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The 🍬 Sugar & Spice 🌶 2022 Audiobook Advent Calendar is now complete!
Thank you to everyone who followed along, clicked & boosted. I hope you had some fun.
Whether you're looking for a listen that's spicy or sweet, you can still scroll through this thread to find all kinds of Open For A Surprise treats for your listening pleasure. 💋
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CW: Bookish Advent Day 24
#BookishAdvent Day 24
Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-GarciaWhen Neomí receives a frantic message from her newlywed cousin, her father forces her to visit them at their estate in the mountains. What Neomí finds is a dark mystery that threatens everything she knows. My absolute favorite read of the year. Moreno-Garcia writes a beautiful, haunting novel.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/577068/mexican-gothic-by-silvia-moreno-garcia/
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#bookishadvent day 24, #smallpress edition is Wild Peach by S*an D Henry-Smith, a #hybridgenre poetry text which defamiliarizes the "natural" with generous helpings of love and magic.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52011622-wild-peach
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#bookishadvent belated day 23, #smallpress edition is [...] by Ava Hoffman –– Hoffman's visually and topically experimental poetry book toys with expectations of legibility levied on trans narratives. This is #transMadness, recoded.
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CW: 🎁 Audiobook Advent Calendar (Dec 22): Open for a Surprise 🍬
The Trouble With Angels
On the worst day of Christine's life, she's rescued by two hot best friends who run a private sex club together — & falls in love with them both!
An adorable romantic comedy for saints & sinners alike. 👿😇😈
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#SelfPromo #AdventCalendar #BookishAdvent #Audiobook #Audiobooks #Bookstodon #Romance #Romancelandia
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I saved a special heavenly treat as the finale of your Audiobook Advent Calendars!
Coming up in just a moment…
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CW: Bookish Advent Day23
Curse of Bronze by Tansy Rayner Roberts The least daring member of an adventurous family inherits a houseful of cursed objects and a generations-spanning mystery, along with a pack of angry werewolves on her tail. A fun romp, with hopefully more to come. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56896583-curse-of-bronze #BookishAdvent #DecRecs
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I hoped you've enjoyed my #bookishAdvent recommendations and whether you're celebrating Christmas or not, I wish you a wonderful weekend!
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CW: Bookish Advent Door 24
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
I loved this retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher, where a fungus has taken over the house. I'm feeling like mushroom horror is an emerging sub-genre and I'm here for it.
https://uk.bookshop.org/a/772/9781803360072
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CW: Japanese Bookish Advent Day 24 - Last day!
The last window of this event had to be a book by Keigo Higashino again! (He is the reason why I started learning Japanese in the first place.)
探偵ガリレオ (tantei galileo) and 予知夢 (yochimu) are the first two books of the Galileo series. They are not translated into English, but they are important to understand the relation between Kusanagi and Yukawa, which in turn gives more meaning to The Devotion of Suspect X.
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CW: A window into a lost rural world
#BookishAdvent Day 24: The Country Child by Alison Uttley
This autobiographical novel of a child growing up on a farm in rural Derbyshire, before the wars of the twentieth century changed everything, is slow-starting, but rewarding to a patient reader. The writing beautifully evokes both the natural and the human world of a lost place and time.
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CW: Bookish Advent Day 23
#BookishAdvent Day 23
While Justice Sleeps - Stacey Abrams
Supreme Court law clerk Avery Keene is put in an untenable position when her boss, Justice Howard Winn, puts himself into a coma and names her his power of attorney, while pulling her into a battle of good versus evil. Taut legal thriller that kept me invested throughout. Abrams is an exceptional writer.https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/648021/while-justice-sleeps-by-stacey-abrams/
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CW: 🎁 Audiobook Advent Calendar (Dec 23): Open for a Surprise 🌶
Here's a treat for everyone on Santa's Naughty List:
Spank Me: BDSM Lite 🍑
A wife works up the courage to confess her spanking fantasies to her husband — and his response surprises them both.
A charming, hot audiobook that's vulnerable, loving & spanky!
