#the mirror season

[bookcub]

Best Books Read in July 2023

A recap of the best books I read each month in 2023.

The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore

I read this to fulfill a requirement for class and it was so intense. Magical Realism is slowly growing on me and McLemore is an author who has really helped me appreciate the genre. This is a very loose retelling The Snow Queen but it is primarily about a girl coping with the aftermath of being sexually assaulted. Probably my favorite of their books I've read so far!

The River of Silver by SA Chakraborty

A collection of short stories related to The Daevabad Trilogy from a variety of perspectives over time. It was very enjoyable and a lighter than the original trilogy overall. Highly recommended to fans of the series!!

Honorable mention

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming

Such a fun book!! Essentially, this is a romance, but the fantasy aspects are a lot of fun and I love the themes of consent that are very present. I love the sense of humor in Lemming's writing and look forward to more of her work in the future!

#best books of 2023 #the daevabad trilogy #the mirror season #that time I got drunk and saved a demon #kimberly lemming #anna marie mclemore #sa chakraborty

[the-final-sentence]

We learn the ways that broken things can catch the light.

Anna-Marie McLemore, from The Mirror Season

#Anna-Marie McLemore #The Mirror Season

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

7 Days 7 Covers Day 3 - The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore

The rules: every day, I will post the cover of a book that I love and nominate someone new to start the challenge

tagging: @we-artemis-atenea <3

#the mirror season #anna marie mclemore #booklr #bookblr #trcc original #portraits #lgbt books #pansexual #authors of colour #trans authors

[mydailybookquotes]

“Every moment of our life, it goes with us. It lives forever. And a lot of those moments you don't have much say over. So the ones you do, you've got to do everything with them. So that what lives forever is something you want to live with.”

-Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season

#anna marie mclemore #the mirror season #mirror season #quotes #book quotes #books #inspirational quotes #mydailybookquotes #inspire #life quotes #inspiring quotes #life #lgbtq+

[justbrainrot]

I know it isn’t only Daniel José Older who we need to thank for the cultural shift from italicizing non-English words in novels to not, but thanks dude. It’s one of those things that I forget about until I see it again. Or see the lack of it, the lack of othering it does to the text. It’s really that profound.

And obviously this is my personal bias but it’s especially important for those of us in the diaspora who use non-English words sprinkled throughout our mostly-English speaking lives. Like my abuelita was never & could never be grandma. My family was as assimilationist as they come but that didn’t stop her from refusing to answer to anything but abuelita (no abuela wouldn’t do & she’d be pissed if I tried it lol.)

This post has been brought to you by my new read for today, The Mirror Season. I’ve only just started it but I needed to get this out.

Also if you haven’t seen this qué dramático video from DJO, it’s a classic & you should.

#mid-read thoughts #daniel jose older #the mirror season #anna marie mclemore

[miraclerizuin]

30 Days of Pride Books (with @draconiclore) Day 22: The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore - Ciela and Lock were assaulted at the same party.  Ciela remembers everything, and Lock remembers none of it.  When dangerous magical things start happening in their town, Ciela will have to decide whether sharing the truth about that night will save her new friend or destroy him.

#anna marie mclemore #the mirror season #pride #books #pansexual

[hamstringy]

read the mirror season, cried in the work bathroom about it, bon appétit.

#agh oof augh #*minecraft damage noises* #that hurt so good #the mirror season #anna-marie mclemore

[thecolorsinouruniverse]

i want to stand for what i am, how i love, and how my broken heart still works.

anna-marie mclemore, the mirror season

#quotes #books #anna marie mclemore #the mirror season

[crismakesstuff]

“What if I become him and I don’t even know it?”

#invincible #invincible show #invincible spoilers #invincible season 2 #mark grayson #nolan grayson #omniman #omni man #invincible fanart #do you ever think about how mark is haunted by everything that happened in episode 8 #do you think he ever looks in the mirror and sees the features of his father on his face and shudders #do you ever think mark is up late at night burdened by the countless sins of his father #do you think that whenever he has angry outbursts and then realizes what he did and feels his father’s hand on his shoulder #applying just enough pressure to be uncomfortable #crismakesstuff

[theejael]

am i makin' you feel sick?

