[Image Description: A digital drawing of Talis (in the body of Rachel) and Greta from the book The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow. Rachel is a pale woman with short black hair, Talis has a fed up expression and carries Greta bridal-style. Greta is in shock, looking extra pale, with her long red hair in a braid. She is holding her broken hands in front of her chest and wearing white clothing. End ID.]
Every time I see that post going around about how no writing is wasted, gardeners throw rotten tomatoes into the compost pile to improve next year's crop ...
My immediate reaction is DON'T THROW ROTTEN TOMATOES IN THE COMPOST PILE THAT'S HOW YOU SPREAD TOMATO BLIGHT.
Like I appreciate the sentiment but clearly the person who wrote that is not a gardener.
A beautiful book. Family, whether born or found, is as vital to us as the air we breathe. What happens when we lose that family? Without a vessel for our unprocessed grief, we may easily become the monsters we fear, as grief transforms into vengeance.
not Linay raising the dead when he's spoken with the shadowless, and how they come shambling, how they come hungry, how they come wrong as a bird in water 😭
[Image Description: A digital drawing of Otter from the novel Sorrow's Knot. She's an Indigenous woman with dark skin and straight black hair in two braids. She is shown from the shoulders up, with a web of red string between her hands and a sad expression. One of her eyes is visible in a space between the strings. End ID.]
"A noose that has nothing inside it will knot itself away."
-@erinbowbooks