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SkywardStrange

Skye - she/they 🩷💜💙 Horror aficionado 💀 Prairie varmint 🦫 Cringe but free 🤡

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Botanical Horror
Made for the Movies
My Taste
The Last Days of Jack Sparks
When the Wolf Comes Home
Nightwatch on the Hinterlands (The Weep, #1)
Victorian Psycho
Of Monsters and Mainframes
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The Natural History of Crime: Case studies in death and the clues nature leaves behind
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Meat Bees
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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
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Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
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My Name Isn't Paul
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SkywardStrange commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Why are you reading your book?

    A bit of an odd question. Why are you reading your current read/s? Something different? Part of a series? Fave author?

    My current book is Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross. The universe has been telling me to tell it to read it for ages, appearing on feeds and I've seen the physical copy more than once. It was a quest tgat finally convinced me.

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  • SkywardStrange commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum

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  • Certain thing I noticed about spec fic

    Does anyone else feel as though the horror genre is more respected than fantasy?

    How do I explain this, I've seen a lot of people who are into horror books but not fantasy ones rather than the other way around

    Horror media get more serious discussions than fantasy media in platforms like yt and tumblr

    And you don't see people hyping up fantasy icons the way they do horror icons (except for like the super popular stuff like lotr)

    Maybe it's just me being biased, but I don't understand why horror is more popular than fantasy considering they both count as speculative fiction and a really intervined in their craftmanship

    What do you all think?

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  • We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
    SkywardStrange
    Jan 27, 2026
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    This was really good, but also incredibly heavy - I would expect nothing less.

    What stands out to me, beyond the utter horror of the school's history and the disgusting level of self-serving coverups and failures of the system at every level, is how much Erin Kimmerle cares about the boys she unearthed during this project. I get the sense that she would do the same level of remarkable work no matter what the circumstances were, but she also takes so much care to emphasize that these were children, little boys with loved ones and dreams and the right to have lived. She doesn't dwell on the stories or sensationalize them, but rather simply lays them bare for us, holding space for them as she works tirelessly to uncover them and return as many as she can to their families. The title is piercingly accurate - she regarded it as her duty to carry the bones home, to do something to acknowledge this dark corner of history.

    From a stylistic perspective, this book was beautiful. Kimmerle has a straightforward, almost spartan way of writing that is no less lyrical or moving than more complex prose. Her academic tone comes off respectful and reverent of the weight of the subject. I liked that she included her personal feelings and thoughts without letting them overtake the narrative completely - it would have been easy to turn herself into the hero of this tale, but Kimmerle seems to regard herself as more of a vessel, a tool to do what needs to be done.

    I cried ugly throughout reading this, but I would highly recommend it.

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    Annie is insane…. I could feel Paul’s terror through the pages. I know it’s only the beginning so I can’t imagine what kind of unhinged is waiting for me.

    Reading a bit slower than I expected - not sure if it’s the writing style or my rustiness (or tiredness; it’s my second book after yearS and I’m in bed sick). Hope my pace picks up as the book does.

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