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richincolor · 10 months

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We have a ton of books on our calendar for July, so I thought it would be fun to highlight a few that caught my eye. Are any of these on your TBR list?

All the Yellow Suns by Malavika Kannan

A coming-of-age story about a queer Indian American girl exploring activism and identity through art, perfect for fans of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. Sixteen-year-old Maya Krishnan is fiercely protective of her friends, immigrant community, and single mother, but she knows better than to rock the boat in her conservative Florida suburb. Her classmate Juneau Zale is the polar opposite: she’s a wealthy white heartbreaker who won’t think twice before capsizing that boat. When Juneau invites Maya to join the Pugilists—a secret society of artists, vandals, and mischief-makers who fight for justice at their school—Maya descends into the world of change-making and resistance. Soon, she and Juneau forge a friendship that inspires Maya to confront the challenges in her own life. But as their relationship grows romantic, painful, and twisted, Maya begins to suspect that there’s a whole different person beneath Juneau’s painted-on facade. Now Maya must learn to speak her truth in this mysterious, mixed-up world—even if it results in heartbreak.

What a Desi Girl Wants Sabina Khan

The romance of Becky Albertalli meets the nuanced family dynamics of Darius the Great is Not Okay in this YA novel from acclaimed author Sabina Khan. Mehar hasn't been back to India since she and her mother moved away when she was only four. Hasn't visited her father, her grandmother, her family, or the home where she grew up. Why would she? Her father made it clear that she's not his priority when he chose not to come to the US with them. But when her father announces his engagement to socialite Naz, Mehar reluctantly agrees to return for the wedding. Maybe she and her father can heal their broken relationship. And after all, her father is Indian royalty, and his home is a palace--the wedding is going to be a once-in-a-lifetime affair. While her father still doesn't make the time for her, Mehar barely cares once she meets Sufiya, her grandmother's assistant, and one of the most grounded, thoughtful, kind people she's ever met! Though they come from totally different worlds, their friendship slowly starts to blossom into something more . . . Mehar thinks. Meanwhile, Mehar's dislike for Naz and her social media influencer daughter, Aleena, deepens. She can tell that the two of them are just using her father for his money. Mehar's starting to think that putting a stop to this wedding might be the best thing for everyone involved. But what happens when telling her father the truth about Naz and Aleena means putting her relationship with Sufiya at risk . . .

Firebird by Sunmi HarperCollins

Caroline Kim is feeling the weight of sophomore year. When she starts tutoring infamous senior Kimberly Park-Ocampo--a charismatic lesbian, friend to rich kids and punks alike--Caroline is flustered . . . but intrigued Their friendship kindles and before they know it, the two are sneaking out for late-night drives, bonding beneath the stars over music, dreams, and a shared desire of getting away from it all. A connection begins to smolder . . . but will feelings of guilt and the mounting pressure of life outside of these adventures extinguish their spark before it catches fire? -- Cover image and summary via Goodreads

A Guide to the Dark by Meriam Metoui Henry Holt

You can check out of Room 9, but you can never leave. The Haunting of Hill House meets Nina LaCour in this paranormal mystery YA about the ghosts we carry with us. Something is building, simmering just out of reach. The room is watching. But Mira and Layla don't know this yet. When the two best friends are stranded on their spring break college tour road trip, they find themselves at the Wildwood Motel, located in the middle of nowhere, Indiana. Mira can't shake the feeling that there is something wrong and rotten about their room. Inside, she's haunted by nightmares of her dead brother. When she wakes up, he's still there. Layla doesn't see him. Or notice anything suspicious about Room 9. The place may be a little run down, but it has a certain charm she can’t wait to capture on camera. If Layla is being honest, she’s too preoccupied with confusing feelings for Mira to see much else. But when they learn eight people died in that same room, they realize there must be a connection between the deaths and the unexplainable things that keep happening inside it. They just have to find the connection before Mira becomes the ninth.

