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El’s Library
Canada
Приєднався 25 бер 2020
Hey! I am a queer, Canadian reader with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography, as well as a minor in English. I’m queer and transmasc non-binary (they/them please!) and very loud about it. On my channel you’ll find a lot of books featuring diverse authors and characters, especially those in the LGBTQ+ community. I read predominantly fantasy, sci-fi, and a sprinkling of adult contemporary romance. Although I may throw in something completely random from time to time just to shake things up ;)
Everything I read in October!
They/them
The books
📚The House Where Death Lives
📚An Academy for Liars by Alexis Hall
📚Pole Position by Rebecca J. Caffery
📚How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
📚Painted Devils by Margaret Owens
📚And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
📚Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews
📚Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana
📚Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
📚The Book of Queer Saints vol 2 by Mae Murray
📚A Vile Season by David Ferraro
📚A Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson
📚Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places by Claire Kann
📚The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi
📚This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings
📚#DRCL by Shin'ichi Sakamoto
📚Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Socials
✨IG @me.shelf.andi
✨Goodreads www.goodreads.com/user/show/9598251
The books
📚The House Where Death Lives
📚An Academy for Liars by Alexis Hall
📚Pole Position by Rebecca J. Caffery
📚How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
📚Painted Devils by Margaret Owens
📚And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
📚Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews
📚Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana
📚Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
📚The Book of Queer Saints vol 2 by Mae Murray
📚A Vile Season by David Ferraro
📚A Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson
📚Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places by Claire Kann
📚The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi
📚This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings
📚#DRCL by Shin'ichi Sakamoto
📚Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Socials
✨IG @me.shelf.andi
✨Goodreads www.goodreads.com/user/show/9598251
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They/them The books 📚The Only Purple House in Town by Ann Aguirre 📚Wisteria by Adalyn Grace 📚Interview with the Vanpire by Anne Rice Socials
6 books, Halloween, Hozier merch, and a book haul! || weekly reading vlog
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They/them The books 📚Looking for Love in all the Haunted Places by Claire Kann 📚The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi 📚Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice 📚This Ravenous Fate by Haley Dennings 📚#DRCL by Shin’ichi Sakamoto 📚The Umbrella Academy by Gerard Way 📚Wisteria by Adalyn Grace Socials ✨IG @me.shelf.andi ✨Goodreads www.goodreads.com/user/show/9598251
All the books I want to read in November!
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They/them ✨Cozy Chaos bookclub: fable.co/club/the-cozy-chaos-book-club-with-summer-england-372871533779 ✨Cozy Quill bookclub: fable.co/club/the-cozy-quill-book-club-with-meg-530792412932 ✨Catch Up bookclub: ua-cam.com/video/T6W67y1YLKk/v-deo.htmlsi=uBBK9FdacT0Rut8H The books 📚Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice 📚Thirst by Marina Yuszcsuk 📚Wisteria by Adalyn Grace 📚Jackal Jackal by Tobi Ogun...
Vampires, ghosts & spooky movies 👻🎃 || weekly reading vlog
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They/them The books 📚The Book of Queer Saints by Mae Murray 📚The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi 📚Interview with the Vampire by Ann Rice 📚A Vile Season by David Ferraro 📚A Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson 📚Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places by Claire Kann Socials ✨IG @me.shelf.andi ✨Goodreads www.goodreads.com/user/show/9598251
All the books I got for my birthday!
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They/them The books 📚A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth 📚Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas 📚The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚The Book of Queer Saints vol 1 by Mae Murray 📚The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach 📚Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon 📚Heart of Flames by Nicki Pau Preto 📚The Vampire Chronicles 1-3 by Anne Rice 📚The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black 📚Odd Spiri...
3 concerts (Nothing But Thieves, Coin, One Ok Rock) + book shopping & thrifting || birthday vlog
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They/them What a week! I got sick immediately after getting home and it took me forever to edit this, pardon the delay The books 📚Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews 📚Thistlefoot by GemmaRose Nethercott 📚Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana 📚The Book of Queer Saints vol. 2 by Mae Murray Socials ✨IG @me.shelf.andi ✨Goodreads www.goodreads.com/user/show/9598251 Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): ...
