Susan’s Book Blog

You guys, it's SO prettyyyyyyy 😍 Heartstopper Vol 2 is now available at Fairyloot!  ✨ ✨Limited Edition ✨ ✨ ✨ Foil on dust jacket ✨ ✨ Foil design on hardcover ✨ ✨ Sprayed edges ✨ ✨ Custom endpapers ✨ ✨ Includes the Tara/Darcy story ✨   “If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.” - Ferris Bueller 

It’s always an exciting day when book mail arrives, but look at these beauties!! Above Left: Fairyloot Special Limited Edition hardcover of Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper  graphic novel. Pink foil accents and pink sprayed edges. Above Right: Waterstones exclusive special edition of TJ Klune’s Under the Whispering Door. Signed with teal sprayed edges. Pick up these books in any form you can. They are wonderful!!  Heartstopper Vol 1 summary: Charlie and Nick are at the same school but they’ve never met… until one day they’re made to sit together. They quickly become friends and soon Charlie is falling for Nick, even though he doesn’t think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realized. Under the Whispering Door summary: When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own sparsely attended funeral, Wallace is outraged. But he begins to suspect she’s right and he is in fact dead. Then when Hugo, owner of a mo...

So we all know about Funko Pops, right? Those adorable little 4" tall plastic characters from movies or TV that have become so popular in the past few years. I have my own collection; I have the Animaniacs, all five of the Gummi Bears, Josh and the Zoltar machine from Big,  Peter Venkman, Zuul, Louis Tully, and the Ghostbusters firehouse, among others. I shall not say exactly how many. Ahem.  I think they're so stinking cute and sometimes when I read a book I can picture what the characters' Pops would look like. If I can figure out which actual Pops resemble the characters (the right outfits, hairstyle, etc) then I can swap heads & bodies, do a little painting, and voila! I have my own one-of-a-kind Pops for my favorite book characters! (If you're interested in making your own but don't know how, I'd be happy to walk you through the process. Just message me.) Here's a quick list of the ones I've made so far. You can visit my Pinterest page for mor...