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pootriarch

pootriarch@sfba.club

Joined 8 months ago

mostly sapphic·witch·romance (pick two) and, in mentally calmer times, climate paranoia

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Maurice Sendak, E. T. A. Hoffmann: Nutcracker (Hardcover, 1984, Crown Publishers)
Kate Quinn: The Alice Network (Hardcover, 2017, Turtleback Books)
Nato Thompson, George Lucas, Alice Rohrwacher, JR: JR (Hardcover, 2024, Phaidon Press Limited)

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Sandra Bloodworth, Cheryl Hageman: Contemporary Art Underground (Hardcover, 2024, The Monacelli Press)
Sophie Gonzales: Nobody in Particular (2025, St. Martin's Press)
Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu: Mooncakes (2019, Lion Forge, LLC, The)

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J. Ira Jones: 6000 Chinese characters with Japanese pronunciation and Japanese and English renderings (1915, Kyo bun kwan)
Michelle Tea: Witch (Paperback, 2025, semiotexte Limited)
Djamila Knopf: Komorebi (2019, 3DTotal.com)

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commented on Nobody in Particular by Sophie Gonzales

Sophie Gonzales: Nobody in Particular (2025, St. Martin's Press) No rating

Princess Rosemary of Henland can’t afford distractions. She’s working tirelessly to repair her image following …

typically in a book like this you get to a point where you know how it will end, but are there for the obstacle course.

with this one, i know one thing that should be true at the end, but i actually have no idea how the big picture will look. 'one last stop' is the last book that gave me this feeling.

quoted The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer (Enola Holmes, #1)

Nancy Springer: The Case of the Missing Marquess (Paperback, 2011, Puffin Books) No rating

Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise …

Consumption is no respecter of persons or circumstances.

— The Case of the Missing Marquess by  (Enola Holmes, #1) (Page 12)

Speaking of diseases we had put behind us, we have TB cases at a high school nearby. Not a ton, but who's thought about tuberculosis at all lately?

reviewed Witch: Anthology by Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea: Witch (Paperback, 2025, semiotexte Limited)

An exploration of the Witch, as radical archetype, in ancient and contemporary life.

An adult …

Refreshingly unhinged

This anthology mixes prose and poetry, in a wide variety of compelling styles and voices. Nobody will be in the mood to read all of them at the same moment, but they form a surprisingly cohesive whole for anyone who thinks they might be even slightly interested. It's a book I'll likely pick up several times, taking a different path through each time.