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Yeah, so, my attitude towards A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES has officially gone from, “I‘ll probably like this, despite its TWILIGHT vibes,” to, “Ugh, I dislike pretty well everything about Harkness‘s approach and it‘s so LONG and TEDIOUS and WHYYYYYY.”

I‘m gonna finish it in case the time travel element saves it, but I have few hopes.

At least my Wuhan hot dry noodles were good. I increased the noodle:sauce ratio and added MANY mustard tubers.

Saki helped me read a couple more chapters of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES at lunchtime. I went in hoping I‘d get something like POSSESSION with magic, but as of maybe-25% (the omnibus edition makes it tough to tell) I find it more like TWILIGHT with adult academics instead of high school students. While the content differs, the vibes are there.

I think I‘ll like it overall, but I dunno if I‘ll become an ardent fan. We‘ll see how it unfolds.

#WickedWhispers Day 15 prompt- witch
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#HauntedShelf #FrightClub team @Jadams89
#BookRecommendation 30 pts
#BookScavengerHunt prompt-fancy font (that letter A is fancy😜) 15 pts

530 pts (previous) + 45 pts (current) = 575 pts

I haven‘t read this series yet, but I‘m home alone and decided to watch it! So excited 💫🪄🖤🧙‍♀️

1. I would love to swim with the manatees in Crystal River in Florida! 🩵

2. Tagged has The Bodleian Library, another place I'd love to visit!

#wondrouswednesday

“Once the world was full of wonders, but it belongs to the humans now. We, creatures, have all but disappeared.”
#page2screen

Apparently it‘s now on Netflix so there goes my day…😁🥰

Little Key West Bookstore haul 📚

This month i kinda isolated and disconnected a little, and found comfort is some rereads. This is what my month looked liked.

The new book in the series is out, so I‘m doing a reread of the first three. (I‘m not rereading the fourth. I have mostly apathy towards it.) Wednesday was my reading buddy once again!

Thanks for the tag, @eggs!
1. My unusual talent is that I can write backwards (mirrored) in cursive. (Like Da Vinci only not as smart. 😂)
2. Diana Bishop's magical powers are activated in A Discovery of Witches. Love this book, and the rest of the series.
#two4tuesday

I‘m going to leave this one for a while. It‘s a really dense book and I don‘t have the bandwidth right now to retain all the information. I‘ll come back to it later.

In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.

1. A Biblical character.

2. How about a book I love with an author who has the same first name as me?

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

Holy!!!! The research that went into this series… oh my word!! I absolutely loved the first book. I will be reading the others. The tv series is so good too if you haven‘t watched it. If you love the paranormal you absolutely have to pick this series up, then go watch the tv show!!! You can‘t tell, but my is annotated fairly heavily. There‘s so much stuff that happens that I had to mark!

Finally a new one. Yipee!!!! Of course I tried to preorder it already but the links aren't up yet 😩

Diving into 'A Discovery of Witches' was like embarking on a magical mystery tour - a whirlwind of fantasy, romance, and scholarly secrets! But whoa, the storytelling was a bumpy ride, hopping from a vampire's bird's-eye view to inside a witch's mind. Plus, it was like getting lost in a maze of too many details & thoughts on repeat. Wished for a snappier, more spellbinding journey through this enchanting world! Loved the narrator of the audiobook!

‘It begins with absence and desire.
It begins with blood and fear.
It begins with a discovery of witches.‘

Always a great read. Love how detailed the writing is.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#RushAThon #31by31 #SpookOWeen #Witchathon
#Falling4Books #20in4 #FinalStretchathon
#SeriesLove2023 #Scarathlon2023
Related to Halloween +25
#ScarathlonWordSearch (2,056) +20,560

+20,586 points #HHC #HalloweenHexesCoven

Finally opened one of my Monster Cereals. Had a bowl of Boo Berry, now I‘m ready to finish A Discovery of Witches.

#RushAThon #31by31 #SpookOWeen #Witchathon
#Falling4Books #FinalStrecthathon #20in4
#Scarathlon2023 #HalloweenBucketList

+11 points #HHC #HalloweenHexesCoven

I finished S3 of the tv series on Friday. It‘s been a few days of mayhem here so I‘m posting everything now, sorry about the flood of posts! #Scarathlon #SpookyGhostClub 71pts

Finished Season 2 of the TV series last night. Just finishing up Season 3 which I‘ll post later, then I‘m planning on watching The Fall Of The House Of Usher tonight. Looks really good from previews! #Scarathlon #SpookyGhostClub 101pts

I watched the 1st season of the tv series based on the first novel of the All Souls trilogy over the last few days as well. #Scarathlon #SpookyGhostClub 81pts

Bk7 of #Scarathlon is done.Started listening to it as background while #audiojournaling & updating spreadsheets before I started to get into the story again.It‘s still one of the best witch/vampire novels out there. #31x31 #Falling4Books #Rushathon #Spookaween #AfterDarkBingo #BodyCountBingo #LittenListen #ISpyBingo #Witchathon #PromptMaze #BookspinBingo #PumpkinSpiceReadathon #Friday13thReadathon #ScaredyCatRC #OctoberRC👇#SpookyGhostClub 9561pts

I‘ve been both #audiojournaling & #audiocolouring the last few days while listening to the tagged book(yes I know, again🤷🏻‍♀️). Printed out a few free Halloween colouring pages from online, there‘s so many different ones, I‘ll be printing out more for my next audiobook! And it‘s on my #ScarathlonBucketList too. A black cat is perfect for Friday 13th I think. #Scarathlon #SpookyGhostClub 26pts

2.5/5⭐ I liked the historical & magical worldbuilding & the Bishop house.

