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Octavia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Octavia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The Impossible Resurrection of Grief
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2021
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The Stone Wētā
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2020
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6 editions
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The Mussel Eater
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2014
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You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories
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2023
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Trading Rosemary
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2010
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Sharp & Sugar Tooth (Women Up To No Good #3)
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2019
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The Convergence of Fairy Tales
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2016
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The August Birds
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2015
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Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (Conversation Pieces Book 70)
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Inviting the Hollow Bones
I have a new story out! Well, to be perfectly honest, it came out a few months back but I’m playing catch-up here. “Inviting the Hollow Bones” can be read in the anthology The Map of Lost Places, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas & Lesley Conner and published by Apex Books.
I was lucky enough to be invited to contribute to this, and the hook was appealing: write a horror story about a haunting, set in
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| This is my favourite of the series so far; I wouldn't mind getting a copy of my own to reread (this one came from the library). I think what I liked best about it was the setting. Instead of being stuck at Greenglass House, the action here takes plac ...more | |
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| I do enjoy funny romances! And clearly, humour in romance has been around for a long time - I'm thinking of you, Mr. Collins! - but this is has a particularly appealing sarcasm to it that I appreciate. Like the first book in the series, I enjoyed the ...more | |
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| I finished reading the Little House series last year, not having read it as a child. I remember, initially, being a little puzzled as to whether they were novels or memoirs, before finding out that they were historical novels based very firmly in fac ...more | |
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| Three and a half stars. I like reading weird fiction - at least, I like the more modern iterations of it, because I have to admit that Lovecraft leaves me absolutely cold. This book, which presents case studies from the work of five early weird write ...more | |
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The His Dark Materials series is one of my favourites; I've not read any of the shorter pieces set in that universe, however, and so I was pleased to discover that the local library had some of them! It makes me want to read the trilogy again... This ...more |
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| This is outstanding! I covet the prose... it's just so incredibly gorgeous. I must get a hard copy. It's a memoir in the form of a series of essays, covering what it's like to be queer in Singapore as a child and a young adult. This is complicated by ...more | |
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| Oh, I'm in two minds about this. The worldbuilding is great. The characters, initially at least, are sympathetic. The first half of the book was a four star read for me. The second dropped down to two - and nearly all of the drop comes from the main ...more | |
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| I read and reviewed the three novels collected here separately, so this is just for my own records. Actually, I read Howl years ago, liked it but did not see the fuss about it, and promptly forgot to read the sequels. I came across them again recentl ...more | |
“Food is fuel, food is pleasure, food is guilt. It stands to reason that with all these digestive undercurrents there are storytellers who will treat a shared act of consumption as a sort of shared subversive act, a communion of Oh, I shouldn’t really. We shouldn’t.”
― Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
― Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
“Self-knowledge was the clearest thing in the world. It was also the unkindest.”
― The Impossible Resurrection of Grief
― The Impossible Resurrection of Grief
“In Fantasia, the physics is different. It’s not the property of mass that’s causing people to throw themselves into the Nothing, to let themselves be devoured into suicide. It’s imagination and feeling and inspiration that’s the basic currency of this world. The expectation of wonder is what holds Fantasia together—wonder and creative currents, fantasy and inventiveness. These are the things that give meaning and purpose to Fantasia and its citizens. So when the Nothing comes along, devouring all these things indiscriminately, undermining their importance in a fundamental way, its very lack calls to the part of the Fantasian people that is the very opposite of imagination… the angst and nihilism inherent in each individual. The part that says What if we’ve been wrong all along? It doesn’t take much doubt (just a little chunk) but the resulting horror feeds on every positive thought, every creative impulse, until the symmetry of lack between the Nothing and the despairing individual acts as gravity, drawing them closer and closer to the Nothing until the only alternative is to become part of it. It really is like a black hole.”
― Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
― Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
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4th Quarter 2020 - SciFi #3
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez, 391p
The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss, 256p
The Stone Wētā by Octavia Cade, 133p
A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen, 400p
The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs, 184p
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It's from the trip to Wellington zoo we did!
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I love the Read Harder challenge, this is my third year doing it now. Really makes you try new things - I even read a western last year because of it!