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Tea 🍵
Sewing 🪡 and crochet 🧶
Sci-fi/fantasy 📚 and occasionally whatever else piques my fancy
Snow bunny
Tea 🍵
Sewing 🪡 and crochet 🧶
Sci-fi/fantasy 📚 and occasionally whatever else piques my fancy
Snow bunny
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Intro because it's probably time.
Chatting about books I've been reading, mostly fantasy and scifi. I might do a little romance here or there, but it's not going to be a focus.
Crochet and sewing projects, mostly finished items, maybe some WIPs.
Tea posts might happen, but it's intimidating
Chatting about books I've been reading, mostly fantasy and scifi. I might do a little romance here or there, but it's not going to be a focus.
Crochet and sewing projects, mostly finished items, maybe some WIPs.
Tea posts might happen, but it's intimidating
Tried w2t's smokeshou #tea today. Very light on the smoke, but it melded nicely with the mellow shou.
I'd sort of thought I didn't like shou, but this reminded me that I do have several dark teas that are nice. It's possible I just don't like the funky ones as much.
I'd sort of thought I didn't like shou, but this reminded me that I do have several dark teas that are nice. It's possible I just don't like the funky ones as much.
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Tried w2t's smokeshou #tea today. Very light on the smoke, but it melded nicely with the mellow shou.
I'd sort of thought I didn't like shou, but this reminded me that I do have several dark teas that are nice. It's possible I just don't like the funky ones as much.
I'd sort of thought I didn't like shou, but this reminded me that I do have several dark teas that are nice. It's possible I just don't like the funky ones as much.
🪐📚 If you're familiar with Bishop's work, this is fairly similar in tone to her Others series. If you're not, this is a dark fairytale with all that entails, but there is also a keen sense of justice under the surface.
As her writing is frequently dark, check the content warnings for Bishop's work
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As her writing is frequently dark, check the content warnings for Bishop's work
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November 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
🪐📚 If you're familiar with Bishop's work, this is fairly similar in tone to her Others series. If you're not, this is a dark fairytale with all that entails, but there is also a keen sense of justice under the surface.
As her writing is frequently dark, check the content warnings for Bishop's work
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As her writing is frequently dark, check the content warnings for Bishop's work
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About a quarter into the new Anne Bishop release and it's scratching an itch. There's something about knowing an author enjoys poetic justice that makes things easier.
November 15, 2025 at 6:21 AM
About a quarter into the new Anne Bishop release and it's scratching an itch. There's something about knowing an author enjoys poetic justice that makes things easier.
Pretty sure I'm going to start a re-read of KB Wagers' Hail Bristol series because 1) it's a really good pair of series and 2) it can't hurt me if I know who dies... Or at least not as badly as it did the first time. Princess to pirate to princess, what could go wrong? Everything.
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Pretty sure I'm going to start a re-read of KB Wagers' Hail Bristol series because 1) it's a really good pair of series and 2) it can't hurt me if I know who dies... Or at least not as badly as it did the first time. Princess to pirate to princess, what could go wrong? Everything.
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If I had to describe Smushi Come Home, I would say playing it feels like a warm hug from a beloved person. There is just so much warmth and whimsy to the game that I utterly adore
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
If I had to describe Smushi Come Home, I would say playing it feels like a warm hug from a beloved person. There is just so much warmth and whimsy to the game that I utterly adore
Slowly working my way through all the smoked samples I got from w2t.
Laocong Lapsun isn't super smoke forward, despite being stored with a bunch of v smokey teas.
It's really hard for me to describe the flavor, but maybe a light cinnamon and friut. It's pleasant, but hard to describe.
#tea
Laocong Lapsun isn't super smoke forward, despite being stored with a bunch of v smokey teas.
It's really hard for me to describe the flavor, but maybe a light cinnamon and friut. It's pleasant, but hard to describe.
#tea
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Slowly working my way through all the smoked samples I got from w2t.
Laocong Lapsun isn't super smoke forward, despite being stored with a bunch of v smokey teas.
It's really hard for me to describe the flavor, but maybe a light cinnamon and friut. It's pleasant, but hard to describe.
#tea
Laocong Lapsun isn't super smoke forward, despite being stored with a bunch of v smokey teas.
It's really hard for me to describe the flavor, but maybe a light cinnamon and friut. It's pleasant, but hard to describe.
#tea
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A trickster doing as tricksters do gifts a peach of immortality to a kind young woman. Centuries unfold before her with great good and great evil and the trickster is always there at the edges.
I'd hesitate to call this a romance, although there are elements of it that slowly unfold.
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A trickster doing as tricksters do gifts a peach of immortality to a kind young woman. Centuries unfold before her with great good and great evil and the trickster is always there at the edges.
