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SOULS FOR SALE. ACT NOW. THEY’RE GOING “FAUST”.

At The Ungovernables we read Even Though I Knew The End by C. L. Polk. Our discussion piqued my interest as to where the concept of “soul selling” came from. Offering Jesus the kingdoms of the world, Satan says: “All this I will give you, if you will bow down and worship me”. Jesus refuses. (Matthew 4:8–9).

Inspiring the legend of Faust is the apocryphal story of Theophilus of Adana who lived in Byzantium in the 6th century. Theophilus, or Ted as I call him, is a venerated saint. Ted’s contract was returned to him. Ted’s soul emerged unscathed. The contract did not.

Famously, Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus was performed in 1594.

Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1936 short story is about farmer Jabez Stone who sells his soul to the devil aka Mr. Scratch. Jabez is ultimately defended by Daniel Webster in front of a jury of the damned. If you’re looking for parallels to Even Though I Knew the End, this is the story to read – and it has a twist!

A note on the soundtrack: Me and the Devil Blues is by Robert Johnson (1911-1938). His recording career lasted 7 months owing to his death at age 27. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.

I hope you enjoy my reel.

#historyreels #faust #robertjohnson #danielwebster #theophilus @felicitynivenauthor @alexandravasti @clpolk @rockhall

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okay this list could be ENDLESS so i tried to pick some that i just don’t see recommended enough and am determined to get you to pick up!!

a nice mix here of fantasy and romance depending on what you’re in the mood for!

did i persuade you on any of these??

ID in the alt text! michi sitting looking over her left shoulder. text cascades down the right side of the image reading books i want to influence you to read

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𝙲. 𝙻. 𝙿𝚘𝚕𝚔: 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝙸 𝙺𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙴𝚗𝚍. 𝚃𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚘𝚝𝚌𝚘𝚖, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟸.

Mitä vähemmän tästä tiedät etukäteen sen parempi! Eli jos kirja kiinnostaa, lopeta lukeminen tähän.

✖︎ Olen kuullut kirjasta ehkä kirjatubesta ja lopulta sain sen kesällä lainaksi Riinalta (@huono_lukija). Kirjaa ei edelleenkään saa Helmet-alueen kirjastoista (!).

✖︎ Chicagoon sijoittuvan Film noir -henkisen wlw-teoksen päähenkilöinä on kaksi naista, Helen ja Edith. Helen toimii etsivänä ja Edith ääniteknikkona ja he haaveilevat elämästä San Fransiscossa. Helen ja Edith on mielettömän ihana pari, he ovat superlempeitä ja täydentävät toisiaan hienosti. Helenin veljen Teddyn hahmo sen sijaan jää vähän tyhjäksi. Toisaalta hahmoa tarvitaan selvittämään Helenin historiaa demonien kanssa. Sen jälkeen Teddy jääkin turhaksi tyypiksi.

✖︎ Vaihtoehtotodellisuus oli hienosti rakennettu. Chicagossa vilisee demoneita ja enkeleitä ja sieluista on tehty kauppaa. Langennut enkeli Haraniel oli ehdottomasti yksi lempihahmoistani kirjassa. Kirjan tunnelma oli hyvin tunteikas ja tarinaan oli helppo uppoutua. Olisin mielelläni lukenut tästä pidemmänkin tarinan.

✖︎ Luin kirjan käytännössä kahdessa ja puolessa tunnissa. Tämä on ehkä sitä cosya fantasiaa, joka muhun uppoaa, eli lempeää ja ihanaa, mut sit kuitenkin on myös ikäviä tunteita, verta ja suolenpätkiä. 😁 Onko se sit enää cosya?

✖︎ Mistä on siis kyse? Sielunsa veljensä pelastamiseksi myynyt maanpakolainen ja yliluonnollisten asioiden etsivä saa vaarallisen tehtävän jäljittää Chicagon pahamaineisimman sarjamurhaajan, White City Vampiren. Onnistuessaan hän saa palkkioksi mahdollisuuden yhteiseen tulevaisuuteen rakastamansa naisen kanssa. Aikaa epätoivoisen mysteerin ratkaisemiseen ja ikuisen kadotuksen välttämiseen on vain kolme päivää.
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𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘵, 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 1940𝘴 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘰.

