Alphareader - Danielle Binks

People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.

True Grit by Charles Portis

When your book-cover illustrator gifts you the original! 🥺🥰

Matt Ryan Tobin has released The Faculty artist proofs for $125. Limited to 30, the 24x36 screen print features glow-in-the-dark red ink. It comes with a 10x10 hand-embellished giclee print and "I'm Discontent" sticker (both pictured below).

It’s true though

Anne Rice was an author who had a really complicated (and fascinating) relationship with fans and fandom … but she leaves behind quite the literary legacy, that helped pull a genre and monster into the modern-era.

Condolences to those who loved her, and her words.

People are going to have so many different takes on Anne Rice’s legacy … but one of my favourite odes to her is ‘What We Do In The Shadow’ opening credits and Harvey Guillen’s pure-soul Guillermo de la Cruz character cos-playing as Armand. Perfect respect.

A moment’s pause that tips it’s hat to the fact that you don’t get to ‘What We Do In The Shadows’ without ‘The Vampire Chronicles’

Vale.

If you like enemies to lovers filled with all the best tropes PLEASE go watch this show🙏🏼

I felt like it was my civic duty to let you all know

Aye, well," he said, "I dinna recall Adam's asking God to take back Eve - and look what she did to him." He leaned forward and kissed my forehead as I laughed, then drew the blanket up over my bare shoulders. "Go to sleep, my wee rib. I shall be needin' a helpmeet in the morning.

'Dragonfly in Amber' by Diana Gabaldon 

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Oh nothing, just Paul McCartney casually predicting the misogynistic blame-game the media put on Yoko Ono …