6 books to read if you like Crimson Peak
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They/them The books 📚Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood 📚Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey 📚Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚The September House by Carissa Orlando 📚Gallant by V.E. Schwab 📚She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran Socials ✨IG @me.shelf.andi ✨Goodreads www.goodreads.com/user/show/9598251 Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): uppbeat.io/t/gerald-olivieri/fireflies ...
6 books, productivity + local music show || weekly reading vlog
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They/them My friends music 🎵Jamie Rose X: youtube.com/@JamieRoseX-t4t?si=somU4EhS0FSXccDV 🎵Similar Soup: m.soundcloud.com/similarsoup The books 📚Painted Devils by Margaret Owen 📚How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler 📚The Queer Book of Saints vol. II edited by Mae Murray 📚Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews 📚And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott 📚Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott ...
It's finally fall! || book tag
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They/them A Book Circus’ video: ua-cam.com/video/5Whm4IvZcBo/v-deo.htmlsi=2dyvVRRR1LOuTKqG The books 📚The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez 📚You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi 📚The Seven Year Skip by Ashley Poston 📚Miss Major Speaks by Miss Major and Toshio Meronek 📚The Witch King by HE Edgmon 📚The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 📚Never Whistle at Night 📚The Sal...
Dark academia, historical horror, F1 romance + more! || weekly reading vlog
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They/them The books 📚Our Hideous Progeny by CE McGill 📚Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson 📚Painted Devils by Margaret Owen 📚The House Where Death Lives by Alex Brown 📚How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler 📚Pole Position by Rebecca J. Caffery Socials ✨IG @me.shelf.andi ✨Goodreads www.goodreads.com/user/show/9598251
Everything I read for Orilium Magical Readathon Autumn Equinox || September wrap-up
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They/them 📚Something is Killing the Children vol. 1 and 2 by James Tynion 📚The Pairing by Casey McQuiston 📚This is How you Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar 📚Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner 📚Evocation by ST Gibson 📚Rise and Divine by Lana Harper 📚Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚Girl’s Weekend by CM Nascosta 📚Poukahangatus by Tayi Tibble 📚Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh 📚A Th...
Dog walks, thrifting, and spooky season reads! || weekly reading vlog
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They/them The books 📚Evocation by ST Gibson 📚There’s No Way I’d Die First by Lisa Springer 📚She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran 📚Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 📚The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo 📚The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi 📚The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir 📚Our Hideous Progeny by CE McGill Socials ✨IG @me.shelf.andi ✨Goodreads www.goodreads.com/user/show/9598251
Mood reading my way through Fall || October TBR
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They/them The books 📚Painted Devils by Margaret Owen’s 📚The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MaClean 📚An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson 📚The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson 📚The House Where Death Lives by Nova Ren Suma 📚Pole Position by Rebecca J. Caffery 📚Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places by Claire Kann 📚How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler 📚The Battle Dru...
4 books, Halloween shopping + kittens! || Orillium Magical Readathon week 3
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They/them The books 📚You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian 📚Evocation by S.T. Gibson 📚The Wisteria Society for Lady Scoundrels by India Holton 📚The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 📚The Diablo’s Curse by Gabr Cole Novoa 📚The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo Socials ✨IG @me.shelf.andi ✨Goodreads www.goodreads.com/user/show/9598251 Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): uppbeat.io/t/vocalis...
