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StaceGhost

StaceGhost

Joined May 2016

🕷Devourer of Books 🦇
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Water Magic | Lilith Dorsey
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The perfect package to return home to after a wonderful weekend ❤️thanks @wanderinglynn #travelingstars

Soubhiville What a sweet collection! 4d
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This is such a cool little book! Thanks @Gissy 🌟#travelingstars I‘ve already learned some cool tips from this & love the size! I think it‘s going to work really well with my bujo, too ❤️✨

Gissy I‘m glad you liked it. I thought it was practical🤗❤️❤️❤️ 7d
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I‘ve had to resort to an ereader once again 📚 this weekend I need to read several novels— Shirley (which I quite like), The Professor, The Gift of Asher Lev and My Name is Asher Lev, The Dybbuk, and Regrowth by Der Nister. That‘s not listing the textbook chapters and scholarly articles also assigned. Thankfully, they‘re all on this beautiful little device so I can speed read at my ease instead of carrying their collective literary weight 📕📗📘📙

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Oops this book jumped into my bag! I had no choice but to buy it. I‘d define it as vegan friendly because there are some omnivore recipes too but largely these are plant based 🌱

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I bought this book to read “with my children” during the seasons & it certainly did not disappoint! Just look at these gorgeous illustrations 😍 I love making excuses to buy myself gorgeous books

TheBookHippie Wow pretty! 1mo
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Paladin's Faith | T. Kingfisher
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Love these books 📚 they‘re very fun & the romances are so very realistic ❤️💋

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The Red Garden | Alice Hoffman
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I enjoyed this— it reminded me of Rutherford‘s novelized histories but more interesting, as Catherine Moreland from Northanger Abbey says, without “…the quarrels of popes and kings…the men all so good for nothing and hardly any women at all…” rather, there are a lot of very strong women & the stories focus on local history & the way our stories become myths

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Gorgeous book cover! Just started this first installment of the new #travelingstars2024 thanks @wanderinglynn for the beautiful card & the celebration planner ❤️🌘

wanderinglynn Sorry it was a little late! But glad it arrived. 💜 2mo
StaceGhost @wanderinglynn no worries 😉 I like to celebrate a season, not a day! More time to party 🎉 (edited) 2mo
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A Beautiful Poison | Lydia Kang
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Not for the faint of heart— you may find yourself rooting for the killer. Of course, the murders are also painful & affecting, but who was most guilty? Quite thrilling but damn dark 🖤

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Salt & Broom | Sharon Lynn Fisher
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Cute little grocery list pad my dear friend designed for me 🐈‍⬛ I wrote about this book for a conference!

TLDR; version is it‘s a great adaptation, lots of fun, but missing the glorious descriptions of nature that makes the original Jane a delightful witch in her own right.

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Murder in Postscript | Mary Winters
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This was such a cozy read. I enjoyed the author‘s discussion of periodical archives at the end, too. The mystery was relatively straightforward but plenty of red herrings to keep you guessing.

Picture of me resting after chopping logs for the fire at my friend‘s NYE party. Happy New Year! 🎆

dabbe You go, girl! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
StaceGhost @dabbe haha thank you! I felt v powerful 2mo
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Shady Hollow | Juneau Black
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What‘s better than a town full of talking animals? A foxy cub reporter who solves mysteries— her best friend Lenore is a raven with a bookstore 🐦‍⬛

Desk fairy & friend pictured for fun #midwintersolace #fridaynightshare #naturalitsy @AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88 @TheBookHippie

DebinHawaii This book was so fun! 2mo
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What a lovely holiday it‘s been! The sequel was wonderful. I like the first one but the second is even more life-affirming &, of course, magical ✨

Our whole holiday has been difficult but also the best one yet. I‘ve been struggling lately, doing too much, but I am so grateful for everyone in my life. Things might be hard but we‘re so very lucky 🍀

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My favorite cookbook! The recipe for the homemade kidney bean vegan chorizo is a staple in our house, featuring here in my hearty bean soup 🍠 #midwintersolace #naturalitsy #fridaynightshare

@Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie @jenniferw88 @AllDebooks

Chrissyreadit can I get recipe? 3mo
kspenmoll Sounds delicious!!! 3mo
StaceGhost Of course! 3mo
AllDebooks 😋 3mo
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Enjoying the luxury of taking my time to set up my 2024 vision board page in my new bujo— featuring tons of tiny tarot, of course! #travelingstars

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I can‘t believe I forgot to mention this book has one of my favorite ever comments on modern witchcraft:

P.331-332 “Oh, those are those glossy working-mother types, always perfect, never a hair out of place. Bronagh told me about them. She says they‘re all witches. No other way you could conceivably ‘have it all‘ apparently.”

