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D. May Durham

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Writer-in-(slow)-progress ✍️ ✻ Book romantic 📚 ✻ Pen snob 🖋️ ✻ Stardew Valley escape artist 🐔

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Their stories wouldn’t be so kind to certain real-world guests 💅🏼

So who would have him cooked? 🍳🤔
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#bookstagram #bookstack #fantasybooks #alice_in_wonderland #anneofgreengables #themaidandthecrocodile #jordanifueko #cruelprince #folkoftheair #hollyblack #jude #theinvisiblelifeofaddielarue #veschwab #tressoftheemeraldsea #silviamorenogarcia #bookishthoughts by @dmaydurham

Happy #independentbookstores week!
Here are a few of my recent grabs from @downboundbooks - a cozy little shop tucked in Northside, Cincinnati.

I can 👏 pre/order 👏 anything 👏 I need — and find one-of-a-kind gems you can’t get just anywhere.

Friendly reminder: your local bookstores can do it all - and then some. 💚

P.S. If anyone can shout out the designer behind this calendar, please! 🙏

Update: calendar was designed by @flyying_fiish 🔥

#ShopLocal #bookstagram #BookishThoughts #CincyBooks #IndieBookstoreLove #cincypride #pride #buryourbonesinthemidnightsoil #veschwab #piranesi by @dmaydurham

I must be feeling blue lately 💙📘

TBR: Piranesi & Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Recently read: After Taste, A Forgery of Fate, & The Listeners

#veschwab #susannaclarke #elizabethlim #darialavelle #maggiestiefvater #bookstagram #bookrelease #tbrpost by @dmaydurham

I fell hard for Kelly Andrew’s hypnotic and dark writing style in #yourbloodmybones so I was big excited for this one.

Here’s a unique voice and story amongst all the Romantasy kerfluffle. The way she weaves real-life struggles with more sinister, otherwordly elements is worth noting.

No, this isn’t an overtly spicy book. But neither is Jane Eyre, and yet both sustain this powerful, internal tension that lingers longer than a plate full of chili peppers …Hard to explain, hard to forget.

Check it out 💗🎀

#iammadeofdeath #kellyandrew #bookstagram #bookishthoughts #romantasy #cottagecoreaesthetic #darkromance by @dmaydurham

I’ll soak in all the tropes and vibes under the sun:
summer, winter, cozy, dark, academic, witchy, dystopian... 🕯️❄️

But at the end of the day?

I’m in the mood for something I don’t want to put down.

What are you in the mood for? 👀

#moodreader #bookvibes #romantasywriter #booktropes #romantasyreads #bookishthoughts #booksbooksbooks #cottagecoreaesthetic by @dmaydurham

✨🎞️Sunday photo reel🎞️✨

Are you ready for Monday?

#bookstagram #sundaymood☀️ #cottagecoreaesthetic by @dmaydurham

I have a problem. When someone says ‘I’d do anything for you,’ I never quite believe them.
(Also… not sure that’s a healthy instinct?)
Anyway, I’d do anything for this gargoyle. Like. Anything.

Just finished The Knight and the Moth—has anyone else read it yet? Thoughts?

#bookstagram #rachelgillig #theknightandthemoth #moodyreads #literaryaesthetic #gothicromance
#2025bookrelease by @dmaydurham

If you hoard Silvia Moreno-Garcia books like I do, you might’ve noticed something: they’re rarely more than an inch thick. Why? Because @silviamg.author writes exactly what needs to be there—nothing more. Just succinct, evocative, and character-driven storytelling. I have mad respect for authors who get to the point instead of relying on lazy editing or stretching a story just to chase more coins (which rarely pans out anyway).

Anywho, I’ve been a fan for some time now and I cannot wait for The Bewitching on July 15!!

#silviamorenogarcia #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #mexicangothic #authorlove #bookstack #beautifulones #fantasyromancebooks #godsofjadeandshadow #booklover #readingcommunity by @dmaydurham

“He’s nice to me” 🤷🏼‍♀️

#romantasy #shadowdaddy #bookstagram #bookish #lego by @dmaydurham

Sunday snaps: the ennui before Monday. 🥲☕️🌼

#SundayMood #Bookstagram #SpringFlowers #BookishLove #SundaySnaps #PhotoDump #WeekendVibes #CozyReads by @dmaydurham

Decided to annotate Rebecca because I adore the writing style so much—it basically serves as an instruction manual.

I’m also reminded why I’m so sick of overdone phrases like ‘piercing emerald eyes’ or ‘infuriatingly handsome.’ There has to be another way.

Do you have a book like that?

#WritingCommunity #Bookstagram #AnnotatingBooks #AmWriting #BookLover #Bibliophile #Marginalia #DeepReading #LiteraryAnalysis #CurrentlyReading #Rebecca #DaphneDuMaurier by @dmaydurham

I read a whole bunch of amazing stories this year, but as far as new releases go these were my standouts.✨

#2024books #yearinreview #bookstagram #fantasybooks #booksbooksbooks #fantasyromance by @dmaydurham