A Reading Wednesday post on an actual Wednesday

[dolorosa_12]

I've just come out of a bath with bath salts that included dried flower petals and allegedly smelt like a Canadian meadow, and I feel very clean and floral and rested. It's been a bit of a bleh week so far, so clean and floral and rested are definitely all good and needed things.

This is a bit of a mishmash post: a book, a fic rec, and a new publishing house that is likely to be relevant to many of your interests.

After listening to me complain on the weekend that I'd run out of books, Matthias spotted a new book that seemed very relevant to my interests: Bacchanal by Veronica Henry, a fantasy novel set in a travelling carnival in the Depression-era US South. The cover copy compares it to The Night Circus, but I'd say that the TV show Carnivale is a more apt comparison in terms of tone, aesthetics, and overall mood. I'm really enjoying it so far.

I'm loving the Six of Crows fandom renaissance which seems to have flourished in the wake of the Shadow and Bone Netflix show. I've mentioned already that I wake up pretty much every morning to a kudos notification email on my old fics in this fandom, and I'm really enjoying reading the new stuff people are writing too. This is a rec for one such new fic, by evewithanapple:

in the temple of our peace (1981 words) by evewithanapple
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Matthias Helvar/Nina Zenik
Characters: Nina Zenik, Matthias Helvar
Summary:

“I never saw where you grew up.”

And finally, rachelmanija has just launched a new small press focusing on F/F stories. This post has the details.

Comments

[lirazel]

There are a wide range of Canadian meadows! I wonder if it's a meadow in Nova Scotia or Saskatchewan or British Columbia?

[dolorosa_12]

Saskatchewan, apparently!