CW (includes spoilers) ⬇
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CW: Bookish Advent Door 23
Twin Crowns by Catherine Doyle & Katherine Webber
YA fantasy that has a lot of fun with tropes and doesn't take itself too seriously. Twin princesses separated at birth, one kidnaps her sister and takes her place, ready to take the crown.
https://uk.bookshop.org/a/772/9780755503643
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CW: Bookish Advent Day 23
#BookishAdvent The Extraordinaries series by Melissa McShane
England is fighting Napoleon. Serving in the war offers a way for England most elite female magic users to make a life for themselves outside of the strict confines of society. This is a series of historical romance books but add a well-defined magical system.
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CW: Japanese Bookish Advent Day 23 - True Crime.
殺人犯はそこにいる (satsujinhanwa sokoni iru) by journalist Kiyoshi Shimizu (清水潔) is an incredible book about a miscarriage of justice.
It covers the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case that took place between 1979 and 1996.
The author goes through the steps that led to the wrongful conviction of Toshikazu Sugaya (菅家 利和). How the police managed the case is truly horrifying.
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CW: Book Advent Day 22
#BookishAdvent today is Three Mages and a Margarita. What I liked abt this #book is that she’s “just human”. She’s dealing with the surprise of finding out the world has all sorts of paranormal creatures that like to chill in the bar she was just hired to work in. Her luck has been crappy and well, this is the best job she may have actually had. Kind of spins paranormal adventures on it’s head. Catchy. I have the #ebook & #audiobook. @bookstodon @audiobooks
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#bookishadvent day 22, #smallpress edition is Heavenly Breakfast by the incomparable Samuel r Delany. This book-length essay frankly, humorously discusses queer communal living in 1967-68, and approaches its subject matter with a radically anticarceral, #antipsychiatry, and youth-liberation perspective.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85878
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CW: Bookish Advent Day 22
#BookishAdvent Day 22
Good Omens - @neilhimself & Terry Pratchett
Armageddon is coming. The Antichrist is here. And a host of characters are trying to stop it. If only the end of the world will be this hilarious. One of my all-time favorites, and I either read it or listen to the audio drama every year.https://www.neilgaiman.com/works/Books/Good+Omens/
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CW: Audiobook Advent Calendar (Dec 22): Open for a Surprise 🍬
"Protective Love" is an alpha male high heat BBW romance.
When a pro ball player spies a drunk harassing a woman in a dive bar, he knows intervening might land him in hot water. What he doesn't know is it might land him the girl of his dreams.
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CW: Book Advent Day 21
I know I’m a day late. I’m sorry. I will do 2 today to make up for it. I was overly busy & then crashed! This #book is an amazing #read from a Middle Ages historian. Of note: It’s definitely US/SBC centric, but the info is solid for all & takes you from early Christianity in Rome to modern day. It was great to see an overview in one place. #Ebook #audiobook that is timely given so many guys turning towards conservatism. #BookishAdvent @audiobooks @bookstodon
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CW: Bookish Advent Door 22
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
This was such a good ending to the trilogy about the deadly magic school known as the Scholomance, everything tied up so well and was surprising at the same time. I liked books two and three more than the first one, so if you were undecided about continuing, I think it's worth it!
https://uk.bookshop.org/a/772/9781529100914
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CW: Bookish Advent Day 22
#BookishAdvent The Bank of Goodliness by David Luddington
A bank constantly embroiled in scandals hires a recently fired vicar as its new CEO. The vicar’s crime? Allowing a homeless family to stay in his church. It upset some parishioners. Who better to be a noble figurehead than a nice vicar? Too bad for the bank that he isn’t going to be content to just let them handle business as usual.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48836995-the-bank-of-goodliness
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CW: Japanese Bookish Advent Day 22 - Kogoro Akechi.
I had to include the Kogoro Akechi (明智小五郎) series, Edogawa Rampo’s famous detective, in the Bookish Advent!
If you only read one book of the series, it has to be the early cases! The first short stories are by far the best stories in my opinion, even though novels like The Black Lizard might be more famous.
En. Translation by William Varteresian: The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro.
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#bookishadvent day 21, #smallpress edition is a small #zine with a huge impact - “every thug is a lady” by julia eff. I picked it up on a whim while in high school, and it transformed my relationship with gender(lessness) early in my journey as a trans person. It still means the world to me.
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