However, the romantic relationship was basically Twilight for adults. Matthew's alpha maleness & mindless possessiveness dominated the story & expected subservience at every turn. His rages were so unhealthy & worrisome, as were the ridiculous number of important secrets he & Diana kept from one another.

I have no desire to continue reading the series. #buzzwordathon

Don‘t know if I would have liked it as much if I hadn‘t seen season 1 of the show first 🤷🏻‍♀️

First book of #2023. I had already knew how the book was going to be because I had seen the show on tv. I must saying watching the show was way better then the book for me.

Great on audio.

Starting this next on #audible

Next audio
(Dark eyed junko nesting)

I have all three books open. Reading through two and then going back to one to check what I missed as insignificant. Hardness writes a lot of history within her books. Book two transports me into the past. I really enjoy this book. Also peaked into the series after reading the books. Glad they left the yoga out… the book is as normal better than the show

I know I said a cozy read but rereading a book with witches, daemons and vampires counts right?

One of my checklist items on my reading for 2023 is to read a series recommended by a friend. I don't generally do well with series. There's too many stories that I want to ingest for me to spend so much time on one. But I'm really glad I started this one. Book 1/3 of this series down, 2 to go and im already on the edge of my seat for #2! Then I can watch the show!!
Also Jennifer Ikeda does a phenomenal job reading this tale ❤️ 👏

It was too much...to many details and definitely too much wine tasting! And I'm still not sure what the plot is. Don't get me started on the main character, she got soo annoyingly dependent on the live interest, who was super bossy and a stalker. How is that supposed to be sexy?! Long story short, DNF

"As far as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire." #februarybookclub #4of24booksin2023 #bookclub

“It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.”
#March2023

I do like to read some supernaturals!

#snowflake #snowflakes #papersnowflakes

Idk what wild impulse made me #reread this, but I'm so glad I gave in. I love the layers and the vampire lore and the way Matthew and Diana interact. Should I watch the TV show? #fantasy

If I could rate this book a million stars, I would. Loved every minute of it. Magical and romantic. The romantic vibes reminded me a bit of Twilight, but this was much more intellectual than Twilight. Very heavy in history and science. Can't wait to read the next ones!

#Two4Tuesday

1: Tie between Hermoine Granger AND Diana Bishop.

2: Stephen Lawhead‘s Fantasy trilogy “Song of Albion”. Modern historians fall through a cairn and end up in a magical Celtic realm. To save their own time, they must save Albion—or both will cease to exist. Hermoine & Diana would do well in these novels.

✨Anyone can play; how about it, @Blerdgal_Fenix @Branwen @swishandflick

Starting off 2023 on this much anticipated adventure. Thank you @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks for my series of what I expect to be a magical journey 🪄 ✨✨✨

#Happy2023 #ADiscoveryofWitches #Litsylove #Booklove #ReadaJourney #Magic #MailboxHappiness

I'm really enjoying this series, despite the very meandering plots and the romance being a bit iffy. But the worldbuilding is cool, and there's a cool magic house and time traveling 🤷‍♀️

#adventrecommends @emilyrose_x

This is very similar to Twilight. I might have enjoyed it more if I knew that instead of thinking it was about witches in academia.

Started promising but then ended cinematically. Still, there are many parts I loved! I think I‘d have preferred if it stayed more focused on old manuscripts & the mystery at the heart of it all. Still, a lovely holiday read!

Also, I took the time to decorate my desk yesterday! I love my Yuletide goat 🐐🧙🏻‍♀️

Right now, A Discovery of Witches is my favorite. I think the cast is great, & I didn‘t mind small changes or what was left out. Could have done with less politicking in the first season though. #sundayfunday @ozma.of.oz

I ran across the tv series on AMC+ and gave it a go because I liked the cast. The chemistry between the leads was hot enough to melt your damn teeth so I had to pick up the books once I realized they were a thing. I really like this one! I‘m a science nerd and loved the academic bits that others apparently have found boring (according to other reviews). I really liked the secondary characters and how the author plays with the genre. Good stuff!

Loved reading this book, couldn‘t put it down.
We went to Oxford today and had to of course take in some of the sights where the book is set!
Top Left: The Radcliffe Camera
Top Right: The Bodleian Quad
Bottom Left: All Souls College

My husband and I have been terribly remiss about getting our alumni reading cards for the Bodleian, we need to do that so next time we can go and read in Duke Humfrey‘s!

Figured it was about time I reas this one ❤️

Just as wonderful the second time around. Can‘t wait to dive into the second one again!