I fell asleep reading a book and woke up to the sound of orange chaos:
In Purrsy Bysshe Shelley’s defense, I think we’ve all wanted to crawl into a book after devouring it.
And speaking of books, if you’re a member of the Fantastic Strangelings Book Club you’ll be getting The Children by Melissa Albert and if you’re a part of Nightmares From Nowhere you’ll be getting Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez. They are both deliciously good as evidenced by Purrcy who seems to have developed a taste for books and smiled so wide before literally biting directly into this one while making full eye contact with me like a tiny psychopath:
Need more than one book to get through the month? Me too. Here are some of my favorite new books:
Muñeca by Cynchia Gómez– A surreal, gothic about a queer, Latine, working-class with who sets out to rescue a cursed heiress to Spanish colonial wealth.
The Children by Melissa Albert– In which the estranged adult children of a legendary author, written into their dead mother’s beloved fantasy series contend with the vine-like creep of legacy, memory and magic.
The Reimagining of Thornwood House by Jaleigh Johnson– If you are looking for pure cozy, feel-good, escapism magic, this is it. Like a Hallmark movie melded with witches and houses on legs.
Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky – Crime noir but with talking animals and cybernetics. Inventive sci-fi sends a raccoon detective out to search for a missing mouse and goes deeper than expected.
The Sane One by Anna Konkle – An emotional and authentic coming of age memoir by the co-creator of Pen15.
Lore Olympus: Volume Ten by Rachel Smythe – I adore this graphic novel about Hades and Persephone and I haven’t read this volume yet but I’m so ready for it.
Headlights by CJ Leede – Seemingly innocent people are waking up on the side of the highway, with no memory of how they got there, wearing the skin of victims they’ve allegedly never met. And they each share one haunting detail: a strand of a stranger’s hair is tied around their tongue. Creepy as hell.
Don’t Call It Art by Austin Kleon – 10 ways to create like a kid again. Excellent for restarting your art habit.
