#BestMidYear22 Day 3: The publisher site states, “A story of infatuation and disappointment, betrayal and revenge, In the Freud Archives is essentially a comedy. But the powerful presence of Freud himself and the harsh bracing air of his ideas about unconscious life hover over the narrative and give it a tragic dimension.“ Malcolm watches with a clinical eye as her subjects, Freud scholars, dig their own graves in this gossipy account of👇
Happy #IndependentBookstoreDay! Got these lovelies from Syd‘s bookstore and Breakwater Books both in Guilford, CT! #indies
pickI've read some great books in 2022, but this delightfully weird novel about a trans vampire archivist is my favourite so far. An eccentric romance; a fascinating character study; conversations about life stories, archives, music, fanfiction and fandom, vampirism, being trans, and grief; a supernatural archival mystery. A very unique take on vampirism. Beautifully and thoughtfully written. Awesome #audiobook narration by Dani Martinek.
"Not that I was ever really an adolescent, but I had the tenderness of one. That's what it's like to be a trans child and not know it. You have all the fragility of adolescence, but none of its resilience, the clever cartilage that always grows back."
Adding a couple more trans books to the pile - Manhunt is my horror book club's next pick, and I'm hoping to get to Dead Collections ASAP
🎵 And the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake 🎵
#shakeitoff #FearlessFebruary