All the books I bought in the first half of 2024 || book haul
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All the books I bought in the first half of 2024 || book haul
I bought too many books this week 😬 bakery, book shopping + 2 DNF’s || weekly reading vlog
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I bought too many books this week 😬 bakery, book shopping 2 DNF’s || weekly reading vlog
The 12 books I read (and 5 DNF'd) in August || monthly reading wrap up
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The 12 books I read (and 5 DNF'd) in August || monthly reading wrap up
I read 7 books this week + adopted a senior cat! || Orillium Magical Readathon week 1
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I read 7 books this week adopted a senior cat! || Orillium Magical Readathon week 1
I DNF’d The Honey Witch + Halloween shopping & exciting news 😻 || weekly reading vlog
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Everything I want to read for the Orillium Magical Readathon || September TBR
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Everything I want to read for the Orillium Magical Readathon || September TBR
3 books + Glass Animals concert! || weekly reading vlog
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Everything I read in July! || Wrap up
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Everything I read in July! || Wrap up
I got hit on at a punk show || weekly reading vlog
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Thrifting, productivity + 4 books and a DNF || weekly reading vlog
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Thrifting, productivity 4 books and a DNF || weekly reading vlog
Everything I'm hoping to read in August
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3 books, a rave, and the fair! || weekly reading vlog
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3 books, a rave, and the fair! || weekly reading vlog
Mid-Year Book Check In Tag + everything I've read January - June
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Mid-Year Book Check In Tag everything I've read January - June
A dance, a promotion, a name change, and a bunch of reading! || weekly reading vlog
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A dance, a promotion, a name change, and a bunch of reading! || weekly reading vlog
3 books; 2 fantasy, 1 horror || weekly reading vlog
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3 books; 2 fantasy, 1 horror || weekly reading vlog
Love the pumpkin shirt. It cracks me up that Tony has book opinions too. Another lovely vlog.
Never heard of these books but they look interesting.
What a lovely vlog.
What a sweet story. So happy for a granny finally getting to live her best life
I have Foxglove on my TBR for November then Wisteria after.
I’ll be listening to the audiobook of House of Frank next, I’m so excited for it 😍
Happy birthday 🎉🎉 I read Daughter of Doctor Moreau and enjoyed it - a solid book by SMG! It was so evocative in the atmosphere and setting descriptions but I didn’t love some of the two MCs’ dynamics. I’m actually reading Silver Nitrate by SMG right now!
Thank you! Ooh I loved Silver Nitrate, I hope you do too!
I can't remember if you have mentioned whether you've read She is A Haunting or not... 🤔 My memory is rubbish. It has a scentient being!
Yes I read that one at the end of September! I loved the setting and the hauntings, just didn’t love the main character in all her teenage glory lol
@@els.library Aaaha, that was it! Now I remember.
Fellow October baby! 🎉 Happy Belated Birthday! 🎂🎁 You have a Norway badge! You can skip the hand sowing by coming back to Norway over and over again!
Thank you!! When is your birthday? October babies are the best 😋 I loved Norway so much, I wasn’t there for nearly long enough! It’s seriously one of my favourite places I’ve been. Standing near the water in Oslo at sunset during late December felt like magic 🥰
@@els.library It's the 25th. I actually did have a birthday vlog of sorts. 😉 I don't live in Oslo anymore, but I do love the city. Please come back, and I can take you to some of my favourite bookshops!
@@LunaciaBooks happy belated birthday! I’m super behind on booktube videos lol, I’ll check out your birthday vlog soon. I would love to go back one day, I really want to explore more of Norway. Especially farther up north, it looks so beautiful 🥰
@@els.library Thank you 💜 I hope you can visit again in a not too distant future. 💜
I haven't seen Crimson Peak since I watched it in the cinema. I should re-watch it! I guess I have to add Within These Wicked Walls to my TBR. Heard so many good things about Mexican Gothic, but still haven't read it. I have read Gallant, but can't remember what I thought of it. I loved She is a Haunting! Great video, I really enjoyed it!
Yeees do it, Crimson Peak is amazing! As is Within These Wicked Walls, it’s criminally underrated Thanks for watching! 🥰🌻
Lovely relaxing vlog , enjoyed 🙏
Thanks! 🥰🌻
I also struggle with reading YA. it’s such a bummer bc the synopsis is usually so interesting, and then the book is a flop.
Right?? If they just took out the teenage melodrama it would be great lol
Happy birthday month. I hope it is a good one. I loved the Once and Futures Witches but haven't had a chance to read Starling House yet. Have a great rest of the month.
Thanks so much! I can’t wait to get to Once and Future Witches 🥰
Fall has definitely made its appearance finally!! I loved Never Whistle as Night - a long anthology for sure but so good!
It was so good, I recommend it every chance I get!
I really want to get to an academy for liars!
