Toil and Trouble
PNW dog & cat mom
weirdo, reader, pinko, crone
she/they
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality” - Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
- Favorite nonfiction, short stories, and poetry of January
- Fox 8: A Story by George Saunders The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon Klassen Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Life Lessons From Historical Women: Stories of bravery, wit, and rebellion for modern times by @eleanormorton.bsky.social Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters by @sachacoward.bsky.social Something in the Woods Loves You by @jarodkanderson.bsky.social
- Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness & the Quest to Belong Anywhere by @mariabamford.bsky.social Wintering: The Power of Rest & Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft by @definitelynotlost.bsky.social
- Favorite books of January (fiction, novel/novella length)
- Absolution by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social The Bewitching by @silviamg.bsky.social The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social Heart the Lover by Lily King Hemlock & Silver by @tkingfisher.com Hungerstone by @katalicedunn.bsky.social I Was A Teenage Slasher by @sgj.bsky.social
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Monstrilio by @samanito.bsky.social Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield The Starving Saints by @caitlinstarling.com This Is How You Lose The Time War by @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social
- Vampires of El Norte by @isabelcanas.bsky.social The Winter Goddess by Megan Barnard Yellowface by @rfkuang.bsky.social
