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My Throat an Open Grave
Tori Bovalino
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Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away to the Lord of the Wood.
Growing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania feels like drowning. Leah goes to church every Sunday, works when she isn’t at school, and takes care of her baby brother, Owen. Like every girl in Winston, she tries to be right and good and holy. If she isn’t, the Lord of the Wood will take her, and she’ll disappear like so many other girls before her. But living up to the rigorous standards of the town takes its toll.
One night, when Owen won’t stop screaming, Leah wishes him away, and the Lord listens. The screaming stops, and all that’s left in the crib is a small bundle of sticks tied with a ribbon.
Filled with shame and the weight of the town’s judgment, Leah is forced to cross the river into the Lord of the Wood’s domain to bring Owen back. But the devilish figure who has haunted Winston for generations isn’t what she expects. He tells her she can have her brother back—for the price of a song. A song that Leah will have one month to write.
It’s a bargain that will uncover secrets her hometown has tried to keep buried for decades. And what she unearths will have her questioning everything she’s been taught to fear.
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Not So Well Read\ \ Courtney\ \ • Jan 2 2025
2024 Missed Connections: Horror Edition
Pour one out for all the books I swore I was going to read this year. May they have better odds in 2025.
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Not So Well Read\ \ Courtney\ \ • Oct 17 2024
My full stack from our book swap yesterday! I forgot to take a photo of my donation pile, but I definitely left with ones that I am way more excited about. I did pass along some very loved books that I know I will never read again and deserve a spot in someone else’s library–whoever got To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, I hope you love it as much as I did.
Do you have any favorites in this stack?
Also, check out my cute new earrings! Shout out to makers who have clip on options for those of us with metal allergies.
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Chanterelle Solace\ \ Sabie\ \ • Dec 19 2025
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Get a Rec from me & What my Taste in books look like
What are some books that represent your taste overall and do we have any in common? 👀
Before we dive into this, Bindery now has an option to request recs and you can go to the 🔗 in my bio and click “Get a Rec” and ask for details of what you’d like from the books I’ve read! I’m also making lists of 2026 releases in fantasy, romance and horror so far so happy to share some of these early on with you guys (these will be recs of what I’m looking forward to rather than what I’ve read) so GO GO GO 🤎
As for my taste in books, I’m never going to be the type that picks only 5 top books for the year guys and I’ve learned to accept it because honestly, what do you mean my top 5 books in one year? I would have to host a meeting with myself for a whole month to decide that 😭 So instead, you guys get my taste in books throughout various sub-genres that I yap about all the time!
Here is a list of the books (if you prefer to read through it or for accessibility needs)🤎: Cottagecore: 🍄 Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries 🍄 After the Forest by Kell Woods 🍄 A Witch’s Guide to Love and Poison by Aamna Qureshi 🍄 The Geographer’s Map to Romance by India Holton 🍄 The River has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar 🍄 An Arrow to the Heart by K.R. Bacher
Cozy Fantasy: 🍄 The Baby Dragon Cafe by Aamna Qureshi 🍄 Legend & Lattes by Travis 🍄 The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong 🍄 The Nameless Restaurant by Tao Wong 🍄 Watermoon by Samantha Sotto Yambao 🍄 The Spellshop by Sangu Mandanna
Witchycore: 🍄 The Hedgewitch of Foxhall by Anna Bright 🍄 House of Frank by Kay Synclaire 🍄 The Lone Wolf Cafe by Sydney Wilder 🍄 The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore 🍄 A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna 🍄 Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi
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Chanterelle Solace\ \ Sabie\ \ • Oct 8 2025
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12 botanical horror books recs to become one with the moss this season👀
Do you read any botanical horror or spooky books for autumn? This is a range from pure botanical horror, to Mushroomcore, and horromance👀
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Here are most of the botanical horror I’ve read in the past year or so! I am currently also reading Mexican Gothic and Girl in the Creek (both of which I’m enjoying): 🍄 Don’t Let the Forest in 🍄 Graveyard Shift 🍄 Predatory Natures 🍄 Human Scars on Planet Skin 🍄 What Moves the dead (and book 2) 🍄 Eat the ones you Love 🍄 Greenteeth 🍄 Midnight Rooms 🍄 They Bloom at Night 🍄 Swallowed 🍄 My Throat An Open Grave 🍄 Nettle and Bone
Here are the two I am currently reading: 🍄 Mexican Gothic 🍄 Girl in The Creek
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Chanterelle Solace\ \ Sabie\ \ • May 23 2025
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Your Favourite Cottagecore Witch Dares you to pick a few favourite reads from this year and comment it below so we can build a magical forest🤎🍄🟫🍂
I have had so many good reads towards the end of the year once I realised that I am a gothic, cottagecore and cozy fantasy kind of person. I still enjoy romantasy but I realised that I cannot solely read romantasy and ignore my favourite sub-genre! What have you realised this year from your reading habits?
Here are some favourites from this year’s read in no particular order: 🍄🟫 My Throat an Open Grave by @toribovalino 🍄🟫 Legends & Lattes by @travis_baldree 🍄🟫 Legacy of the Heir by @author_lauracarter 🍄🟫 The Bell Witches by @lindseykelk 🍄🟫 Once Upon an Apple by @landiwrites 🍄🟫 A Sorceress comes to Call by @redwombatstudio 🍄🟫 The Hedgewitch of Foxhall by @brightlyanna 🍄🟫 The Will of the Many by @jamesislington_author 🍄🟫 Minor Works of Meda by @juliette.caruso.author 🍄🟫 Nettle & bone by @redwombatstudio 🍄🟫 What the River Knows by @isabelwriter09 🍄🟫 Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by @heather_fawcett
Have you read any of them? Do we have any similar books in our list?
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Not So Well Read\ \ Courtney\ \ • Jan 2 2025
2024 Missed Connections: Horror Edition
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What books did you condemn to you infinite TBR in 2024?
#bookishreels #bookstack #horrorbooks #horrorbookstagram #tobereadpile #tbrpile
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Do you have any favorites in this stack?
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