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[avrelia]

Have you (the general you) ever discovered that you read books that can be grouped by some common denominator that happened entirely by accident? I don't mean that you read books on a certain topic because you are interested in that topic. Or you are in a mood for cozy mystery.

I mean you think you pick up books randomly, and then look back and see the pattern. Once I realized that I read in a row books written by a wife, then her husband, and then their daughter, without realizing it at the time (both wife and husband were writers, and had different last names, and their daughter is a linguist, has her father's last name, but it is a pretty common one).

this year I realized that in English I was reading more books about fairies than usual, and in Russian it was all about dead people and demons. Even though I am lukewarm towards both topics and wouldn't choose them specifically.

Best books about fairies were Holly Black's Cruel Prince trilogy and Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

in other news, I am now have a bluesky thingy, thanks to molly_may. If you are there, come say hi.

https://bsky.app/profile/avrelia.bsky.social