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asexualbookbird · 28 days

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I'm tired! So no gif! Slim month for reading, but I did some neat crafts and made great progress on Secret Knitting Project I. Kicked some ass at Project Sekai, started rewatching Leverage, life goes on.

The Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten ⭐⭐ - A strong start, but it quickly went downhill once we got to the court. It was boring, everyone sucks, and the magic is not as cool as it originally seemed to be.

Among Thieves by MJ Kuhn ⭐½ - I was SO hyped for this when it was released. It's been sitting on my shelf since because of who I am as a person, like an IMPOSTER. Took more than half the book just to get to the heist, and the heist wasn't even GOOD. Too many POVs, no one felt fleshed out enough, and the Secrets were just handed to the reader in the first third. It will no longer live on my shelf.

Mislaid in Parts Half Know by Seanan McGuire ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - not my favorite Wayward book, but still enjoyable. I thought it rehashed the ending of Antsy's last book a little too much, but it was nice to see more of her and go back to the Store. Also loved seeing Kade's Door and Cora's ending.

I have one (1) concrete book plan for April, and that's Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch. Consider me successfully bullied (friendly). I very much want to finish Secret Knitting Project I so I can move on to Secret Sewing Projects and Momther's Blanket I'm still waiting on a few audio holds too, so that will be fun for crafting purposes. Haven't been in the mood to do much art, but I have some fun ideas for paint! Let's go!

#bookbird babbles #monthly wrap up #march wrap up #reading wrap up #books #booklr #idk gang its hard to read when everything hurts and life sucks lol #but i feel like i say that every month so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#anyway ive been using paint in piping bags with piping tips to make flowers its been neat #and by doing that i mean i did it once and bought stuff to do it again lol #i want to try to make lilies

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franticvampirereads · 1 month

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March has been such a good reading month! I think I’ve found several contenders for my favorite book of the year and maybe even a favorite series for the year. So here’s what I read this month:

Headcase 5⭐️ {review}

Headcase bonus epilogue 4⭐️

Like Real People Do 5⭐️ {review}

I Hear The Sunspot vol 2 4⭐️ {review}

Like You’ve Nothing Left To Prove 5⭐️ {review}

Strawberry Kisses 4⭐️ {review}

System Collapse 4⭐️ {review}

The Deep & Dark Blue 5⭐️ {review}

I Think Our Son Is Gay vol 1 5⭐️ {review}

Power Plays & Straight A’s - currently reading

My favorite books this month were Like Real People Do and The Deep & Dark Blue! Both were amazing. 😊

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aliteraryprincess · 27 days

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March 2024 Wrap Up

March was a pretty great month. I presented at a conference in Boston, which went well and was a fun romantic weekend for me and my husband. Not sure how I feel about the year going by this quickly though...

Books Read: 8

And the biggest reason March was great is all these 5 star reads!!! Sister Novelists was my favorite of the month and my new top book of the year. And I was pleasantly surprised by my reread of Middlemarch. I actually really liked it and can no longer call it my Nemesis. And there was no least favorite!

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher - 5 stars

Middlemarch by George Eliot - 4 stars ®

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry - 5 stars

Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës by Devoney Looser - 5 stars

Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher - 4 stars

Here, The World Entire by Anwen Hayward - 3.5 stars

The Perpetual Curate by Margaret Oliphant - 4 stars

Mislaid In Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire - 5 stars

On Tumblr:

Look at all these photos! Let's see if I can keep it up for the rest of the year...

February 2024 Wrap Up

Book Photography: Before Midnight by Cameron Dokey

Book Photography: Golden by Cameron Dokey

Book Photography: Slipper by Hester Velmans

Book Photography: Beauty Sleep by Cameron Dokey

Victorian Novels Connections

On YouTube:

And there's plenty of fun stuff here, of course!

February Wrap Up | 6 books for #FebRegency, #WeLoveJenny, & more!

I'm So Annoyed BookTube Tag

Currently Reading 3/15/24

What I Read for My PhD in English Literature | Victorian Women Novelists Independent Study

Mammoths Read & To Read | the longest books I own!

April TBR/Pile of Possibilities | Picture This & TBR Clear Out Readathon!

#booklr #book photography #monthly wrap up #march wrap up #books #wrap up #middlemarch #george eliot #we ride upon sticks #quan barry #dear committee members #julie schumacher #thornhedge #t kingfisher #mislaid in parts half known #seanan mcguire #sister novelists #devoney looser

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dancingtotuyo · 28 days

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Dancing to Tuyo March Wrap up

I haven't done one of these before and I can't say if I'll do another, but March was a big, amazing month for me!

I turned 24

I wrote 36,253 words! The most I've ever written in a month. While also working wayyyyyy too many extra hours at work. (My goal was 14,000)

I posted 25,239 words

I updated/posted fics 12 times across 6 different fics (3 series & 3 standalones)

I wrote for two new Pedro boys (Marcus M (12:32 PM) & Marcus P (coming soon))

I read roughly 82 fics .Check out my March Fic Madness Master List: Part I | Part II

I gained roughly 75 followers! I try not to dwell on the number of followers I have too much, but I am incredibly thankful and honored to each and everyone of you who have picked me as a person/blog they want as a part of their Tumblr ecosystem.

Thank you all so much for your continued support! We've only just begun :)

#march wrap up #marchficmadness24 #em's fics #em's wrap up

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tolive1000lives · 1 year

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March 2023 wrap up!

#reading challenge 2023 #reading challenge #March wrap up #reading wrap up #bookblr #books #bookworm #book blog #bibliophile #reading #book stack #reading list #book spines #book spine

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sixofravens-reads · 1 year

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March Reading Wrap-Up!

This was a much better month than February! I read 9 books (!!), wiped some oldies off my TBR, and only DNF'd one book.

Read

Through a Brazen Mirror - Delia Sherman (started in Feb.)

The Obelisk Gate - N. K. Jemisin

The Stone Sky - N. K. Jemisin

Dragons of Spring Dawning - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

Ordinary Monsters - J. M. Miro

We Are Bellingcat - Eliot Higgins

Blackfish City - Sam J. Miller

DNF'd

Under the Whispering Door - T. J. Klune

Currently Reading

The Night Eaters vol 1: She Eats the Night. - Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda

#march wrap up #read in march #featuring my beer of choice tonight bc i was too lazy to find a more aesthetic bookend

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magicalyaku · 1 year

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My March was filled with books about gay magical boys and enbys and it's the best state of existence to be in. Absolute bliss. Why are books so much fun?! Also despite everything I said in January, I ended up spending way too much time on reading. But. This month was so good. So good! If I had to go back in time and start from the beginning I wouldn't mind at all. xD

The Devil's Luck (L.S. Baird): Found this thanks to a recommendation list of aromantic books. And what a blast! The first arc was such a delight! Etienne is great! <3 It shifts in tone afterwards but it's still engaging with charming characters and adventure and intrigue. I love everything about this book. I wish there was a paper edition so that I could hug it close, put it in my bookshelf and stare at it for 20 minutes every other day. yAy (I actually made a fanart.)

Of Feathers and Thorns (Kit Vincent): I see a pretty cover with a decent blurb and a review complaining that it's not romancy enough I know I found my book. xD I loved this. Such a good time. See, these are some sensible boys. First, they save the world, then they make out. As it should be. Thank you. Also Oi. He has a very cute voice inside my head. And once I remembered about the pie-eating homunculi of Atelier Shallie now I can't unsee the image. Speaking of pies. Isn't Kieren the most charming boy to settle into a new house by cooking for its residents?

In Memoriam (Alice Winn): Picked this one up on a whim because it sounded tragic. And goddamn. I couldn't read another book for 5 days afterwards because my heart was still in pieces. I don't have the words to properly express everything I loved about this book (which is everything). It's just really, really good. It hurts and it’s beautiful at the same time. There’s sweetness and tenderness next to gruesome deaths, desperation and “why would they do that?!”. You can see how the characters fall apart and rebuild themselves. If you can stomach war cruelties and suffering boys, I cannot recommend this enough.