🗝️ kirjagram lukeminen kirjat arvio fantasia wlw queer sateenkaarikirjallisuus #kirjagramsuomi

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A little late, but never forgotten! Don’t forget to grab your November book club picks now on our website for 15% off using the code BOOKCLUB at checkout ✨ No RSVPs are required to attend 👍🏾 Please note: This month’s Boozy Book Club is being held at Loudmouth!

🌈 Sapphic Social Club (our book club that centers stories by and about sapphic folx) meets on the first Tuesday of each month!

💕 Between the Covers (our romance book club) meets on the second Tuesday of each month!

💀 Margins of the Macabre (our horror book club that takes genre fiction out of the margins) meets on the third Tuesday of the month!

🔥 Boozy Book Club (our banned books club) meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month!

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🍷🐉 Some oaths are magic. Some are just a way to never get hurt again.

@clpolk pulled up to Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday to talk about The Feywild Job, the Dungeons & Dragons romantasy from Random House Worlds.

🗝️ Saeldian is a con artist whose power comes from a pact to never fall in love. That works fine until a patron hires Saeldian to steal a gem called the Kiss of Enduring Love. The catch? Kell, the bard Saeldian betrayed with a kiss almost ten years ago, is on the crew.

🌌 D&D has always been collective imagination, a world people build together around a table. Listening to C.L. Polk talk through this heist, we kept thinking about how much bigger those worlds get when our storytellers are the ones holding the map.

Exes to lovers: in or out? Tell us in the comments 👇🏾

📺 Watch the full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b90EOSA4V30
📚 Grab your copy at sistahscifi.com/products/the-feywild-job-dungeons-dragons or request it from your favorite #library.

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors #Library #SistahScifiWineDownWednesday #DungeonsAndDragons #Romantasy

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📚 🔎 🕰️ Mystery Recommendations – Historical

Check out these great Historical Mystery reads. All of these mysteries have historical settings, from the distant past of the Victorian and Regency eras to before, during and post WWI and WWII and many other times in the past. They vary in where they take place: from England and Europe, all other the United States and India and beyond. Additionally, some are retellings of classics with a mysterious twists or features famous historical figures taking on the roles of sleuths. I've enjoyed all of these book and can only hope you'll find a new favorite read! Also includes BIPOC and 2SLGBTQIA+ recommendations. Some books may deal with sensitive topics, so take care and check the CWs.

And please let me know all about your latest Historical Mystery as I'm always looking for my next read.

Key: {NG} = NetGalley ARC Review

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Spooky season is upon us. 👻🔮 What does that mean? Yep you guessed it. Novel Besties are… wait what!?!?! This time we are asking the spirits about their book recs. We whipped out the ouija board and got to work asking the spirits questions (by spirits we actually mean ourselves 😂👻🔮):

The spirits are on theme! All of these books feature ghosts or the afterlife in some way!

🖤 I asked: What book would you summon?
🖤 They answered: Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff

🩶 I asked: What book would you ask for a sequel?
🩶 They answered: Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

🤍 I asked: What book would you NEVER read alone at night?
🤍 They answered: We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

🖤 I asked: What book would you recommend to another ghost?
🖤 They answered: The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth

🩶 I asked: What book would you use to communicate with the dead?
🩶 They answered: The Leaving Room by Amber McBride

Let’s fly on over to the other besties to see what they asked their spirits

@melissa.moodreads
@readwithjenna08
@thisgingersreadingkorner
@saucyreads

⁉️QOTD: What's your favorite book featuring a ghost, or another paranormal creature?

DM @novelbesties_collabsandbeyond to join in on other fun book stacks, flatlay, collabs and more.

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Good morning from the bookshop!

We’re excited to talk about books with you, but until we can do it in person, we thought we’d start the conversation here. Today, we’re celebrating a classic vegetarian cookbook, revisiting a tale of magic and matchmaking, commemorating the first adventure of a marmalade-loving bear, and spotlighting a jazz biography and a pianist’s memoir on the birthday of Toledo’s piano legend.

The Old Dublin Bookshop is an independent, family-owned bookstore at 38 S. High St. in Historic Dublin, Ohio. Opening day is getting closer, but you can shop with us right now at olddublinbooks.com.

#ArtTatum #Paddington #MoosewoodCookbook

Tatum named Waller as his biggest influence, so this was the teacher bowing to the student.

