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🌙 Joel — a Netgalley reviewer, poetry reader for Folly Journal, poet, artist, and Forest Monster from Wellington, Aotearoa NZ (he/him)
Published poems featured in Takahē, Poetry NZ, Turbine, Tarot, The Spinoff, & more. Forthcoming poetry in Stone Circle.
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Batshit*
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Wonderfully creepy!
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I already just want to read it again.
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The stories range from women entering into pacts with sea monsters, murderers going for woodland hikes, mold in the walls driving people insane, and the curious tale of the Broccoli Eel. 🥦
5 stars 🌟
TW: body horror, DV, CA, SA, animal cruelty, fat shaming, and more body horror.
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#16 "Of the Flesh" is a horror anthology that might be the best thing I've read in a long ass time. I recommend the audiobook as every short story has a different narrator, which made the whole book such a wild experience!
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Some of the fortunes are bathing crazy.
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I make junk journals actually.
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Might be hard to find if you're not in NZ goodfortunecoffee.co.nz/collections/...
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I appreciate the lightly roasted caramel notes more than the ecstatic visions. Would recommend.
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fook yuh
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And yes I did finish this bag before it's best before date 😆 🤣 saved the bag for an art project, because I loved the label
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I had a graphic novel of Hamlet as a teenager and I read that shit multiple times
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😲
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They aren't ready
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🎨 Alexander Jansson
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It's my own fault.
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The fact you think we are being nice or friendly means you 👏 aren't 👏 ready 👏
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Americans who want to immigrate to Canada would have to master a certain level of psychological warfare, all of it passive aggressive
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I want one so bad
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Interesting level of meaning and script writing. If someone is late, I don't usually ascribe levels of morality to it.
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😆 🤣
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😆
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This was my first, and very much want to check out his other books based on this one. If you loved the film "Prey" in 2022 then you'll like this.
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It's a weird, hard book to read—full of shallow, sexy, immature characters ripe for an ancient curse to rip them to shreds. No wonder Hollywood wanted it.
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P.s. cheers to Netgalley for the early copy to review! Publication date is March 18th
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#15 "Buffalo Hunter Hunter" took me by surprise. Even now, in 2025, there are completely astounding, refreshing vampire stories waiting to be told. This book will be a film. This. Will. Be. A. Film. No sparkly vampires here—they are undead, monstrous. A book of carnage, regret, and blood.
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#14 "The Ruins" is another DNF for me. Didn't love the film, but thought the book is always better—right? Well, something just rubbed me wrong. Couldn't connect to this novel. Maybe I just disliked the characters. When you're rooting for jungle horrors to kill everyone faster, something is wrong.
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#13 "The Cavern" by Alister Hodge is a horror novel about an expedition to explore a new cave system in Australia— and something monstrous waiting for them. Nothing deep or profound here. If you like a good creature feature, like Lake Placid or Anaconda, this is that. A fun, dumb, fun read.
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It was a slow read sometimes, especially the beginning, with long bouts of dialogue slowing to a crawl. During "action" scenes, and the latter third, it was good fun. A bit jarring to read this between other more grizzly, horrific novels, but a nice reminder how magic magic can be. 🧚♀️
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#12 "Talia: Heir to the Fairy Realm" by Joel C. Flanagan-Grannemann is a high fantasy novel about the quest to bring together the realms of the humans and the faeries. This was a fun read that brought me back to the old days when I read a lot of high fantasy.
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Like permaculture?? 👀 is there drama happening in the permaculture world?
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👀
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