The Wicked Bargain (Gabe Cole Novoa): I enjoyed this one. Pirates! Magic! Demons! This is one of those books I feel even more positive about now that some time has passed (the opposite can happen as well). My only small gripe with the story is how Mar in the first third doesn't do anything to push the plot forward. They want to save their father but hardly do anything to get there. If not for the other characters pushing and nagging nothing would have happenend at all. :'D But! I like Mar and I very much appreciate them not being stupid. Like the classic "Oh someone told me not to do something? So I of course I'm doing it!" Not Mar. Their papà made a mistake so they are intend to not make the same. Good kid. It's just that that doesn't help to move things forward. xD

Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow 3) (Rainbow Rowell): Haah. I think, I liked the series better with each volume. I wonder if that is because it actually got better or because I finally got to know the characters and could enjoy them more. See, I've said it before, the first volume feels like a season ending without having seen the series until then. Now, after volume 3 I feel I could start with vol1 again and maybe appreciate everything a little more, because now I know everyone. Needless to say, I had fun! And it was so nice to see Simon grow and finally find his place.

The Heart of The Lost Star (Tales of the High Court 3) (Megan Derr): I like the worldbuilding of this series and the recurring characters. Now this particular volume is not something I would have picked up as a stand-alone or series starter, because children and pregnancy really aren't a thing I would choose to read about. That being said I did enjoy reading this because of everything else around (volume 1 is still my favourite. Having Allen in here made me want to go back there and read his story again.) Kamir is a pleasant character and there's stuff like a court procedure over child custody which is among the last things I would have expected in my fantasy book, but a nice change!

Heart, Haunt, Havoc (Freydís Moon): What? Another book I bought just because of the pretty cover? How dare you say that! uAu" Not true!! After the many slow-burns this month this one is so fast with its romance that I'm once again left wondering "is this really how it works?" xD It's ok though, I don't mind it in this case. I liked the story and the setting and the character backgrounds. The book is also really short at about 150 pages, so there's hardly reason not to read it.

The Left Hand of Darkness/Die Linke Hand der Dunkelheit (Ursula K. Le Guin): Ha! No pretty cover here. And surely I'm not just deciding do read a book because I saw one single pretty fanart of it. No no, not me, ever. (Definitely me.) It certainly felt different from what I usually read. Maybe because of the time it was written, maybe because of the genre which I rarely read or maybe just the author's style, probably all of it. I don't think I understood everything. Books like these usually have layers, right? Things told between the lines. I have a strong feeling, I missed some of that but that's alright. I did enjoy reading it. In the end, it was strangely moving. So I'll just fondly reread it in a year or two. :) (I read the all newly translated German edition and it made me wonder at certain points how it was translated originally and how it was written originally. The new translator Karen Nölle will be attending a convention in my city in May, where I’ll be having an artist alley table. I wonder if I can make it to her panel ...)

Prince of the Sorrows (Rowan Blood 1) (Kellen Graves): I picked this up last summer already and then put it down again after reading a few pages. It has a lot of descriptions and a lot of words, which are admittedly very pretty, but also very many. 8D (I get tired of descriptions easily.) Once I got past the opening pages, it quickly gripped me though. The story turned out to be much more than I expected. Like the scope of what's going on and how the love story is much sweeter than it seems at first. It's interesting! It also ends right in the middle of everything, which is something I didn't have in a long time (usually, my series have one adventure per volume)! Glad, the sequel is already out.

The Last Fallen Star (Graci Kim): I decided to read this after Aru Shah ended last year and I needed to fill my Middle Grade shaped hole. (Since I started Keeper of the Lost Cities as well, I guess, that hole will stayed filled for quite a while. :'D) The premise is interesting, the execution ... hm. It's far from the fun that Aru is. But I also listened to the audiobook and as I'm still bad with those that might be reason it didn't resonate with me as much. The thing that annoyed me the most was Riley lying for so long to her friend and even worse to the face of a goddess?! Like ... wow. 8D You summon a goddess who asks the truth of you so she can save your sister und you dare to lie to her?? I'm not okay with this. "8D It got better from there on though and I am actually very interested in the sequel (I will read this instead of listening. I learned my lesson.)

Falling for You (Katharina B. Gross): I got this book for free in exchange for review on that German Goodreads ripoff site. But when I'm asked beforehand to write a real review with sensible thoughts I get real picky while reading. Like with bad books where you start to notice every little nasty detail? I do that. It's not really fun. "8D So half the stuff that irked me I probably wouldn't have had a second thought about when reading normally. So the book was fine. Nothing great but easy enough to read. (Also after reading a really bad book later, I found that this one really has some good points.)