I'd hesitate to call this a romance, although there are elements of it that slowly unfold.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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A trickster doing as tricksters do gifts a peach of immortality to a kind young woman. Centuries unfold before her with great good and great evil and the trickster is always there at the edges.
I'd hesitate to call this a romance, although there are elements of it that slowly unfold.
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A trickster doing as tricksters do gifts a peach of immortality to a kind young woman. Centuries unfold before her with great good and great evil and the trickster is always there at the edges.
I'd hesitate to call this a romance, although there are elements of it that slowly unfold.
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I have redeemed myself with a pot roast with cranberries, onions, and carrots.
Currently reading These Immortal Truths and The Works of Vermin. Thoughts will come when I finish them.
Currently reading These Immortal Truths and The Works of Vermin. Thoughts will come when I finish them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I have redeemed myself with a pot roast with cranberries, onions, and carrots.
Currently reading These Immortal Truths and The Works of Vermin. Thoughts will come when I finish them.
Currently reading These Immortal Truths and The Works of Vermin. Thoughts will come when I finish them.
I wasn't paying good attention when I picked out a recipe for squash/pumpkin risotto and while it turned out ok, there are things I would do differently. Starting with not including a full butternut squash (it wasn't a particularly big one either). Now wondering if it wasn't an LLM recipe.
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I wasn't paying good attention when I picked out a recipe for squash/pumpkin risotto and while it turned out ok, there are things I would do differently. Starting with not including a full butternut squash (it wasn't a particularly big one either). Now wondering if it wasn't an LLM recipe.
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Glad I tried this spinoff novella/short of the Pac Arcana series because it got me interested in the first book again. Pretty sure I didn't finish it last time because it's got some pretty nasty bits (read the trigger warnings on these ones). I always enjoy a take on the hidden supernatural
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Glad I tried this spinoff novella/short of the Pac Arcana series because it got me interested in the first book again. Pretty sure I didn't finish it last time because it's got some pretty nasty bits (read the trigger warnings on these ones). I always enjoy a take on the hidden supernatural
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November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Glad I tried this spinoff novella/short of the Pac Arcana series because it got me interested in the first book again. Pretty sure I didn't finish it last time because it's got some pretty nasty bits (read the trigger warnings on these ones). I always enjoy a take on the hidden supernatural
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Glad I tried this spinoff novella/short of the Pac Arcana series because it got me interested in the first book again. Pretty sure I didn't finish it last time because it's got some pretty nasty bits (read the trigger warnings on these ones). I always enjoy a take on the hidden supernatural
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Bit of a different sort of review. But we're talking #cookbooks because I found out that Beard on Bread is still in print. Mine was bought secondhand.
This is such a lovely and thoughtful introduction to bread making as well as a wonderful recipe book for more experienced bakers.
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This is such a lovely and thoughtful introduction to bread making as well as a wonderful recipe book for more experienced bakers.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Bit of a different sort of review. But we're talking #cookbooks because I found out that Beard on Bread is still in print. Mine was bought secondhand.
This is such a lovely and thoughtful introduction to bread making as well as a wonderful recipe book for more experienced bakers.
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This is such a lovely and thoughtful introduction to bread making as well as a wonderful recipe book for more experienced bakers.
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Can second the deeply weird slow burn forest adventure. Haven't finished it, but I probably will someday. I kind of feel like everyone is going to die horribly though.... It's that kind of book. Good writing, mostly dark, and the MC is just doing his thing not being a messiah character.
Hey, UK FRIENDS, looks like GODS OF THE WYRDWOOD, is only 99p on Kindle and probably KOBO too so if DEEPLY WEIRD slowburn forest adventures are your thing jump on that.
www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Wyrdwoo...
www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Wyrdwoo...
Amazon.co.uk
www.amazon.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Can second the deeply weird slow burn forest adventure. Haven't finished it, but I probably will someday. I kind of feel like everyone is going to die horribly though.... It's that kind of book. Good writing, mostly dark, and the MC is just doing his thing not being a messiah character.
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Another reread, but we all know I like Garth Nix by this point, so not surprising. This is a weird little scifi coming of age that proves he understands the genre very well.
We've got space battles and mega empires and the true saving grace of any man, love.
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Another reread, but we all know I like Garth Nix by this point, so not surprising. This is a weird little scifi coming of age that proves he understands the genre very well.
We've got space battles and mega empires and the true saving grace of any man, love.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Another reread, but we all know I like Garth Nix by this point, so not surprising. This is a weird little scifi coming of age that proves he understands the genre very well.
We've got space battles and mega empires and the true saving grace of any man, love.
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Another reread, but we all know I like Garth Nix by this point, so not surprising. This is a weird little scifi coming of age that proves he understands the genre very well.
