Books
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Things Googled for Rotting Trees
I had completely forgotten I keep a vague, meandering list of weird shit I look up for every manuscript. I just dug out the Rotting Trees list and I’m pleased that I have absolutely no memory of why I needed to look up Ed Sheeran. * Technically I used my uni credentials for evil and… Continue reading
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Read, If You Like… Death Rituals & Questionable Medical Ethics Edition
I can’t remember the last time I did a Read, If You Like (I think it was for Gideon the Ninth? We may be seeing a theme emerge) and I have been reading some absolutely tip top non fiction lately. Quite a bit of it is about death. Rituals, evolving attitudes to human remains, death… Continue reading
Ask a Mortician, book recommendations, book review, book reviews, books, books about anthropomorphic bibliopegy, books about death rituals, Caitlin Doughty, Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin, death, Francesca’s Thoughts, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, life, Megan Rosenbloom, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs -
Wintery Book Recommendations!
As I recall, most of the regulars to this space live in the Northern Hemisphere and are, presumably, currently quite cold. So I thought I would put together a list of cosy books to distract you as your nose runs and your glasses steam up every time you go from outdoors to indoors. Don’t need… Continue reading
'The Scorpio Races' by Maggie Stiefvater, bookshop.org, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, cosy books, cosy reads, cosy YA, Francesca's Thoughts, Good Omens, Good Omens: the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Good Omens: the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter Witch, Maggie Stiefvater, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, The Scorpio Races, The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, wintery books, wintery YA
Francesca's Thoughts 