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Octavia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Octavia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The Impossible Resurrection of Grief
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2021
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The Stone Wētā
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2020
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5 editions
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The Mussel Eater
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2014
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2 editions
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You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories
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2023
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Trading Rosemary
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2010
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Sharp & Sugar Tooth (Women Up To No Good #3)
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2019
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The Convergence of Fairy Tales
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2016
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The August Birds
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2015
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Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (Conversation Pieces Book 70)
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Lunar Gothic and Meredith Ann Pierce’s Darkangel Series
I have a new chapter out!
To be honest, it’s not really new. It came out last year and I missed it. Oh well, better late than never. “Sterility Across Chasms: Dead Worlds and Technological Imaginations in Meredith Ann Pierce’s Darkangel Series” is available to read in Lunar Gothic: The Influence of the Moon on the Gothic Imagination from Palgrave Macmillan, edited by Elana Gomel and Simon Bacon.
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| I read and reviewed the two novellas collected here separately, so this is just for my own records. All Systems Red got four stars from me, and Artificial Condition three, so the collections averages to three and a half stars (rounding up because Goo ...more | |
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| This is a very readable account of mystery cults in ancient Greece, Rome, and surrounding areas. That is, it's a readable account of surviving scraps of knowledge about mystery cults, because one of the consistent features of that religious phenomeno ...more | |
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| I'll be honest: I could not get into this as easily as I did the other books in the series. The ones that I've read, anyway. This seemed a bit of a slog in comparison, as if it were around 150 pages too long. The pacing was glacial. Not knowing much ...more | |
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| I wanted this to be more interesting than it was. This is not, to be fair, the fault of the subject matter. Snorton has made an extremely well-researched argument for the intersection of Black and trans histories and how they inform and influence eac ...more | |
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| I know I say it every time with these books, but the way that they explore the trauma from WW1 and the way it seeps through the years (the decades) following the war is really excellently done. Knowing that said trauma is pretty much the ongoing them ...more | |
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| It's not often that I read a romance that starts with a marriage and ends with a divorce, but this one does. It's entertaining enough, although by Sera's last running away I was over the two protagonists tripping over their entirely self-created obst ...more | |
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| I really enjoy botanical symbolism in general, so I think that I was always going to enjoy this book. It helps that the main character, Victoria, is so appealingly spiky - especially as a child, where her often hostile nature is somewhat reminiscent ...more | |
“Food is fuel, food is pleasure, food is guilt. It stands to reason that with all these digestive undercurrents there are storytellers who will treat a shared act of consumption as a sort of shared subversive act, a communion of Oh, I shouldn’t really. We shouldn’t.”
― Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
― Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
“Self-knowledge was the clearest thing in the world. It was also the unkindest.”
― The Impossible Resurrection of Grief
― The Impossible Resurrection of Grief
“In Fantasia, the physics is different. It’s not the property of mass that’s causing people to throw themselves into the Nothing, to let themselves be devoured into suicide. It’s imagination and feeling and inspiration that’s the basic currency of this world. The expectation of wonder is what holds Fantasia together—wonder and creative currents, fantasy and inventiveness. These are the things that give meaning and purpose to Fantasia and its citizens. So when the Nothing comes along, devouring all these things indiscriminately, undermining their importance in a fundamental way, its very lack calls to the part of the Fantasian people that is the very opposite of imagination… the angst and nihilism inherent in each individual. The part that says What if we’ve been wrong all along? It doesn’t take much doubt (just a little chunk) but the resulting horror feeds on every positive thought, every creative impulse, until the symmetry of lack between the Nothing and the despairing individual acts as gravity, drawing them closer and closer to the Nothing until the only alternative is to become part of it. It really is like a black hole.”
― Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
― Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
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4th Quarter 2020 - SciFi #2
A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen, 400p
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez, 391p
The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss, 256p
The Stone Wētā by Octavia Cade, 133p
The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs, 184p
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It's from the trip to Wellington zoo we did!
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I love the Read Harder challenge, this is my third year doing it now. Really makes you try new things - I even read a western last year because of it!