Today’s craft: making @petite-gloom ‘s oracle deck
Eheheh they’re soooo cute (idk if I should round the corners or leave them as is….)
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we're not kids anymore.
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Today’s craft: making @petite-gloom ‘s oracle deck
Eheheh they’re soooo cute (idk if I should round the corners or leave them as is….)

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Today’s craft: making @petite-gloom ‘s oracle deck
Thank you Amélie @ Vichy’s public library 🤍
If you read French (or Spanish or Italian, it hasn’t been translated into English yet) and you liked A Very Long Engagement or Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands Of Ghosts, this book should be your next read :)
The Listeners - Maggie Stiefvater
notes from my journal
published 2025, read in January 2026. During World War 2, a luxury West Virginia Hotel is used to house (slash keep hostage) various Axis Power dignitaries and their families. General Manager June Porter is obviously conflicted about the presence of nazis and fbi agents in her hotel, not helped by the fact that the hotel itself is kind of weird and magic.
Lyndon - Irene Marchesini, Carlotta Dicataldo
Notes from my journal
published 2026, read in April 2026. French translation by Hélène Dauniol-Remaud. 19th century Scotland, Lyndon is Having A Bad Time and Not Dealing With His Trauma. Surely nothing can go wrong with this situation.

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The Isle in the Silver Sea - Tasha Suri
notes from my journal
published 2025, read in February 2026. The Knight and the Witch are condemned to fall in love and kill each other over many lifetimes.
February 2026
quick wrap-up of my february reads
Novels:
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales, by Heather Fawcett ⭐⭐
Hazelthorn, by C.G. Drews ⭐⭐⭐
La Forêt au Clair de Lune, by Michiko Aoyama (French translation by Alice Hureau) ⭐⭐⭐
The Isle in the Silver Sea, by Tasha Suri ⭐⭐⭐
All of us Murderers, by K.J. Charles ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Shape of Darkness, by Laura Purcell ⭐⭐⭐
The Magpie Lord, by K.J. Charles (reread) ⭐⭐⭐
Comics, Graphic Novels and Mangas:
Ryuu no Kawaii Nanatsu no Ko, by Ryoko Kui ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Bride Stories vol. 1-4, by Kaoru Mori ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Land vol. 3-4, by Kazumy Yamashita ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Brittany Hanayome Ibun vol. 1, by Junji Takehara ⭐⭐
Ce que les corbeaux nous laissent, by Sophie Leullier (French, untranslated for now) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Salt Magic, by Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Les Normaux vol. 2, by Janine Janssen ⭐⭐
The Secret Garden vol.1-2, by Maud Begon (based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Verts, by Patrick Lacan and Marion Besançon ⭐⭐⭐⭐
pretty mid month when it comes to novels, but i read some really great comics, lots of children going on great adventures into the woods/garden/great plains. btw i don't actually use a 5⭐ rating system in my journal, but it's easier to put stars rather than my personal rating system that only makes sense to me :)
January 2026
quick wrap-up of my january reads
(this monthly cover is my least favourite i made this year. also i use this journal to talk about any media hence the movie poster, but i just want to talk about books on this blog)
Novels:
Aatea, by Anouck Faure (French, untranslated for now) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Red, White & Royal Blue, by Casey McQuiston (reread) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Eel Singers, by Natasha Pulley (short story) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Le Voleur de Nostalgie, by Hervé le Tellier (French, untranslated for now) ⭐⭐
The Listeners, by Maggie Stiefvater ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Comics, Graphic Novels and Mangas:
Check Please! vol. 1-2, by Ngozi Ukazu (reread) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Là où dorment les géants, by Maurane Mazars (French, untranslated for now) ⭐⭐⭐
Wait where the shooting star falls vol. 1, by manmulsang ⭐⭐⭐
Land vol. 1-2, by Kazumi Yamashita ⭐⭐⭐
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle vol. 20-28, by CLAMP ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Dysfunctional family theory vol.1-2, by Tsurukame Mayo ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Dolphin's Earbone, by Syaku ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Planetarium Ghost Travel vol. 0, by Sakana Sakatsuki ⭐⭐⭐
Lala the Memory Collector vol. 1, by Sui Kohno ⭐⭐⭐
Spacewalking With You vol. 2, by Inuhiko Doronoda ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
an okay start to 2026! I read a lot of mangas that were medium to great, no big disappointment this month. Also, by the 8th of January, I had read what will probably be my favourite book of the year, awkward (Aatea is a fantastic sci-fi book and i really hope it gets an english translation so more people can read it!!). I'll write a more in-depth review for some of these (The listeners review is already queued). Also, this post's format is greatly inspired by @a-ramblinrose 's weekly reading journal posts
After Hours at Dooryard Books - Cat Sebastian
notes from my journal
published 2025, read in May 2026. Daily life at a bookshop full of queers and musicians in 1968 New York.
okay i scheduled some posts i am going to TRY and BE CONSISTENT about updating this blog with book reviews

