic, and epic with a woman hero whose power is nurturing and gentleness. I blogged about it in detail here: https://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2025/04/m-is-for-manimekalai-womens-epics-to-z.html

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The entirety of the counter's face was covered in stains. Small mismatched handprints of black ink. He eyed his own —an honor Orn allowed to any child that learnt to read under his tutelage.

This book has such carefully, intricately crafted descriptions of books, reading nooks, the bookstore and the experience of reading it truly represents the author's love of it. It's beautiful to read. Also, sign me up for such an encouraging teacher

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The entirety of the counter's face was covered in stains. Small mismatched handprints of black ink. He eyed his own —an honor Orn allowed to any child that learnt to read under his tutelage.

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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

Octavia E. Butler

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Junie

Erin Crosby Eckstine

A young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost, navigating truths about love, friendship, and power as the Civil War looms. Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to the white master’s daughter, Violet. Her daydreams are filled with poetry and faraway worlds, while she spends her nights secretly roaming through the forest, consumed with grief over the sudden death of her older sister, Minnie. When wealthy guests arrive from New Orleans, hinting at marriage for Violet and upending Junie’s life, she commits a desperate act—one that rouses Minnie’s spirit from the grave, tethered to this world unless Junie can free her. She enlists the aid of Caleb, the guests’ coachman, and their friendship soon becomes something more. Yet as long-held truths begin to crumble, she realizes Bellereine is harboring dark and horrifying secrets that can no longer be ignored. With time ticking down, Junie begins to push against the harsh current that has controlled her entire life. As she grapples with an increasingly unfamiliar world in which she has little control, she is forced to ask herself: When we choose love and liberation, what must we leave behind?

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The Ballad of Perilous Graves

Alex Jennings

Music is magic in this novel set in a fantastical version of New Orleans where a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song. Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. To Perilous Graves, it’s simply home. In a world of everyday miracles, Perry might not have a talent for magic, but he does know Nola’s rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. So when the city’s Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry realizes trouble is afoot. Nine songs of power have escaped from the piano that maintains the city’s beat, and without them, Nola will fail. Unwilling to watch his home be destroyed, Perry will sacrifice everything to save it. But a storm is brewing, and the Haint of All Haints is awake. Nola’s time might be coming to an end.

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Elfundertheshelf

Dec 25, 2025

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

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What review do I give Piranesi? Except that I am gobsmacked a second time, because I reread it as my final book of the year.

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The Dragon Has Some Complaints

John Wiswell

In this heartfelt and humorous fantasy, a dragon whose three heads bear rather…different personalities finds family in the most unexpected of places. From the Nebula-winning author of Someone You Can Build a Nest In! Garrodigh was once a four-headed dragon, among the most powerful in Kardoša. After an unfortunate incident, he now has three heads, one stump, and a daily whirlwind of internal bickering. Centerhead wants to rain death upon all humanity, Bottomhead is like a feral cat, and Upperhead is under the delicate delusion that he is, in fact, human. When a nearby battle goes awry, Garrodigh sneaks into an elite dragon rider academy, pretending to be tame to get free food and a warm bed. Lucky for him, rider Rania Albright is desperate enough for a dragon of her own that she overlooks his eccentricities. As Garrodigh recovers under Rania’s care, all three heads start to turn, for the first time, in the same direction. Each wants to protect her from the invaders who killed their fourth head—the same invaders who seek to conquer Kardoša. When the academy comes under attack, can this wild dragon and his wilder rider save their homeland together? This cozy fantasy intertwines epic battles with loving friendships, sharing an utterly unique perspective on what it means to be a ‘monster.’

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The Binding

Bridget Collins

Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. It's a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Once their stories have been told and are bound between the pages of a book, the slate is wiped clean and their memories lose the power to hurt or haunt them. After having suffered some sort of mental collapse and no longer able to keep up with his farm chores, Emmett Farmer is sent to the workshop of one such binder to live and work as her apprentice. Leaving behind home and family, Emmett slowly regains his health while learning the binding trade. He is forbidden to enter the locked room where books are stored, so he spends many months marbling end pages, tooling leather book covers, and gilding edges. But his curiosity is piqued by the people who come and go from the inner sanctum, and the arrival of the lordly Lucian Darnay, with whom he senses a connection, changes everything.

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Key of Arcandus (Carving Legacies, #1)

Lauren N. Sefchik

Key of Arcandus is the first book in the Carving Legacies series that follows the story of Siroun who is throttled into a chaotic mission to clear her name. When a warlock steals a map and murders Siroun's colleagues within the quaint village library, she unwittingly teams up with three mages to pursue him while exploring the outside world in ways she couldn't have imagined. As the bonds of friendship tighten with her mage companions, Siroun comes to discover who she really is and why she can't go home. This high fantasy coming of age story explores those first-time feelings when you step out into the world and realize you need to adapt quickly to survive. Siroun's story is only the beginning to a much larger scheme at play by deities that move mortals like pawns in their games of dominance. Inspired heavily by popular game and anime franchises, Key of Arcandus is a great read for those who like exploring new lands and magic systems, while also enjoying a healthy blend of humor with their dark fantasy.

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The Binding

Bridget Collins

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The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous 'ghost' of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster.Leroux's work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik's past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows.

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The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)

Ken Follett

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Wishing everyone on PB the very best holidays and Christmas!

Where I am it is the morning of the 25th already. I woke up and exchanged good wishes with friends and family, but it would be incomplete without sending all the wishes and good vibes to this community. I wish everyone who celebrates the merriest Christmas and a wonderful time ahead. To those who do not celebrate or celebrate other things: may you also have the best time, full of fun and lots of love. The year 2025 was not looking good for me, it was hard, and quite eye-opening that is until PB showed up in the second half and became my solace for the hardest days. Thank you to each and everyone of you who have interacted with me, made me feel appreciated, heard and loved and became my friends along the way. L and J have been the very best founder duo and it would not have been possible without them 💕💕

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