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I know I read the Princess Diaries as a kid but it somehow feels sneaky to mark it as read, especially because it’ll be my 20th book for this quest!

Anyone have any throwback books that you’ve marked for a little boost?

(edit: I think the way I worded this brought us into the eternal “does it count??” discussion. everyone reads and logs books in their own way and for their own reasons, I’m just curious about old reads you’ve dredged up/a quest brought back into your consciousness!)

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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

No I am not a month late, or two months late! Pride month is in August where I live (Montréal, Québec, Canada).

This means I get to celebrate 3 months of pride!!!!! I wonder when Pride is for other people around the world? I know June is the month for a lot of Eurocentric and North American countries because of the Stonewall riots that started in the United States but please share all the other dates so we can celebrate all year round 🫣😋

You can also share you feel good Pride stories and favorite Pride moments!

This year I will be participating to Wild Pride in Montréal because Pride Montréal has shown complete disregard for the essence of Pride and even sent cops to arrest queer activist for Palestine. The organization still has sponsorships that finance the genocide and refused to drop them. That's why Wild Pride was created has a protest instead of a corporate parade.

Anyway, happy pride and stay safe 😚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💗

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I know I read the Princess Diaries as a kid but it somehow feels sneaky to mark it as read, especially because it’ll be my 20th book for this quest!

Anyone have any throwback books that you’ve marked for a little boost?

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The Library at Hellebore

Cassandra Khaw

A deeply dark academia novel from USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, perfect for fans of A Deadly Education and The Atlas Six who are hungry for something a little more diabolical.The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers.Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that’s what Alessa Li is told when she’s kidnapped and forcibly enrolled. But there’s more to Hellebore than meets the eye. On graduation day, the faculty go on a ravenous rampage, feasting on Alessa’s class. Only Alessa and a group of her classmates escape the carnage. Trapped in the school’s library, they must offer a human sacrifice every night, or else the faculty will break down the door and kill everyone.Can they band together and survive, or will the faculty eat its fill?Also by Cassandra Khaw:The Salt Grows HeavyNothing But Blackened TeethA Song for QuietHammers on BoneThe Dead Take the A Train (co-written with Richard Kadrey)At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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What sorcery do you have in your words, Katherine of the Ardens?

Seriously though. These words are enchanting and the word play of shadows and light and how they encompass the magic system is filling my heart with joy 🥹 LOVE this book so much ❤️

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Her Wicked Roots

Tanya Pell

In this queer retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne classic gothic story, Rappaccini’s Daughter, a young woman is lured to a lush estate owned by a botanist who might be hiding dark secrets. Cordelia Beecher is on the run. In search of her missing brother Edward, she has fled the oppressive charity school she was raised in, desperate to find the only family she knows. Using clues from his past letters, she sets off for the sleepy town of Farrow but everyone there claims to have never heard of Edward—not even the man he was supposedly working for as an apprentice. With nowhere to go, Cordi turns to Lady Evangeline, a local botanist who owns the magnificent Edenfield estate. The benevolent lady of the manor has made it her mission to take young, often traumatized, women into her employ and protect them from man’s world of wicked desires and deceits. Hired as a maid and companion to her enigmatic daughters, Prim and Briar, Cordi quickly settles into Edenfield. Even as her relationship with Briar blossoms, Cordi can’t help but suspect that there are secrets in the estate…and when she stumbles across evidence that Edward was once there, she’s determined to find answers. Atmospheric, eerie, and thoroughly original, Her Wicked Roots will establish Tanya Pell as a “wickedly creepy” (Josh Winning, author of Heads Will Roll) and vital voice in horror.

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

A story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?” Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father—despite his hard-won citizenship—Lily and Kath risk everything to let their love see the light of day.

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Ode to the Half Broken - Buddy Read?

Edit: Several of us will be doing a buddy read of this starting on August 9! Anyone else is free to join us!

Ode to the Half-Broken has been on my radar for a bit and has been bumping its way further and further up in my TBR, I was planning to start it sometime soonish, but now that it's on this quest I thought I'd see if anyone was interested in planning a buddy read? I figured I'd post here to gauge interest and then if there's interested folks we could decide together when would be a good time to start!

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession. Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre—took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. Thrown into a profession of gallows humor and vivid characters (both living and very dead), Doughty learned to navigate the secretive culture of those who care for the deceased. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes tells an unusual coming-of-age story full of bizarre encounters and unforgettable scenes. Caring for dead bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, Doughty soon becomes an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. She describes how she swept ashes from the machines (and sometimes onto her clothes) and reveals the strange history of cremation and undertaking, marveling at bizarre and wonderful funeral practices from different cultures. Her eye-opening, candid, and often hilarious story is like going on a journey with your bravest friend to the cemetery at midnight. She demystifies death, leading us behind the black curtain of her unique profession. And she answers questions you didn’t know you had: Can you catch a disease from a corpse? How many dead bodies can you fit in a Dodge van? What exactly does a flaming skull look like? Honest and heartfelt, self-deprecating and ironic, Doughty's engaging style makes this otherwise taboo topic both approachable and engrossing. Now a licensed mortician with an alternative funeral practice, Doughty argues that our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and our dead).

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This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life

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“Perhaps the story (the body, the self) will never end, or perhaps the reader will be pushed to start again at the beginning, sending time on an endless loop, like the seeming foreverness of the moors existence.”

This book published around the same time I read Wuthering Heights, my first Brontë exposure, and I was so curious about its promise to weave Emily’s grim and otherworldly fantasy realm with her mundane Victorian domestic life running the Brontë household.

This Dark Night is an intimate portrayal of a wandering, rambling mind, told in a fluid narrative with direct quotes from letters, diary scribbles, and book passages. Lutz considers Emily’s belief that landscape played a role in shaping a person, and how the endless moors shaped her art and personality.

This was a personally fulfilling read that offered a lot of things to consider. It opened up curiosity and offered a framework through which to read more Brontë in the future.

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This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life

Deborah Lutz

The first biography in more than twenty years of Emily Jane Brontë, extraordinary poet and author of the incomparable Wuthering Heights. Emily Brontë (1818–48) was only twenty-seven-years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Wuthering Heights, and it has taken even longer to know Brontë—an elusive figure, with a ghostly legacy marred by the loss (and likely destruction) of almost all her personal papers. Drawing on formerly inaccessible notebooks and manuscripts, Deborah Lutz constructs a portrait of Brontë, her famous writing sisters Charlotte and Anne, and the family’s tragic deaths against the texture of Brontë’s days as a woman both tending a Victorian household and crafting otherworldly fiction. Lutz traces Brontë’s passions from her animal menagerie to her beloved moors as she honed her fantastical poems and transcendent novel. This Dark Night plumbs the life and writing of this idiosyncratic woman, dark soul, and monumental genius.

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