waterhen
She/her 32 mostly into fantasy and scifi but trying to read a bit of everything. I’ve dedicated hours to my reading excel document and think I spend more time planning my reading than I spend reading
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Private Rites
Julia Armfield
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world It’s been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and arcane rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father dies. An architect as cruel as he was revered, his death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way. In the grand glass house they grew up in, their father’s most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will. More estranged than ever, the sisters’ lives spin out of control: Irene’s relationship is straining at the seams; Isla’s ex-wife keeps calling; and cynical Agnes is falling in love for the first time. But something even more sinister might be unfolding, something related to their mother’s long-ago disappearance and the strangers who have always seemed unusually interested in the sisters’ lives. Soon, it becomes clear that the sisters have been chosen for a very particular purpose, one with shattering implications for their family and their imperiled world.
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I’ve joined most of the quests and have my quest excel document with all of the books. I then cross referenced with my TBR and have a “book rating” that influences what I have on hold but then I also go on vibes as sometimes I’ll have something held for ages and then as soon as it’s available I don’t feel like reading it anymore 🥲
I am obsessed with Pagebound 🫛🐝 quests! But I tend to join a bunch and forget about them in true ADHD style 😂 But I do work toward the ones I really resonate with!
So tell me what your quest strategy is!
Do you join them all and let fate take its course? Do you join one at a time and work toward specific badges? Somewhere in between?
Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)
Tamsyn Muir
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The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
Susan Casey
Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of months, Casey went to the Farallon Islands to join Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.
Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield
Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield
This book is so interesting so far , the pace is so jarring between Leah’s shorter chapters revealing so little so slowly about what has happened to her, while time skips ahead so quickly in Miri’s chapters with seemingly no progress to improve the situation they find themselves in. Both perspectives are gripping and claustrophobic but certainly in very different ways. I’m finding Miri’s more full of dread than Leah’s, despite how much more frightening Leah’s situation would be in reality, because Miri’s captures so well this very specific experience of watching a loved one struggling in the grip of serious mental illness and feeling unable to help them. There are things she could do, like forcing her to go to a hospital, but any of those options involve ignoring her autonomy and going against her wishes and that is such a scary and overwhelming line to judge when to cross. It feels frustrating to feel like a clear solution would be for Miri to just talk to her, but there is nothing like trying to have a conversation with someone who is incapable of having it, for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with you and that you can’t fix. This horrible feeling like rejection, but it isn’t rejection because they’re not hearing you and they’re not choosing this, and you know it is worse for them than it is for you. Julia Armfield has captured that feeling of isolation and pressure perfectly and it’s so full of grief and I just hope we get to the hope eventually 🥲
Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield
