#christina henry

[appleinducedsleep]

The daughter was a spinster, a word so sharp it bleeds when touched. Spinsters are not bachelors, carefree and elegant. Spinsters are thin at the edges, full of dust and longing.

Or so the townspeople thought, even though somehow there was always another mother, and another daughter.

Spinsters are witches, and old women are witches, and single women are witches because they simply must be. Women without men must be up to no good.

🍂 Christina Henry, The Ghost Tree

#the ghost tree #christina henry #books #booklr #book photos #book photography #currently reading #book community #book #bookworm #booklovers #my books

[aj-macarthurs]

Sometimes this is difficult for me… I wanna write like all those writers I admire (˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )

#writers #writing inspiration #writers on tumblr #writeblr #neil gaiman #jane austen #robert jordan #christina henry

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Christmas Haul, 2023 Edition!

I am forever and always asking for books for Christmas, and this is what I was gifted this year! (If you think you see me stacking my TBR based on my own writing projects.....yeah okay you do lmao.)

#books #book haul #christmas #do i have a coherent tagging system for this?? #i feel like i ask myself this every damn year #and every damn year i cannot recallXD #never whistle at night #an indigenous dark fiction anthology #a taste for poison #neil bradbury #the girl in red #christina henry #the mountain in the sea #ray nayler #the only one NOT directly related to a writing project is the anthology actually #but even then i will be reading it as driscoll adjacent probably #for the Vibes #it's got a BUNCH of authors i already really like in it i'm so stoked!! #and i love finding new faves by way of anthology lmao #perfect samplers

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - October 7th - Horror

Christina Henry is still my favourite horror novelist 🖤 I hope she releases something new soon, otherwise I might have to do some rereads

#christina henry #near the bone #the girl in red #the ghost tree #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits

[shxpeshifterr]

Starting my spooky season tbr 🎃📚

#booklover #booklr #books #booksbooksbooks #books and reading #book lover #current read #the girl in red #christina henry

[loverrrworld]

i’m always searching for ‘the smell of meat cooking mingled with everyone’s happy laughter and it felt like home’ and ‘one thing was clear: the pariks were a family’ and ‘if i had grown up in that house i couldn’t have loved it more’ and ‘our people. when had that happened?’ and ‘it was strange to think that…she trusted no one in the world as much as the people in this room.’

lost boy, christina henry / girl, serpent, thorn, melissa bashardoust / the secret history, donna tart / ruin and rising, leigh bardugo / rule of wolves, leigh bardugo

#christina henry #lost boy christina henry #lost boy book #girl serpent thorn #melissa bashardoust #the secret history #donna tart #ruin and rising #leigh bardugo #rule of wolves #found family #found family trope

[odd8ball]

Drawing Jamie from lost boy again because I've improved in my art and got nostalgic.

#christina henry #lost boy #Jamie lost boy #peter pan

[princessmacabre]

day 1/100 of productivity

managed to

do some house cleaning

cook two healthy and delicious meals with my mum

finish reading ‘The Girl in Red’ by Christina Henry

organise my study work for April

complete 2 tasks (CW Task 1, ALA Task 1)

write an important email to my tutor

#100 days of productivity #student #study blog #student life #studyblr #studygram #studyinspo #theatre studies #books and reading #reading #reading aesthetic #christina henry #book blog #booklover #books and writing #books & libraries #leigh bardugo #red riding hood #the girl in red #bullet journal #manifestation journal

[myhikari21things]

Read of Alice by Christina Henry (2015) (291pgs)

#alice #christina henry #fiction #paperback #2010s #reread

[icarusxdemise]

It’s been a while

Book Haul

#the poppy war #rf kuang #Alice #christina henry #the vampire diaries #l.j. smith #book haul #book slump #horror books #fantasy books #romance books #supernatural #love books #hopefully the end of the book slump

[hatchetfield-scarecrow]

Just Some Normal Guy who didn’t sign up for any of this and Weird Little Girl with Magic will always be the ideal dynamic and we don’t see enough of it.

#the ghost tree #christina henry #hatchetfield #hannah foster #duke keane

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE GIRL IN RED by Christina Henry.

