Dani

I did it. I bought a book trolley!

(now to just stop buying books)

(just kidding that will never happen)

Huge thanks to @bantambooksuk.bsky.social @transworldbooks.bsky.social for this stunning hardback proof of Spellbound by Georgia Leighton.

So excited to read this one and this copy is beyond beautiful! 😍

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My shelves are bending!

While I’m taking all the books off to deep clean the bookcase, I’m replacing the shelves upside down so they essentially bend upwards…in the hope they will bend the other way and straighten…that’s physics right?

Anyone else had this issue with their shelves?

In the process of removing books from my shelf and replacing them, I have somehow managed to lose one book and not been able to fit them all back on the same bookcase!

How does this even happen?!

With damp issues in my house, this is something I have to do every few months, and it never gets easier (in fact with all my NEW books it just gets harder 😂🙈)

I’m doing a deep clean of my bookshelves while I’m off this week and oh my god, taking all the books off my shelves is a workout in and of itself!

And then finding space for them while I deep clean the shelves is a Herculean task 😂🙈

Worked a 10 hour and just getting to enjoy the sunshine now!

Almost finished The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis!

When I say to a friend I’ll check my personal library for a book they want to read and their response is “that could take a few years”…

They’re not wrong 😂

Brava @rfkuang.bsky.social Another masterpiece of a story. Another set of therapy bills I’ll be sending your way.

This is why that ending absolutely ruined me. So many of my favourites (I’m sure you know who if you’ve read the series) deserved the world. And it broke my heart to see it end that way, even as it made so much sense in the greater story.

I was captivated throughout all three books, growing immensely attached to these characters (even Su Daji…I know!). The bond between these characters hit me right in the feels.

The entire world, plot, and cast of characters were phenomenal (i expect nothing less from this author) and I was drawn in from the very first page of the very first book.

This series absolutely destroyed me. I am a sucker for morally grey characters and Rin is on the border between morally grey and just plain psychopathic (imo anyway) but I loved it. You loved her and hated her in equal measure.

Okay so I finished The Poppy War series a while ago but I needed time to sit with it before articulating my thoughts.

Dani Cox Dani Cox has 902 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading Godkiller by Hannah Kaner and At Midnight: 15 Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined by Dahlia Adler

I don’t really have a list as such. I always mark the books on my Goodreads account though, so could always be worth checking on there? Or just ask me and i’ll try to remember it 😂🙈

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Okay, I love Ava Reid books, but Fable for the End of the World was mesmerising. The prose was so beautiful and lyrical I was just constantly finding myself in awe.

It was just absolutely brilliant. Blending such a Hunger Games style violence with such genuinely beautiful prose…👏🏻👏🏻

The Burning God by @rfkuang.bsky.social was one of the best books I have ever read.

But I don’t think I can ever forgive what happened to Venka and Kitay. I’ll need therapy and I’ll still never recover.

I would quite like it to be available to the wider public, as I truly want others to be able to read them and appreciate them. It’s sounding like Amazon might be the way.

Publishing and poetry people, I need assistance.

I have found a wealth of poems by dad wrote over the years before he died, and I wanted to get them published in his memory.

Any advice on how to go about this? Self publishing? Trad? Any help is appreciated!

I came across a snippet I wrote in my notes app for my book and…it’s actually pretty amazing? Like, that one paragraph absolutely hits!

I can’t remember when I wrote it or what I was thinking, but thanks past me!

I said I was going to read something lighthearted and optimistic…and instead I chose this 😂

But I have read it before and know I loved it! So I got halfway there 🙈

So now I’m in need of a more lighthearted, optimistic book to bring my mood back up, and I’ve settled on one I know that I previously loved…but there’s too many to choose from!

Just finished Death of a Bookseller! It was a great book, it had amazing slow building tension and a poetic ending.

It also left me in such a weird mood. Like the darkness of the book has seeped into my everyday life, which honestly is a testament to the great writing of @aliceslater.bsky.social

Have you ever read a book where the main characters are absolutely horrid people, and it actually alters your mood?

I’m liking the book, it’s a great book, but I feel that since I started reading it my mood has taken a nosedive 😂🙈

I am so late to this one, but I’m currently reading Death of a Bookseller by @aliceslater.bsky.social (and wearing my Bleep beanie hat ofc)

Loving the vibes of this one!

As I said, not quite sure how to explain this one but I did like it.

I was so angry reading the latter part of this book, reading what these kids went through at Promise. But the ending, for me, was kind of…underwhelming? Abrupt? It just didn’t feel like Cameron’s story had really finished and it left me feeling a bit unsatisfied, even if I did enjoy it overall.

But I did. I enjoyed the deep dive into Cameron’s early life, her choices, her passions and obsessions. I felt really connected to her as a character.

The book was insightful and very well written. It was poignant, emotional, heartbreaking, and also absolutely anger inducing.

I finally got around to reading The Miseducation of Cameron Post, a book I have been meaning to read for years now. And I’m not quite sure how to adequately review this one.

I enjoyed reading it, if “enjoyed” can really be the right word for a book with this kind of content.