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StaceGhost

StaceGhost

Joined May 2016

🕷Devourer of Books 🦇
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The Professor: A Novel | Lauren Nossett
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I have to admit, I kind of sped through this one, but I enjoyed the hard boiled detective, especially since she was an academic adjacent female detective with more backbone than the rest of her department (btw not always a good thing)

I think if thrillers rather than cozy mysteries were more your style, you would like this one better than me

📸 of my desk for real life professor inspired horror

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 2d
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I just love Jenny Colgan books when I‘m having a tough time 💕this one was warm & sweet with just enough difficulty for the characters

I think what I like the most about her books is the way she creates cinematic moments 🫶 & books with characters that like to read, knit, & bake just make me really happy 🥐🧶📚

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Midnight Mass | Sierra Simone
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I love these books 📚 first of all they‘re filthy 🥵 I‘m in love obv. 🌶️ but also I have really enjoyed thinking about how religion intersects with sexuality, the way the Catholic church in particular interprets things like guilt, punishment, & shame, & how much identity overlaps with belief

so I mean, if a book can do all that & contain so much smut I‘m on board 🍆

Clare-Dragonfly Wow. That does sound really interesting. 2d
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The Beetle: A Mystery | Robert Marsh
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🧶 Knitting & reading 📖 my two great loves ❤️

This book has been so bonkers. It‘s the strangest on my comps list so far and that‘s really saying something lol

🪲a beetle the size of a cat causes chaos for a character who really doesn‘t need the hassle 🐈‍⬛

Sparklemn Love your cat charm! 2d
StaceGhost @Sparklemn thank you! All of my stitch markers feature cats lol 2d
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A tiny book to have beef (tofu?) with and also a book fan because I am also a book fan 🥁

LeahBergen I have a couple of these fans and took them to an outdoor wedding that was blazing hot. I shared them around and my friends were grateful! 😆 3w
StaceGhost @LeahBergen that‘s so kind! I‘m sure they were all your fans too hahaha I love a good fan 3w
LeahBergen Good one! 😆 2w
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A much needed day off! Tolkien is the perfect author to spend it with ❤️

TheBookHippie Enjoy! 3w
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A very compelling story blending the genre of sentimental abolitionist novel with slave narrative to question the caste system of race in post civil war America. Iola was almost too good for me. I hated how her story was told through the men in the novel but loved the story, told with grace, although it addressed the darkest and most disgusting part of a deeply American institution, one were still reckoning with today.

📸 by Philip Evergood

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I have spent so much on ebooks since bookshop.org started selling them. I even bought a new Boox ereader— not used, new! Reading for school almost requires it.

One of my more recent acquisitions, this book is not the scholarship I hoped. It is still highly readable and has inspired some interesting ideas but they‘re rather more speculative than fact.

📸by abnormalize being on Instagram

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Love Poems | Pablo Neruda
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These poems truly capture the complexity of love for me. I‘ve always thought it strange how the strength of love can invoke its opposite.

I‘m not saying love is an excuse for a pattern of mistreatment (it‘s not) I‘m saying it‘s complicated & painful sometimes & always scary— your heart walks around outside your body & if you‘re lucky you can trust someone to take care of it. I trust Pablo ❤️

📸of tarts I made my kids & friends for Valentine‘s

AmyG Yum! 1mo
BookmarkTavern Delicious! (edited) 1mo
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Why do I read other books when I‘m supposed to be reading a particular book?

This was so tender, such an unexpected read. I couldn‘t help imagining myself in all their places (kind of the point, I know)

$1.99 on Bookshop.org ebooks

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Interesting, but not entirely substantiated scholarship— still, definitely worth the read and fascinating 🧚🍁💀not for the weak-stomached scholar, that‘s for sure

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An interesting read! The many contributors have a lot of differences in terms of style and devotion but they‘re all exquisite facets of the same jewel 💎

📸 of my terrarium at work, welcoming spring with a single white flower 💮

bibliothecarivs Happy Brigid's day (yesterday)! 2mo
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The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgsen Burnett
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What an indictment of colonialism ✨❤️ gorgeous descriptions 🪴 real magic is in the garden

📸 from Longwood Gardens in PA

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I calculated my reading time for my comps exams today: https://www.omnicalculator.com/everyday-life/reading-time

Storygraph broke everything down for me: 41, 269 pages total.

This means, in order to be ready to take my exams in early September/late August. I will need to read for ~5 hours a day. This is totally doable and also I'm REALLY excited! I think I might hit 300 books this year 😲

Clare-Dragonfly That sounds awesome! 🤩 3mo
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We had a great time reading this. It begs to be read out loud and has very funny jokes for parents. I love Ayoade. Highly recommend!