Rana Joon and the One and Only Now by Shideh Etaat

This lyrical coming-of-age novel for fans of Darius the Great Is Not Okay and On the Come Up, set in southern California in 1996, follows a teen who wants to honor her deceased friend’s legacy by entering a rap contest. Perfect Iranian girls are straight A students, always polite, and grow up to marry respectable Iranian boys. But it’s the San Fernando Valley in 1996, and Rana Joon is far from perfect—she smokes weed and loves Tupac, and she has a secret: she likes girls. As if that weren’t enough, her best friend, Louie—the one who knew her secret and encouraged her to live in the moment—died almost a year ago, and she’s still having trouble processing her grief. To honor him, Rana enters the rap battle he dreamed of competing in, even though she’s terrified of public speaking. But the clock is ticking. With the battle getting closer every day, she can’t decide whether to use one of Louie’s pieces or her own poetry, her family is coming apart, and she might even be falling in love. To get herself to the stage and fulfill her promise before her senior year ends, Rana will have to learn to speak her truth and live in the one and only now.

#all the yellow suns #what a desi girl wants #firebird #a guide to the dark #rana joon and the one and only now #book lists

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ben-learns-smth · 1 year

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hypothetically, you're only able to keep 20 of your books. only one book per author/series. so what books are you keeping?

thank you @the---hermit and @selkiestudies for once again testing my inability to choose <3 not being allowed to pick more by one author helped to decide and so did having lots of my faves as epubs only

the long way to a small angry planet (becky chambers)

harrow the ninth (tamsyn muir)

the mask falling (samantha shannon)

was man von hier aus sehen kann (mariana leky)

lakelore (mclemore)

she who became the sun (shelley parker chan)

ich bin linus (linus giese)

disability visablility (alice wong)

the hunger games (suzanne collins)

heimat (nora krug)

das neinhorn (mark uwe kling)

devotions (mary oliver)

you better be lightning (andrea gibson)

ella minnow pea (mark dunn)

gender kram (louie läuger)

the secret life of addie larue (v.e. schwab)

the gloaming (kirsty logan)

reasons to stay alive (matt haig)

liebesgedichte (erich fried)

blutbuch (kim de l'horizon)

in case you haven't done this yet but would liķe to I'm tagging @oneanxiousstudybuddy @septemberstudies and @yourneighborhoodbibliophile

#these are in no particular order #who came up with this torture #jk I'm just whiney about making decisions #bookworm tag #mine

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rebeccadumaurier · 4 months

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2023 Books in Review

a tiered ranking of all the books i read in 2023! originally i was going to write up my commentary on each one but then i was like hahaha.....no, so below the cut is just a list of the titles/authors in each tier instead.

changed my brain chemistry

The Idiot, Elif Batuman

Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang

The Borrowed, Chan Ho-kei (trans. Jeremy Tiang)

My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier

Vagabonds, Hao Jingfang (trans. Ken Liu)

The Membranes, Chi Ta-wei (trans. Ari Larissa Heinrich)

Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng

Severance, Ling Ma

He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan

Vita Nostra, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (trans. Julia Meitov Hersey)

Network Effect, Martha Wells

top-tier stuff

Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell)

Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfitt

The Door, Magda Szabo (trans. Len Rix)

The Lover, Marguerite Duras (trans. Barbara Bray)

Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

Strange Beasts of China, Yan Ge (trans. Jeremy Tiang)

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, Kim Fu

Tell Me I’m Worthless, Alison Rumfitt

Bliss Montage, Ling Ma

How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo

Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer

The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin

My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante

The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri

good, well-written

Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu

Life Ceremony, Sayaka Murata (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)

Yellowface, R. F. Kuang

A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

Assassin of Reality, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (trans. Julia Meitov Hersey)

Witch King, Martha Wells

Tokyo Ueno Station, Miri Yu (trans. Morgan Giles)

Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

Peaces, Helen Oyeyemi

Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi

Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

The Pachinko Parlor, Elisa Shua Dusapin (trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins)

All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Fugitive Telemetry, and System Collapse (Murderbot #1-4, #6-7), Martha Wells

Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee

The Dry Heart, Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye)

Gods of Want, K-Ming Chang

Paradais, Fernanda Melchor (trans. Sophie Hughes)

The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency, Chen Chen

The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon

Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

An Unauthorised Fan Treatise, Lauren James

Upstream, Mary Oliver

The Art of Death, Edwidge Danticat

Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane Alison

alphabet, Inger Christensen (trans. Susanna Nied)

