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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of the girls is dealing with the hospitalisation of an elder brother with big MH issues, and wanting to make him something beautiful enough to make him want to stay. Comes with rather cute bell-bottomed drawings

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Night Gift by Patricia McKillip turned out to be the only non-fantasy title in her large catalogue, so reading it for a fantasy book challenge didn’t really work. That being said, it’s a surprisingly modern book for being from the 70’s. 3 young girls deal with adolescence and a Very Big Thing

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The fact that he likes her just as she is, is just an added bonus

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sometimes what you need is cute, tropey, funny, quirky romance about a librarian and a shapeshifting dragon doing research and having adventures. Sometimes you need Nobody Told Me Dragons Use Libraries. I especially appreciated an neurospicy MC who is aware of how her brain works, and unapologetic

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NGL I only read Small Things Like These because it was the smallest book on a Goodreads challenge list. I’m too tired at the moment for books that are ‘deep’ and ‘worthy’, and a second book about Homes for Unwed mothers was like touching a bruise. Oh well, I was already depressed

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The problem is that Grady Hendrix sounds like he should be my jam, but it just doesn’t quite fit right for me. Every premise of his books sounds amazing, but I’m not the right reader. In this one a group of unwed mothers in 1970 get mixed up with witchcraft. Made me sad

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones was a strange one for me. I’m not sure what I was expecting. The set up was pure slasher, but it felt….sadder than that. I enjoyed the Buffalo Hunter Hunter, so I will definitely try another one of his. My Heart is a Chainsaw is on the list

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I may have a soft spot for a Brynne Weaver, Lauren Biel style dark rom-com where the murder is balanced by the whimsy (and also a lack of SA) Kudos to a MC who is worried about her skin care regime inside the death games

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In a world where soulmates exist, if you don’t find yours by 25 you get put into prison with a hunger games style population control. So far, so ridiculous. But somehow….ridiculously fun? Kill to Love by Penny Sunday looks like it’s a debut novel

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I loved Freya Marske’s (very gay) fantasy of manners trilogy, but this feels like the story that her heart wanted to tell. Discovering that she actually went to a (non-magical, hopefully non-murdery) medical school sealed that thought.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Murder at Magical Medical School. Boom. Either you 100% need it immediately or you need to reread that sentence. Bodies of Magic by @freyamarske.bsky.social

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dreamy, atmospheric, beautiful, queer, with a kind of sickness or bruise at its centre. Perfect for fans of Erin A. Craig

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tenderly I Am Devoured by Lyndall Clipstone is about a girl who finds herself engaged to an underworld god (shades of Persephone) but caught up in her feelings for both a brother and a sister from a wealthy family. Possession and obsession.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the horror of dreary minutia and dehumanisation, and pettiness. It’s casual cruelty and it’s brilliant, but possibly not something that I could ever reread. Or ever forget. Dystopian corporate cannibalism is actually a believable future

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I normally like my horror a bit camp, or intellectual, or the kind of dreamy gorgeousness of Sarandon and Deneuve in The Hunger Tender is the flesh is the exact opposite of this

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nothing But the Rain by Naomi Salman is a devastating and brilliant novella with an alternative narrative structure. A small town is quarantined by mysterious armed forces after the rain starts stealing people’s memories. Will mess you up (And you’ll be grateful)

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Generation Trauma x Haunted House yet somehow still a little bit cosy, because T. Kingfisher is a genius. A House With Good Bones by @tkingfisher.com (Not for anyone with a fear of bugs) (Please also check this fear re. the ridiculously good Wolf Worm) (Because NIGHTMARES guys)

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NGL T.A. White might be my new favourite author. I read all 7 books in her Firebird Chronicles sci-fi series in 6 days. My only issue with this one, is wanting the poor MC to be able to have some female friends! Give the girl a break!