It was really good! Great for the fall season too
i've been meaning to read mexican gothic for weeks now 😭 FINE i'll read it lmao
Yeeees do it!! It was so good 😍
i have to say that i love your vibe
Thank you! 🥰🌻
Tony said excuse me I’d like some pizza pls
He’s a fiend for all food, but pizza seems to be his favourite 😂
I know you mentioned middlegame to me earlier, and now I’m even more excited to get to it! And honestly this is the fourth wrap up I’ve watched that has discussed the spell shop, and I feel like I need to read it now! Great wrap up! 💕💕
I hope you love Middlegame! It was so weird in the best way possible, I’m dying to get to the sequels. And yes The Spellshop was so so good, I think you’d really like it!
Me watching Tony yeet himself to the window like 👁️👄👁️
He still does it almost daily even though I put a cat tree there for him 😂 he prefers to yeet lol
Wow, so many books. Tony is beautiful. I adopted my bunnies from a shelter. big hearts for adopting animals
Aww bunnies, so cute!! I’ve always wanted bunnies, they seem like such good pets 💕
I refuse to go to Starbucks as well (fortunately, we don't have one in my city). They're not just a horrible company, but their coffee isn't coffee. 😂 I normally go to Kaffebrenneriet here. As for instant coffee, I just refuse to drink it. It tastes horrible. I have forgotten the name of your shop, though. 😂
Your comment made me think about the amazing coffee and pastries I had while travelling through Europe, y’all have it so good over there 😭💕 instant coffee is truly horrible, but desperate measures must be taken sometimes to get me to stop spending so much money at Tim Horton’s 😂
@@els.library I don't know about pastries here, but then again, I'm vegan, so getting vegan pastries can be a struggle... But I know Norway has some of the best coffee roasters in the world. Also, we do drink A LOT of coffee. Only the Fins drink more coffee per capita than the Norwegians.
Yay for Tony!!!
I’m so excited to get him!! Not sure on a date yet but fingers crossed it’ll be in the next few days 🤞🏼
thirty seconds in and i’m already a fan!!
Aw thanks, welcome! 🥰🌻
I found the starling house to be a little disappointing, but was still a solid 3⭐️. Hope you enjoy it!
I haven’t picked it up yet but I’m hoping to soon! What about it was disappointing for you?
@@els.library I feel like the world and the magic could’ve been fleshed out more, and the ending happened really quickly imo
“This book is disgusting. It is so gross. And it was very good.” I’m sold tbh lol
Yeees I hope you love it! 😂
did you ever find out what that bug is? like wtf IS that? and im australian so forgive the cliche but even IM shocked lmao
@@lucycanread you know it’s something weird when even an Australian is freaked out by it 😂😂 it’s a house centipede! Apparently they’re super common, and also very useful because they eat roaches and spiders and other pests
TU:QL was so good. Lexi and Mal were the best.
They so were omg I aspire to be able to communicate as well as Mal does 😂
I loved Half a Soul. I hope your reads are going well. Have a great rest of the month.
Thanks, you too! 🥰🌻
I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on middle game!! I just hauled that! 💕💕
I finished it a few days ago and I’m still reeling from it 😍 I hope you love it too!
I enjoyed The Relentless Moon but not as much as the first two. The fourth book is finally coming out next year and I am super excited to dive back in! Good luck with your tbr!
Ooh yay I’m happy to hear about the fourth book! And yeah as much as the second book was great, I don’t think anything else will top the first book. It was too good 😍
Loved hearing that you’re enjoying the lady astronaut series. I read the Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal earlier this year and really enjoyed it, and have been eyeing that series
Ooh nice I have to read that one for sure! The Lady Astronaught series is fantastic, I’m hoping to read the last book next month
I live for your stories, the naked while eating a subway sandwich had me giggling but the fanny pack story 😂🤣 I absolutely died. at least you got to see hozier before it happened!
Oh god I will never live down the fanny pack story 😂😂😂 I think about it at least once a day lmfao
Good job
Thanks!
Sounds like you had a pretty good reading month! I love Miss Major's book -- I love seeing more people reading it! My favorite book last month was probably The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag
It was so good, I’m really glad I read it 🥰 omg I can’t wait to read The Deep Dark!!
I don't like DNF-ing books I REALLY want to like. But there's just so much time, and there are too many books! Loved this vlog, thanks for taking us along!