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

flawed, but enjoyable

The Wicker King, K. Ancrum

Exit West, Mohsin Hamid

Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters

Flux, Jinwoo Chong

Bang Bang Bodhisattva, Aubrey Wood

The Murder of Mr. Wickham, Claudia Gray

Natural Beauty, Ling Ling Huang

The Monster Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson

Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Likeness, Tana French

The Cabinet, Un-su Kim (trans. Sean Lin Halbert)

The Kingdom of Surfaces, Sally Wen Mao

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Franny Choi

good, well-written, but not my cup of tea

The Good House, Tananarive Due

The Transmigration of Bodies, Yuri Herrera (trans. Lisa Dillman)

Roadside Picnic, Arkady & Boris Strugatsky (trans. Olena Bormashenko)

The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan

At Night All Blood Is Black, David Diop (trans. Anna Moschovakis)

Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Jenny McPhee)

The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo

The Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier (trans. Harriet de Onís)

Against Silence, Frank Bidart

flawed, less enjoyable

Tenth of December, George Saunders

Counterweight, Djuna (trans. Anton Hur)

Authority, Jeff VanderMeer

Comfort Me with Apples, Catherynne M. Valente

Babel, R. F. Kuang

The Genesis of Misery, Neon Yang

Carrie Soto Is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid

not ranking

These are nonfiction and they aren’t literature-related, so it just felt weird trying to rank them.

Visual Thinking, Temple Grandin

On Web Typography, Jason Santa Maria

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo (trans. Cathy Hirano)

#ange.log #ange.book

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acertainmoshke · 1 year

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Top 10 Favorite Character Essences

Thanks @author-a-holmes for the tag! This is a cool idea, looking for not only what characters I love but which ones add literary value based on their role in the story.

1. Xena from Xena: Warrior Princess

Ok, so admittedly she’s at the top partly because I’ve had a crush on her since I was 15, but that is largely because she falls into my favorite character archetype: she has a dark past that won’t leave her alone and a dark side she’s never fully able to get rid of despite learning to fight for good and protect the innocent and even forgive herself. And yet, she is loved unconditionally anyway for who she is.

2. The Fool from the Farseer Trilogy and its sequel trilogies by Robin Hobb

He’s so mysterious, even he doesn’t know his full backstory. He’s a fascinating, contradictory character who doesn’t even have a real name, and yet he is a real friend when given a chance. He’s the type of person who can decorate a room in beautiful bright colors then never let anyone see it, who can be in love for years and never say anything, who would have a doll just to care for something. Yet his character, despite all its tragedy, doesn’t feel tragic because he doesn’t see himself that way. He’s wise enough to know that life goes on regardless of each person’s feelings or actions, but also that we will still feel and act.

3. Death of the Endless from Sandman (comics and show)

I love that she performs an expected role in an unexpected way. The Sandman universe is full of violence and danger and things out to get you, and somehow actual, literal Death is not one of those things. She’s kind and gentle, and has a real love for humanity and all the life that comes before her job. Her role is necessary and nothing to be afraid of. I also love how she’s reassuring to people But understandably a bit snarky to her brother because that’s just how siblings are.

4. Sister Boniface from Sister Boniface Mysteries

What’s not to love? She’s a nun. She’s a scientist. She solves mysteries. She makes inappropriate puns about death. She’s always upbeat and funny, even when it’s below the dignity of a nun, and often gets herself in trouble, but she’s also kind and determined and genuinely pious. She just wants to experiment in her lab and never accepts no from people who think she shouldn’t.

5. Sidra from A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Sidra was a ship’s AI, sentient but not legally a person. Her original name was Lovelace, Lovey for short, and she was in love with a human so they planned to put her in an illegal body that would let her pass for human and allow them to live together. However, an accident reset her and made her lose her memory and all her character development on the ship. Remaining was too painful for everyone, so she used the body and went to live with some of the crew’s friends.

The thing is, Sidra simultaneously knows a lot about humanity from her former programming and ability to space-google things, but doesn’t know anything about being a person, much less what she wants to do and who she wants to be. So she has to go on a journey of discovery starting from basically zero and learn both who she is and what values she cares about.

