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I found a virtual sticker!
A virtual sticker that states "I voted by mail" for the US election
November 5, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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I read the first chapter of And Then She Fell a while ago and I really want to read more.

#BookishQOTD 💙📚
Book cover of And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott It features an illustration of a woman falling in the middle of the cover. Around her is a somewhat abstract arch of what I believe to be tree branches. Goodreads synopsis for And Then She Fell: A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous woman who discovers the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequences. On the surface, Alice is exactly where she thinks she should be: She’s just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her charming husband, Steve—a white academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture—is nothing but supportive; and they’ve moved into a new home in a posh Toronto neighborhood. But Alice could not feel like more of an impostor. She isn’t connecting with her daughter, a struggle made even more difficult by the recent loss of her own mother, and every waking moment is spent hiding her despair from Steve and their ever-watchful neighbors, among whom she’s the sole Indigenous resident. Even when she does have a minute to herself, her perpetual self-doubt hinders the one vestige of her old life she has left: her goal of writing a modern retelling of the Haudenosaunee creation story. Then strange things start to happen. She finds herself losing bits of time and hearing voices she can’t explain, all while her neighbors’ passive-aggressive behavior begins to morph into something far more threatening. Though Steve assures her this is all in her head, Alice cannot fight the feeling that something is very, very wrong and that in her creation story lies the key to her and Dawn’s survival. She just has to finish it before it’s too late. The genre tags listed are horror, fiction, indigenous, thriller, magical realism, adult, and mystery
November 2, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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November 2, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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New read! 💙📚
Cover of Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones It's a mostly plain cover featuring what I believe is a wooden wall with a jagged hole in it. The end of a hook is featured prominently, spanning the cover horizontally and over the hole. The quote above the title and author name is from Esquire, reading "A genuine horror superstar." The text between the title and author name is New York Times Bestselling Author of The Only Good Indians
October 31, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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Quote (direct from Sireen Sawalha)
Quote from My Brother, My Land: A Story From Palestine written by Sami Hermez with Sireen Sawalha as a primary contributor (page 47 of the hardcover): "How did we learn? How did we become so cultured and knowledgable about the world with only a newspaper? Here, in America, people don't seem to know a thing about the world! The newsstands are filled newspapers and magazines of all kinds, as much information as you want. It's at your fingertips, at the click of a button on TV, on the radio, or a click away online, but it seems no one wants to know anymore. Information is thrown at people, but they refuse it. Back then, we read that one newspaper like it was telling us a story. And we could retell the news like a hakawati, a great storyteller, could narrate legendary adventures. How do people here claim not to know? Are they evading responsibility? We always knew. Even when we didn't, we pretended we did. Here, people talk about ignorance being bliss. For us, ignorance was a crime. It wasn't an option. Respect and status depended on knowledge."
October 30, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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Currently reading 💙📚
Cover of My Brother, My Land: A Story From Palestine, written by Sami Hermez with Sireen Sawalha as the primary contributor The cover features a quote from Sandy Tolan, author of The Lemon Tree. Quote: "A powerful, gripping, disturbing account of the struggle for dignity and freedom in a West Bank village." The cover shows a Palestinian woman walking towards a street with trees and houses in the distance
October 30, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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A bittersweet book haul!

My local used bookstore is closing soon so I went in one last time.
A stack of nine used books: Sorcerer's Legacy by Janny Wurts That Way Lies Camelot by Janny Wurts Traitor's Knot by Janny Wurts Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Orientalism by Edward W. Said Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
October 29, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Currently reading 💙📚
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
October 22, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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⋆ ˚｡⋆୨ bookish checkpoint ୧⋆｡🕯️. -ʚɞ
✧ last book you read : Never Let Me Go
✧ your current read : My Heart is a Chainsaw
✧ last book added to your tbr : Mushroom Blues
✧ next anticipated read : The Hacienda
ೃ⁀➷ quote with yours !
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Cover of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Cover of My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones Cover of Mushroom Blues by Adrian M. Gibson The Hacienda
October 20, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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My current read 💙📚
Cover of My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
October 18, 2024 at 1:57 AM