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The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien
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Really fun playing in the snow today and then cozying up to read with some hot chocolate ☕️

Tolkien is so funny! I laughed out loud at the invention of golf— how had I forgotten about it?!

dabbe 🩶🖤🩶 3mo
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A perfect love letter to cats 🐈‍⬛ it was wonderful! I especially liked how each story didn‘t dismiss or resolve the person‘s problems, but rather showed how a slight perspective shift and some changes made it easier for them to cope and live with the way they were feeling.

It was also cool to see how the magic worked within the book. I really love these soft, cozy, and reflective Japanese books.

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A lovely listen— I admire the cadence of Katherine May‘s prose. It‘s always a pleasure ❤️ this one ruminated beautifully on meaning-making, the personal magic created by nostalgia or encounters with nature. Perfect for walking through the botanical gardens near my home 🎄

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She was figuring out her style for the series in this first one but it worked really well. A little trope-y but pas de trop.

Side note: my friend made me four of these mugs with different designs on them. They‘re all the perfect size! One of them can hold half a pot of tea and that‘s ✨perfect✨

LeslieO Beautiful mug! 3mo
StaceGhost @LeslieO thank you! I‘m sure more will feature here this year 3mo
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this one was v spicy 🌶️ I was here for it, too! The predictability of this one felt more real in some ways— it just made sense to me that they would each have those issues.

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I‘m not sure why but I gravitate to these when I‘m going through a stressful or difficult time. This one was my favorite of the three. I really loved how the couple related to each other and brought each other exactly the support they needed. 💕✨

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It wasn‘t listed but the REAL book is Scallops and Sorcerers: Vampire Knitting Club: Cornwall by Nancy Warren, the second in the Cornwall spinoffs.

This was the perfect easy read, with some good faith clues and an easily solved (but still just challenging enough to be uncertain) murder.

I did read it super fast though, which is my only complaint with these. Knitting pictured is my Felix Cardigan (Berroco Mercado in Lupine)

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What a gorgeous book 📕 started slow but was worth sticking it out. Fully realized tertiary characters, excellent literary references, and a puzzle with plenty of clues so you could suss it out.

This was a brutal holiday and I needed a good read. Thank goodness for these guys, even if they often want me to stop reading at the really good bits.

Scochrane26 They‘re cute! 3mo
CBee I‘m sorry it‘s been brutal. I can relate ♥️♥️ 🫂 3mo
Yuki_Onna 💞🤗 3mo
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StaceGhost @CBee thanks 🫂hope it gets better for both of us! 3mo
StaceGhost @Scochrane26 thank you! They really are! Tough to be sad around the loony tunes lol @Yuki_Onna ❤️💎✨ 3mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 for the kids. Sorry to read about the brutal holiday. Hope things get better soon. 🩵💙🩵 (edited) 3mo
StaceGhost @dabbe thank you me too 3mo
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@wanderinglynn I so love everything from the last #travelingstars package! It‘s been a fabulous year— your gifts have been so gorgeous & thoughtful! I especially loved the tagged book & this glorious mug. Here‘s hoping it is my goddess year. At the moment I feel like the goddess of chaos 😅

 @Chrissyreadit your final gift finally came today! Late as usual, mea maxima culpa 😩 it‘s been a bit of a month so far— more details to come ❤️🙏

wanderinglynn So glad you like everything! 🧡 4mo
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft | Denise Zimmermann, Katherine Gleason, Miria Liguana
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Sooo excited to be shelving the used book section at the shop today 🥲❤️🙏

StaceGhost 287 books catalogued and there‘s still one more shelf to go! 4mo
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Lolly Willowes | Sylvia Townsend Warner
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I truly enjoyed 1 & 2 but part 3– still excellent as a metaphor but disappointing as a story.

I‘m still delighted with this book. It‘s likely to be very important to me in terms of literary research.

Still, I‘ll have to figure out why I‘m so reticent to approve the third part.

bibliothecarivs I recently learned about this book and it sounds very interesting. It's on my TBR. 5mo
StaceGhost @bibliothecarivs it‘s great! I found it a good read for autumn but part 3 reminds me of the beginning of the master and margarita 5mo
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So pleased to receive such gorgeous gifts from @wanderinglynn for #travelingstars it‘s been so lovely all year & I constantly forget to post just how much they bring to my life ♥️🙏🏻thank you! I‘m beyond grateful 🥹💗I forget my phone exists but I‘m often thinking of my friends here

Excellent book, too btw I‘m excited to read it ✨

wanderinglynn 🧡🎃🖤👻 6mo
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I haven‘t seen the movie (& don‘t plan on it tbh) but this was fun— unreliable, framed, epistolary narratives make me happy, as do the illustrations. Recommended for general weirdness & ✨vibes✨

📸featuring my fave new creepy snow globe— is it tiny bats w/ a normal-sized crow or normal-sized bats w/ a giant crow boy? You decide 🪦💀💗

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love it 🖤 6mo
StaceGhost @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🥰💀🪦🙏🏻 6mo
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A Fragile Enchantment | Allison Saft
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What a great time! This romantasy features an enemy to lovers trope, fabulous queer characters, & a magic that makes sense as both system & metaphor.

