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YouTube video by potato reads romance reading vlog | bridgerton, all about love, and fighting the winter blues❄️

new video out now❄️let’s talk about bridgerton, winter blues, and regency sapphic romance

🔹ladies in hating
🔹the christmas tree farm
🔹atmosphere
🔹an offer from a gentleman (bridgerton #3)
🔹to sir phillip, with love (bridgerton #5)
🔹all about love

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youtu.be/oAdKZGHM-DU

romance reads vlog coming soon 👀

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wdym t. kingfisher has 3 new books coming out this year??? 👀

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Hundreds of winter bonnets grow up the side of a bare long toward a cold blue sky. Each cluster sends up a dozen or so tiny mushrooms on sinuous gray stalks. All photos by me.

Here are some nice mushrooms

not me being happy that I read more than the average amount of books for me per month in January - and then falling right into a reading slump 🥲

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Book cover of Discontent by Beatriz Serrano

👔 Discontent by Beatriz Serrano

🔹a snarky exploration of corporate life, bullshit jobs, overconsumption, and generally life under the reign of late-stage capitalism
🔹sometimes very much on the nose but gives voice to the frustrations and unfulfillment of soulless office jobs

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️/5
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I know All About Love has kinda become the symbol of performative reading but equating the content with the meme and discounting the value of this book is a HUGE mistake

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The image shows three candles burning against a dim background

early morning reading mood 📖

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A picture of the book The River Has Roots

🌸The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

- a love letter to language, music, and the music of language
- beautifully written and illustrated fairytale of sisterhood
- short but will make you savor each word

absolutely loved it, 100% will re-read

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

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A photo of the book Arcana Academy.

🃏Arcana Academy by Elise Kova

🔸a collection of romantasy tropes barely held together by thin plot and bare-bones characters
🔸love the tarot magic idea, but the mechanics are underdeveloped and it only works to do whatever the story needs it to do
🔸romance felt forced and unearned

⭐️/5

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loving how atmospheric it is so far 🍁

The image shows a book, One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig, held up by someone’s hand against a light green background.

let’s get this autumn started 🍁

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and for the characters, i felt that most of them had clear “outside” motivations (moved by the story) but bit less fleshed out intrinsic motivations. so i hope to see development resulting from the events of this book and some deeper character work

(i liked Ruko’s arc though, holy sh*t)

i was mainly drawn in by how reality and mythology are interwoven in the book and def want more of that. it also takes place in a small area of a fairly large map, and ends with hinting at an expansion, so i’m hopeful for a more vivid and detailed worldbuilding 🏰

The picture shows a book, The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson, standing on a shelf in front of other books.

🐦‍⬛The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

✅read for:
- an action-driven fantasy that raises the stakes constantly and sucks you in
- tournaments and conspiracies

❓caveats:
- the world is interesting but a bit shallow, hopefully the sequels deepen it
- some predictable plot twists

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

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walked into my local bookstore and found this 😵 I thought it wasn’t supposed to come out for another week or so??

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current read 🐦‍⬛🖤
really enjoying it so far, review coming soon

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A book and a coffee mug on a wooden table, the book is “the cinnamon bun book store” by Laurie Gilmore. The picture has a warm, autumn-y aesthetic.

i don’t care that it’s still august, the weather is chilly and it’s raining and the leaves are rustling and i have a pumpkin spice cappuccino

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dark matter. I didn't enjoy fourth wing nor quicksilver (definitely personal preference but the characters and relationships were too immature/problematic for me). dark matter is a really well-written, unique book that will stay with you for a while.

both are on my TBR and I have this beautiful illustrated edition of Frankenstein that is becoming harder and harder to ignore 👀

Ghosts reading books

Me if there’s an afterlife #booksky

depends on what kinds of books you read 🐺👀

Two beautifully squat jack o lantern mushrooms grow between papery fallen leaves next to a decayed log. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

✨book review✨
If Wishes Were Retail by Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social

✅read if:
- you are tired of the "your productivity = your value" narrative
- you want a light and easy but meaningful palette cleanser
- you need a werewolf-at-law (phone number: 1-800-AWO-0000)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

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i became a sellout in Stardew Valley today

only 10 weekends left until autumn, so excited 🍁🍄🍂☔️

The book cover of “A house with good bones” by T. Kingfisher. A bronze skull door knocker in the middle, surrounded by roses.

🪰book review🪰
A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

✅ read for:
- T. Kingfisher’s signature creepy vibes
- believable villain and gripping plot twist
- clever and non-conventional main character, though a bit frustratingly obstinate at times

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

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it was the same for me! I also don’t have the danmei craving that often anymore, so it was nice to be pulled back into this genre ^_^

The cover of the book “Thousand Autumns”. It shows two men standing back to back. The smaller man on the left has his eyes closed, and is wearing light blue robes and holding a bamboo staff. The larger man on the right is wearing dark blue robes and holding a scroll.

🍁book rec🍁
Thousand Autumns 1 by Meng Xi Shi

95% high fantasy/character journey, 5% danmei. seems like an expansive story, excited to read more

✅ read if:
- you like your danmei with politics and intrigue
- you like main characters that are each other’s total opposites

⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5

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15-minute crochet breaks make the workday more bearable 🧶