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‘The Dream Thieves’

23/10/2019

This is a story about tarot decks and YA novels.

This evening I bought two sets of tarot cards. Officially it’s because I’m going to a Halloween party at the weekend. Unofficially, I feel really guilty about a small amount of book piracy in 2015. Officially, I need tarot cards for my costume. I don’t, really, but the dress and shawl I bought in a Continue reading

Art, Books, DISCUSS., Halloween

‘The Dream Thieves’, ‘The Raven Cycle’, book piracy, indie creators, Indifferent Ignorance, Maggie Stiefvater, Maggie Stiefvater at YALC 2016, Raven Prophecy tarot deck, tarot cards, tarot deck
06/07/2017

Broody BFF Challenge: YA & Music (ft. Maggie Stiefvater, Troye Sivan and… fan fiction)

Okay, so you might have noticed I’m a Maggie Stiefvater fan. I reviewed The Raven Boys way back, I met Maggie at YALC last summer and offered her my dad’s Mustang, I irritated my brother into reading The Raven Cycle and he took The Dream Thieves to Asia with us and now it looks like Continue reading

Books, Music, Videos

‘The Dream Thieves’, ‘The Raven Boys’ TV show, ‘The Raven Cycle’, ‘The Raven King’ by Maggie Stiefvater, book blog, Brooding YA Hero, Broody BFFs, BroodyBFFs, Indifferent Ignorance, Troye Sivan, Troye Sivan ‘Bite’, YA books