#novels
The next chapter drops tomorrow…
Fantasy lovers, rejoice! The next chapter of Demon Age: Will of Shadows launches tomorrow.
Female hands in paintings
- Franz Kafka
Links are to my staff pick reviews on Avid Bookshop’s website
Thanks for tagging me, @wayfarers97! ( @the-forest-library, you’re up–favorite books of 2021!)
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Fiction
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
In Other Landsby Sarah Rees Brennan
Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez
Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson
Not Here to be Liked by Michelle Quach
Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson
The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
Graphic Novels
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (this might be my favorite book of the year, if I had to pick a #1)
It’s Not What You Thought it Would Be by Lizzy Stewart
The Postman From Space by Guillaume Perrault
The Accursed Vampire by Madeline McGrane
Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall, illus. by Lisa Sterle
Shirley and Jamila’s Big Fall by Gillian Goerz
Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughn, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
Lightfallby Tim Probert
Nonfiction
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane (but go check out Because Internetfirst!)
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
Birds, Art, Life, Death by Kyo Maclear
Picture Books
Ten Little Dumplings by Larissa Fan, illus. by Cindy Wume
Hamsters Make Terrible Roommates by Cheryl Klein, illus. by Abhi Alwar
When You Look Up by Decur
Sato the Rabbit, a Sea of Tea by Yuki Ainoya
(the crowd groans and rolls their eyes)
i seriously empathize with everybody’s disappointment… i don’t want to go back either. lol
the long awaited
sorry for taking such a long time, but school was taking up 110% of my free time lately T__T
the more important thing to be sad about is that turan is here to ruin everybody’s day :/
there’s still one more chapter left until we are officially done with book 4…. i promise it’s more exciting than this one lmao
i might take a little bit more time between posting here pretty soon because i uhhh… have to start working on my master’s thesis… and that’s unfortunately more important T__T
ironically, it’s about venemous snake conservation! :D
you know, i realize that things like writing style and word flow are difficult to preserve in a translation without changing too much, and whenever i look back at some of my translated chapters i realize how clunky and awkward some things sound… i try to go over it as many times as i can to avoid this but i know it still happens sometimes. i also don’t have anyone editing for word flow or copy errors.
i still think it deserves a professional translation some day by someone more qualified than me u_u
*dragging myself through the mud* we are almost done with book 4!
enjoy some etoile moments
everybody’s favorite weirdos!
i thought it was funny how the other 5 really are said to be just… standing in the dark corner.
yessss at last one of my favorite chapters… i’m sure it’s a popular fan favorite tho.
i hated etoile for so many years but recently i have decided that she’s pretty endearing, actually…
the battle for saint emmanuel… gotta be honest, not a whole lot to say about this one. but the next few chapters are pretty good. lol.
once again, only one chapter this week while i work on getting further ahead with the translations (i like to have a few weeks out done in advance so i have time to reread over them, etc) and life has been kicking my ass. but never fear. i am still driving this train.
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