jessybug

She/her / AuDHD / MSW student / loves horror, litfic, thrillers, speculative fiction, & memoirs! (but always open to just about anything)

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My Taste

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

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ouranioto3o

Making new friends

✨️ I want to make new friends here and connect with people who love the same books I do. ✨️

If our tastes overlap by more than 20%, give me a follow, and I’ll follow back! If you like my book taste, feel free to follow me too. And if we don’t match, comment anyway so you can find your mutuals and make some new friends.

By the way, I’ll be checking out all your profiles (even if we don't match) because I love trying new genres, and being friends with you here will definitely push me to read more outside my comfort zone.

My favourite genre: cozy fantasy, grimdark fantasy, dystopia, middle grade, graphic novels, crime, thriller and sometimes romantasy if the romance is not as important as the worldbuilding.

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The Mad Wife

Meagan Church

From bestselling author Meagan Church comes a haunting exploration of identity, motherhood, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations that will leave you questioning the lives we build―and the lies we live. They called it hysteria. She called it survival. Lulu Mayfield has spent the last five years molding herself into the perfect 1950s housewife. Despite the tragic memories that haunt her and the weight of exhausting expectations, she keeps her husband happy, her household running, and her gelatin salads the talk of the neighborhood. But after she gives birth to her second child, Lulu's carefully crafted life begins to unravel. When a new neighbor, Bitsy, moves in, Lulu suspects that something darker lurks behind the woman's constant smile. As her fixation on Bitsy deepens, Lulu is drawn into a web of unsettling truths that threaten to expose the cracks in her own life. The more she uncovers about Bitsy, the more she questions everything she thought she knew―and soon, others begin questioning her sanity. But is Lulu truly losing her mind? Or is she on the verge of discovering a reality too terrifying to accept? In the vein of The Bell Jar and The Hours, The Mad Wife weaves domestic drama with psychological suspense, so poignant and immersive, you won't want to put it down.

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We Are Okay

Nina LaCour

You go through life thinking there’s so much you need… Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend, Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit, and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.

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The Merge

Grace Walker

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ouranioto3o

Making new friends

✨️ I want to make new friends here and connect with people who love the same books I do. ✨️

My favourite genre: cozy fantasy, grimdark fantasy, dystopia, middle grade, graphic novels, crime, thriller and sometimes romantasy if the romance is not as important as the worldbuilding.

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kittygoons

Thoughts from 55%

Prediction: next book will be Wes and this interior designer that Teddy knows.

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Your First Reading Memory

I have read so many books and witnessed a thousand lives. I loved reading since I was very little. I believe I am who I am because of this.

That being said, I am curious of when your first memory of reading was. Or if you started reading later in life, what was it that finally drew you in?

I was 5 in my first memory. It is of my dad, with his limited English, reading “Are you my Mother?”. We only owned three books and I would make him read those books every night.

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The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)

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The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley

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From Bookshelf to TV

Gold: Finished 15 Main Quest books.

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Translated Speculative Fiction

by SeriousGoose

34 books

Fantasy, sci-fi, and horror from around the world. Written in another language and then translated into English. Details in a comment.

The Heart of the Nhaga (The Bird That Drinks Tears, #1)

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Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.

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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

Diana Wynne Jones

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tollekarte

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spaceyew

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My hot take is that while the movies were pretty garbage, the first one is….100% accurate??

These two lovers are simply awkward as hell 😂😂😂 they’re out here spending most of their time intensely staring at each other and making weird comments. I swear a fly on the wall would be uncomfortable 95% of the time listening to their convos, which is what everyone felt watching this damn movie. Tbh in the reread I’m here for that weird ass energy 🫡💅

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All of her groundbreaking works, exploring themes of Afrofuturism, power, and survival.

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