6. Caroline Gill from The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

This is actually one of my favorite books ever and I must have read it like 10 times by now. The premise is that in a snowstorm in the 60’s a doctor is forced to deliver his own twins with only a nurse to assist. When he discovers his daughter has Down syndrome, to spare his wife the pain of her dying young, he sends the nurse to take her to an asylum and tells his wife the baby died. The nurse, Caroline, can’t leave a child in such a horrible place and instead runs away to raise her. The story follows all of them over the next 20 years and how that one decision ripples through each of their lives.

I like Caroline specifically because she’s so ordinary. She’s just a regular person whose dreams have not come true, but thrown into an impossible situation she chooses compassion and becomes as strong as she needs to in order to be there for her adopted daughter (who does not die young), whether that’s fighting for accommodations or recognizing her agency as she grows up. That decision not only gives her a family, but leads her to finding love and friendship and a home she’d always longed for in a way she never would have imagined.

7. Root from Person of Interest

Based purely on her attributes on paper, she should be a flat and boring character but she’s actually the best thing about this show. She willingly gave up her free will to do the bidding of the omniscient AI she sees as a god. She doesn’t require any context or explanation before following The Machine’s orders, but also she (The Machine has a gender that only Root acknowledges) taught her morality, when it’s not ok to kill, and that she should act in the best interests of humanity rather than do whatever seems fun in the moment. That’s the other thing, though. She has fun listening to The Machine, fighting bad guys, and being part of the bigger picture. She enjoys it all too much for anyone else’s comfort, but it makes for a fascinating character.

8. King Ezran from The Dragon Prince

Ok I have so many Feelings about this show in general and all its characters, but I feel like Ezran as a ruler is revolutionary. His father was a good king who made sacrifices to protect his kingdom and people, even at the expense of others, and Ezran just refuses to do that. Despite being very young, he is perfectly aware of the stakes and responsibility involved in ruling, and always tries to take care of his people, but he refuses to do it by throwing others under the bus. He understands that even their enemies have suffered much as they have and he always, always chooses kindness, even when he or his kingdom is being actively threatened. He looks for why someone would do something bad when hurt and scared and wants to fix the underlying problem, even when the adults around him say violence is the only answer.

9. Lying Cat from the Saga comics by Brian Vaughan & Fiona Staples

Lying Cat has no business being in this story, amazing though it is. It’s a story of love and tragedy, but she’s funny. Her species’ deal is that they can tell when a person isn’t telling the truth and announce that by saying, “Lying.” She’s not only there for comic relief, though. She is loyal and fierce and has her own agency—though she spends most of it as the sidekick to a bounty hunter who adores her, she later chooses who she would rather be companions with. It’s a different, weird concept that actually really works and adds some lightness and a different kind of love to the story.

10. Antimony “Annie” Carver from Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell

Much like Ezran, she’s just so kind all the time, especially to those who need or deserve it, regardless of the politics of the adults around her. She loses a lot and faces a lot of tough choices as basically the only person who belongs to the technology of the court and the magic of the forest across the ravine, but she always asks someone how she can help even when they’re being cruel or scary or actively wanting to threaten her. All that said, she’s still very strong and can stand up to bullies and put them in their place as needed. She’s also not a flatly kind character and struggles with trauma and friendship and loss. And although she’s very loyal to people who show her kindness, she has no qualms about breaking rules that are cruel or just unnecessary.

I’m leaving this tag open—anyone who wants to feel free to make your own list like this!

#moshke writes #tag game

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ub-sessed · 1 year

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My favourite books over the past year:

The Murderbot Diaries series, by Martha Wells

The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin

The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy

The English Understand Wool, by Helen Dewitt

Dodger, by Terry Pratchett

The Cat's Table, by Michael Ondaatje

Something to Do with Paying Attention, by David Foster Wallace

Books I read over the past year+ that I enjoyed less (arranged from "really not bad" to "omg I wish I hadn't read this"):

Mort, by Terry Pratchett

The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapkowski

The Amulet of Samarkand, by Jonathan Stroud

The Twisted Ones, by T. Kingfisher

All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy

Cities of the Plain, by Cormac McCarthy

A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway

The Lost Man, by Jane Harper

Blood of Elves, by Andrzej Sapkowski

Sword of Destiny, by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Time of Contempt, by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, by Hank Green

