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Chelle

WestCoastChelle@books.theunseen.city

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Have loved reading for as long as I can remember. Fantasy (epic and urban) and sci-fi books are my true loves. Actively working to decolonize my bookshelf.

Living on unceded Coast Salish, Kwantlen, Nuxwsa'7aq (Nooksack), and S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō) land

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stopped reading Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett (The Witches, #6)

Terry Pratchett: Carpe Jugulum (AudiobookFormat, French language, 2004, L'Atalante) 4 stars

Carpe Jugulum (; Latatian for "seize the throat", cf. Carpe diem) is a comic fantasy …

It's sad, I love Discworld... but the last two Witch books just don't grab me. I think a lot of that has to do with how he writes about fat people. Probably like Maskerade I will come back to this at a later date and eventually finish it, but for now I'm going to read something else.

finished reading Maskerade by Terry Pratchett (The Witches, #5)

Terry Pratchett: Maskerade (AudiobookFormat, 1998, S. French) 5 stars

Content warning I wish Perdita had stayed at the opera and been seen for who she really was. And just been loved and adored and didn't lose weight.

Zen Cho: Black Water Sister (Paperback, 2021, Ace) 5 stars

Amazing book, not enough ending

4 stars

I really enjoyed this book. The culture of it was in some ways familiar as Jess seeks to appease her family and has to hide a lot of herself from them. But also loved reading a book set in a country not my own, about experiences and mythology unfamiliar to me. I just wish the ending had felt more... full. It was a great ending, don't get me wrong. I'm just, I like that after-bit. I want it to work out and get to SEE it worked out. The ending does make me wonder if she's planning a sequel, maybe.

Alix E. Harrow: The Once and Future Witches (2020, Redhook) 4 stars

Review of 'The Once and Future Witches' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

This is not a soft book. This book tugs at the parts of me that survived abusive family, exboyfriends, cancer... That has lost jobs for speaking up against "those jokes".

I adored it. It's about the power women (and yes this book means ALL WOMEN) have when they come together against their oppressor.

I think I need to go read it again...