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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 25/09/2026

I was late to the skirmish but benefitted from the spoils 😎

Screenshot showing the following DM:

You rolled a 20 - a perfect roll! The Valar themselves take notice.

LEGENDARY FIND!

You found: a Numenorean king sword. Strength: +55.

Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 07/08/2026

Hello everyone remember me? I am currently having a grand time in Vancouver, here for kendo (Japanese sword fighting) nationals on Sat/Sun. Maybe I will start blogging again after this lol. Anyway, here are a couple snaps of what I was up to today, visiting some of my old haunts.

Nitobe Memorial Garden (Japanese garden at UBC)

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 12/06/2026

ooh this was a tough call, @middleearth.quest ... but I'm keeping my Athelas leaves.

Screenshot of Bluesky DM which reads as follows:

You rolled a 18 - Fortune smiles upon you.

RARE FIND!

You found: an Elven blade
Strength: +30

You are currently a Uruk-hai of Isengard with AThelas leaves
Strength: +25
Fortune: +1

Reply KEEP to stay as you are, or SWAP to become a Uruk-hai of Isengard with an Elven blade.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 07/06/2026

most exciting book mail I’ve had in awhile: @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s INKPOT GODS has arrived a few days early! #SpecFic

Photograph of hardcover book named in post, with other hardcover books on a bookshelf in the background

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 14/02/2026

in dire need of a compelling novel to pull me out of the mini reading slump caused by finishing devastating #horror novel THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN by @jensookfonglee.bsky.social... time to go pick up my library holds and hope one of them does the trick🤞🏻

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 25/01/2026

My sister and I were hoping to walk down the river to our favourite breakfast place this morning but we will no longer be doing that...

Screenshot of "Current Conditions" weather report observed at Winnipeg Richardson Int'l Airport. Temperature: -38 degrees Celsius. Wind Chil: -51 degrees Celsius. Condition: Mist. Wind: W 15 km/h.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 15/01/2026

I have just discovered that the link to my blog homepage via Google search takes you to a page to buy Viagara... is this part of the reason why my views are down... how do I fix this 💀

Screenshot of google search result for https://fallingletters.ca. Link description reads: Fallingletters Pill Shop. Big discounts! Free viagara pills. REfund policy! Amazing weekend prices! Track your order status online. 3927 49th AVenue Sachs...

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 10/01/2026

Looks like these three have digital copies!

Midwest Tape, LLC (Hoopla)
Address: 1417 Timber Wolf Drive, Holland, US-OH, US 43528

cloudLIbrary
Address: 6565 Kilgour Pl, Dublin, US-OH, US, 43017

Kortext
Address: Suite B, 6th Floor, Avalaon, 26-32 Oxford Road, Bournemouth, GB, BH88EZ

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 10/01/2026

As a former librarian - I think WorldCat is your best bet, even if it may not capture everything. I've done a WorldCat search via my alma mater and was able to pull these libraries that have physical copies of BLOOD PRICE:

Lawrence Public Library
Springfield Greene County Library
Ingram Library Services
Hereford Branch
Ybp Library Services Yankee Book Peddler

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 06/01/2026

Hmm unfortunately I still got this error about captcha:

Screenshot of Wordpress comment error: Failed to send comment. The Jetpack site is inaccessible or returned an error: ERROR: Empty captcha.Click the BACK button on your browser, and try again. [500]

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 02/01/2026

Hmm, I'm not sure I have enough reading options with these library books 😆 Luckily I have a couple more holds ready! Feat: BROWN GIRL DREAMING by Jacqueline Woodson THE FRESH NEW FACE OF GRISELDA by Jennifer Torres THE ANXIOUS EXILE OF SARA SALT by Gabrielle Prendergast #CanKidLit #MGLit 1/2

Photograph of 10 hardcover and softcover books stacked vertically. Books named in post.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 01/01/2026

Reminder to change out your annual calendar if you haven't already 😄 #Tolkien

Photograph of wall calendar showing January 2026. Main illusration is of Glorfindel and the Balrog from Chapter 1 of The Fall of Gondolin. 2026 Tolkien Calendar ills by Alan Lee.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 01/01/2026

🎊🥂🎆 Happy New Year! My first read of 2026 is a reread of THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE by Katherine Arden. What are you reading? #fantasy

Photograph of book named in post, held in front of a bookcase

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas everyone!🎄🎁🌟 This year’s addition to my #Tolkien collection: THE ART OF MERCY IN MIDDLE-EARTH: PAINTINGS INSPIRED BY TOLKIEN’s LEGENDARIUM by @miriamellis.bsky.social

Photograph of hardcover book named in post with a lit Christmas tree in the background

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 24/12/2025

there are a dozen other books I should try to read before the end of the year but oops I’m 30 pages into @naominovik.bsky.social’a THE SUMMER WAR now #novella

Photograph of hardcover book named in post

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 05/12/2025

Check out this cute Christmas decoration my mom made for my bookshelf ☺️

Photograph of a tree outline made out of Jenga-style blocks with a felt green star at the top and two sleigh-bells hanging down in the middle. Tree sits in front of a stack of hardcover books by Seanan McGuire and Anna-Marie McLemore.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 20/11/2025

I am ready to move on spooky reads! Next up: PITY, POWER AND TOLKIEN’S RING by @alas-not-me.bsky.social for nonfiction and DAVINCI’s CAT by Catherine Gilbert Murdock for fiction Something about both of these feels well-suited to dark cozy evenings and the approaching Christmas season…

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 19/11/2025

tis the season for researching which picture books I'm going to gift for Christmas 📚🎁

Photograph of coffee table with two stacks of picture books (Dim Sum Here We Come and Not Just the Driver on to) alongside a muffin and a mug

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 05/11/2025

I am on a roll with spooky #MGLit right now - currently enjoying SOMETHING'S UP WITH ARLO by Matteo L Cerilli #CanKidLit 🏳️‍🌈📚

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 03/11/2025

It’s been a minute since I enjoyed some #MGlit - @edenroyce.bsky.social’s THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE is just what I needed on this blustery grey day!

Photograph of hardcover book named in post, held up by a white hand with a sitting room in the background

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 01/11/2025

Here's an update on my #SpooktasticReads bingo, which I will keep working on for the next few weeks. I have finished THE GRAVE THIEF by Dee Hahn (feat a grave digging protagonist) and WHEN THE RECKONING COMES by LaTanya McQueen (Southern gothic horror)

9x9 bingo board for 2025 Spooktstic Reads readathon showing the following completed tiles:

Grave digging - The Grave Thief by Dee Hahn
Gothic Horror - When the Reckoning Comes by La Tanya McQueen

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 27/10/2025

had a fun time at the corn maze last night 🌽 🎃 🥾 atmosphere was perfect. found 7/8 clues so got to take home a couple cute gourds!

Photograph of corn maze entrance with dark cloudy sky and bright spotlight on the entrance sign.

Photograph of mud path, dry corn stalks, and dark cloudy sky.

Photograph of two small gourds - one green and round and one more oblong with green and orange

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 12/10/2025

Thank you! That is MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPTS by Christopher De Hamel

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 12/10/2025

Good morning! 🍂 I am now 10 days living in my new home. Today I have planned reading and relaxation, to soak in and enjoy my new space 😊 So far I am off to a good start… here is the view from my red reading chair.

Photograph with book about medieval manuscripts open in the foreground. background shows living area with cream rug, brown wooden coffee table, couch on the other side of coffee table with throw pillows and blanket, large windows with a gray sky and trees losing their leaves, and assorted fall decorations like orange string lights, pumpkins, and candles.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 03/10/2025

Great progress made today with my move!

Photograph of two partially filled white bookcase, with step ladder in front and a red armchair and brown armchair on either side.

Photograph of two white bookcases filled with books, topped with two leafy green vine plants and flanked by a red armchair and a brown armchair.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 28/09/2025

can anyone remind me why I loved THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING? ...maybe I should do a post about the classics I sought out during undergrad (as a children's lit major who thought maybe I was missing out on something). 2025 me can't recall why I fell in love with some of these books.