We took a trip to Red River Gorge this weekend, and I both started and finished this book while we were there! It was a very speedy read.

While I did really enjoy the genre-savvy protag, I was expecting more Wolf Presence in a Little Red Riding Hood retelling, either literally or metaphorically (I mean, come on, look at that cover??). There were a couple references to (metaphorical) wolves and one coyote-man comparison early on (also metaphorical), but it felt like the Wolf Motif mostly was dropped, which was an Interesting Choice™, given that the plot entire was Red walking through an apocalypse and the forest to her grandmother's house. (Yes, she really goes by Red, which is not her name--she just really likes her red outerwear.)

This was also much more ongoing-apocalypse than post-apocalypse, and said apocalypse is referred to in-book as "the Cough" (publication date: June 2019?? wild). Family Units are endangered and fall sick on page, be warned! In addition to the Cough, there's also quite a bit of gore (via both brutal axe murders (self defense) and chest bursting a la Alien (which is the in-book comparison lol--see "genre-savvy protag")(admittedly this chest bursting subplot did feel very What The Hell Is This Fresh Bullshit, and not exactly cohesive with the rest of the story...not sure why that's in there lmao)).

Again: Quick read! Not super complicated or twisty, but it was a nice simple read after making it through THE BITCH QUEEN CHRONICLES, and I'm glad I read it for my own LRRH retelling reasons.

#books of 2024 #book photography #my photography #the girl in red #christina henry #lrrh #forreal though i am SO GLAD i didn't try to start this one while my whole family actively had COVID lmaoooo #(we just got over it finally) #and it was perhaps not the BEST choice to take to an isolated cabin in the woods but i WAS right that the forest walks vibes were on point #SERIOUSLY WHERE WERE THE WOLVES #AT LEAST A WOLF!! #i really thought one character we met toward the end might be Wolfish but. he was just a genuinely nice guy #that was lowkey a disappointment ngl #also the Cough/crawler thing felt. out of place and unresolved. #like she (the author) could've picked ONE of those threads they weren't both necessary?? #and then the chest bursting/crawler thing wasn't. resolved. at all?? #like the protag even said in narration she was just gonna let it go not her business??? also disappointing. #(it also happened with like five pages left in the whole book so. not sure what else to expect) #the whole book was literally trying to get to grandma's but it wasn't a beat for beat fairy tale retelling #(mine is beat for beat. or it will be. when i get to revising.) #(but we both have fucked up post apocalyptic viral/bacterial end of world scenarios leading to our Reds so i thought maybe a good comp.) #(not actually a good comp besides vibes though.) #OH AND SASHA (mine) AND RED (henry's) ARE BOTH NARRATIVELY AWARE #like red knows genre stuff (horror movies and scifi and survivalist things) #but i want sasha to be aware that she's In The Fairy Tale but weirdly and meta about it. so there's SOME similarity but not quite the same. #i did not like how her whole family dies horrible deaths #(spoilers i suppose) #(but you know by the first chapter that she's alone so. is it a spoiler.) #anyway i have a surprising amount of thoughts about this actually so i guess it did something to my brain?? which is nice?? i guess? #easy prose and very predictable otherwise lol

[books-and-a-leaf]

"you'll never grow up, you fool. i brought you here so you wouldn't."

but i was getting a little older just the same, and nod and fog too. we lost too many of the other boys to tell if only the three of us felt the minute creep of age. sometimes at night, when the nightmare clung to me, i wondered if peter's assurances that i would never grow up were only assurances that i would die before such a thing happened. i wondered if that were better, to die before i became something withered and grey and not wanted.

-lost boy, pages 22-23

#lost boy christina henry #lost boy #christina henry #book quotes

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

JOMP BPC - March 24th - By the Forest

I love a story set in a wintry wood ❄️🌲

#hannah whitten #shea ernshaw #christina henry #justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits #for the wolf #winterwood #near the bone

[shxpeshifterr]

#booklover #booklr #books #booksbooksbooks #books and reading #book lover #current read #christina henry #red queen

[little-miss-romance]

The world gobbles us and chews us and shallows us. I think happy endings must be accidents.

#book quotes #bookaddict #bookworm #pictures from pinterest #booklover #bookish #alice in wonderland #christina henry