BookwormAHN Nice 🩵 3mo
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This may be a new addition to my annual holiday reading list, along with all the murder, fairytales, etc.

Although accurate depictions of sisterhood, children, & love, I want to live in this world where none of the depression or other mental illness is crippling. Maybe that‘s Scotland? I‘d be willing to give it a shot.

Until then, I want to share the beautiful painting my student/colleague/friend made of my children in all their alien beauty

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Another excellent, poignant Singing Hills installment— I really love how each story comments on the nature of storytelling, all while telling incredible stories ❤️

Picture of my son staring into the riverlands, although not the ones in the novella (thank goodness)

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A good spot on the porch with a pot of tea, a blanket & Tricia Hersey here to whisper-shout: “Your body is a site of liberation./It doesn‘t belong to capitalism.”

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Second book of the day, complete— if you‘re not acquainted with Charlotte Holmes, you should be!Suspenseful, clever, & now with a bit of spice. The high stakes made this latest installment so satisfying 🕵️‍♀️ this mystery centered on “the occult”— always love seeing how writers portray this

also, feeling a bit better after some tea & my famous lemon orzo soup 🍲 delighted to tackle my holiday tbr tbh ☕️

Scochrane26 Still my fave series. 3mo
DGRachel I think I own the first in this series but I haven‘t read it yet. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 3mo
StaceGhost @DGRachel the first one is my favorite! They‘re all good but that one is so v fun 3mo
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Murder in Williamstown | Kerry Greenwood
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Phryne provides excellent entertainment as usual, but cold comfort, I‘m sad to say. Tested positive for Covid so I‘m masked up in the bedroom reading. Not feeling very festive, I‘m afraid. Still, the tree looks lovely.

Chrissyreadit yes lovely! and OH NO!!! how are you feeling? 3mo
StaceGhost @Chrissyreadit furious at late stage capitalism, so fairly normal lol miss you, friend 💜✨ 3mo
AmyG I hope you are feeling better soon. 3mo
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Chrissyreadit The anger at unfettered under regulated capitalism is valid! 3mo
StaceGhost @Chrissyreadit @AmyG thank you! Good books, good tea, & good friends— I‘m feeling better already 🤟 3mo
Cupcake12 Hope you feel better soon x 3mo
DaveGreen7777 Hope you feel much better soon! ❤️‍🩹 3mo
CarolynM Get well soon💐 3mo
bthegood get well soon - 3mo
StaceGhost Thanks @Cupcake12 @DaveGreen7777 @CarolynM & @bthegood I‘m feeling better already 🥰🙏🏻 3mo
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The Haunting Season: Nine Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights | Andrew Michael Hurley, Natasha Pulley, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Laura Purcell, Jess Kidd, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Elizabeth Macneal, Bridget Collins, Sara Collins
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At last, the tree is up! Decorating can wait until Tuesday, though 😅

For now, breathing deeply & thinking of “The Hanging of the Greens”— love this #hyggehourreadathon

#naturalitsy #midwintersolace #hyggehour

@AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie @jenniferw88

TheBookHippie Me too! What a lovely looking tree! 4mo
BookwormAHN Gorgeous tree 💚 4mo
AllDebooks Beautiful, I bet it smells amazing, too x 4mo
Chrissyreadit 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 3mo
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Back in a Spell | Lana Harper
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The most delicious treat, I saved this book last year just so I could read it for the holiday season ❄️☃️✨

📸by Chickpea Mag

@Chrissyreadit @AllDebooks @jenniferw88 @TheBookHippie

#naturalitsy #midwintersolace #hyggehourreadathon

TheBookHippie Ohhhh how lovely and yummy! 4mo
AllDebooks Nice 🙌 4mo
dabbe #yummyinthetummy! 🤣🤩😍 4mo
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The Haunting Season: Nine Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights | Andrew Michael Hurley, Natasha Pulley, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Laura Purcell, Jess Kidd, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Elizabeth Macneal, Bridget Collins, Sara Collins
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“…the fire was reliable and the teapot was full.”

Delicious tea, a spine tingling winter tale, & my oldest reading buddy ❤️ what a perfectly lovely evening

@AllDebooks @TheBookHippie @jenniferw88 @Chrissyreadit

#naturalitsy #midwintersolace #hyggehourreadathon

TheBookHippie Awe.🧸🩶❄️ 4mo
dabbe 💙❄️💙 4mo
AllDebooks That's so sweet x 4mo
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I loved reading this riff off of the Scarlet Letter & imagining how love & time can intertwine ❤️✨Alice Hoffman evokes magic again 🍁🍏

Also, the cover looks like Rebecca from aclotheshorse

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System Collapse | Martha Wells
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Thanks for the tag @Yuki_Onna ☺️

1. The tagged book, the newest of the Murderbot diaries, was a lovely little installment. How long to wait until the next one comes out? Alas.