I DNF like crazy lol, I can understand why someone don’t though! I just can’t be bothered to read things I’m not enjoying
Yay! Love meeting more Canadian booktubers! 💕💕 great TBR love
Oh yay a Canadian!! Thanks so much 🥰🥰
Double nose is so cute. I've wanted to do that too but I'm scared of the sensory healing process. I actually love being pierced, but even colds are sensory issues for my nose. But so cute. I love ethical piercers who are like nope that won't work for you. I need to find a new one and a new tattoo artist since I moved
The healing hasn’t been bad at all! They only hurt for the first day, but I haven’t felt them at all since then (except when I bump them by accident). The only annoying part is not being able to do any skin care on my nose, especially exfoliating so my nose is looking kinda gross right now 😂 I’m definitely not looking forward to my first cold though lol. Finding a good tattoo artist and piercer is so hard! I hope you’re able to find one 😊
_Mortal Follies_ is trash but _A Lady for a Duke_ is a MASTERPIECE!!!!! I don't make the rules 😂
Thank god, if that one was a disappointment I’m going to be very upset 😂
How awesome that your library helps with name changes for pride month. Love that.
Right! So grateful to them 💕
I’m obsessed with Cat Sebastian books! I read Queer Principles a while ago and am in the middle of the companion sequel Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes. Also recommend the 1960s NYC companion duology too ☺️ Also that’s amazing that the library is facilitating free notarizations of name changes 🙌🙌
Omg 1960s NYC sounds fantastic, I’ll have to add those to my TBR 😍
Thats so good to hear the Bride is good from the monster lover side! I don’t have a lot of interest in contemporary romances so I’ve never read Ali Hazelwood’s other works, but I’ve always been so curious about their work. Sounds like Bride is being bumped up to the top of my TBR. Loving the rave fits! Ive never been to one, but they sound like a blast
I hope you love Bride one you get to it! I see the hype for Ali Hazelwood now, even though I’m still not really interested in her contemporary stuff Thank you! Raves are so much fun 😍
hahahahaha I am right there with you in swan diving into the fairy realm. Don't eat fae food, don't walk into a fairy circle? Get outta my way I'm chilling with some shrooms and getting a snack 🤣 also omg cackling at your story about the little old lady on the train.
You get me 😂 and yes omg I still think about that old lady every time I see the book lmfao
If you liked Howl's Moving Castle, there are 2 more books in that world that Howl and Sophie play parts in
Ooh good to know, I’ll have to add those to my TBR!
So many good potential picks!! And agree, the audiobook for _The City We Became_ is CRIMINALLY underrated 😩👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
I just started The World We Make and I’m already in love, the book itself is excellent but the audiobook HITS
Ohmygosh i LOVE the fairy circle tattoo!! Though i woukd be quite nervous about stepping in to the fairy realm! The book fayre looks so great too. Siân ❤
Thank you!! Omg I would be gone in a heartbeat if I had the chance to go to the fairy realm, even though I would probably not make it through the night 😂
you have such a calm vibe. I may try odd bunch!
Aw thank you 🥰🌻
Best wishes with what you choose to read. Every time I watch UA-camrs channels my tbr gets bigger! I'm currently on page 963 of the Count of Monte Cristo. Still got some way to go. Happy reading.
Thank you! Oh wow I didn’t know that book was so long, good luck with that beast of a book! How are you liking it?
The tattoo turned out amazing - so nice they made a suggestion of adding a house. As for Bride 😂 it's a little tamed in comparison to other monster romances, but I think you'll like it!
Thank you, I’m so happy with it! I finished Bride earlier this week, I did really like it! But yeah it definitely wasn’t as over the top as the regular romance readers made it seem 😂 very much a run of the mill monster romance, but a very good one!
@els.library glad you had fun reading it. Haha, here's to more traditionally published monster romance books 📚
I adore that tattoo. Such a great way to enhance what you already had. I'd swan drive into a fairy ring too. I just finished reading When Angels left the Old Country
Thank you! It’s in the mega itchy stage right now, but it’s cute so it’s worth it 😂 ooh I haven’t heard of that, I’ll have to look it up! What did you think of it?
@@els.library It young adult. Newbery runner up. Queer Jewish magic. my kind of stuff