Maggie Stiefvater
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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 -
Making a Killjoy Jacket Part One
Good afternoon! In a non-corona world, I’d be headed to Milton Keynes today to see My Chemical Romance for the first time since 2011. Instead I am at home, looking up what happens when you accidentally swallow a cherry pit. I suppose I could conceivably do both. Anyway, I wanted to commemorate the day, partly Continue reading
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A Bullet-Point Decade
Inspired by Maggie Steifvater, I have compiled an out-of-order list of things that have happened to me this decade. I’m going out later so I’ll probably get emotionally introspective initially while I’m washing my hair and then while I’m varying degrees of tipsy; I think a list is good for stating unequivocally that things happened, Continue reading
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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
Francesca's Thoughts 