We've got space battles and mega empires and the true saving grace of any man, love.
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I think I'm going to rewire my brain and call all the "AI" the techbros are marketing LLMs from now on. mostly because they want us to think it's actually artificial intelligence when it's really just a mid imitation of intelligence that they're trying to sell because they spent too much on it.
November 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I think I'm going to rewire my brain and call all the "AI" the techbros are marketing LLMs from now on. mostly because they want us to think it's actually artificial intelligence when it's really just a mid imitation of intelligence that they're trying to sell because they spent too much on it.
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This one took me a bit to finish, but the main character is really anxious (which is reasonable) and was making me anxious so I was mincing my way through.
Technically third in the series, but you could probably read it as a standalone and not be too confused.
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This one took me a bit to finish, but the main character is really anxious (which is reasonable) and was making me anxious so I was mincing my way through.
Technically third in the series, but you could probably read it as a standalone and not be too confused.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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This one took me a bit to finish, but the main character is really anxious (which is reasonable) and was making me anxious so I was mincing my way through.
Technically third in the series, but you could probably read it as a standalone and not be too confused.
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This one took me a bit to finish, but the main character is really anxious (which is reasonable) and was making me anxious so I was mincing my way through.
Technically third in the series, but you could probably read it as a standalone and not be too confused.
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Libby (hopefully temporarily) eating my lists may have an upside off making me find things that aren't on them.
November 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Libby (hopefully temporarily) eating my lists may have an upside off making me find things that aren't on them.
Finished this one. It's got a really interesting ending because the main character is so layered and complex. The impact of virtual immortality, social upheaval, and the consequences of slow boat colonization of new worlds are explored.
Definitely not for everyone. The MC is a nasty piece of work.
Definitely not for everyone. The MC is a nasty piece of work.
20/🪐📚
For our penultimate spooky season book, we've got my current read... Which is on here for spoiler-y reasons involving alien life, cults, messed up dolphins, memories, and perhaps most of all - the melding plague. The entire plot is a mystery wrapped in an enigma that slowly unfolds.
For our penultimate spooky season book, we've got my current read... Which is on here for spoiler-y reasons involving alien life, cults, messed up dolphins, memories, and perhaps most of all - the melding plague. The entire plot is a mystery wrapped in an enigma that slowly unfolds.
November 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Finished this one. It's got a really interesting ending because the main character is so layered and complex. The impact of virtual immortality, social upheaval, and the consequences of slow boat colonization of new worlds are explored.
Definitely not for everyone. The MC is a nasty piece of work.
Definitely not for everyone. The MC is a nasty piece of work.
Drinking w2t smokehouse today. It's a smoked white tea. It's definitely a more approachable smoked tea, although the tea ball I had took a bit to really open up. Plenty of steeps and an unusual sort of tea, but very pleasant. I don't know that I'd want a cake, but I'd get more of the mini balls.
November 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Drinking w2t smokehouse today. It's a smoked white tea. It's definitely a more approachable smoked tea, although the tea ball I had took a bit to really open up. Plenty of steeps and an unusual sort of tea, but very pleasant. I don't know that I'd want a cake, but I'd get more of the mini balls.
20/ final sort of spooky season reads post
Listen, we've got the creepy not-children-children and a desert where you don't always come out the same, as well as humans fighting horrors beyond their comprehension, the argument for spooky season writes itself. It's a really good book, too.
Listen, we've got the creepy not-children-children and a desert where you don't always come out the same, as well as humans fighting horrors beyond their comprehension, the argument for spooky season writes itself. It's a really good book, too.
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
20/ final sort of spooky season reads post
Listen, we've got the creepy not-children-children and a desert where you don't always come out the same, as well as humans fighting horrors beyond their comprehension, the argument for spooky season writes itself. It's a really good book, too.
Listen, we've got the creepy not-children-children and a desert where you don't always come out the same, as well as humans fighting horrors beyond their comprehension, the argument for spooky season writes itself. It's a really good book, too.
20/🪐📚
For our penultimate spooky season book, we've got my current read... Which is on here for spoiler-y reasons involving alien life, cults, messed up dolphins, memories, and perhaps most of all - the melding plague. The entire plot is a mystery wrapped in an enigma that slowly unfolds.
For our penultimate spooky season book, we've got my current read... Which is on here for spoiler-y reasons involving alien life, cults, messed up dolphins, memories, and perhaps most of all - the melding plague. The entire plot is a mystery wrapped in an enigma that slowly unfolds.
October 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
20/🪐📚
For our penultimate spooky season book, we've got my current read... Which is on here for spoiler-y reasons involving alien life, cults, messed up dolphins, memories, and perhaps most of all - the melding plague. The entire plot is a mystery wrapped in an enigma that slowly unfolds.
