waternymph

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The City of Brass

S.A. Chakraborty

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The City of Brass

S.A. Chakraborty

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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.

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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

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Chlorine

Jade Song

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies... a powerful, relevant novel of immigration, sapphic longing, and fierce, defiant becoming.Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep, of the oceans and the rivers. Ones that called sailors to their doom. Ones that dragged them down and drowned them. Ones that feasted on their flesh. Ones of the creature that she's always longed to become: mermaid. Ren aches to be in the water. She dreams of the scent of chlorine--the feel of it on her skin. And she will do anything she can to make a life for herself where she can be free. No matter the pain. No matter what anyone else thinks. No matter how much blood she has to spill.

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The Water Dancer

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known. So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures. This is the story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. "The Water Dancer" restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.

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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver

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Night_frog

Spring-ween reads?

Weird question considering that it's August, but I'm already starting to plan and look for books to read in March. In my 2027 book bingo I have a box asking for a spring-ween read. Kind of like summerween or winterween.

While the other two are a bit more common, I never really see spring associated with spooky things and Halloween, so I don't really know how to look for a book of this kind. I mean, colourful, flowery spring doesn't really scream shivering in fear unless you aren't allergic to pollen.

Basically I'm looking for a book that:

is horror, or, if not horror, that is gothic fantasy/gothic
is set in spring
has no pedophilia or SA because I just don't really read those

Does anybody have any ideas? Thank you so much for reading this far, hope you have a wonderful day<✨3

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Starling House

Alix E. Harrow

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can't stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all. Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the uncanny house―and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling―go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she’s never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares. If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it.

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medusa1015

Reviews before reading?

Do you go in blind when picking up a book or read the reviews?

I try to go in blind but usually end up reading reviews and sometimes that pushes me away from the book because of bad reviews. I need to get better about not reading reviews so I can go into a book without biases. I also tend to read reviews during the book which also gets me in trouble if there are undisclosed spoilers

What do you guys do? Read reviews to get an idea if you'll like it? Completely avoid the reviews before reading? Does reading the reviews sway you one way or another?

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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

Caitlin Doughty

Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. Now featuring an interview with a clinical expert on discussing these issues with young people—the source of some of our most revealing questions about death—Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? confronts our common fear of dying with candid, honest, and hilarious facts about what awaits the body we leave behind.

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Ordinary Love

Marie Rutkoski

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Reading the Queer World: Africa

by wienn

16 books

Literary fiction, historical fiction, memoirs, and/or poetry by queer authors from nations in Africa, set in the nation. Not every nation is represented yet—I'm still researching them! Keeping it at maximum 3 books per nation.

Cameroon: These Letters End in Tears Egypt: Shubeik Lubeik; In the Spider's Room Equatorial Guinea: La Bastarda Ethiopia: The History of a Difficult Child Ghana: No One Dies Yet; Before We Hit the Ground* Kenya: Stories of our Lives Morocco: Infidels Nigeria: Under the Udala Trees; Butter Honey Pig Bread; An Ordinary Wonder Somalia: Fairytales for Lost Children South Africa: They Called Me Queer; Collective Amnesia Zimbabwe: The Hairdresser of Harare

(*) diaspora author

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fleurdelune

I wish there were more East-Asian inspired Quests!

As the title says! There are so many incredible tales with folklore, mythologies, and all sorts of lores coming out of East-Asia but as of now all are packed in one single quest.

WANT MORE!

At this point, more is less! Hehe! 🍒

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electrikate

Aug 14, 2026

Grind (Nanny Amanda Book 1)

4.0

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot:

A 21-question review (direct book quotes):

💖 Holy shit, are those tentacles? 💖 What the fuck is a grinding toy? 💖 Shaped like what? 💖 Why would you want it to feel like that? [a vulva] 💖 Do you have friends who like to grind with you? 💖 “Do you want to watch me use it?” 💖Have I been stuck in my own world and routine for so long that I’ve lost my desire for something new? 💖 ”Do you want me to take off my shirt, Laura?” 💖 Is that wrong of me? 💖 Is she edging herself? 💖 Grinding must be hard work. Could I do it? 💖 Will she tremble as much as I do when I come? 💖 Does she squirt? 💖 What next? Do I ask if she had a good day? Are we done here? 💖 ”Do you want to try it?” 💖 Does it really feel that good? 💖 Will she judge me? 💖 Was I like this the first time I had sex with a man? 💖 “Find a spot you like?” 💖 If a single woman of almost forty can’t get off with her twenty-five-year-old nanny, who can she trust to get her off?

💋 Am I addicted to her now? Want to do more than ride her tentacle grinder?

Overall rating: add tentacle grinder to cart

As always, you never saw me here 😘 (Unless you’re one of Amanda’s helpful friends. We don’t need a body pillow.)

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