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Jenna
@fallingletters.ca
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#BookBlogger | former children’s librarian | 💜 #MGlit, spec fic, Tolkien, the Karluk, Depeche Mode | ace | she/her | 🇨🇦

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I am ready to move on spooky reads! Next up: PITY, POWER AND TOLKIEN’S RING by @alas-not-me.bsky.social for nonfiction and DAVINCI’s CAT by Catherine Gilbert Murdock for fiction

Something about both of these feels well-suited to dark cozy evenings and the approaching Christmas season…
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November 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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tis the season for researching which picture books I'm going to gift for Christmas 📚🎁
Photograph of coffee table with two stacks of picture books (Dim Sum Here We Come and Not Just the Driver on to) alongside a muffin and a mug
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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I am on a roll with spooky #MGLit right now - currently enjoying SOMETHING'S UP WITH ARLO by Matteo L Cerilli #CanKidLit 🏳️‍🌈📚
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November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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It’s been a minute since I enjoyed some #MGlit - @edenroyce.bsky.social’s THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE is just what I needed on this blustery grey day!
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November 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Here's an update on my #SpooktasticReads bingo, which I will keep working on for the next few weeks.

I have finished THE GRAVE THIEF by Dee Hahn (feat a grave digging protagonist) and WHEN THE RECKONING COMES by LaTanya McQueen (Southern gothic horror)
9x9 bingo board for 2025 Spooktstic Reads readathon showing the following completed tiles: Grave digging - The Grave Thief by Dee Hahn Gothic Horror - When the Reckoning Comes by La Tanya McQueen
November 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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had a fun time at the corn maze last night 🌽 🎃 🥾 atmosphere was perfect. found 7/8 clues so got to take home a couple cute gourds!
Photograph of corn maze entrance with dark cloudy sky and bright spotlight on the entrance sign. Photograph of mud path, dry corn stalks, and dark cloudy sky. Photograph of two small gourds - one green and round and one more oblong with green and orange
October 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Thank you! That is MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPTS by Christopher De Hamel
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October 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Good morning! 🍂 I am now 10 days living in my new home. Today I have planned reading and relaxation, to soak in and enjoy my new space 😊 So far I am off to a good start… here is the view from my red reading chair.
Photograph with book about medieval manuscripts open in the foreground. background shows living area with cream rug, brown wooden coffee table, couch on the other side of coffee table with throw pillows and blanket, large windows with a gray sky and trees losing their leaves, and assorted fall decorations like orange string lights, pumpkins, and candles.
October 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Great progress made today with my move!
Photograph of two partially filled white bookcase, with step ladder in front and a red armchair and brown armchair on either side. Photograph of two white bookcases filled with books, topped with two leafy green vine plants and flanked by a red armchair and a brown armchair.
October 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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can anyone remind me why I loved THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING?

...maybe I should do a post about the classics I sought out during undergrad (as a children's lit major who thought maybe I was missing out on something). 2025 me can't recall why I fell in love with some of these books.
Photograph of softcover book named in post (author Milan Kundera), with a mostly empty bookcase in the background.
September 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I haven’t read too many books that I want to hype up this year but @silviamg.bsky.social’s THE BEWITCHING is one! Great read while I was camping this past cool rainy weekend. 🏕️ #horror
Photograph of hardcover book named in post. Background is cloudy pine forest seen through a tent screen window.
September 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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A lovely Friday to have the day off and go read in a park!

CR: HEMLOCK & SILVER by @tkingfisher.com #fantasy
Photograph of hardcover book Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher. Background is a bright park with lots of trees and flowers.
August 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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A lovely Friday to have the day off and go read in a park!

CR: HEMLOCK & SILVER by @tkingfisher.com #fantasy
Photograph of hardcover book Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher. Background is a bright park with lots of trees and flowers.
August 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Started reading some Sept ARCs this weekend! Finished MAKING HISTORY by KJ Parker (out 2 Sept from TorDotCom) - a story well-suited to its novella length, check this one out if dark dry humour and commentary on the nature of history and truth appeals to you.
Cover of book named in post. An illustrated cross-section cube of an ancient city in flames and ruins.
August 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Extremely satisfying to at last add a fourth book to this stack #shelfie #MGLit
Photograph of hardcover books (the four books from the Nevermoor series by Jessica Townsend) stacked horizontally on a white bookshelf. A large mug with an owl in top hat and monocle sits on top of the stack. Little rainbows (like from a suncatcher) are scattered around.
July 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Update: I ended up rereading Janet Taylor Lisle’s THE LOST FLOWER CHILDREN
Cover of book named in post. Two blonde white girls peer curiously into an overgrown garden with various blooming flowers.
July 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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packing so many library books and so many owned but haven't read yet books for the lake this weekend, but also feeling like i'm going to want to reread a favourite... will it be MIDDLEGAME or NEVER LET ME GO? 🤔 stay tuned
Cover of Middlegame by Seanan McGuire Cover of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
June 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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I have a big stack of books I own but haven't read yet that I'm taking to the lake this weekend. Options incl EXTREMELY ONLINE by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and WELCOMING BEGINNER'S MIND by Gaylon Ferguson.

How about you?
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June 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Perks of having a friend who works in a bookstore: they can let you know when SILVERBORN is on the shelves early 🤗
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June 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Weather is nuts this week… heat warning today, snowfall watch later this week 😭
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May 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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🥳 Happy #BookBirthday to @emilytesh.net's THE INCANDESCENT, out today from Tor Books! ICYMI, here's my thoughts on why this is a must-read for adult fans of magical school stories:

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May 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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It's just occurred to me how fitting the illustration on this month's Tolkien calendar is for #WyrdAndWonder2025 !
Photograph of May 2025 Tolkien calendar showing Ulmo emerging from the sea many times larger than the man before him, illustrated by John Howe. Caption reads: A tall crown he wore like silver, from which his long hair fell down as foam glimmering in the dusk; and as he cast back the grey mantle that hung about him like a mist, behold! He was clad in a gleaming coat, close-fitted as the mail of a mighty fish, and in a kirtle of deep green that flashed and flickered with sea-fire as he strode slowly towards the land. In this manner the Dweller of the Deep, wholm the Noldor named Ulmo, Lord of Waters, showed himself to Tuor son of Huor of the House of Hador beneat Vinyamar. - Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin, Unfinished Tales, pg. 28
May 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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🛼👯‍♀️🫣New post! Review of MY BEST FRIEND'S EXORCISM by Grady Hendrix

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April 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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(2/2) INS AND OUTS by Elizabeth Withey and Salini Perera - high concept picture book with lovely illustrations #CanKidLit

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Cover of book named in post - top half shows a purple cat climbing into a house window at night, bottom half shows the same cat during the day outside of the house.
April 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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(1/2) I read two #CanKidLit books today thanks to @hkubiw.bsky.social's recs! 📚👍🏻

THE KIDS BOOK OF BLACK HISTORY IN CANADA by Rosemary Sadlier and Arden Taylor - informative non-fiction that ties in to today's celebrations and challenges

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Cover of book named in post - cover has assorted illustrations and portraits of Black people throughout history
April 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM