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HeraldMagus

Entering my hag era (delightfully middle aged). You’ll find me reading nonfiction that makes me think deeply, and thinking deeply about the lowbrow fiction I love.

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When Women Were Dragons
Arrows of the Queen (Heralds of Valdemar, #1)
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
17%
Troubled Waters (Elemental Blessings, #1)
5%
Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
36%
We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2)
41%
Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
35%
Ripening: Why Women Need Fairytales Now
65%
Sunfall
39%
Oathblood (Vows and Honor, #3)
70%
Sword of Ice (Valdemar Anthologies Book 1)
28%
Wise Women: Myths and stories for midlife and beyond
11%

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  • Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
    Thoughts from 38% (page 80) on internalized homophobia and self hate
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  • Sunfall
    Thoughts from The Haunted Tower (London) (page 38)

    “Women did such things and went on doing them while the sun died because in all of women’s lives there were so many moments that would kill the mind if one thought about them, which would suck the heart and the life out of one, and engrave lines in the face and put gray in the hair if ever one let one’s mind work; but there was in the rhythm and the fascination of the stitches a loss of thought, a void, a blank, that was only numbers and not even that, because the mind did not need to count, the fingers did, the length of thread against the finger measured evenly as a ruler could divide it, the slight difference in tension sensed finely as a machine could sense, the exact number of stitches keeping pattern without really the need to count, but something inward and regular as the beat of a heart, as the slow passing of time which could be frozen in such acts, or speeded past.”

    This passage was so beautifully written and evoked such a precise and specific feeling of melancholy.

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  • What was your last 5 star read?

    After a litany of disappointing reads, I am curious as to what YOUR last 5 star read was (within any genre). Feel free to elaborate on why you gave it 5 stars or just stick with the basics!

    If you don’t use star ratings, then just whatever your most recent loved/perfect book was would fit as well! 💜

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  • All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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