sharky_97
King Sharky (he/she/they) - 128 yr old with AuADHD future shark biologist 🦈 amateur entomologist 🐛 leader of lobster cult 🦞 🖤🩶🤍💜💚🤍🩶🖤 This shark is 3 weeks behind on notifications.
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Merry-Go-Round
Sergio Rossi
Life as a teenager is full of challenges and learning moments, from love triangles to missed appointments and beyond. Merry-Go-Round features the stories of a group of young people just trying to get through their day-to-day life, all while romance and simply growing up are throwing roadblocks along the way. Based on the Arthur Schnitzler play by the same name, this volume is a perfect encapsulation of growing up, and trying to figure everything out.
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Merry-Go-Round
Sergio Rossi
Life as a teenager is full of challenges and learning moments, from love triangles to missed appointments and beyond. Merry-Go-Round features the stories of a group of young people just trying to get through their day-to-day life, all while romance and simply growing up are throwing roadblocks along the way. Based on the Arthur Schnitzler play by the same name, this volume is a perfect encapsulation of growing up, and trying to figure everything out.
A Mouth Full of Fins is about a young woman who inherits her uncle’s pet shop and discovers a mermaid living in his basement. The woman, Seonhyung, nurses the mermaid, named Finnie, back to health and realizes that the mermaid is missing her tongue. Seonhyung becomes determined to figure out how restore her mermaid’s tongue.
I really enjoyed this short translated story about obsession and female rage. I love when mermaids are horrific and there was plenty of moments where Finnie was very much so acting like a monster instead of The Little Mermaid. I also liked how the author ultilized scent in this novel, it makes complete sense that a mermaid who’d been alone for quite a while would smell terrible and it makes sense that just in general a fish store would have a fishy/algae smell. I’ve kept fish my whole life and I’ve worked in pet stores, sometimes there’s just nothing you can do to prevent that smell completely. So as a fish dork, I really appreciated those details.
My one complaint is the heavy focus on the music element of the story. I understand why it was there and it’s connection to Finnie and more specifically, explains why Seonhyung is so drawn to her. I just wish there was a bit less focus on. I think I just wanted more mermaid horror and less betrayals in the music industry.
Thank you to NetGalley, Cho Yeeun, Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor.
sharky_97 commented...
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And now she'll be catching them from you for the rest of your life. 🙂↕️ I'm so proud of you. I will bring up that one hockey romance I read where she puts her shoes on the couch. Absolutely unacceptable behaviour.
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sorry but there are so many books in the world I could be reading that aren’t about a white woman teaching a white man how not to be shit in bed
sharky_97 commented...
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One of my dates recently recommended this one and The Sacred Serpent's Seduction and now I'm passing that knowledge to you
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Buddhist Priest & A Spider (Yaoi Manga) Vol. 1
Haji Haji
A Buddhist priest, Sogen is traveling with a spider-spirit he is intimate with. He can’t get enough of Kinki sex with the spider. Sogen has never been afraid of spirits or demons, compared with the cruelty of humans. That’s why without realizing it he grows to love the faithful spider. He worries what will happen to the spider after he dies…
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Invertebrate zoology 👀👀 can I sneak into your uni?? My uni only had ichthyology which was loads of fun! And then I did a marine biology field course hosted by another uni which was the highlight of my whole degree. We got to work on a lobster assessment 🦞 and looked for white sharks but only saw dolphins and whales 🙄
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The Magnus Archives: Season 1 (Magnus Archives, #1)
Jonathan Sims
The Magnus Archives is a horror story written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal. With each chapter released as a podcast episode, The Magnus Archive is structured as a series of statements recorded or written and then recorded for internal research use within The Magnus Institute. At the beginning of each statement, the statement-taker (mainly Jon, the head archivist) provides a brief description of the statement and the name of the statement-maker. Those who give or record statements in the Magnus Institute tend to lapse into a trance-like state not unlike reliving the event.
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The date went well!! We're going on a ride on his motorcycle today! I'm once again tempted to get my motorcycle license. My brother's friend even has a bike he's willing to sell for less than $2k. But the INSURANCE PRICES 😭😭
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Shark Night
R.L. Stine
From bestselling and award-winning author R. L. Stine, Shark Night is a terrifying seafaring adventure that will leave readers gasping for more. After an accident with the original diver, Carlo finds himself alone in a giant water tank holding a camera. A twenty-foot-long hammerhead shark is about to be lowered into the tank with him … Carlo is helping his mom film a documentary for the Danger Channel. A twelve-year-old battling a shark! It’ll be a sensation! But don’t worry, the hammerhead is the gentlest of sharks, and this one is old and nearly toothless, so he should be fine. But Carlo is still paralyzed with fear, and as the shark is lowered into the tank he realizes something isn’t right … They sent down the WRONG shark!
Congratulations Farron!!
Where's my shark? My ferocious kid eating shark??
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I have thoughts but they're for later. Right now I need to sleep so I can be well rested for my date tomorrow.
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Shark Night
R.L. Stine
From bestselling and award-winning author R. L. Stine, Shark Night is a terrifying seafaring adventure that will leave readers gasping for more. After an accident with the original diver, Carlo finds himself alone in a giant water tank holding a camera. A twenty-foot-long hammerhead shark is about to be lowered into the tank with him … Carlo is helping his mom film a documentary for the Danger Channel. A twelve-year-old battling a shark! It’ll be a sensation! But don’t worry, the hammerhead is the gentlest of sharks, and this one is old and nearly toothless, so he should be fine. But Carlo is still paralyzed with fear, and as the shark is lowered into the tank he realizes something isn’t right … They sent down the WRONG shark!
Where's my shark? My ferocious kid eating shark??
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Shark Night
R.L. Stine
From bestselling and award-winning author R. L. Stine, Shark Night is a terrifying seafaring adventure that will leave readers gasping for more. After an accident with the original diver, Carlo finds himself alone in a giant water tank holding a camera. A twenty-foot-long hammerhead shark is about to be lowered into the tank with him … Carlo is helping his mom film a documentary for the Danger Channel. A twelve-year-old battling a shark! It’ll be a sensation! But don’t worry, the hammerhead is the gentlest of sharks, and this one is old and nearly toothless, so he should be fine. But Carlo is still paralyzed with fear, and as the shark is lowered into the tank he realizes something isn’t right … They sent down the WRONG shark!
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Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood
The childhood of poet Patricia Lockwood was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and warnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her gun-toting, guitar-riffing, frequently semi-naked father, who underwent a religious conversion on a submarine and found a loophole which saw him approved for the Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI, despite already having a wife and children. When an unexpected crisis forces Lockwood and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, she must learn to live again with the family's simmering madness, and to reckon with the dark side of her religious upbringing. Pivoting from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the serious, Priestdaddy is an unforgettable story of how we balance tradition against hard-won identity—and of how, having journeyed in the underworld, we can emerge with our levity and our sense of justice intact.