Photograph of softcover book named in post (author Milan Kundera), with a mostly empty bookcase in the background.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 09/09/2025

I haven’t read too many books that I want to hype up this year but @silviamg.bsky.social’s THE BEWITCHING is one! Great read while I was camping this past cool rainy weekend. 🏕️ #horror

Photograph of hardcover book named in post. Background is cloudy pine forest seen through a tent screen window.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 29/08/2025

A lovely Friday to have the day off and go read in a park! CR: HEMLOCK & SILVER by @tkingfisher.com #fantasy

Photograph of hardcover book Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher. Background is a bright park with lots of trees and flowers.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 29/08/2025

A lovely Friday to have the day off and go read in a park! CR: HEMLOCK & SILVER by @tkingfisher.com #fantasy

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 11/08/2025

Started reading some Sept ARCs this weekend! Finished MAKING HISTORY by KJ Parker (out 2 Sept from TorDotCom) - a story well-suited to its novella length, check this one out if dark dry humour and commentary on the nature of history and truth appeals to you.

Cover of book named in post. An illustrated cross-section cube of an ancient city in flames and ruins.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 10/07/2025

Extremely satisfying to at last add a fourth book to this stack #shelfie #MGLit

Photograph of hardcover books (the four books from the Nevermoor series by Jessica Townsend) stacked horizontally on a white bookshelf. A large mug with an owl in top hat and monocle sits on top of the stack. Little rainbows (like from a suncatcher) are scattered around.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 02/07/2025

Update: I ended up rereading Janet Taylor Lisle’s THE LOST FLOWER CHILDREN

Cover of book named in post. Two blonde white girls peer curiously into an overgrown garden with various blooming flowers.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 28/06/2025

packing so many library books and so many owned but haven't read yet books for the lake this weekend, but also feeling like i'm going to want to reread a favourite... will it be MIDDLEGAME or NEVER LET ME GO? 🤔 stay tuned

Cover of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 27/06/2025

I have a big stack of books I own but haven't read yet that I'm taking to the lake this weekend. Options incl EXTREMELY ONLINE by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social and WELCOMING BEGINNER'S MIND by Gaylon Ferguson. How about you?

Cover of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

Cover of Welcoming Beginner's Mind: Zen and Tibetan Buddhist Wisdom on Experiencing Our True Nature

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 20/06/2025

Perks of having a friend who works in a bookstore: they can let you know when SILVERBORN is on the shelves early 🤗

Photograph of hardcover book named in post, on a wooden picnic table

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 13/05/2025

Weather is nuts this week… heat warning today, snowfall watch later this week 😭

Screenshot of weather app showing current temp 36 degrees Celsius. Also has banners for Heat warning and WinterCast.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 13/05/2025

🥳 Happy #BookBirthday to @emilytesh.net's THE INCANDESCENT, out today from Tor Books! ICYMI, here's my thoughts on why this is a must-read for adult fans of magical school stories: fallingletters.ca/20...

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 05/05/2025

It's just occurred to me how fitting the illustration on this month's Tolkien calendar is for #WyrdAndWonder2025 !

Photograph of May 2025 Tolkien calendar showing Ulmo emerging from the sea many times larger than the man before him, illustrated by John Howe. Caption reads: A tall crown he wore like silver, from which his long hair fell down as foam glimmering in the dusk; and as he cast back the grey mantle that hung about him like a mist, behold! He was clad in a gleaming coat, close-fitted as the mail of a mighty fish, and in a kirtle of deep green that flashed and flickered with sea-fire as he strode slowly towards the land. In this manner the Dweller of the Deep, wholm the Noldor named Ulmo, Lord of Waters, showed himself to Tuor son of Huor of the House of Hador beneat Vinyamar. - Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin, Unfinished Tales, pg. 28

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 28/04/2025

🛼👯‍♀️🫣New post! Review of MY BEST FRIEND'S EXORCISM by Grady Hendrix fallingletters.ca/2025/04/my-b...

Decorative banner featuring book named in text. Horror review.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 22/04/2025

(2/2) INS AND OUTS by Elizabeth Withey and Salini Perera - high concept picture book with lovely illustrations #CanKidLit canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/03/ins-...

