Matrix by Lauren Groff
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, …
I want all of my freak friends to read this and start an apocalypse coven with me when we’re 90-years-old!
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actuallym rated Day of Fallen Night: 4 stars
Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon (The Roots of Chaos, #0)
Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none …
actuallym rated House of Earth and Blood: 3 stars
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas (Crescent City, #1)
Bound by blood. Tempted by desire. Unleashed by destiny.
Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life—working hard all day and partying …
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Y: The Last ManmeetsThe Girl With All the Giftsin Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that …
actuallym reviewed The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and …
Review of 'The Hearing Trumpet' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
actuallym rated Our Share of Night: 5 stars
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell, Pablo Gerardo Camacho
A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother …
actuallym rated They: a sequence of unease: 4 stars
They: a sequence of unease by Kay Dick
This is Britain: but not as we know it.
THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon …
actuallym rated Pond: stories: 2 stars
Pond: stories by Claire-Louise Bennett
"Longlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize "What Bennett aims at is nothing short of a re-enchantment of the …
actuallym rated Retreat from love: 3 stars
Retreat from love by Colette (Peter Owen modern classics)
actuallym rated Books of Jacob: 5 stars
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow -- Death …
actuallym rated We Have Always Lived in the Castle: 5 stars
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret
Taking readers deep into …
actuallym rated The Dawn of Everything: 5 stars
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow
The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver …
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, …
actuallym rated The Best of Everything: 4 stars
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
Before Valley of the Dolls and Sex and the City--the iconic novel of ambitious career girls in New York City …