It took me a while to get into this book (I was working too much) and it didn‘t draw me in right away. Very wordy! Lots of big words that would piss my husband off lol. Then it turned into a Stephen King horror and I really enjoyed it.
The lovely bush behind the book is called “Karen Azalea,” so beautiful when it blooms.
#HaikuADay
I awoke to this view of May‘s flower moon out my backyard screen door & it inspired today‘s haiku:
Before Sunrise:
The full flower moon
Bathes the world in twilight hues
Beckons through the screen
#HaikuHive
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#bookspinbingo card for April! @TheAromaofBooks
📚Tagged book was my favorite of the month!
🚫2 DNFs
🤼♀️ first nonfiction read of the year was Beck Lynch‘s bio
pickWell this was a lovely surprise! I really enjoyed this magical fantasy book. It is fresh and complex and has multiple layers. It deals with many issues including racism, misogyny, colonisation, faith and morality. Very well done! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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pickBlood over Bright Haven, by M.L. Wang (2024)
Premise: An ambitious young woman has staked everyone on becoming her society‘s first female high mage, but soon discovers a horrific secret underlying everything she thought she knew.
Review: This is a chilling book, all the more for the way it is all too reminiscent of our own world and the comfortable lies we tell ourselves to hide from inconvenient truths.
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This maybe in your fantasy , dystopian sci fi section at your local bookstore but after a slow start it spookily rings true “ because good people can turn desperate when the horrors are upon them,especially people whose culture of plenty had left them with no systems to cope with scarcity or cataclysm “
pickI could not put this down. So good, and honestly so many layers, this would be a fun one to dissect with a book club. The way that Sciona grew from the start of the book through the end was just brilliant. & it really hit on the biggest obstacles trying to combat social Justice/societal issues & did it in a way that was very organic & heartfelt to the story.