Books I tried to read over the past year but didn't like enough to bother finishing (in alphabetical order by author):

Another Country, by James Baldwin

A Natural History of Dragons, by Marie Brennan

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers

Clockwork Angel, by Cassandra Clare

Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

White Noise, by Don DeLillo

Black Leopard, Red Wolf, by Marlon James

Beyond, by Mercedes Lackey

Foundation, by Mercedes Lackey

The Diviners, by Margaret Laurence

Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie

Circe, by Madeline Miller

Runaway, by Alice Munro

Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz

Gideon the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

Tempests and Slaughter, by Tamora Pierce

Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Raven Boys, by Maggie Stiefvater

Dracula, by Bram Stoker

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History, by Cassia St. Clair

Strange the Dreamer, by Laini Taylor

The Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner

The Way of Shadows, by Brent Weeks

The Martian, by Andy Weir

The Cloud Roads, by Martha Wells

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, by Alex White

A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, by Sue Wilkes

#books #I'm putting these here in hopes that they will help me figure out how to predict what books i might like #i enjoyed 6 out of the 47 books i tried to read last year

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messy-does-cosmology · 1 year

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17 questions

I got tagged by 3 people to do this, so thanks @nietxsche, @humble-boness and @witchylillie.

nickname: I don't have one tbh. My actual name is Mac, idk how to even make that any shorter.

sign: scorpio. Yeah it's my birthday on Saturday.

height: 5 feet 5

last thing you googled: I use duckduckgo but I googled "how to stop mac going to sleep (my laptop not me) because I realised my code runs twice as fast when not on the "screen" thing.

song stuck in your head: Valentine, Texas by Mitski

no. of followers: ~1.5k, but I never purge bots, so take that with a grain of salt.

amount of sleep: as many hours as possible and then maybe a nap under my desk at like, 3pm.

lucky number: 7

dream job: what I am doing right now! A PhD student! I get to study what I love and I have so much love to give!

wearing: Jumper and thermals and I am in bed.

movies/books that summarize you: I really dk what to put for this. I love the red mars series, I found it very impactful on myself and my politics.

favorite song: I love you, Honeybear by Father John Misty

aesthetic: mmm I do not really understand this. I would say that if my blog had an aesthetic, it would be sort of light academia? I just love bright colours and stuff.

favorite authors: Kim Stanley Robinson, Becky Chambers, S.F. Said

favorite animal noise: cats doing a tiny meow

random: I am literally so excited about my code running. It's going to be done in about 6 hours 20 minutes and then I am going to be able to make SUCH cool graphs with it.

@fock-space-cowboy , @tens-tensor-tensest , @metastablephysicist , @booksnscience , @grubloved , @godel-rhymes-with-turtle , @tryingmybestblr , @mathblrbpd , @academedical, @randomstudyblr , @electroweak , @betelgeusbee

Ok that's enough. Anyone else who sees this can consider themselves tagged too. Or Else.

#tag game

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i-am-gek · 1 year

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When I'm not reading fanfiction, I'm reading published novels. Many by Becky Albertalli, who most probably know as the author of Simon and the Homosapiens Agenda (more colloquially know by its adapted film title Love, Simon). Just recently, she published another book- Imogen, Obviously. If you've ever wondered what it's like to suffer from comphet here's you're way to experience it. Ever struggled with feeling as if the queer community doesn't accept you? Here you go. Ever wondered what that "aha" moment of realizing your gay is like? Especially for those of us who didn't catch on watching Shigo and Kim Possible fight, or from Princess Bubblegum and Marcelene being girlfriends, or liking Bella better alone than with Edward or Jacob.

Reading this was like seeing my own story from the outside.

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bookgeekgrrl · 2 years

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My media this week (10-16 Jul 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Proper Scoundrels (Roaring Twenties Magic #1) (Allie Therin, author; Joel Froomkin, narrator) - just really love this universe, would happily read a dozen books set here. absolutely delighted by cranky, cynical Wesley, even as early on I kept shouting 'oh Wesley, NO!'

