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“He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back. But even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.”
―Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
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saw on your story graph you loved strange and norrell - do you have any recs for what to read after you finish it ???? It was so cleverly written and now I’m comparing every book to it 💔
GOD. I remember this feeling... when I finished S&N I was like. what do I DO now? I immediately started reading The Ladies Of Grace Adieu, so I didn't have to leave the world of the story + has more focus on female characters, which I thought was very needed in S&N.
Anyway. Stranger and Norrell is one of those books where I can't find anything that's exactly "similar", but I can think of some books that are like "if you liked X aspect of it, you might enjoy Y". So here's a list of some books I enjoy that might scratch that itch
If you liked the historical fiction elements: As Meat Loves Salt, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Wolf Hall, The Last Of The Wine, The Dance Tree, Matrix
If you liked the historical fantasy: The Lie Tree, The Once and Future Witches
If you liked the "pastiche" vibe: Under The Pendulum Sun
If you liked creepy, unnatural fae: Under The Pendulum Sun, Cuckoo Song
If you liked the pretty prose: As Meat Loves Salt, My Dark Vanessa, Matrix, Deeplight, Death in Venice, The Most Secret Memory of Men
Some of these books are profoundly different from S&N, but I hope there's something in here that you enjoy!
JustOneMorePage June 2025 BPC: Day 11 Library or Bookstore?
odetta walker from the dark tower II: the drawing of the three is canonically plural!!
she is described to have an "alternate personality", detta walker, who is unknown to odetta and was brought on by head trauma at a young age. detta suppresses odetta for most of the story, however odetta does return :]
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I should be sleeping but we’ve gone from grizzly maulings to people using a contraption to fake a grizzly mauling so I have to keep reading.
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After I'd posted the ACOTAR "dresser but make it books!" drawings, someone suggested a "dresser but make it fashion!".
I tried some ideas (many unsuccessful) before I decided on a "dresser but make it shoes!" because I'm a shoe-lover in my soul.
I drew each shoe with that specific sister and her lifestyle in mind - some are inspired by real designs (eg. Uggs) and some are just made up. For example, I thought Elain would mostly prefer shoes you could walk over grass easily - such as flats, wedges, or chunky heels. Nesta is like an Ugg boot in terms of controversiality, so she got those toe-toasters. I could write an essay about the styles I chose and why, but stop myself now.
Hypothetically, you are only able to keep 20 of your books. Only one book per author/series. So what books are you keeping?
Thank you @fluencylevelfrench for tagging me!! This was a struggle, not because I had to pick only 20 books, but because I would have definitely picked more than one book by the same author. (most of the books I mentioned have a review on this blog if you're interested!)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman (the pain I feel in choosing just one of his books will end me)
The Armadillo Profecy by Zerocalcare
The Humans by Matt Haig
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Book Of Lost Things by John Connolly
Legends And Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Complete Tales And Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Fairytales by the Grimm brothers
The Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (I still have the copy I used to study on in high school and it's filled with doodles and annotations I could never give it away)
Through The Woods by Emily Carroll
Per Curarsi Con Le Erbe by Francesco Borsetta (it's a vintage book about herbalism and how to use medical herbs, probably my biggest niche interest, I have many but this is the oldest I own at the moment)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Cinzia by Leo Ortolani
I tag @just-a-cup-of-anxietea, @oneanxiousstudybuddy, @bennistudies, @bulletnotestudies, @upside-down-uni, @dreamofghosts whoever sees this and wants to do this!
Did Kafka write a diary entry for March 10th or that week? I need to read my horoscope
sorry. he achieved nothing for 10 days