The characters transform through their relationships & self-reflection, implicitly arguing love makes us into better, truer selves.

📸 features the most whimsical shelf in my office, simply for vibes/the aesthetic

kspenmoll Love your shelf! 6mo
StaceGhost @kspenmoll thank yoooou I live for whimsy haha 6mo
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Mrs. Robinson was fascinating and depressing. Still, it was great hearing all about how suspicious Victorians were of women, sex, diaries, and more, mostly in that order.

I‘m so fascinated by how Victorians saw things and will likely keep reading about them for a very, very long time.

📸by IntoTheForestDark (ElliottBlackwe3)

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What a great cover! I didn‘t like this as much as What You‘re Looking For is in the Library but not everything can change your life. This was still a lovely read— an ode to reading, really. Highly relatable 📚

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Warning: this book may cause uncontrollable cravings for coffee & baked goods.

Seriously, though, what a great read! I had such a book hangover. Where is the full series?! Surprisingly poignant, this story moves beyond cozy to suggest a whole shifting of values & I‘m here for it.

📸featuring stationary art by Stasia Burrington

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A bit late but perhaps better than never? Thanks @Yuki_Onna for the tag! @Eggs #wondrouswednesday

1. BooOoOook!
2. Mop the floor (with Florida Water)
3. Oof this one was tough but reading is faster!
4. Vanilla (but only if it‘s the real deal)
5. Pen (Fountain Pen)
6. Ask ALL the questions
7. Meet myself as an author
8. I like to snuggle chickens best
9. Online if it‘s clothes but in person for books
10. Snow snow SNOW snow snow SNOW snow

Eggs Thanks for weighing in 🩵❄️📚 7mo
Yuki_Onna 👏 Great answers!!! 😊 7mo
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This is so much fun to read— great descriptions of nature and totally unrealistic characters but such a fascinating piece to reflect on and, dare I say, rail against? It seems I do.

Also I‘m pretty sure I should be getting ready to teach classes next week but um, there‘s this guy Valancourt who just showed up…so I‘m going to have to finish this chapter first. Close up of my cozy office shelf for the vibes

dabbe Love those vibes! 🩶🖤🩶 7mo
StaceGhost @dabbe thank yooou ✨💕🪦 7mo
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Enjoying #hyggehour with this excellent micro history of Victorian spiritualism. Delighted it includes small practices to get in touch with the era 🖤💀✨

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88

TheBookHippie Oooooo 🖤🖤🖤 7mo
Chrissyreadit 😍😍😍😍😍my mom and i saw a medium last week at a fair and he was eerily accurate. 7mo
StaceGhost @Chrissyreadit ooooh that sounds so fun! I‘ve had really spot on readings before. I got one on a whim off Etsy and when I read it I discounted it but I just looked at it a year later and wow, no he was definitely right lol 7mo
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My favorite part of the new office I moved into today— everyone should have a cozy blanket and a basket of books in their space.

Rereading Ovid because my friend is (of course) so we can talk about it. I have this v pretty edition right up front next to my Tristram Shandy ♥️✨

slategreyskies Now I want a book basket! How did it never occur to me that this was an option? 📚♥️ 8mo
StaceGhost @slategreyskies it makes the books in the back curve a little but I cycle through so quickly it doesn‘t give me any issues— boxy baskets are better lol 8mo
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Ready to start reading for comps!! These are just the print copies ♥️I would be a professional reader if anyone was hiring

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A Deceptive Composition | Anna Lee Huber
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Just read the two newest installments, this one & A Fatal Illusion (books 11 & 12), in the Lady Darby series

this series is descriptive, whimsical, romantic, & thrilling but just a touch anachronistic. Only a purist would complain & I am not ♥️

#hyggehour #withmystery @TheBookHippie @jenniferw88 @AllDebooks @Chrissyreadit

TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️ 8mo
AllDebooks Fab 👌 8mo
Chrissyreadit 💛💛💛💛 8mo
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Such a gorgeous book, but also a great reference. I‘ve taken classes with Mdm. Pamita— she‘s lovely & so is her book! Highly recommend, both for shelf appeal & authentic content.

