Gossawyrm

She/they Enjoying cozy reading and other hobbies in my free time :) Avid gothic fantasy and high fantasy enjoyer

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My Taste

The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)

Vampire Hunter D Omnibus: Book One (Vampire Hunter D, #1-3)

Servant of Earth (The Shards of Magic, #1)

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gingerailet

Needing Sapphic Recommendations!!

As a queer woman I feel like I've consumed way too many aquillean/mlm centered books and media and now I need more book recs where the main relationship is sapphic/wlw. I've read the Osemanverse novels (radio silence is my fave lol) and I rly enjoy teenage type of queer romance and coming of age, but I've been wanting to read When We Lost Our Heads, so I also accept some historical, with social and more religious criticism and guilt. I also accept fantasy (not too crazy of a ride tho pls). I don't mind smut, I even like and appreciate it as long as it's part of the plot and the character's relationship growth and development (cus well written sex tells a story too).

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Gossawyrm

February Releases

February is one of my biggest book release months to look forward to. I’ve got a few on my radar:

The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett
Hallowed Be Thy Name by Brooke Winters
The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap
Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity

What releases are you looking forward to in February?

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Gossawyrm

February Releases

February is one of my biggest book release months to look forward to. I’ve got a few on my radar:

The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett
Hallowed Be Thy Name by Brooke Winters
The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap
Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity

What releases are you looking forward to in February?

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Gossawyrm

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Wynnrie

Non fiction faves

My nonfiction people!!

What's a nonfiction book you strongly believe that everyone should read?

Bonus points if it made you cry/changed your life

For me it's Educated by Tara Westover and Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H. (I have way more)

(Also I just wanna yoink some books because I love nonfiction)

Gossawyrm is interested in reading...

Panic Proof: The New Holistic Solution to End Your Anxiety Forever

Dr. Nicole Cain

A revolutionary new approach to managing panic disorders starting with the body, from a clinician who has helped thousands of people overcome panicPanic Proof offers a holistic approach to dealing with panic disorders, amounting to a personalized path to freedom for the millions of people who have had panic attacks. While other books have focused on the thoughts that contribute to panic, Panic Proof is the first book to teach the body that it’s safe in order to prevent panic before it attacks, with remedies ranging from probiotics, herbal remedies, and adaptogens targeted for your anxiety type to healing practices for releasing trauma stored in the body.In a warm and approachable style, Dr. Cain shares her personal story of managing panic, examples from the patients she’s helped, and her science-based protocol derived from a decade of working with clients to manage their own panic disorders. Guiding you through the eight types of anxiety that Dr. Cain has identified, the book includes quizzes, worksheets, and self-reflection checklists to guide you along your journey to panic freedom.In Panic Proof, you’ll to shift from asking “what’s wrong with me?” to “what is my body telling me”How your endocrine system may be a root cause of your panic, and how shifting one hormone may affect your entire mind and body.How to retrain your stress responses by recalibrating your autonomic nervous system so that it is primed for calm, not panic.The latest research into holistic supplements, herbs, and psychobiotics for stopping panic and creating calm.With its research-backed, body-based solutions for preventing panic, Panic Proof will guide you to decode what your panic is trying to tell you and help you resolve the root causes so that you can finally achieve deep healing.

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Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose

Martha Beck

From bestselling author Martha Beck, a new path to overcoming anxiety by awakening the creativity within. We live in an epidemic of anxiety. Most of us assume that the key to overcoming it is to think our way out. And for a while it works. But there is always something that sends us back into the anxious spiral we’ve been trying to climb out of. In Beyond Anxiety, Dr. Martha Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you, and likely within you. She also tells you how to not only reduce your anxiety but use it to propel you into a life filled with peace, meaning, and joy. Using a combination of the latest neuroscience as well as her background in sociology and coaching, Beck explains how our brains tend to get stuck in an “anxiety spiral,” a feedback system that can increase anxiety indefinitely. To climb out, we must engage different parts of our nervous system—the parts involved in creativity. Beck provides instructions for engaging the “creativity spiral,” in a process that not only shuts down anxiety but leads to innovative problem solving, a sense of meaning and purpose, and joyful, intimate connection with others—and with the world. The opposite of anxiety, it turns out, is a wonderful new way of life—one that can calm and inspire us as individuals and help us become a source of healing for everything around us.

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When We Lost Our Heads

Heather O'Neill

A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the trajectory of history. Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At 12 years old, with her blond curls and her unparalleled sense of whimsey, she's the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, an affluent strip of 19th century Montreal. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly, and brilliant, moves to the neighborhood. Marie and Sadie are immediately united by their passion and intensity, and they attract and repel each other in ways that light each of them on fire. Marie with her bubbly charm sees the light and sweetness of the world, whereas Sadie's obsession with darkness is all consuming. Soon their childlike games take on a thrill of danger and then become deadly. Forced to separate, they spend their teenage years engaged in acts of alternating innocence and depravity--until a singular event unites them once more, with dizzying effects. And after Marie inherits her father's sugar empire and Sadie disappears into the city's gritty underworld, a revolution of the working class begins to foment. Each of them will have unexpected roles to play in events that upend their city--the only question is whether they will find each other once more. Traveling from a repressive finishing school to a vibrant brothel, taking readers firsthand into the brutality of factory life and the opulent lives of Montreal's wealthy, When We Lost Our Heads dazzlingly explores gender and power, sex and desire, class and status, and the terrifying power of the human heart when it can't let someone go.