🥰 Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot #17) (Agatha Christie, author; Hugh Fraser, narrator) - love this one because you can really see how much AC loved dogs

💖💖 +99K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Exhale (seapigeon) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 15K - after the Battle of New York, SGR quits SHIELD, and starts to put a life back together for himself, including art classes. Bucky's the life drawing model.

I'm Not Asking (AidaRonan) - OFMD, Oluwande/Jim, 2K - ABSOLUTELY FUCKING INCREDIBLE story about Jim deciding on top surgery. Constantly in awe of how well Aida can fit so much emotional depth AND absolute fucking hilarity in so few words. Actual magic IMO.

Jeffrey Nullier's "Man With Fedora" (copperbadge) - White Collar, gen, 17K - just a really fun, well-written White Collar fic

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Becky Chambers and Martha Wells discuss A PRAYER FOR THE CROWN-SHY (hosted by Print Bookstore)

Only Murders In The Building - s2, e1-4: absolutely delighted to be back at the Arconia with all these weirdos

What We Do In The Shadows - s4, e1-2: 🎶reunited and it feels so good🎶

Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual

The Brokenwood Mysteries - s8, e3

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

This is Good for You - Ep 34: DJing Is Good For You

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Sleight of Ear

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - House the Giants Built

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Amir Siraj and the Interstellar Object

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Places Team Favorite Atlas Entries

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Congo Square

99% Invisible #497 - Hometown Village

99% Invisible #498 - The Octagon House

Ologies with Alie Ward - Lutrinology (OTTERS) with Chris J. Law

Switched on Pop - ICYMI: The 90s’ Most Unlikely Hit (with Baz Luhrmann)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Disabled Hikers

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - MicroHertz #2: To the ISS!

Shedunnit Book Club - At The Old Bailey

You're Dead To Me - Captain Cook's First Voyage

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Star Trek Original Series Set Tour

Switched on Pop - Harry and the Sledgehammer Horns

99% Invisible #499 - Say Aloe to My Little Frond

Song Exploder - mxmtoon "Mona Lisa"

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Black Star Square

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Vilcabamba

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Shock Horror (A)

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Doo-Wop

Pop Radio • Pump-up station

R&B Radio • Workout station

my Energy Mix #2

Workout Mix #3

Alternative Radio • 1990s

my Mix #3

Harry's House [Harry Styles]

Earth, Wind & Fire Radio • Upbeat

#sunday reading recap #bookgeekgrrl's reading habits #bookgeekgrrl's soundtracks #seriously that ofmd fic was so great‚ everyone should read it #fascinated how some audiobook narrators use different 'pen names' for different genres‚ like authors #all the great tv is coming back and i'm so pleased #really gotta give it to ytmusic's algorithm for curating some fucking banger playlists and stations based on my tastes #song exploder #20k hz podcast #atlas obscura podcast #you're dead to me podcast #switched on pop podcast #this is good for you podcast #shedunnit podcast #ologies podcast #99% invisible podcast

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travelingviabooks · 2 years

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My Five Star Reads

Organized by Author’s Surname

Masters of Death by Olivie Blake

One For My Enemy by Olivie Blake

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

Empire of Shadows by Jacquelyn Benson

The Untold by Courtney Collins

Rice Noodle Fish by Matt Goulding

The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini

Cowboys are My Weakness by Pam Houston

Deep Creek by Pam Houston

Human Acts by Han Kang

milk and honey by Rupi Kaur

The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami

The Plotters by Un-Su Kim

Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun

A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin

The Honey Bus by Meredith May

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

Bravely by Maggie Stiefvater

I Want To Eat Your Pancreas by Yoru Sumino

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

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hallyuhighlights · 4 months

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On January 11, 2018, it was announced that Jeon would be re-debuting in Cube Entertainment's new girl group (G)I-dle, as a rapper and its leader. She was credited in writing the lyrics, music, and arrangement for both their debut song "Latata" and their next single "Hann," both of which were well received and commercially successful. She also helped write five songs from (G)I-dle's debut extended play I Am. On August 8, 2018, it was announced that Jeon would participate in a girl group project called Station Young for SM Station's X 0 alongside Red Velvet's Seulgi, Kim Chung-ha, and GFriend's SinB. Station Young released their first song, "Wow Thing," on September 28, 2018.