2. I have a whole stack of trashy witchy rom coms, ghost stories, & other lovely, silly things to read but I‘m most looking forward to reading the snow queen by Hans Christian Andersen with my babies ❄️

@TheSpineView

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Picked up some gorgeous editions of Proust‘s trilogy while visiting family for the holidays 🍂 also found an encyclopedia of herbs— anyone else read the encyclopedia as a kid?

🕯️🍂This centerpiece combines rosemary & marigolds, memorializing absent friends 🪦🍁 so it‘s a fitting representation of both finds!

Texreader Yes I loved reading the encyclopedias as a kid! And I‘d enjoy this too! 4mo
kspenmoll Beautiful!! 4mo
bibliothecarivs 🙋🏼‍♂️ encyclopedia reader 4mo
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Someone on BlueSky described this to me as “the Count of Monte Cristo, but with lesbians in space” so obviously I immediately downloaded it from hoopla and then came here to tell you lovely people ❤️🚀

OndinetheSea Aliette de Bodard is one of my favorite authors! I am so very excited to read this one(, as someone who was obsessed with The Count of Monte Cristo in high school 😅). And I highly recommend all of her books. 5mo
rwmg I'm working my way through the oeuvre but they do seem to be difficult to get hold of 5mo
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Playing witchy games, reading witchy books 📚 this one was a rando library find (the best kind) pretty good & some very fun imagery but not as much world building as I tend to like in my fantasy romcoms 🔮 Koriko is a sweet coming of age solo journaling RPG— I highly recommend! 🧹✨

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Make Trouble | John Waters
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Such a lovely man & such a great book to audioknit to 🎃👻🔮

Gissy Did you do it? Knitted? So pretty! 🧡🤎💛 5mo
dabbe Beautiful! 🤩🤩🤩 5mo
Clare-Dragonfly Eep, so cute! 😍🎃 5mo
StaceGhost @Gissy @dabbe @Clare-Dragonfly thank you! I‘m knitting a few for friends too 🎃✨ 5mo
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Red Emma's BookStore Coffeehouse | Baltimore, MD (Bookstore)
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I love this place so much! Got three books for everyone in the family & an AMAZING fishless & chips

Clare-Dragonfly Love Red Emma‘s! I haven‘t been in ages! 5mo
StaceGhost This was my first time in ten years! It was the spot when I lived there for college 5mo
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CounterStories from the Writing Center | Frankie Condon, Wonderful Faison
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International Writing Center Association Conference in Charm City 🌆 good to see you again, Baltimore

Amiable Love Baltimore! My youngest son lives there so we visit often. 6mo
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The Marlow Murder Club | Robert Thorogood
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A heartwarming triple murder mystery with a lovely crossword creating sleuth! 🕵️‍♀️ I don‘t recommend the Star Trek crossword puzzles, however.

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My dear friend @Chrissyreadit sent me this lovely book because I‘ve been overdoing it lately 😅 my brain is picky post post-concussion syndrome 🧠 I get migraines if I do too much— thankfully I have great friends who remind me to relax 😎

Chrissyreadit 😘😘😘😘 6mo
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🌟Enjoying some #travelingstars stickers on my reading list (thanks @wanderinglynn I love them!) 🌟while celebrating the return of great British bake off with a rewatch & reread of one of my favorite cozy mysteries 🥮🍰🧁

wanderinglynn 🖤🖤🖤🌟💫 6mo
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Naamah's Curse | Jacqueline Carey
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Subtle office witchery 🪄reading the second to last novel set in this world & reluctant to end it

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Kushiel's Mercy | Jacqueline Carey
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Another beautiful day at the shop, another lush fantasy novel from Jacqueline Casey. These books are compulsively readable and seriously hot 🥵

Soubhiville Cool looking shop! And JC is one of my faves. 😊 6mo
StaceGhost @Soubhiville thanks! There‘s a lot of lovely old and dead things here. And wow is JC fantastic! I‘m three books away from finishing with the D‘Angelines but I‘m going to continue reading all her books 6mo
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Hard-pressed to think of a better way to spend my day than breaking up housework with little stints of reading on the porch and playing with babies— both furry and otherwise ❤️

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Bissell is annoying in that mediocre flavor of a particular kind of gamer but he gets an insight here and there— so many male writers who just need to get therapy

By contrast, Spiritfarer (pictured) is a lovely game and I highly recommend it, especially if you have been dealing with grief or losing loved ones to dementia

