OH! Also P.S. @animalshapes.bsky.social killed it with this cover, especially after having read the book and understanding the significance of it. Very cool! Well done!

You're welcome! Its a great book!

(I'll try my best to get through the rest of the bundle as well. I really REALLY want to read through some of my peers here since I feel like a newcomer on the furry lit scene, so watch this space (And my good friend Roscoe's space for the spicier ones) for more book threads! Until next time!) 7/6

beyond that, since I do think you should pick up this book and read it for yourself (Or crack it open if you managed to get the Furry Book Bundle while it was up ;3).

So yeah, great book. Lovely, elegaic, hit me right where it hurts and I'm glad it did. 6/6

band) and their own struggles are mirrored in the art that they make as well as in the art they talk about. This is a great book for if you need some paintings to look at or need some folk songs to fill out your playlist, lmao, the book has pretty good taste.

I'll not go into too much detail 5/6

he helps inspire Mikey, as well as stick by him during his health issues.

The connection to the arts as not just something you do but a tradition you carry forward spoke to me very deeply. Both Gerry and Mikey are artists (Gerry is struggling to finish his mother's life work and Mikey is in a 4/6

a vibrant, colorful, artistic fox (And a bit of a manic pixie dream boy, but in a delightful way) and how Mikey helps Gerald get over the hump of his life, dealing with family problems, handling and processing long-dormant grief, and just being the right person at the right time, and for Gerry 3/6

For those who haven't had the pleasure this is a down-to-earth affair, so actually somewhat out of my comfort zone (I'm a genre boy at heart, always have been) but I had a really good time enjoying the romance of it all.

The story is about Gerald, a lion stuck in a rut in his life, and Mikey, 2/6

(and the rat)

...never enough to know WHAT.

There's all kinds of ways to do that--you can have a narrator who sees that another character sees something which they don't see themselves, or you can have the narrator show just the effects, never the cause.

Despite all this ritual and pomp and celebration around funerals, there are no yeen graveyards. The body parts that can't be repurposed are allowed to decompose in a shallow pit, and eventually their remains are used as fertilizer at local farms.

Macabre, perhaps, but I like this lore :3
4/4

Also about the colors: That's Hyena mourning. Funerals are massive parties and celebrations and are as much for joy as for somber contemplation and thus people in funeral business and folks in mourning dress in a panoply of colors to convey the complicated emotions of losing someone. 3/4

as a form of funerary practice. Also (And this is where my boy Carver comes in) someone carves death masks to convey the truth of the deceased. The mask (As well as maybe a violin made with gut strings? 😉) stays with the living family the same way you might keep an urn on the mantelpiece. 2/4