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A guide from a secretive group of “pathfinders” that help people navigate a world consumed by dangerous magical beings rescues a mysterious (and handsome) man from being executed. He thinks she’s flirting with him. Pathfinder’s Way and Mist’s Edge

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a kind of poor, white, southern community halfway between Magic town, and normal-ville where people love feuds and cursing is an art form. I hate the covers, but the books are great.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One problem with trying to keep up with the aforementioned cousin, is that I completely forgot that she had already read The Edge series from the Aforementioned House Andrews.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I loved the Kate Daniel’s series, but I think that I like this slightly cosier spin off version better. Chaos still happens, but Kate begins and ends happy Magic Tides and Magic Claims (no clams!) by @ilonaandrews.bsky.social

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My lovely cousin is blazing her way through the entirety of the House Andrew’s back catalogue, so I am rereading to make sure that I’m up to date with what she’s reading.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A book about a movie about a series of murders and all the cast and crew are somehow linked. Do you ever read a book and feel like the characters are too stupid to live? Especially when you’re reading a horror? The slasher slashed, all were slashes, slashing happened, and I didn’t really care

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The important question: what flavour cookie was it?

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Friends READ THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BECAUSE I AM SHOOK

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You are the reason why I was explaining wild Cockatoos to a friend, wiping tears off my ereader, and thanking my stars that I always read the acknowledgments Brand new this week. Run don’t walk

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What if the creepy, haunted, porcelain doll wasn’t the villain of the story, but was the victim….. Firstly, I didn’t expect to actually be brought to tears by a haunted freaking doll. Bravo Barbara Truelove and @bindary_books

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I did love that there were way more LGBT+ and poc characters than your typical slasher. Running from an axe wielding maniac yelling “you can’t kill me, I’m a queer woman of colour” is, you know, valid.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I did myself a disfavour when reading Slasher Summer by expecting it to not be a slasher. I was expecting genre subversions for some reason, and didn’t let myself just go with it. A high school scary movie club gets together years after high school. Things get…..slashy.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hear the Dead, coming October. A 66 year old former punk photographer who is losing her hearing to tinnitus goes viral after the death of a famous punk rocker brings her photos into the public eye. Which would be great if she wasn’t being haunted by her best friend’s death 40 years ago…..

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

*Making notes for mantodea speed dating in the future

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What is the thing that you most want to do when you get to Australia for Worldcon in two years?

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have already thrown myself on to the volunteer list. I’m so excited that we’re getting this

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I know this to the bottom of my soul. Sending love and good vibes. Make sure that you hydrate xxx

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Also, apparently “Iowa is Hell’s Department of Agriculture” (my Iowan friend agrees) and even the capital D Devil needs help attaching PDF’s

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I hope this email finds you in hell is what happens if you mix a workplace romance with the tv show supernatural. Ghosts, demons, deals, and fixing the f***ing fax machine. I would have lived to see a little more of the hellscape infrastructure, but you can’t have everything from your katabasis

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Despite my love of Seanan McGuire, I had somehow missed reading her Mira Grant Parasitology trilogy. Dear Gods. This book is brilliant, terrifying, prescient, and deeply strange to read in a post-pandemic world. She made me have feelings for parasitic invertebrates!!!!!!!!!

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Out January. Clever, subversive, wickedly funny. A TS coded mega star chooses the “rough as guts” main character to be her opening act, and her BFF, and her murder buddy….. “Look what you made her do”

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There was a reddit thread about which celebrity would you NOT be surprised at if they turned out to be a serial killer. Answers were interesting Mindy McGinnis might have a book coming out in January that asks a similar question. What if a billionaire pop star was a serial killer?

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’ve seen this book critiqued for how unobservant the MC is, but I’ve also known a lot of academics and scientists, and it tracks. Did I get sucked into a cute rom-com trailer? Absolutely. Did I proceed to read the whole book in about two hours? When I should be asleep? And it was suddenly 3am

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

September Reads! #BookSky what are we reading? I finished off my August with the absolutely brilliant but completely devastating Angel Down, so I needed something a little fluffy to ease the heartache. I might have seen the trailer for The Love Hypothesis….

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I would feel bad about the very specific and slightly academic question that I asked you about the Sworn Soldier books when I met you two years ago, but it was BEFORE the con, and after the coffee 🇦🇺

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I am surprisingly no sorry that I looked this up. The anthropologist in me is fascinated

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

When Among Crows! I love these covers

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

@jodimca.bsky.social I have been trained well by now in What Would Doctor Jodi Read. I started a cute Aussie indie that is Love Island meets Hunger Games, and, well…..

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Actual picture of unassuming box

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Bingley will let you pet the belly if it helps.

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Indigohan @indigohan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Exactly the news that I needed to hear today!!!

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