After their debut, Jeon and fellow (G)I-dle member Miyeon were approached by Riot Games to collaborate with American artists Jaira Burns and Madison Beer as part of the virtual girl group K/DA for the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. K/DA officially debuted with the song "Pop/Stars" during the 2018 League of Legends World Championship on November 3. The official music video for "Pop/Stars" was released on the same day, reaching 30 million views on YouTube in five days and 100 million in one month. The single release of the song reached number one on Billboard's World Digital Songs chart. The K/DA incarnation of the character Akali, whose vocals were performed by Jeon, proved to be especially popular, becoming a frequent subject of fan art and cosplay.

In 2019, Jeon took on the role of composer for CLC's "No," a selection made through a blind test, serving as the lead single for the group's EP No.1. In March of the same year, Jeon publicly apologized for using a pirated version of the German music-producing software Kontakt. She expressed regret on her online fan community site, acknowledging her use of the illegal copy during her early days of learning songwriting. Jeon clarified that she had unintentionally retained the program but assured that, since fully dedicating herself to composing, she had exclusively used authorized software. The apology followed the revelation in a behind-the-scenes YouTube video for the I Made EP, produced by the agency, where icons of the illegally copied software were visible on her laptop screen. The agency promptly removed the video and issued an apology.

Jeon reprised her role as Akali in the League of Legends collaborative hip hop group True Damage. Collaborating with Becky G, Keke Palmer, Thutmose, and Duckwrth, they released a single titled "Giants" along with an animated music video on November 10, 2019. The track, predominantly in English, includes verses in Spanish and Korean. On the same day, the group performed at the 2019 League of Legends World Championship finals in Paris, France, marking Jeon's second consecutive year participating in the opening ceremony of the World Championship finals. "Giants" debuted at number fifteen and nineteen on Billboard's Rap and R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Songs Sales charts, respectively.

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wildcards1407 · 1 year

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Travel Documents 128: Yet You Cry When It Hurts

by Susan Kaye Quinn

Genre: sci-fi, near-future, hope-punk, social change, cultural change

The Dust Cover Copy

When the world is drowning, diplomacy is more than handshakes and headlines.

Nitara Desai has spent her life negotiating international agreements, easing points of conflict, and averting disasters. Worst-case scenarios belong in her nightmares, not the IEC’s daily reports. On a calm day, being a director at the International Energy Consortium only requires fixing CarbonCon translators for flustered Brazilian delegates. A thankless job, but the world is still drowning in CO2—there’s no choice but to keep treading.

On a bad day, it’s not just the Brazilians acting up, but the Americans walking out, and now the Governor of Southern California insisting on a clandestine meeting. Then a text comes from Matti, her solid rock in the stormy seas: Guess what? We’re getting married!

Suddenly, an earthquake is slow-rolling through her personal life as well.

She waited too long: to tell Matti how she feels, to quit the unwinnable race to net zero, to grab hold of the things that make life worth living, not just trying to stay afloat. When the governor reveals an impossible technology that could save the planet, but it’s in the hands of a murderously ambitious man, it’s a catastrophe she can’t turn away from. And it’s almost enough to distract her from everything falling apart. Work first, always.

And maybe that’s been the problem all along.

Yet You Cry When It Hurts is the fourth of four tightly-connected hopepunk novels in a near-future climate-fiction series. It’s about our future, how the forces of greed are ever-present, how the fight for a just world never ends, and how it’s not strongmen who will save us but the bright cords of connection that hold the world together.

If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Nothing is Promised.

The Scene

Worldbuilding

Happy sigh

Oh, I love it when a series wraps up well.

In each book of this series, the intertwined threads of lives involved have grown the fabric of this world into a lovely tapestry. Now the fabric’s complete, and the tapestry of resolve, insistence on a better future and radical cooperation is beautiful. Quinn’s work in showing a world where we finally see unbridled ambition, racial superiority, and jingoism for what they are—poisons in our collective bloodstream that need to be counteracted—is something to see. And the fact that the author has pulled it off while telling a fun adventure story makes it that much better. In this final book of the series, all the threads are pulled together and tied off, wrapping up the plotline in a delightfully satisfying way.