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This Deadly Touch

Aimee Donnellan

A cozy sapphic fantasy romance about the magic of possibility, new horizons, and fresh perspectives. At age three, Tia almost killed her mother. Born with a rare, recessive condition where her very touch inflicts deadly necrosis magic on other people, Tia has spent the last twenty years in a hidden convent in the Shilheim forest, with others sharing her affliction. Asha chases horizons. Wants to be known for doing the impossible. So when she learns of a centuries-old blood curse being hidden by the elven authorities, and her even more mysterious patron claims to know how to cure it when no one else has come close… she cannot resist. With a letter from Asha and a token from a sister she barely remembers, Tia’s life is forever changed when she risks everything to escape the convent and become Asha’s assistant and test subject. But the convent has always had contingency plans for escaped residents, and a single misstep could result in Tia committing manslaughter. To make matters worse, Asha can’t quite keep her thoughts professional when it comes to Tia, and the phrase ‘untouchable’ has never been quite so accurate…

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Gossawyrm

Jan 26, 2026

4.5

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 5.0

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This book was everything childhood me could have ever hoped for.

While I did feel that the book had a habit of describing character actions a bit too much (especially between Clarion and Milori), the writing otherwise was very good. Definitely a YA writing style, but it’s the best YA writing I have seen in a long time. I never felt infuriated or cringe-y reading a single sentence here. Allison Saft knows her writing, like the legend she is.

I do wish there was a bit more leverage on the emotional impact scenes. But I can get over it. Plus the yearning was top notch and I am such a sucker for that.

Thoroughly enjoyed my time reading this :)

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Wings of Starlight

Allison Saft

Brimming with magic and romance, a young fairy queen must form an unlikely alliance or risk an unspeakable danger destroying all she holds dear in this standalone YA novel from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft. It’s been centuries since a warm-season fairy in Pixie Hollow has crossed into the Winter Woods, and while most fear the legends of monsters lurking in the frozen lands, Clarion, can’t help being intrigued by Winter’s stoic beauty. But under the watchful eyes of the current monarch and the court's seasonal ministers, Clarion has little time to dwell on daydreams while the days to her coronation dwindle away. That is, until reports of a monster crossing from Winter into Spring make their way to the palace. Clarion sees defeating this threat as an opportunity to prove that she is worthy of her new role. But instead of finding a monster at the edge of Winter, she finds Milori, a young guardian of the Winter Woods. Together, they form an unlikely bond as they race to save their lands. But as their alliance warms to something more, they will discover there is a reason a warm-season fairy and a winter fairy must not be together. And the cost could be just as deadly as the monsters that prowl the Winter Woods. Discover the origin of the sweeping, star-crossed romance between the queen of Pixie Hollow and the lord of the Winter Woods.

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nomatterboo

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I already love this, and it was good luck this popped up in my plan just in time for this massive storm. My husband made us a feast from the Maydan cookbook and I'm cozied up with this audiobook and the Cult of the Lamb expansion while the snow is starting to fall 😌

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Xochi

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What are you reading during winter storm Fern?

I am curious to know: Wether or not you are in the pathway of the winter storm Fern, what books (any format) have you set aside to read while hunkering down/over the weekend? I would like to know; comment them down below! 📖 I personally have 11 ebooks downloaded + 1 physical hardcover, but I don't expect to be able to get through them all meanwhile. Anybody else reading the titles down below, as well?

How To Read A Book by Monica Wood
The Convenience Store By The Sea by Sonoko Machida
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa
More Days At The Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
And Then There Were Crumbs by Eve Calder
The Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
The Heartbeat Library by Laura Imai Messina
The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle

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fireheartreads

Romantacy book recs 🙏🏻

Can you tell me your all time fave fantasy or romantacy series that you think everyone should totally read? Please I need some ideas I have too many on my tbr and I cant decide 😭

(I have only read throne of glass, acotar, fourth wing and the cruel prince. I liked throne of glass the most, the rest are okay :)) )

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Tammie

Keeping track of release dates

How do you keep track of release dates especially for new books from a favorite author or new additions to a series?

My system kinda sucks, tbh. I hear about a book or look up the author/series and see something new is on the way. Then I look the book up and add it to my tbr list, THEN I open my personal calendar and add the release date (otherwise I won't remember). This system is clunky and sucky.

Interested in hearing other people's systems to see if I can adopt a better system.

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