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I Am a Bunny | Ole Risom
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My mother came and helped me go through the kids books again! Bless her ♥️ perhaps one day I can go through mine but it will likely take a week!

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Roasting potatoes in the oven, wrapped in a quilt, reading for class ♥️sometimes, life is paradise.

This really is one of the best books I‘ve read about writing. It‘s definitely geared towards those who have to publish as part of their profession, but I think it would work for anyone who wants to write 📝

LiteraryinPA Your blanket looks cozy! 8mo
StaceGhost @LiteraryinLawrence thank you! It really is! It‘s the perfect weight for summer too 8mo
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A window into one of the most brilliant writers of the Renaissance. Browne greatly influenced Victorian understandings of ancient burial practices💀🖤Snorri Sturluson agrees

For more reading, there‘s this really cool article about him and how the discovery and disinterment of his grave contributed to his Victorian popularity: http://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-enduring-influence-of-sir-thomas.h...

He remains influential today 🖤

bibliothecarivs Victorian? Wikipedia says Religio Medici was published in 1642. 9mo
StaceGhost @bibliothecarivs yes, I know! But many of the foundations laid in this text were ones that Victorians drew on in the later centuries, largely without questioning his findings. It also influenced the ghost stories of the 18-1900s, which Is why I was reading it. Thank you for pointing out the publication date! I should‘ve been more specific in my review. 9mo
bibliothecarivs I see. How old is the copy you're holding? 9mo
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StaceGhost @bibliothecarivs it‘s from 1925! 9mo
bibliothecarivs @StaceGhost Nice. Thanks for sharing and making me aware Browne's book. 9mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 9mo
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Hydriotaphia | Sir Thomas Browne
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Book porn!!! Look at that portrait! And the inscription!! I‘m in love with a tiny book ♥️💀

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Finished cleaning out the fridge and it truly shines ♥️ grateful to have food and a place to keep it

kezzlou85 I did the same thing, now I need to restock it. 9mo
StaceGhost @kezzlou85 nice! Godspeed 🫡 9mo
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Reading this again even though my Literary Ghosts class has drawn to a close 💀🧛🏻‍♂️🐦‍⬛👻 #hyggehour very cozy cleaning out the fridge 😂🎉 still counts as self care even if it isn‘t pretty or luxurious

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Rereading on audiobook bc project 2025 📸Red Emma‘s bookstore

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Sad day attending a beloved uncle‘s funeral but lovely bookstore near the wake with a fine selection of occult books, horror memorabilia, & vinyl ♥️💀purchased this beauty & two histories of ghosts

Avanders Sorry for your loss ☹️ 9mo
bibliothecarivs Sorry for your loss. If you feel comfortable sharing, what's something you loved about your uncle? (edited) 9mo
StaceGhost @Avanders @bibliothecarivs thank you friends ♥️he had a voice deep like a river and always greeted me with his whole heart 9mo
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The newest Nancy Warren Vampire Knitting Club as a reward for finishing my reading for class 🧛🏻‍♂️🧶it‘s so cozy and perfect for #LitSolace #Midsummersolace #Hyggehour

@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88 @AllDebooks

Featuring the embroidery project I did during class because Zoom kills me.

TheBookHippie Oh I love it!!!! I loathe Zoom too much COVID hours on it 🤣👀😝🤷🏻‍♀️😩😵‍💫🫣 10mo
Clare-Dragonfly Lovely embroidery! Did you follow a pattern? 10mo
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RosePressedPages It looks amazing!! 10mo
Cupcake12 So intricate! Love it 🦉 🪡 10mo
AllDebooks That is stunning 😍 10mo
jenniferw88 😍 😍 😍 9mo
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The Mysteries of Udolpho | Anne Radcliffe
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Classic. Highly suggest you make like Catherine Moreland and get your read on.

(Picture from an unrelated girl‘s night out event.)

📸by oreamnosoddities

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#Naturalitsy #MidsummerSolace #Litsolace #WednesdayWanderings @Chrissyreadit @AllDebooks @TheBookHippie @jenniferw88

🧭 When I was 12, I joined a group hiking the trails along Skyline Drive; we kayaked back home
🌄🌇 Rural! I need trees and mountains ⛰️
🗺 absolute peace, stunning views, and waterfalls
😊I remember feeling so grateful— my mom and I were together a lot after my parents divorced and I was relieved, as if I could finally breathe

AllDebooks Wow, what a view. Being in nature is so restorative for mind, body, and soul. What a wonderful way for you and your mum to enjoy each others company x 10mo
IndoorDame 💚💚💚you can see forever! 10mo
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