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Marie’s 2025 Year in Books
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Marie Aitchison
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Stephen King, A24 movies, Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Gaiman, Thomas Harris,
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"This review is for an ARC copy received from the publisher through NetGalley.
A tree inhabited by the ghosts of women burned as witches, a group of art student girls doing their version of The Craft due to their various witchy abilities, murders that " Read more of this review » |
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| If you like witchy storylines, tarot cards, mysterious murders, and alternating POVs, this may be a fun book for you. I loved the time period it took place in, as well as the witch craft aspects that reminded me a bit of The Craft at times. It is a b ...more | |
"3.5 stars. This was a fine time. The length is just right. It feels weird to say this but it wasn’t unhinged enough for me. That’s crazy considering where the book goes but I guess I feel like the main character always knew exactly what she was doing"
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"A thriller for people who spend too much time on Zillow. This chugs along just fine, and whether it works for you will depend entirely on how you feel about Margo, the completely obsessed protagonist and narrator of the novel.
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Nowhere is like Neverland but instead of pixie dust, it's ash. Instead of faith and trust, it's blood and secrets and sordid past events that intertwine with the present like the thorny brambles of unkempt roses searching for blood. Nowhere Burning h ...more |
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| I love a story of feminine rage and revenge. In this one, a mistreated mother and former movie star indulges in bloody revenge for all those who harassed her and made her life after her daughter's tragic death miserable. It started off strong and the ...more | |
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| I loved the poetic and fairytale quality of the writing in this book. Wild Reverence has some gothic vibes with the descriptions -Gods who bleed golden blood, tides of fog in an underrealm, binding oaths, etc. and I enjoyed the world building. It was ...more | |
“Before sitting down, I light a pumpkin candle, because ‘tis the season, and all that. It isn’t lost on me that I’m delving into a mystery involving murderous witches a mere week before Halloween.”
― Dyer Lane
― Dyer Lane
“I think we don’t matter anymore unless there’re people alive who still value our memories. Our entire existence just seems meaningless if not for the imprints we leave behind.” I shrug, “I guess I’m in a nihilist mood tonight.”
― Dyer Lane
― Dyer Lane
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“Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?"
"My favorite character died.”
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"My favorite character died.”
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“The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake.
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?
We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.”
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Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?
We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.”
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“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?
Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet
deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long
night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children
are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and
hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”
― A Game of Thrones
Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet
deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long
night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children
are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and
hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”
― A Game of Thrones
“LOSS COMES IN every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is past will never come again.”
― This Tender Land
― This Tender Land
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