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Last month I finished the book bingo kingstoken created for 2024, but I’ve not had time to post about it until now 😅

( Book Bingo Summary here )


( Favorite books of this year )

Too much inspiration, too little time

I've had Thursday and Friday off work this week and was hoping to get some writing and reading done. I've managed the reading part, but the writing has been limited to world building 'cause I read the latest volume of Monstress (excellent comic series but WITH ALL THE TRIGGER WARNINGS).

( Explanation under the cut )

Here are five book trilogies I've recently read that I really enjoyed! Posted in alphabetical order, I enjoyed them all equally:

1) Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Love its wonderful, surreal world. Horror yet not. Will definitely re-read one day!
2) The Children of Time trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky. What if non-human-animals developed 'sentience', in SPAAACE~?! Loved this exploration of self-awareness and how different animal species might take to it should humans meddle with their genetic code. Update: I've been reminded that, unlike myself who think they're adorable, a looot of people are uncomfortable reading about spiders. So yeah, this is a book series about sentient spiders, beware!
3) The Last Binding trilogy by Freya Marske. Do you want cool descriptions of magic, a high-risk mystery to solve, a secret-magical-side-to-our-world NOT tainted by transphobia, and hot sex scenes? This is the trilogy for you!
4) Rook & Rose trilogy by M. A. Carrick. Grifter with a heart of gold doing her best to secure her and her sister's future by tricking a noble family she's their long lost relative ends up tangled in a magical conspiracy. An epic adventure that's still character focused! It has excellent worldbuilding and so many fascinating people running about it. I've already written fic for this 😊
5) The Unraveled Kingdom trilogy by Rowenna Miller. A story about revolution from the POV of a reluctant revolutionary. A very realistic take on how complex a revolution can be - not shying away from the danger this puts everyone in -while still adding the fantastical element of probability magic.

If you want to see the covers of these books/texts and read more about them, you can hopefully see them over here on GoodReads (I'm hoping my reading challenge list from 2022 is visible to everyone, but GoodReads is a mess, so who knows).


( Books/Texts I didn't vibe with )


( Collections & Non-fiction )


( Game books )


( Fantasy )


( Horror )


( Science fiction )

We're at week 4 of 2023 and I'm doing pretty well on my New Year's resolutions to myself!

I've managed to only work full time (which is an achievement for me XD), actually sleep enough hours to not be dead on my feet come morning even on the days when I have to get up at 4.30 AM (like tomorrow), and I've replaced all candy and soda with fruits and water and am still doing perfectly fine re: eating and feeling happy :D Am mighty pleased with myself about this <3

My sister and I are in the cosplay planning stages too! Other than repairing and expanding existing cosplays from Mononoke (not Princess, the other one), Critical Role, Okami and DC/Marvel Comics, we're going to be working on colossus outfits from Shadow of the Colossus and new outfits from the Hades game! I'm going to be Persephone in her Hades outfit and I think my sister finally settled on Chef Ghost, with Eurydice as a more long-term goal <3

I'm somehow also heading to a LARP this weekend. Where I'll be singing. Soooo, there be a lot of rehearsing before that~

Finally, I've been reading some excellent books already this year (and right before New Year):

I've made it through Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron (wonderful bodyguard/prince romance with loyalty a huge focus of the plot + with a smutty epilogue posted on the author's AO3 account) and Some by Virtue Fall (theater drama <3). I've thoroughly enjoyed the latest horror novel by Jonathan Sims of The Magnus Archives podcast, called Family Business, as well as Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea (eerie and creepy and bittersweetly romantic rather than horrific but definitely good <3). And, on the more classic-ish fantasy front, I and sis at last finished Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart by Jane Lindskold - still very engaging!

Recommending all five of these books, should any of them seem up your alley! I've written more detailed reviews over on Goodreads.