Cover of book named in post - top half shows a purple cat climbing into a house window at night, bottom half shows the same cat during the day outside of the house.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 22/04/2025

(1/2) I read two #CanKidLit books today thanks to @hkubiw.bsky.social's recs! 📚👍🏻 THE KIDS BOOK OF BLACK HISTORY IN CANADA by Rosemary Sadlier and Arden Taylor - informative non-fiction that ties in to today's celebrations and challenges canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

Cover of book named in post - cover has assorted illustrations and portraits of Black people throughout history

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 20/04/2025

Good morning on this lovely spring day 🌷🌞☕

Photograph of brown coffee table with several items on it: white tulips with purple hyancinths in a red ceramic pitcher, a paperback book Garden Spells with a tin of book darts, a mug with an owl in a top hat and monocle on it, and a laptop in the corner. Bright light shines through window in the background.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 20/04/2025

I have shelved my new HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH boxed sets! The top shelf of my #TolkienCollection is now extremely satisfying to gaze upon. 🥰 Here are before and after shots:

Before photo of three shelves of Tolkien books.

After photo of three shelves of Tolkien books. Notable change: Top shelf now shows 15 hardcover books The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-Earth (boxed sets released Dec 2023, covers illustrated by John Howe).

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 05/04/2025

Been working hard on a a blog post (buddy read with my sister) about STOLEN PRIDE: LOSS, SHAME, AND THE RISE OF THE RIGHT. I've organized all our notes and now I have to make them coherent... I didn't anticipate this one would turn out the length of a university paper 🥲

Screenshot of Wordpress editor sidebar snippet highlighting post length 3,213 words (17 min read time).

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 05/04/2025

Mini #MGLit library book haul! 📚 #ReaderSky ✏️THE SONG OF ORPHAN'S GARDEN by @nicolemhewitt.bsky.social and IT'S ALL OR NOTHING, VALE by Andrea Beatriz Arango #NovelInVerse 🇨🇦 THE GHOST OF BITTERFLY BAY by @maryaverling.bsky.social #CanKidLit 🖥️BYE FOREVER, I GUESS by @jodimeadows.bsky.social

Photograph - stack of hardcover books named in post

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 31/03/2025

I'm finally using my new laptop! It is satisfyingly speedy!! However, I'm struggling with culture shock from new emoji designs... on my old laptop I saw the 2016/08 designs. Now I'm getting the 2024/06 designs...

Screenshot of Microsoft emoji designs for fallen leaves. The old emoji design noted in post text was chunky with thick black outline, the new emoji design noted in post text is thin and light with no outline (also, two leaves vs three). Source: https://emojipedia.org/fallen-leaf#designs

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 31/03/2025

Design credits for the cover of DON'T SLEEP WITH THE DEAD: Art by Marisa Aragón Ware, design by @cfoltzer.bsky.social

Cover for Don't Sleep on the Dead by Nghi Vo features a white anatomical heart above a white cityscape, with a black background and yellow text.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 31/03/2025

Thanks to Tor for sending me @nghivo.bsky.social's forthcoming DON'T SLEEP WITH THE DEAD! A companion novella to THE CHOSEN AND THE BEAUTIFUL, the story picks up ~20 years later, following Nick as he finds some unusual resolution(?) to his relationship with Gatsby #queerAdultSFF 💙📚🏳️‍🌈

Photograph of three stagger stacked books. The Great Gatsby on the bottom, The Chosen and the Beautiful in the middle, Don't Sleep with the Dead on the top. Cover for Don't Sleep on the Dead features a white anatomical heart above a white cityscape, with a black background and yellow text.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 22/03/2025

Vladyana Krykorka's gorgeous illustrations for Rafe Martin's DEAR AS SALT remain a favourite. It wasn't until I was older that I realized she also illustrated Michael Kusugak's HIDE AND SNEAK, another childhood favourite! #CanKidLit #PictureBook

Cover of Dear as Salt - a rich illustration of a young woman with a white face, blushing cheeks, and long wavy blonde hair looking to side with a pensive expression. She wears a small tiara, long earrings, and ruffly white clothes like a member of royalty.

Cover of HIDE AND SNEAK - a young girl looks up in wonder at an inuksuk as the sun shines through clouds above sea and land.

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Jenna @fallingletters.ca · 04/03/2025

🥳 Happy #BookBirthday to these Mar 4 releases! THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by @amalelmohtar.com (folk fantasy) ONCE WAS WILLEM by M.R. Carey (historical fantasy) WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy (literary thriller) THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT by @nvtran.bsky.social (YA horror)

Decorative banner reads "Happy book birthday to these Mar 4 releases!" with covers of books named in post text.

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