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Bonnie @ The Borrowed Rose
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Introduce me to a #BeautyandtheBeast tale any day. I explore all things Beauty and the Beast across literature, fairytale retellings and pop culture. Oh, and tea, I drink lots of tea. www.theborrowedrose.com
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Pluribus...

The. Best. Ending.
December 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
theborrowedrose.bsky.social
Ok, here we go! A moody mix of witty, cozy, magical, gothic + historical.

#BeautyandtheBeast retelling round-up:
🌹11 retellings
🌹KU gems
🌹Re‑reads + guilty pleasures

Plus:
✨ #romantasy
✅ TBR
🛸 SciFi

www.theborrowedrose.com/2025/12/2025...

Cheers to 2025! Your turn!
#fairtytaleretelling #bookish
December 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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If you’re interested in fairytale retellings with sweet romances, mine are discounted for the next week!

Little Mermaid retelling and faerie Sleeping Beauty retelling, YA, sweet romance, no spice 🔗 in b1o.

#fairytaleretelling #nospiceromance #kindleunlimitedromance
December 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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❄️December is made for wandering tales and quiet magic…

Feathers and Foxes follows a travelling prince, stolen divine apples, and a vanished girl.

Perfect winter reading for lovers of myth & fairytales 🦊🍎

books2read.com/Feathers-and...

#DecemberReads #Fantasy #FeathersAndFoxes #FairytaleRetelling
December 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
theborrowedrose.bsky.social
Finishing up a 2025 book round-up - just shy of 12 #BeautyandtheBeast books for the year... and other faves, too. It was a good, moody reading year. You?

#booksky
December 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
theborrowedrose.bsky.social
“It is not beauty that makes us love; it is love that makes us see beauty.” — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, #BeautyandtheBeast

Wishing you a Christmas Day filled with joy, peace, love and a cozy cup of tea. ✨🌹❄️

#BookishChristmas
Steeping teapot next to white cup and saucer. Pine branches in a vase in the background. Image by Nati on Pexels
December 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
theborrowedrose.bsky.social
Stayed up way too late last night... video games and a new book. And now... work. Will this be appropriate?
a baby girl is sitting on a couch with her eyes closed and making a funny face .
ALT: a baby girl is sitting on a couch with her eyes closed and making a funny face .
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December 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A SECRET IN THE GARDEN by jeneane o'riley comes out 2/24/26 from bloom books @sourcebooks.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social #romantasy #BeautyAndTheBeast #FirstInASeries #DarkManorChronicles #ReclusiveMillionaire #DesperateBotanist #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 1/1!
book cover for a secret in the garden by jeneane o'riley with golden lettering over a background designed to look like a tooled brown leather book cover with gilt patterns and a frosty red rose in the center with a golden locket under it
December 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Remember when Ron Perlman was the Beast of NY and wooed Linda Hamilton with poetry?
#BeautyandtheBeast #TV
December 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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✨🦭✨🦭✨🦭✨🦭✨🦭✨🦭✨🦭✨🦭✨

selkies! reverse age gap + reverse grumpy/sunshine! alt-Welsh seashore! forced proximity!

if that sounds like your brand of fantasy romance/romantasy, i've got you covered: ✨Lady of Weeds✨ is FREE for the entire month of December!

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✨🦭✨🦭✨🦭✨🦭✨🦭✨🦭✨🦭✨🦭✨
December 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Moments before disaster 🥀
Work-in-progress from a comic retelling of the "Beauty and the Beast" fairytale. Three panels: first shows an older man walking through a stylized rose garden. Second panel is a closeup of his hand holding a pocket knife over a dark rose. Third panel shows the hand holding the dark rose and slicing through the stem, severing it from its bush.
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The Beauty and the Beast by Angela Barrett
December 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Book one in a new series of interconnected standalone fairytale retellings. ATIEH is beauty and the beast meets Anastasia.

💗Bodyguard Romance
🥀Beauty and the Beast meets Anastasia
👩🏻30 y/o FMC
🏡Found Family
💀Touch Her and Die
🌶️SPICY!
🥰HEA

#bookrec #romantasy #booktok #books
April 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
theborrowedrose.bsky.social
Ok, trying a thing. Do we like polls (#beautyandthebeast themed, of course)?

Would you read a sci‑fi Beauty and the Beast retelling?
🚀 Yes, beam me up! | 🌹 No, keep it classic

#fairytaleretelling
December 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Belle / Beauty and the Beast

Cosplay by @Whatserscosplay.bsky.social
Photos by @FoodAndCosplay.org
Taken at @MCMComicCon.bsky.social Birmingham 24

#belle #beautyandthebeast #disneycosplay #cosplay
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
theborrowedrose.bsky.social
“Bryony closed her eyes. I am making an enchanted house sad. God help me.”
@tkingfisher.com, Bryony and Roses

4 star rec - Bryony and Roses!
🌹Beauty is independent + practical
🌹The manor takes a key role, reflecting Beauty's development
🌹Love transcends appearances

#FairytaleRetellings #booksky
Bryony and Roses
Bryony and her sisters have come down in the world. The…
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December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Tonight, so it begins...

#booksky #empireofthedawn
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
theborrowedrose.bsky.social
New blog post where I make confessions and suggest #BeautyandtheBeast mood matches 🌹

www.theborrowedrose.com/2025/11/conf...

#FantasyRomance #FairytaleRetellings
Confessions of a Mood Reader & Beauty and the Beast Recommendations to Match Your Mood
5 Beauty and the Beast recommendations to match your current mood.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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So proud of my writing group! In 10 months we wrote, edited, formatted, designed, and published our collection of #fairytaleretellings. ARCs are loving it! Not Your Ever After is officially available! books2read.com/NotYourEverA...

📚💙 #booksky #anthology #publicationday
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
theborrowedrose.bsky.social
It's a good evening. Package from @worldbooks.bsky.social received w/ 2 books for work learning, 1 for smart thinking and 1 for funsies.

#booksky
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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And for every girlie like me who wanted the Beast to stay the Beast.
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Fab opp last week to hear @misterkristoff.bsky.social talk about hot-off-the-press, Empire of the Dawn via @halfpricebooks.bsky.social. Loved seeing a diverse set of fans & author appreciation of each who brought books & stories to share.

Can't wait to crack open this final chapter. ❤️‍🔥 #booksky
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Here in the states, November is Native American Heritage Month. In honor of this time of year, we ask: what are some of your favorite works of Native American literature? #💙📚 #Booksky #NativeAmericanliterature #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
A screenshot of the Native American literature tag page on LibraryThing, showing ten cover images of books by Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie.
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Well, we did it, kids. After just 6 weeks, Shadowbeast is out!

If you want me to write a sequel, please read and share this one!

If you like:
🫂 a wholesome romance
🐺werewolves
🌹beauty and the beast
🫶happily ever afters
👁️eldritch monsters

Enjoy the book:
amazon.com/dp/B0FWBD9MQ9

#books #booksky
The cover to Shadowbeast, with Darren's shadow wolf form looking at the reader.
October 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM