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Hello. You can call me Stettie. I use they/he pronouns and gender neutral terms and masculin terms. If you would like more details about my identity, you can read my carrd. I have a bachelors degree in biomedical sciences, so this space serves as an outlet for my creativity. I love books, science and writing, so a blog where I can spew thoughts on the books I've read recently and interesting scientific articles seemed like an intriguing center point for a blog.

So, I hope you stick around, and thank you for taking a little bit of time to stop by and read whatever is festering in the crevices of my brain.

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"Legends & Lattes" review and thoughts

“Legends & Lattes” showed up a lot on my TikTok feed. I heard it described as a “cute, wholesome, sapphic romance” with “everything a fantasy-enjoyer wants”. I was definitely intrigued. I have been trying to read more sapphic books, and I have always enjoyed fantasy stories. But one thing was holding me back from reading “Legends & Lattes”; the fact that it was written by a man. I think anyone with a little bit of knowledge on queer spaces, particularly sapphic spaces, would know that when men, particularly straight white men, create art or stories involving sapphic women, the women end up being fetishized. I was afraid this was going to happen in this book, despite the numerous good reviews and all the praise I had seen about the story. I was book-shopping and came across the book. I asked a couple employees at the store what they thought of the story and explained my concerns. They said the story is very well done and doesn’t have any issues with fetishizing the charac...

"Frankenstein": My Annual Spooky Season read

Spooky season is finished, and I’m a little delayed at getting this post out, but I managed to read one of the all-time classic horror/thriller stories this year. 💙 blue’s Kindle Notes & Highlights for Frankenstein | Goodreads Frankenstein is easily one of my all-time favorite books. I read it during my senior year of high school, and I remember falling in love with the story; the theme of how dangerous it can be to be single-mindedly set on a goal. Is being a monster in one’s inherent nature, a result of their upbringing, a combination of the two, or more complex? And perhaps my favorite question that my English teacher asked my class when we finished the book; who is the real monster, Frankenstein or the creature? Personally, I think the true monster of the story is Frankenstein’s ambition, not necessarily Frankenstein himself. It was his blind and short-sighted ambition that led to the creation of the monster, his desire to create life out of a stitched-together dead l...

"The Priory of the Orange Tree": small thoughts and review

This book was definitely quite the read, and I mean that in the best way possible. I heard someone once describe it as “feminist Lord of the Rings”, and I knew I would love it. But even that description does not even begin to describe my feelings for the world, the cultures, the creatures, the magic system, the plot and the people this story introduced me to. It is by no means small, sitting at a whopping 830 pages. I read this book over the course of a month during downtime at my job. So, armed with a pen and colored tabs for annotating and keeping track of characters (something I heard I might need), I plunged into this book. By gods did I get sucked in. I was not emotionally invested until about 100 pages into the story, but considering the overall length of the book, I would say it’s pretty well-paced. The world is immensely complex, with different cultures, religions, viewpoints, contradicting histories for the same events, all of which are parallel to modern day religions and re...

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