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yeah, okay, the ghoul's kinda cool.

#not necessarily intended as ship but? if you wanna i guess #their dynamic was just interesting to me #also #coop you're a freak for replacing your chomped on finger with lucy's #love me some character parallelism/mirrors here #fallout season 2 when #fallout #fallout tv series #lucy maclean #cooper howard #the ghoul #my art #jael art

[captainvulcant]

Everyone's always going on about Crowley/David Tennant being the slutty one with his slutty little walk and his slutty and unusual little relationship with furniture but no one talks about slutty Aziraphale/Michael Sheen and his slutty little expressions every time he looks at Crowley, the harlot

Michael Sheen is a master of micro-expressions and knew what he was doing.

#good omens #ineffable husbands #good omens season 2 #good omens s2 #aziraphale #listen the lust and longing oozes from aziraphale more than crowley imo who is more understated #how this idiot angel has managed to refuse to go away with crowley not once but TWICE when he looks at him like this i will never know #someone get this man a mirror #he's embarassing himself #anyway thoughts and prayers for crowley who probably thought all this nonsense was overcome in season 1 like the rest of us

[bookcub]

ill post my review for the mirror season after i finish my class cause i will be using my assignment for the review and dont want to get caught for plagiarizing myself lol

that being said, its a fantastic novel and i highly recommend it for those who want a beautiful but incredibly intense novel. it is about sexual assault so trigger warning for those going into it

#the mirror season #anna marie mclemore

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Aziraphale and Crowley do have different mirrors :).

#good omens #gos2 #season 2 #azirphale #aziraphale's mirror #2ep4 #blitz minisode #crowley #crowley's mirror

[ineffablejaymee]

sure steddie dating pre-season 4 is great and all, steve rushing to eddie to check up on him instead of eddie attack him in the werehouse is nice

BUT

steddie hooking up pre season 4, then sorta-almost-dating but they have a big falling out and they dont see eachother until the werehouse IS JUST SO JUICY

even better if they had the argument bcs steve wasnt telling eddie something to protect him from the upside down fuckery. and in the werehouse they lock eyes as eddie realizes what steve has been lying about, and steve (who just realized he was in love with eddie) realizes he failed and eddie is now in the middle of this crazy dangerous shit and he blames himself ofc

and give me robin who knew steve had someone, but he didnt tell her it was eddie. and she connects the dots and looks at steve and they have a little silent conversation bcs holy shit i knew u were a boy kisser but an eddie kisser?!?!

#steddie #eddie munson #steddie dating pre season 4 #stranger things #robin buckley #steve harrington #someone rly should write this fic #stares aggressively into a mirror

[saraquirtle]

Sometimes, I carry my secrets around, and I barely feel them. Sometimes, I can hold them, like the secret forest taking all of Lock's forgotten trees. Other times, I feel nothing but how that night broke me into pieces, like glass cutting light into different colors. How it made me a girl whose heart is silvered with ice and glass. How it made me a liar. How it made me both more afraid and more reckless.

Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season

#2022 #the mirror season #anna-marie mclemore

[lavender-lores]

so……. guess whos back 😀

i have taken a long break from reading because of college apps. my storygraph is plotting revenge. but today for the first time in forever i read something!!! only…. 48 books left to go for my 100 book goal of 2022 😐

the book i read was “the mirror season” by anna marie mclenore. its beautiful. it explores its themes perfectly and brings color to its prose, and im telling you, if i hadn’t read it all during a school day, i would’ve sobbed. moreover, this is probably my first experience with an unreliable narrator, which added so much to the story. it was an easy 5 stars from me, and i’m glad i read it. it does tackle the hard topic of sexual assault and homophobia, but it’s a must-read for all!

#lasi.txt #reviews #the mirror season