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Kushiel's Dart | Jacqueline Carey
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I‘m on book 5 of this series about a religious courtesan spy and no one can stop me #quietimreading #iykyk

TheSpineView 😂😂😂 6mo
Gissy 🤣🤣🤣 6mo
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Had a lot of fun teaching this terrarium workshop inspired by green witchery & plant magic. The little skull is a turtle! They look like dragon skulls 🌵🐢🐲

julesG Wow! Looking very good. Wish I could have joined the course. 7mo
StaceGhost @julesG Aw thanks 😊 it was fun to do and I‘ll probably run it again next month 7mo
wanderinglynn I totally want you to do this for our circle! I‘ve always wanted to crest a terrarium and that looks awesome! 7mo
StaceGhost @wanderinglynn ❤️ that‘s awesome! I would love to :) (edited) 7mo
wanderinglynn I‘ll message you about it. 7mo
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SLAY | Brittney Morris
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Truly enjoyed this novel recommended by my postmodern lit prof— videogames, identity, and social change wrapped up in a compelling story beautifully told. I want to put it on a syllabus with Tomorrowx3 and Roleplaying

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Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes
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I forgot how funny this was! We‘re reading it for my Science Fiction before 1660 course…

that‘s right, you may have learned science fiction wasn‘t a thing until much later but this class makes a strong argument against that timeline

Picture of my dark purple lavender lemonade with butterfly pea flower and kaweco sport, two essentials for surviving class

Bookwormjillk Cool topic for a class! 9mo
Clare-Dragonfly Ooh, sounds like a fun class! 9mo
StaceGhost @Bookwormjillk @Clare-Dragonfly it really is! & the prof is brilliant— we‘re reading cavendish next & she just finished a book about her! 8mo
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I‘ve been reading so much for my PhD it‘s been both a nightmare and wonderful— saw this and thought of all of you 💝

By the way, the tagged book is both bananas and very fun to read lol if you decide to dive in, bon chance!

julesG Hope your thesis is coming along nicely. 9mo
bibliothecarivs @StaceGhost What are you studying? 9mo
StaceGhost @bibliothecarivs literature and criticism 🥲I don‘t know how to read anymore 9mo
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StaceGhost @julesG thank you! I think I‘m learning? 9mo
julesG I think that's a good sign. 😉 9mo
bibliothecarivs @StaceGhost Nice. Any particular literature? (period/ movement/genre/etc.) 9mo
StaceGhost @bibliothecarivs I‘m really interested in a lot of things but it‘s looking like videogames as literature, horror, occultism, and the gothic, and Bakhtin are the front runners 😅 9mo
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Role Playing | Cathy Yardley
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Loved this smart & quirky romcom ❤️ helped solidify some theories I have about videogame literature,too! BTW, EmilyBlaster from Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is real— find it (and my high score) here: https://gabriellezevin.com/emilyblastergame/

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What a wonderful novel about love and loss and play. I don‘t know if the writing was good, but it was evocative and very clever.

I‘ve always had a hard time evaluating books, because how do you distill something so complex? It‘s like trying to rank your friends, which is amoral (I think).

That said, I enjoyed every minute spent in this world and deeply connected to the theme, story, and Easter eggs. I have a feeling I‘ll be rereading this one.

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Dictionary of Astrology | Harry E. Wedeck
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Sent out 3 packages for #travelingstars today! @jenniferw88 @Erinsuereads @Gissy sorry they‘re late but I made them extra special! Each contains a vintage book, like the one tagged, and an oracle of some kind. I hope you like them!

It‘s been a hectic year. I can‘t believe it‘s already the solstice! The Northen hemisphere is heading towards the dark again— my favorite! :)

📸 by Rebecca of aclotheshorse

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Independent People | Halldor Laxness
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1. A mountain and a hot spring! There are some very pretty ones in Iceland ❤️
2. All my Litsy friends! Obviously ☺️

Thanks @Yuki_Onna for the tag 🥰

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
#holidays #travel #holidayreading

TheSpineView Thanks for playing 9mo
Yuki_Onna Ohhhh, how fabulous ☺️ Iceland is so so so magic 🥰 9mo
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Really enjoyed these— there is a newer translation by M. Nazir Ali, too. I‘ve been enjoying them side by side. Translation requires so many subtle choices. I love seeing the two authors choose such divergent forms!

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Sheets | Brenna Thummler
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A fantastic book! Funny and heartfelt and sad.

This book reminds me of the term tragic optimism. Originally coined by a holocaust survivor, it refers to the way those experiencing traumatic loss can find deeper meaning and purpose amidst the broken pieces. The opposite of toxic positivity, it admits the hardships and grief we all inevitably face.

This book has some of that. It‘s also funny and very cute. (Meme image shared for levity.)