For our penultimate spooky season book, we've got my current read... Which is on here for spoiler-y reasons involving alien life, cults, messed up dolphins, memories, and perhaps most of all - the melding plague. The entire plot is a mystery wrapped in an enigma that slowly unfolds.
Oh look spooky book sale for spooky book season. Srsly it's a good one!
do you like ebooks
do you like ebooks about haunted architecture
did you ever wish THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE was more ... SFnal?
just in time for the height of spooky season, my ROSE/HOUSE is on sale for only $2.99 at all ebook retailers! until November 2nd!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
do you like ebooks about haunted architecture
did you ever wish THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE was more ... SFnal?
just in time for the height of spooky season, my ROSE/HOUSE is on sale for only $2.99 at all ebook retailers! until November 2nd!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Rose/House
Rose/House is a breathtaking and taut sci-fi gothic thriller from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire.“I’m a piece of arc...
us.macmillan.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Oh look spooky book sale for spooky book season. Srsly it's a good one!
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Pretty sure Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a perfect spooky season read. It's got spiders, creepy forests, monsters, and of course, run of the mill evil. It's also got a pretty wild ending if I recall correctly.
Pretty sure Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a perfect spooky season read. It's got spiders, creepy forests, monsters, and of course, run of the mill evil. It's also got a pretty wild ending if I recall correctly.
18/🪐📚
Three words for this one - spooky mysterious forest. But also fae, deep time, curses(?), and a bit of a fop who wants to document the woods and be helpful. Nothing goes to plan of course.
Three words for this one - spooky mysterious forest. But also fae, deep time, curses(?), and a bit of a fop who wants to document the woods and be helpful. Nothing goes to plan of course.
October 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Pretty sure Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a perfect spooky season read. It's got spiders, creepy forests, monsters, and of course, run of the mill evil. It's also got a pretty wild ending if I recall correctly.
Pretty sure Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a perfect spooky season read. It's got spiders, creepy forests, monsters, and of course, run of the mill evil. It's also got a pretty wild ending if I recall correctly.
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... This is an interesting one. A lot of what makes it that is spoilers, but it does a good job of breaking down the senseless and absurd nature of war. It made me laugh and almost made me cry and I think it made some really interesting points about life and aging.
... This is an interesting one. A lot of what makes it that is spoilers, but it does a good job of breaking down the senseless and absurd nature of war. It made me laugh and almost made me cry and I think it made some really interesting points about life and aging.
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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... This is an interesting one. A lot of what makes it that is spoilers, but it does a good job of breaking down the senseless and absurd nature of war. It made me laugh and almost made me cry and I think it made some really interesting points about life and aging.
... This is an interesting one. A lot of what makes it that is spoilers, but it does a good job of breaking down the senseless and absurd nature of war. It made me laugh and almost made me cry and I think it made some really interesting points about life and aging.
18/🪐📚
Three words for this one - spooky mysterious forest. But also fae, deep time, curses(?), and a bit of a fop who wants to document the woods and be helpful. Nothing goes to plan of course.
Three words for this one - spooky mysterious forest. But also fae, deep time, curses(?), and a bit of a fop who wants to document the woods and be helpful. Nothing goes to plan of course.
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Three words for this one - spooky mysterious forest. But also fae, deep time, curses(?), and a bit of a fop who wants to document the woods and be helpful. Nothing goes to plan of course.
Three words for this one - spooky mysterious forest. But also fae, deep time, curses(?), and a bit of a fop who wants to document the woods and be helpful. Nothing goes to plan of course.
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Portal is a wonderful bookstore, run by wonderful people. If you're in the UK looking for titles by American authors that have not yet received UK editions, Portal is your new best friend. They sell more copies of each new Toby Daye book than many US bookstores do.
Obviously always support indies but the lovely and wonderful @portalbookshop.bsky.social are really going through it right now so please give them some love! And the best way to do that is with sales! Buy books from them!
Where to find us:
In person! 5 Patrick Pool, York, YO1 8BB
Website! (With indie and import books) http://the-portal-bookshop.square.site
Other website! (With everything available through the UK wholesaler) http://uk.bookshop.org/shop/portalbookshop
Other social media! Portalbookshop everywhere
In person! 5 Patrick Pool, York, YO1 8BB
Website! (With indie and import books) http://the-portal-bookshop.square.site
Other website! (With everything available through the UK wholesaler) http://uk.bookshop.org/shop/portalbookshop
Other social media! Portalbookshop everywhere
October 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Portal is a wonderful bookstore, run by wonderful people. If you're in the UK looking for titles by American authors that have not yet received UK editions, Portal is your new best friend. They sell more copies of each new Toby Daye book than many US bookstores do.