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2026 reading/media journal (for the past 9 years, my reading journals have been named after the color of their covers, hence, the Little Sage Notebook)
If you ever thought « wouldn’t it be nice if the knight who only tell the truth and the one who only tell lies were to kiss » you should read the hymn to Dionysus by Natasha pulley
I've just finished my reread of the Watchmaker of Filigree Street and i've noticed two things:
there are references in the book to all of np's other books, even to the hymn to dionysus
what do you MEAN thaniel has grey eyes he is SO brown eyes coded
Alright. I’m 74% through the hymn to Dionysus, and I want to say, for posterity, just in case I’m right, that I think I know what’s going on. And if I am indeed right, then I’ll have a lot to say about Natasha Pulley’s narrators.
I don’t actually remember what I was thinking when I wrote this, but I think it was about the fact that, in the mars house, you the reader catch on pretty fast on what’s happening, while the characters are pretty confused all the way through the book, which creates this kind of dramatic irony that I like! Meanwhile in the hymn to Dionysus, Phaidros is convinced of a certain way the world is, so when doubt starts to creep in three quarters of the way into the story, the vibe completely shifts…
Anyway I think the thing I turned out to be right about was the twist about the helmet
2, 8, 12, 13, 35, 36, et 45 !
Favorite fantasy book(s).
Here are some recent (as in I’ve read them recently) fantasy favorites: the city in glass by nghi vo (vibes based book about a demon rebuilding a city), the hymn to Dionysus by Natasha pulley (which I guess counts as historical fantasy?), la cité diaphane by Anouk Faure (French novel that feels like a fromsoft video game)
Favorite queer fiction book(s)
Every book I like is a queer fiction book who do you think I am. This is how you lose the time war by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone for queer sci fi, Less by Andrew Sean Greer for queer literary fiction, the Kingdoms by Nat Pulley for queer historical fantasy, …
Favorite horror book(s).
I don’t read a lot of horror bc I’m a scaredy cat, so I usually like my horror weird and indescribable (because aphantasia makes it less scary ahah) i don’t have a fav horror book yet, but I enjoyed Our Wives under the Sea last year… if you have any recs I’m open!
Favorite thriller(s).
…. Have I ever read a thriller?? The closest thing I can think of is the half life of Valery k (which gave me some brand new phobias 👌🏻 radioactivity is so scary y’all ). Actually I’ve read some John le carré books in high school, those are thrillers, right? I don’t even remember if I liked them….
Least favorite trope in your most favorite book genre.
I’ve talked about it before I think, but arbitrary sexism and bioessensialism in high fantasy annoy me so much. Why is it that in your made up society, man equals bad and dirty and dumb and woman equals fragile and sad and weak………..
Your absolute most favorite character(s) from any book you've ever read.
I’ve recently realized that two of my all time fav characters are bilbo baggins and hercule poirot. I have a thing for middle aged fussy dandies apparently.
What book(s) would you sell your soul to get a TV or movie adaptation of?
I want a Bryan Fuller adaptation of the locked tomb series. Also I want an animated movie adaptation of Piranesi (which I think?? Is actually happening?.??)

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Book ask !
1, 3, 12, and 25 !
thanksss
How many books did you read this year? final count for 2025: 56 novels and 298 comics/mangas/graphic novels (that last number is for sure inaccurate because i don't actually know how many volumes of detective conan i read this year ahah)
What were your top five books of the year? in no particular order for novels: The warm hands of ghosts by Katherine Arden (probs my fav read of the year), Clear by Carys Davies, The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley, The City in Glass by Nghi Vo, and hhhh the last one is hard to choose im going to cheat and say the whole Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden.
And for graphic novels/mangas : Happy Endings by Lucie Bryon, Nepka by Séverine Vidal and Nina Ramsey, Le Jour du Caillou by Vero Cazot and Anaïs Flogny, Planetarium Ghost Travel by Sakana Sakatsuki, and The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren
Any books that disappointed you? Latest disappointment was the series True of Vamp. btw i'm always on the lookout for good homoerotic vampire stories 👀
What reading goals do you have for next year? i wrote down a list of 26 books i absolutely want to read in 2026, some of them are new releases, some of them are 2025 releases i didn't get to read, some of them are books that have been on my shelves forever. i'd say that's the main one, but i wrote down a few more challenges in my reading journal...
I’m currently reading katabasis by rf kuang and it pisses me off, not the book itself I’m enjoying it so far, but why did every review I read before picking it up was like oh this book is problematic oh this book is anti feminist and promoting ed and so on and so forth. Never before have I been so aware of the literacy crisis I guess. (Also this is really specific to one goodreads review but: you can’t complain about the lack of trigger warning when the whole premise of the book is “people are visiting hell”, “hell” is the trigger warning okay I’m done ty)