fairiesandfungi

Earth witch, 30, loves crochet, cosy video games, and cats. Huge fan of Agatha Christie, gothic vibes, dark fairytales, and regency romance!

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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

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Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder

Jerry Bledsoe

In this powerful and riveting tale of three families connected by marriage and murder, of obsessive love and bitter custody battles, Jerry Bledsoe recounts the shocking events that ultimately took nine lives... The first bodies found were those of a feisty millionaire widow and her beautiful daughter in their posh Louisville, Kentucky, home. Months later, another wealthy widow and her prominent son and daughter-in-law were found savagely slain in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Mystified police first suspected a professional in the bizarre gangland-style killings that shattered the quiet tranquility of two well-to-do southern communities. But soon a suspicion grew that turned their focus to family. The Sharps. The Newsoms. The Lynches. The only link between the three families was a beautiful and aristocratic young mother named Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch. Could this former child "princess" and fraternity sweetheart have committed such barbarous crimes? And what about her gun-loving first cousin and lover, Fritz Klenner, son of a nationally renowned doctor?

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Let’s have a potluck 🍽️🍲👾

Welcome to the Literary Potluck, Boundlings! 💜

Your current read decides what you’ve brought! Let us know your book, what meal/drink/food item it brought, and why!

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Reading alternatives

So last week, I complained over feeling like reading is an absolute waste of money. And I’ll give a small nutshell of that post for context :

I am spending £10 every time I want to pick up a book and half of the time I don’t even enjoy that book and end up DNFing it. Huge waste of money, right?

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So, people gave me an alternative of signing up for my city library. I did sign up for my city library, but already I am disappointed by it. There are hardly any books that fit my taste, the selection of fantasy books are extremely limited and there isn’t a wide variety. So, that was a bust.

Does anyone have any other alternatives other than a library? because it did not work well for me at all 😫

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Edit : Why is this getting downvoted so much lmao, I’m only asking for advice on where I can access books? 😭 I hate this feature icl, It’s so discouraging and makes me not want to reach out for help on this app anymore

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helenoneverything

What are you using as a bookmark right now?

I normally never use bookmarks but I am rn so it got me wondering, what are you using as a bookmark right now? scrap paper, library receipt, gum wrapper, actual bookmark?

Currently I’m using a fortune from a Panda Express fortune cookie: Be gentle with yourself, you’re doing the best you can. 🫶🏼🫶🏼so cute. If I remember correctly I got it in the Denver Airport 2 years ago.

cheers, PB 5ever!

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Jun 26, 2026

The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon, #1)

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Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5

So adorable!!! What else is there to say? A short and sweet graphic novel about the preservation of under-appreciated skills and the bonds forged across generations with the help of a shared goal.

It is like a cup of hot cocoa (I know I should say tea but I will not as I must follow how I feel) on a chilly Autumn day where you watch the golden leaves sway gently on the trees.

Read if you like: Hot drinks that make you remember that life can be good. People who look like their dogs but make it tiny dragons. Low-stakes cosy fantasy.

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Beast in the Shadows (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage)

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Jun 26, 2026

Beast in the Shadows (Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage)

2.0

Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 2.0Plot: 2.5

This book was obnoxious; that’s the word that comes to mind whenever I think about it. The writing came across as over-explanatory and self-indulgent. The inspiration from early Western detective stories (like those of Edgar Allan Poe) is evident but I do think the stories from this early era of detective writing can be a little trite as they often value ‘tell’ over ‘show’. That was very much the case with this book where the MC over-explains everything all the time.

I wasn’t sure if the MC was supposed to come across as such a horrendous person but he really did. The sexism and approach to violence against women was awful. Again, I don’t know if the depiction was meant to be a critique, and whether we were supposed to like the MC or not.

I don’t necessarily feel the need to like all MCs of the books I read - a character is a character and I don’t expect them all to be saints or even good people, but this was just really not an enjoyable book for me to read.

Read if you like: Detective stories where it’s just one guy explaining his theories for 200 pages. ‘Nice guys’. Male gaze depictions of women.

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Morsel

Carter Keane

The Blair Witch Project meets The Ritual, with a generous helping of The Menu, in Morsel, a delicious folk horror novella perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, Cassandra Khaw, and Paul Tremblay.Lou did what the children of parents with back-breaking, poor paying jobs are supposed to pulled up her bootstraps, went to college, and got an office job with coworkers who won’t stop talking about their multi-level marketing scheme disguised as self-betterment.Determined to lift her ill mother out of poverty before it's too late, and in the spirit of climbing the corporate ladder, Lou accepts an assignment in the rural hills of Ohio. She quickly finds herself stranded in the middle of nowhere with a sabotaged truck, a dog she’s determined to keep safe, and something stalking her through the ancient Appalachian woods.If she can’t escape the woods in time, she’ll come face to face with the fact that her job isn’t the only thing that wants to eat her alive.Morsel is a chilling testament to the burden of generational poverty and the all-consuming nature of capitalism, where the monster and the monstrous, in the end, are not the same.

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The Wintringham Mystery

Anthony Berkeley

Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn't solve! Stephen Munro, a demobbed army officer, reconciles himself to taking a job as a footman to make ends meet. Employed at Wintringham Hall, the delightful but decaying Sussex country residence of the elderly Lady Susan Carey, his first task entails welcoming her eccentric guests to a weekend house-party, at which her bombastic nephew - who recognises Stephen from his former life - decides that an after-dinner séance would be more entertaining than bridge. Then Cicely disappears! With Lady Susan reluctant to call the police about what is presumably a childish prank, Stephen and the plucky Pauline Mainwaring take it upon themselves to investigate. But then a suspicious death turns the game into an altogether more serious affair... This classic winter mystery incorporates all the trappings of the Golden Age - a rambling country house, a séance, a murder, a room locked on the inside, with servants, suspects and alibis, a romance - and an ingenious puzzle. First published as a 30-part newspaper serial in 1926 - the year The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was published, The Wintringham Mystery was written by Anthony Berkeley, founder of the famous Detection Club. Also known as Cicely Disappears, the Daily Mirror ran the story as a competition with a prize of £500 (equivalent to £30,000 today) for anyone who guessed the solution correctly. Nobody did - even Agatha Christie entered and couldn't solve it. Can you?

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Julian Sancton

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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Mariana Enríquez

Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire comes a new collection of singularly unsettling stories, by an Argentine author who has earned comparisons to Shirley Jackson and Jorge Luis Borges. Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre: populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban realism and horror. The stories in her next collection are as terrifying as they are socially conscious, and press into being the unspoken -- fetish, illness, the female body, the darkness of human history -- with unsettling urgency. A woman is sexually obsessed with the human heart; a lost, rotting baby crawls out of a backyard and into a bedroom; a pair of teenage girls can't let go of their idol; an entire neighborhood is cursed to death by a question of morality they fail to answer correctly. Written against the backdrop of contemporary Argentina, and with resounding tenderness towards those in pain, in fear, and in limbo, this new collection from one of Argentina's most exciting writers finds Enriquez at her most sophisticated, and most chilling.

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*Widow’s Bay* recommendations

Happy Friday Boundlings!

My partner and I have been obsessing over the TV show Widow’s Bay lately which is a horror comedy show (more the former than the latter the more we go on) about a cursed island and its mayor who’s trying to make it a tourist attraction.

I was wondering if anyone knows of any books with a similar atmosphere/themes? If so, recommendations would be greatly appreciated! 🧚🏻‍♀️✨