With everything I read the month felt really long. But it was also interesting, because in every book there's something that connects it to the next (want to know some? Two Bas/zes, shitty ex-husbands, magical tattoos, slaying demons and devils, too much magic for one person, graverobbing ...). And thanks to that, for the first time maybe, I could see clearly books that did certain things well against others who did the same things not so well. My first April book was a total letdown (in points of worldbuilding and romance among others) and having it in comparison to all the good March books is so intruiging.

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libertyreads · 29 days

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March Wrap Up 2024--

What a month that was. Did I read more than what I was supposed to? Yes. Am I mad about it? No. My goal for the year is to stay between 52 and 104 books read which means I need to read roughly 8 books per month (technically 8.6 or something like that) at the maximum. All this basically means is that I have to stick to reading 8 books next month. I blame the fact that my library hold came in 2 weeks early and I really didn't want to get back in line for it since it took so long to come in. Let's get to what I read and what I rated what I read.

Comics/Graphic Novels-- 1. Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia and Gabriel Picolo--3.75 stars (original rating).

Novellas-- 1. Must Love Hockey by Sarina Bowen (Kindle)--3.75 stars.

2. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark (NetGalley)--4 stars.

Novels-- 1. No Coincidence by Rafat Kosik--1.75 stars.

2. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu--3 stars.

3. The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah--3.75 stars.

4. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson (Library)--4 stars.

5. Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes (NetGalley)--3.25 stars.

6. The Foxglove King by Hannah F. Whitten--4.25 stars (original rating).

The average star rating for the month ended up being 3.5 stars which was such a surprise given that this is the month with my worst rated book of the year so far. Not too shabby though.

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godzilla-reads · 1 year

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Happy First Day of April!

Here is my March Wrap-Up, having read 13 books this month, bringing my yearly total to 49 books.

Here’s the list plus my Top 3 Books:

💎 Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

⭐️ The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill

🪲 Dragonfly Dance: Poems by Denise K. Lajimodiere

🩸 The Lost Boys by Tim Seeley and Scott Godlewski

🦁 The Problem of Susan and Other Stories by Neil Gaiman

🐅 The Moon Over the Mountain by Atsushi Nakajima and Nekosuke

⭐️ His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik

⚔️ The Search for Synergy by Brett Salter

🍾 Hell in a Bottle by Kyusaku Yumeno and Towoji Honojiro

💐 How to be a Wildflower: A Field Guide by Katie Daisy

🐲 The Dragon Quintet edited by Marvin Kaye

🌸 The Little Springtime Book of Gnomes by Kirsten Sevig

⭐️ All Systems Red by Martha Wells

#godzilla reads #march wrap up #books read in March #books read in March 2023 #books read in 2023 #reading #booklr #bookworm #bookish #book blog #booklover #bibliophile #book blurb

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cassiesbookishcorner · 1 year

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March Wrap Up•

What a fantastic reading month!

My ratings are all over the place but I'm okay with that.

I'm happy that I doubled my reading.

You all were not kidding about when KU came into your lives and your reading exploded.

I'm finally getting the chance to read books that I've seen all over social media and it feels good.

I've discovered new series and authors that I love and can't wait to read more from.

This has been such a fun experience.

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I hope you all had a good reading month.

What was your favorite??

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#bookish #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookworm #read #books #tbr #bookaddict #bullet journal #reading journal #march wrap up #reading wrap up #journaling

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lizziestudieshistory · 18 days

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Books of 2024 - January, February and March

I may have been absentee but I have read a fair bit during the last few months. There's too many here to do reviews but I'm always happy to discuss my thoughts if anyone is interested.

January

The View from the Cheap Seats - Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman

The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie

Epic of Gilgamesh - Anon

A Brightness Long Ago - Guy Gavriel Kay

February (or the month I went mad)

A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury - Maas

A Court of Wings and Ruin - Maas

A Court of Frost and Starlight - Maas

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien

Before They are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie

March

Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie

The Sunlit Man - Brandon Sanderson

The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay

Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett

Not many classics are coming through, although I think April will make up for the deficiency at this rate... I may have read too much fantasy and it's making me a bit loopy.

