HalJreads

She/her Hi im Halle. I go through books like a chain smoker 😅 I stole that from Alex Stern. My favorite genre is fantasy. If im not reading im probably thrifting or hiking. ADHD/BI/cat lady 🐈

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A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and autofiction to explore inner life and the deep connection felt between two writers centuries apart. In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem. In the present day, a young mother narrowly avoids tragedy. On encountering the poem, she becomes obsessed with its parallels with her own life, and sets out to track down the rest of the story. A devastating and timeless tale about one woman freeing her voice by reaching into the past and finding another's.

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Binstead's Safari

Rachel Ingalls

New Englanders Millie and Stan Binstead experience dramatic psychological changes while on an African safari, touching off a chain of events that results in infidelity and death

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The Girls at the Kingfisher Club

Genevieve Valentine

A reimagining of the fairytale of the Twelve Dancing Princesses as flappers during the Roaring Twenties in Manhattan.Jo, the firstborn, "The General" to her eleven sisters, is the only thing the Hamilton girls have in place of a mother. She is the one who taught them how to dance, the one who gives the signal each night, as they slip out of the confines of their father's townhouse to await the cabs that will take them to the speakeasy. Together they elude their distant and controlling father, until the day he decides to marry them all off. The girls, meanwhile, continue to dance, from Salon Renaud to the Swan and, finally, the Kingfisher, the club they come to call home. They dance until one night when they are caught in a raid, separated, and Jo is thrust face-to-face with someone from her past: a bootlegger named Tom whom she hasn't seen in almost ten years. Suddenly Jo must weigh in the balance not only the demands of her father and eleven sisters, but those she must make of herself.

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Phantom Heart (Phantom Heart, #1)

Kelly Creagh

Seventeen-year-old Stephanie Armand doesn’t believe in ghosts or spirits. Despite her six-year-old sister, Charlie, insisting a masked figure is hiding in her closet, and the rumors at school, Stephanie isn’t convinced her father’s latest renovation project–a crumbling Victorian mansion–houses the soul of a monster. So when the very charming (and paranormal obsessed) Lucas Cheney takes an interest in both Stephanie and her notorious home, the supernatural and romantic activity escalates to an all-time high. And that doesn’t even take into account the dashing, British-accented eighteen-year-old boy, Erik, who’s taken up residence in Stephanie’s nightly dreams. A boy who may have something to do with the man in the mask, and the strange occurrences taking place at Moldavia.

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Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

Silvia Federici

The world is witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relation. In this new work, Silvia Federici examines the root causes of these developments and outlines the consequences for the women affected and their communities. She argues, that this new war on women, a mirror of witch hunts in 16th- and 17th-century Europe and the “New World,” is a structural element of the new forms of capitalist accumulation. These processes are founded on the destruction of people’s most basic means of reproduction. Like at the dawn of capitalism, the factors behind today’s violence against women are processes of enclosure, land dispossession, and the remolding of women’s reproductive activities and subjectivity.

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Aurora

Help me with recs🌸

Desperately looking for a new series to dive into that match these series:

•ninth house - leigh bardugo •rebel witch - kristen ciccarelli •atlas six - olivie blake

It's okay if the books have (some) spice, as long as it's not the main focus.

Thanks in advance ☀️📚

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mimilovesreading

Copy and paste books

I have been noticing how so many fantasy/romantasy books now days are all almost a copy and paste of each other and it makes me so sad because I want new stories!! 🫠 Do you notice this kind of thing too?? Or is it just me? Am I being too picky?

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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Heather Fawcett

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WWW Wednesday

Happy Wednesday everyone!!!

What is WWW Wednesday? Well, some people say it's "What We Weading Wednesday" but the Ws actually refer to the "what" in three questions!

What are you currently reading?
What have you recently finished reading?
What will you read next?

I'd love to see your answers!

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Poison Study (Study, #1)

Maria V. Snyder

Choose: A quick death… or slow poison... About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison. As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren't so clear...

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The Shadow of the Object

Chloe Aridjis

'One of our boldest writers' Deborah LevyA magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis and mortality. Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia and meets Wilhelmina, an elderly German woman with pneumonia, who collects pre-cinema toys and instruments. The two of them embark on a series of dream-like conversations in the hospital corridors. Wilhelmina puts on a magic lantern show for Flora, leaving her spellbound.When things take an unexpected turn, Flora finds herself entrusted with an important mission. She returns to London, where she resumes her job polishing silver at a jewellery shop, and strikes up a strange friendship with Wilhelmina’s son, Max. As Flora dips in and out of her imagination, she is increasingly aware it’s not only the magic lantern that projects, and her perception of reality is subtly altered.‘One of the most brilliant novelists working in English today’ Garth Greenwell‘The politics of her prose is existential rather than anecdotal, as it was with Kafka’s’ Zadie Smith‘A subtle and courageous writer’ Ali Smith‘Chloe Aridjis is crafting a poetics of the strange’ TLS

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The Vivisectors: The deliciously dark new campus novel from the author of the cult hit The Doloriad

Missouri Williams

‘An astonishing novel by an astonishing writer. Playful, digressive, and pulsating with existential energy’ MICHAEL MAGEE ‘Fun, biting and wise’ ZOE DUBNO ‘As brilliant as it is dark … unlike anything I’ve read before’ VULTURE The acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a wildly imaginative and daring new novel following a reclusive graduate as her attempts to navigate campus conspiracies set her on a collision course that will upend her once quiet life. In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by vegetation, where power is held in a fragile balance between the academics and a contingent of rogue gardeners, Agathe spends her days listlessly propping up the career of her fraudulent professor boss. One day, a campus scandal threatens to rupture her carefully managed Adam, a contrarian and the pet student of her boss, comes into heated conflict with a rising young professor, with both men claiming discrimination. As the crisis consumes the university, Agathe remains unmoved. But when her boss instructs her to turn double agent and gather information by befriending Adam, Agathe finds herself both caught up in the events tearing the city apart and increasingly drawn towards the alluring student at the heart of it all. But can anyone be taken at their word in a struggle over the truth? Coursing with icy suspense and rendered with violent precision, The Vivisectors is a new kind of love story for a broken era. Missouri Williams holds up a mirror to humanity’s most intimate contradictions and reflects them back through a novel of blazing spiritual reckoning.

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Awful Libraries

What are some awful libraries you have set foot in recently?

I was so excited for my town to get a new library but it is genuinely one of the worst I've set foot in.

The majority of it is made up of a kids soft play area. And shoe horned beside it is the adult and YA section in a small corner. Then only 4 computers. No meeting rooms. And to make matters worse, it has vaulted ceilings 😳 so with kids playing, it makes for a very loud environment that doesn't invite anybody to get work done or read in peace. I had a book club meeting today and we could barely hear each other to discuss the July book. So a lot of us were disappointed and consider it a down grade. Even the librarians aren't happy about it.

I'm glad kids are using the library, but this new one is more of a play place for them

The only upside is that it's safer to get to as before it was on the brow of a hill on the main road.

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