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Celeste | A Literary Escape
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I’m back in action! I call this my Cindy Lou Hoo loaf because the ears remind me of her hairstyle. 😂 This sourdough loaf tastes delicious!
A White person’s hand holding a load of sourdough bread in front of a shelf filled with books.
November 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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It lives!!! The comments in my original quoted post were helpful. I went back to a weight-based feeding ratio (so less wet) & put it on a heating pad & could see activity & it smelled like yogurt aka good bacteria.

But it still wasn’t rising. (1/2)
A White person’s hand holding an active sourdough starter in front of a bookshelf.
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Eeeee some exciting book mail!!! An ARC of THE FAERIE MORGANA by @louisamorgan.bsky.social! I’m so looking forward to this. Out 9/16/25 in the US!

Thanks to @orbitbooks.bsky.social for the complimentary copy!
A White person’s hand holding an advanced reading copy of a book called “The Faerie Morgana” by Louisa Morgan. The cover depicts the yellow silhouette of a woman with a sword in a stone in the front and flowering vines bordering three sides of the cover.
July 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Next up! Thanks to @orbitbooks.bsky.social for the complimentary ARC!
A White person’s hand holding a book up against a checkered blanket. The book is called “everybody wants to rule the world except me” by Django Wexler.
June 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Thanks to Del Rey/ @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social for approving my ARC request for TUSK LOVE by Thea Guanzon! Can’t wait to dig in!
Book cover of “Tusk Love” by Thea Guanzon. It shows a woman with long white hair wearing an orange skirt and leaping into the arms of a green orc male outside in a field.
April 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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My current mood read is A FATE INKED IN BLOOD by Danielle L. Jensen. Haven’t read any of her works before, but so far I’m enjoying this one! 🪐📚💙
A White person’s hand holding a book over a rug. The book is called “A Fate Inked in Blood” by Danielle L. Jensen. The cover shows a White woman in a blue dress with long white-blonde hair. Her left hand is grasping her neck.
April 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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More book mail! 🤩 Thank you @orbitbooks.bsky.social for this complimentary ARC of ONCE WAS WILLEM by M.R. Carey. 🪐📚💙

“…an utterly unique and enchantingly dark epic fantasy fable like no other.”
A White hand holding up a book in front of a bookshelf. The book is called “Once Was WIllem” by M.R. Carey. The background is a red and black floral and geometric tapestry-like design.
February 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Thanks to @orbitbooks.bsky.social for this lovely finished & complimentary copy of TIDEBORN by Eliza Chan, the final book in the Drowned World duology. 🪐📚💙

Love that there’s a recap at the beginning! Can’t wait to dig in. 🐚
A White person’s hand holding up a book in front of a bookshelf. The book is called “Tideborn” by Eliza Chan. On the cover are seafolk hovering above a clam shell, which is in front of a palace. On either side of the seafolk are leaping dolphins and sea creatures that resemble seahorses.
February 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Thanks to @wwnorton.bsky.social for approving my NG request to read ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL by Oliver Darkshire, a reimagining of “the Decameron heroine Isabella…in a world with sentient animals, talking plants, and shape-shifting wizards.”

Out May 13 in the US!
A book cover with a tan background and titled, “Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil” by Oliver Darkshire, the author of “Once Upon A Tome.” In the center is a black pedestal upon which sits a cat and a red apple amongst the potted green basil.
February 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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This is absurd. People who do this rob others of genuine enjoyment for the series.
January 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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It is time to begin my journey with this series for the very first time.
A book sitting on top a pink crocheted blanket. The book is called “Throne of Glass” by Sarah J. Maas. The cover is a purple-ish grey with a young woman on the front who has long silver-white hair and is carrying a sword in each hand.
January 20, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Woooo! Thank you so much to @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social for approving my request for THE STARVING SAINTS by Caitlin Starling! This book looks so good!

“…a transfixing, intensely atmospheric fever dream of medieval horror.”
Book cover of “The Starving Saints” by Caitlin Starling. The background is black. There is a central nun figure with a halo whose face has been replaced by those of 3 women with expressions of horror on their own faces. The nun is holding up part of a bee hive panel.
January 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Wooo book mail! Thanks to @orbitbooks.bsky.social for this delightfully floppy ARC of GREENTEETH by Molly O’Neill.

A “tale of fae, folklore, and found family, narrated by a charismatic lake-dwelling monster…”
A White person’s hand holding a book up against a white wall. The book is called “Green Teeth” by Molly O’Neill. The green cover shows a green humanoid monster with long hair surrounded by pink-flowered lily pads.
December 30, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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Yay, thanks to @avonbooks.bsky.social @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social for the e-ARC approval of GIVE ME BUTTERFLIES by Jillian Meadows.

An astronomer & entomologist STEM romance! #bookblogger #books
Book cover of “Give Me Butterflies” by Jillian Meadows. In the foreground are purple daisies with monarch butterflies perched on them. In the background are various leafy green plants. A White man with brown hair and a White woman with a read braid are embracing in the center. This whole scene is inside of a greenhouse-like building.
December 6, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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Picked this up today on my travels from Bestsellers bookstore in Budapest. Never heard of it, but the synopsis mentions an octopus-like creature from a meteor, so, yea, sold!
A White person’s hand hold a book called “The Space Between Us” by Doug Johnstone. The cover is white with four large black circles, each containing one word of the book title. They’re interconnected by black lines and smaller, colorful circles.
December 5, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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Wooo thank you to @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social for approving my ARC request for IMMORTAL by Sue Lynn Tan! I loved her writing in The Celestial Kingdom duology. 🤩
Book cover of “Immortal” by Sue Lynn Tan. The background is a swirl of colors. In the bottom left corner a woman in red is reaching up toward a man in blue who is leaning down from the upper right corner.
November 22, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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I just want to do book blog stuff, but I still have winter garden prep to finish. 😩

Can’t believe we still had so much on the vine, though! That white bowl is only tomatoes!!
Two big bowls sitting on a countertop. One has only tomatoes in it that are mostly green. The other has a mix of tomatoes and peppers. To the right is a green squash that is similar to the shape of a pumpkin.
November 17, 2024 at 7:54 PM