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The Lost Story: A Novel by Meg Shaffer US pub date - 7/16/24

Having been fortunate to read an early copy of The Wishing Game and adoring it, I was just as lucky to receive an invitation to read The Lost Story which I knew I had to read the second I could - growing up I absolutely loved the Narnia books (4th grade Scholastic book fair, ftw), have continued to love a good fairy tale and while I read the synopsis for this, I was immediately sold. 

Once I started this, I read it over a day as it was pure magic. With each chapter, I fell more and more in love with this story; it just kept getting better, and I didn’t want to stop reading. 

*The bit about fairy godmothers made me tear up. 

*And the romance? omg, omg, OMG! Chef’s kiss.

*The secondary characters are vivid. 

Gorgeous and perfect, I read The Lost Story with the utmost pleasure; it’s the best book I’ve read so far this year and has my highest recommendation,  I hope you love it as much I did ❤️

*I’m going to pre-order this as an audiobook. 

**I truly hope there will be more to this 😍

***Stevie Nicks is a goddess, the High Priestess, who really does transcend space and time

****thank you for sharing such a beautiful story with us, @meg_shaffer

*****I’m also going to add Tiffany Reisz’s books to my list. 

Thank you to Ballantine and NetGalley for the DRC

Happy Wednesday!  Joy is the latest novel by Danielle Steel.  Pop by to read my honest review of this contemporary novel.  Happy Reading!

ARC Review: “Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries” by Heather Fawcett

Happy 2023! It is one week into the new year, and I love starting it off right with an on time ARC! Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett was one of my favorite ARCs last year (so much that I couldn’t wait to 2023 to read it!), and I can’t wait to receive my hard copy this week! Thank you, Netgalley and Random House, for this amazing opportunity! From the Publisher: A…

Let There Be Light: The Real Story Of Her Creation by Liana Finck. Random House, 2022. 9781984801531. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781984801531?partnerid=34778&p_bt

In Part I: Past, God creates everything: the heavens and earth, night and day, everything on the Earth. She's a little more despondent and lonely than I'd have suspected, but she has a few wild, joyous moments too. Then she makes man (and Lilith, Monster of the Night). And man starts naming everything, including her. And when he names her "she [transforms] into a stern old man with a  beard." (That's true only in man's mind though. Ha.) When man is a little sad God has to tell him he's right about everything, and then makes him a friend, woman. Everything is great, but then all of that stuff with the tree of knowledge happens, followed by the story of exile and Cain and Abel and a brilliant comics adaptation of all of the begetting that follows, plus the story of Noah.

I loved the retelling of the Book of Genesis, and I'm specifically recommending the book for Part I.  Part II: Present lost me as it veered out of the story of Abraham and toward Isaac and Sarah and others. I know I lost something in skipping ahead to the Epilogue. I'm not a Bible reader, but if you are I'd love to know what you made of all of Part II and its modern setting. (And I may do a little reading to figure it out, who knows.)

Finck's pencils and inks feel playful most of the time, and then entirely serious. I love her style, including the book's simple layouts and how little text she needs. Her limited use of color is simply brilliant.

4/5 Stars Pub Date: Feb 9, 2021 2021 Goodreads Goal: 22/150

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Random House for this advanced review copy.

After an incident in New York expels her from the theatre world, Cass is ready to reset in LA. A late night drink with a magnetic neighbour gives her an opportunity to become someone else, Cath. 

As Cath she gets to be a gentler version of herself, working on a film deemed “a feminist Fight Club for girls.” She uses this new mask to shield and rebuild herself without the baggage of the disaster she’s left behind. Is this her opportunity to get her career back?

Nothing is what it seems and her self-indulgences and self-involvement ultimately leaves her naïve to what is happening on the periphery of her existence. We’re all depressed and broken and fucked up in our own ways.

This is some of the original artwork I did for Vivos se los llevaron: Buscando a los 43 de Ayotzinapa, a graphic novel wrote for the journalist Andalusia K. Sollof, who told the history of the friends, partherns and family for 43 students dessapeared in Guerrero on 2016.

I learned a lot from this proyect and put my technic to another whole level.

This is some of the pages i did in pencil

Leïla Slimani - Das Land der Anderen. #Roman #Marokko #Frankreich #Buchempfehlung #Literatur #Buch #Lesen #Leselust #LeïlaSlimani #LuchterhandVerlag #Bücher #Rezension

Angelegt als Auftakt einer Trilogie ist der neue Roman von Prix Goncourt – Preisträgerin Leïla Slimani nun auf deutsch erschienen und einmal mehr ist man sofort begeistert und kann das Buch nicht mehr beiseite legen. In Frankreich nach dem Erscheinen 2020 für mehrere Wochen auf Platz 1 der Bestsellerlisten, erzählt “Das Land der Anderen” von einer Welt im Umbruch, einer unkonventionellen Liebe,…