The standout for the first quarter of the year was definitely The Lions of Al-Rassan. I knew I'd love this book but I needed to find the right time, well March was that time and I'm absolutely obsessed. I may even love it more than Tigana?! Time will have to tell but I'm so glad I've finally finished it and I'm looking forward to a reread in the future.

#books of 2024 #books #bookblr #reading #january wrap up #february wrap up #march wrap up #the lions of al-rassan #guy gavriel kay

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godsfavdarling · 26 days

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i am back in my reading era and i know that probably none of you care but i want to write down my thoughts on stuff i read in a previous month <3 i'll probably forget to keep up with this either way!

in march i started acotar, it was okay, a bit meh tbh. and looking back the first book seems more like a first chapter to the whole story.

acomaf was better and acowar just pissed me off and i kind of can't wait to read about nesta in the next books. i like her and i don't get the hate she's getting! she's so real! rhys… yeah… i'm giggling and kicking my feet but also ??? mf invented feminism and idk how he is treated like this incredible ruler while his court is divided in three and it's all a mess. i'm not gonna get into political side cuz obviously no one cares!

overall i just wanted to say that i get why people like this series but i do not understand how many people especially grown women can say it's the best thing they've ever read? doesn't make sense to me but go off! plus im happy my friend and i read it together so i have someone to complain to. if i didn't have someone to vent to i'd lose my mind.

me and my bestie also read bride by ali hazelwood… bitch… it was the worst thing i've ever read. so lazy and stupid and annoying! i hated everything and everyone in it! again i refuse to believe y'all love her books! i'm being constantly lied to by the booktok girls and goodreads reviews!

on a bright side i also read my husband by moud ventura! 5/5! really good! i'm a simple girl! i just love a book about a mentally ill woman!

this one is embarrassing but i also finished unfurl by elodie heart. it was just porn. with priest kink. don't ask. it is what it's supposed to be and i liked it! catholicism, sex club, virginity and all that jazz! so real!

that's it. now im reading happy place by emily henry (i like it a lot so far) and one dark window (so good! hope it won't disappoint cuz i thought i didn't like fantasy very much but turns out i'm a fantasy girl and i just want something actually good after acotar…)

#vera's books #march wrap up #currently reading #book talk #book tumblr #book thoughts #acotar #reading #books and reading #bookish

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natreads · 28 days

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March wrap up

Books:

Black Girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood - 3 stars

Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux - 3 stars

Sunstroke by Tessa Hadley - 3 stars

Olivia by Dorothy Strachey (reread) - 4 stars

Minnen från glömskans städer by Gunnar Harding - 4 stars

Åsnans år by Athena Farrokhzad - 5 stars

Friends like these by Meg Rosoff - 3.5 stars

Movies:

Paris is burning - 4 stars

Aftersun - 4 stars

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold - 3.5 stars

My Salinger Year - 3.5 stars

Dune: Part Two - 4 stars

All of Us Strangers (rewatch) - 4.5 stars

#nat talks #wrap up #march wrap up

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samduqs · 29 days

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A Dead Djinn in Cairo, The Angel of Khan el-Khalili, The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark (novellas)

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark 💫

Héroes Mitológicos by M. R. Padilla

Lord of Swans by Amberlyn Holland

King of Beasts by Amberlyn Holland

The Forgotten Room by Licoln Child

Full Wolf Moon by Lincoln Child

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood

The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne 💫

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thereadingchallengechallenge · 29 days

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Read in March 2024

a very good reading month! though frankly March was so long that I'd forgotten about what I read at the start of the month 😂 standouts were Kings, Queens and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju, Bryony and Roses by T Kingfisher and Venom and Vow by Anna-Marie & Elliott McLemore ☺️

Series read: Bright Falls series by Ashley Herring Blake

Delilah Green Doesn’t Care - 4/5

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail - 4/5

Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date - 2/5

Backlog books:

Kings, Queens and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteju - 5/5 (audio)

Bruised by Tanya Boteju - 4/5

A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell - 4/5