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Enum & Valerie

enumeration@kirja.casa

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@vivavaleria@eldritch.cafe on the mammooth site. Reading mostly wlw rom-coms, with the occasional exceptions. I try to rotate languages, but it isn't really easy to find queer romance books in other languages than English. Reviews and comments usually in the same language as the book.

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Enum & Valerie's books

To Read (View all 19)

Robin Gow: Ode to My First Car (Hardcover, 2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Kylie Lee Baker: The Scarlet Alchemist (Hardcover)
Hannah Templer, Grace Ellis, Joan Schenkar: Flung Out of Space (Hardcover, 2022, Abrams, Inc.)

Currently Reading (View all 5)

Cedar McCloud: The Thread That Binds (EBook, 2021, Numinous Spirit Press)
Anna-Leena Siikala: Hidden rituals and public performances (2011, Finnish Literature Society)
Katharina Scholz: In Hinterräumen (german language, Querverlag)

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Malinda Lo: A Scatter of Light (Paperback, 2023, Dutton Books for Young Readers)
Malinda Lo: Last Night at the Telegraph Club (2021, Penguin Young Readers Group)
Karmen Lee: Relationship Mechanic (Paperback, 2025, Harlequin Enterprises ULC)

2025 Reading Goal

43% complete! Enum & Valerie has read 13 of 30 books.

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quoted Off with Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta

Zoe Hana Mikuta: Off with Their Heads (2024, Disney Press)

In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they …

Icca didn't say anything. [...] That was fine, Carousel waited. She considered speaking to Hattie's furniture, but she didn't want to startle the tea table or the candle holders with her queries, since she was almost sure Hattie never spoke to them at all.

— Off with Their Heads by  (Page 328)

Das kannste auch dem Ochsen auf der Fleischbrücke erzählen. (aber vielleicht überseh ich hier auch die kinky Lesart, in der es sich um Human Furniture handelt??)

quoted Off with Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta

Zoe Hana Mikuta: Off with Their Heads (2024, Disney Press)

In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they …

But truly, dear readers, if by this point in the story you are still seeking comfort, enough so that you are picturing our darling, gruesome champions engaged in habits so domestic and casual as the pursuit of higher education, even toting around a god such as Carnage, then a concerned narrator must ask after you - are you very much all right?

— Off with Their Heads by  (Page 255)

certainly not, thanks for asking though

quoted Off with Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta

Zoe Hana Mikuta: Off with Their Heads (2024, Disney Press)

In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they …

Content warning spiders, blood

reviewed Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler (Daylight Falls, #2)

Dahlia Adler: Under the Lights (Paperback, 2015, Spencer Hill Press)

Josh Chester loves being a Hollywood bad boy, coasting on his good looks, his parties, …

A sequel thet doesn't feel like a sequel

Both Josh and Van really are good characters from Behind the Scenes that desperately needed their own stories. Whenever a romance story is told from two alternating points of view, you automatically assume they're the couple. You're in for a surprise then...

reviewed Behind the Scenes by Dahlia Adler (Daylight Falls, #1)

Dahlia Adler: Behind the Scenes (2014)

High school senior Ally Duncan's best friend may be the Vanessa Park - star of …

Not overwhelming, but enjoyable

I am a bit disappointed how it all boiled down to "oops we didn't communicate" again. Same applies to "Cool for the summer" btw. None of Dahlia's books have a really elaborate creative plot, but they're still fun to read and hard to put to the side.

reviewed Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal (Blood and Tea, #1)

Hafsah Faizal: Tempest of Tea (2024, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

From Hafsah Faizal, New York Times–bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame, comes the first …

Read if you like coconuts

The largest part of the book is about an elaborate heist, so if you like heists, knock yourself out. However, it's embedded into a larger major story, which doesn't really need that heist - it would work just as fine without it. Then again, the Spindrift Tearoom & Bloodhouse concept is pretty cool. And: coconuts!

quoted Victory City by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie: Victory City (2023, Random House Publishing Group)

A 247-year-old demi-god chronicles the birth and death of Bisnaga, a city she created and …

[commenting on the battle] ‘And my husband?’ Tirumalamba Devi cried. ‘What about the king?’ Pampa Kampana fell silent and put her hands up her face. ‘The king?’ Tirumalamba Devi shouted. ‘Pampa Kampana, what news?’ ‘Alas, the king is old,' Pampa Kampana wailed. ‘He is old and the battle is long. He has been up on that elephant a long time.’ ‘What has happened?’ Tirumalamba Devi cried. ‘Tell me at once!’ ‘Alas for us all, my queen,’ Pampa Kampana wept through sightless eyes. ‘The king... the king... needed to piss.’ ‘To piss? Pampa Kampana, you speak of piss?’

— Victory City by  (Page 364)

Pee pee poo poo on the battlefield.