Francesca's Thoughts

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Call Down the Hawk

08/05/2021

Pre-Empting Burnout and Turning Off the Internet for a Bit (except not here, here is nice)

This time a month ago I wrote about feeling like we were all living in the Nine of Wands. I still do, but the end is in sight. Or if not sight then it’s around the corner and down the road a bit. My diploma is almost finished. This stage of lockdown is almost finished. Continue reading

Books, brain chat

Call Down the Hawk, easing out of lockdown, getting your eyebrows waxed for the first time since Christmas, Mister Impossible, nine of wands, No. 1 Reader's Club, taking a holiday, taking a social media break, The Raven Cycle
11/11/2019

Read, If You Like: Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Steifvater

I wrote a review for The Raven Boys about three millennia ago, so as Call Down the Hawk has been something I’ve looked forward to since Maggie mentioned it on Twitter in 2016, it felt fitting to do my current version of a review, which is Read, If You Like. As with all of the reviews-slash-vague-recommendations I do, Continue reading

Books, Read If You Like

‘The Raven Cycle’, Call Down the Hawk, Indifferent Ignorance, looking for a car, Maggie Stiefvater, tarot cards