The quote became the title of “God Is in the House,” an album of informal recordings made in Harlem clubs in 1940 and 1941. It won Tatum a posthumous Grammy for Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist.

Mollie Katzen turns 76 today. Happy birthday, Mollie!

She grew up in Rochester, New York, studied oboe and piano at the Eastman School of Music, and earned a degree in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. She brought those skills to the “Moosewood Cookbook,” which she hand-lettered and illustrated herself.

From 1995 to 2000 @molliekatzenartstudio hosted “Mollie Katzen’s Cooking Show” on PBS, and in 2017 the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History collected her papers.

This review comes from Bookslut, a literary blog Jessa Crispin started in 2002, when she was 22 and living in Texas. It ran for 14 years and published its final issue in May 2016.

Moosewood Restaurant opened on January 3, 1973, and it is still serving at 215 N. Cayuga St. in Ithaca. In 2000 it won a James Beard America’s Classics award.

If you like the “Moosewood Cookbook, try Katzen’s “The Enchanted Broccoli Forest” (1982) or “The Heart of the Plate” (2013), which she considers her best work. The Moosewood Collective has published its own cookbooks too, including “Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant.”

A young sorceress in a Regency-style world wants to become a great magician, but her family needs her to marry well, and marriage would take her

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🩸 Seven Deadly Sins Book Recs 🩸

Shout out to gettinglostinthepages for the inspo!

Here are some book recs based on the seven deadly sins:

PRIDE
🤍 Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzalez
🤍 You Watched in Silence by H. Lee Justine
🤍 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
🤍 I Only Read Murder by Ian Ferguson & Will Ferguson
🤍 Face by Joma West
🤍 The Namaste Club by Asha Elias

GREED
💚 The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
💚 Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
💚 The Dollhouse Academy by Margarita Montimore
💚 Under the Dome by Stephen King
💚 When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
💚 Thrill of the Chase by Kathryn Nolan

WRATH
❤️ Confessions by Kanae Minato
❤️ The Story of My Anger by Jasminne Mendez
❤️ The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
❤️ I Can Fix Her by Rae Wilde
❤️ The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale
❤️ Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter

ENVY
💜 The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden
💜 Pink Glass Houses by Asha Elias
💜 The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
💜 Cross My Heart by Megan Collins
💜 Bunny by Mona Awad
💜 If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

LUST
🖤 Fall of Ruin and Wrath by Jennifer L. Armentrout
🖤 The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
🖤 Summer Reading by Jenn McKinlay
🖤 What is Love? by Jen Comfort
🖤 Bride by Ali Hazelwood
🖤 These Heathens by Mia McKenzie

GLUTTONY
🧡 Walking Practice by Dolki Min
🧡 Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica
🧡 Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater
🧡 Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey
🧡 Have You Eaten? by Sarah Gailey
🧡 So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison

SLOTH
🩶 If I Stay by Gayle Foreman
🩶 We Are All So Good At Smiling by Amber McBride
🩶 Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
🩶 Blob by Maggie Su
🩶 Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker
🩶 I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iian Reid

⁉️ What's a book you'd recommend for one of these sins?

#bookchallenge #bookstagramchallenge

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What’s one thing that you love about yourself?

It’s National Coming Out Day!
From @natdaycal “Each year on October 11, National Coming Out Day encourages civil awareness recognizing and supporting those in the LGBTQ community. The day celebrates individuals who publicly identify as bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender – coming out regarding their sexual orientation and/or gender identity being akin to a cultural rite of passage for LGBT people.

#NationalComingOutDay

One in two Americans knows someone who is gay or lesbian. The ratio applied to transgender Americans is one in ten. As more of the LGBTQ community come out, those who know them are more likely to become more educated. They also become more supportive and understanding, too.”

These are a few books that I have read and loved! Different expressions of what it means to be and show love ❤️

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We missed silent book club the other night because we went to an important documentary screening so we had our own cute little reading date and dinner afterwards.
I finished this one and I really enjoyed it.

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Sparks fly when bitter exes are forced to team up for an elaborate Feywild heist, in this cozy fantasy romance in today's Featured #CanLit in-store -'The Feywild Job' by C L Polk 💕🇨🇦📚

Need more Dungeons & Dragons? How about 'Dungeons & Dragons Crochet: A Book of Many Patterns' by Stacy King

"Crochet your favorite creatures, wearables, and household items with twenty patterns inspired by the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse."

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