The Crowd

Characterization

Though main characters from each of the other books will make their appearances in this installment, the work revolves around Nitara Desai: consummate diplomat. Devoted friend. Implacable opponent. She is the perfect character to carry the narrative thread to completion. Quinn keeps that quintessential balance of intimate and public plot points that have characterized the story, reminding us that the characters (like us) are whole people, and that a dire national event isn’t more important than a personal struggle: it’s just more public.

Arrayed against Nitara and her tight-knit team are characters who embody the devils of our human nature: the greed, the self-absorption, the arrogance and the shortsightedness that has held us back for generations. They are written well enough that, as you read the dialogue, you think ‘man, I’ve heard stuff like that on the news’. And then you shiver.

Writing Style

Smoothed out since the first book, the style canters along at a beautifully smooth clip, pulling readers along for a race for something truly incredible, and leaving you with bright eyes and a smile at the finish line.

The Moves

Plot

With incredible scientific wonders, dastardly plots designed to jumpstart techno-feudalism, political disaster and murderous weather right around the corner, this energetic plotline rolls along at a perfect clip without losing sight of its characters’ humanity.

Overall Rating

A story worth reading. A future worth working for. Check it out.

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Sixteen Timeless Saint Laurent Bags To Invest In This Season

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Becky's debut novel (Sugar Sugar fic)

A/N: So, @thelastsock gave me such a great idea: a snippet of Becky's book. So I have a snippet here, including a front cover, back cover and a little dedication page (because I am extra like that 😂😂, what else do you expect from me). Hope you like it xoxo

Chapter 1

YOU ARE NOT WELCOME.

Those are the exact words that greet me when I walk up our porch to our front door. Let’s just say that my mom has a special way of welcoming her quests. I step over the slightly offensive doormat to get inside. Not a lot of people would expect this kind of welcome from the mayor, but then again: no one expected her to win the elections in our town Starfall Fields in the first way.

Not to be mean, but even I never believed in my mom and not for a second did I think she had any chance of winning. Mom has been quite the controversy the second she moved into town. How on earth would she be able to be the mayor?

Weirdly enough, she hasn’t made a complete fool out of herself in these two months she has been mayor. Actually, she’s been doing quite well. It’s just that her housekeeping skills have been lower than low.

I open the refrigerator and scrunch up my nose when I notice there is barely anything edible in here. Great.

I grab my phone and send my mom a text.

Josie: You need to do groceries

Mom: Do it yourself, you lazy bitch

Mom: Still love you though 😘

I chuckle as I read her text. She’s quite something, my mom, and if we don’t call each other bitch at least once a day, there’s something up and we should worry.

People might find it odd that we call one another bitch, but it’s just our way of showing our affection towards the other.

Somehow I find some left over yogurt that isn’t expired already. I peel a banana (to only throw half of it away, because it’s brown and squishy, therefore absolutely repulsive) and cut it into slices. I drizzle some maple syrup on top of it and want to add some raisins, but when I open the jar, I find out there is only one raisin left in it.

‘Mom,’ I whine, though she can’t hear me. ‘Really?’ This is just absolutely fantastic. After a long day at school, a girl can barely enjoy a nice little afternoon snack. I grab my bowl and walk over to the dining table. My butt barely touched the soft seating of the chair, when my best friend Andy FaceTimes me. I place the phone against the fruit bowl before I press answer. ‘What do you want?’ I ask him. ‘You literally saw me half an hour ago.’

He smiles, two dimples appearing in his full cheeks. ‘You know I can’t get enough of you, sugar.’

Andy and I have been best friends since I can remember, but that is mostly because we’ve been in the same class the moment we both stepped foot into kindergarten and we’re neighbors. We’re literally the two houses in a radius of around half a mile (yes, we took the time to measure it) and he isn’t the worst guy to hang around with.

Okay, he is the only one that doesn’t make me that angry, I have to fight the urge to claw his eyes out. I’m not gonna beat around the bush: I love hanging out with him.

While we see each other the moment we step out of our houses to go to school, share every class of the day with one another and we walk from school back to our houses, it’s hard to function without the other one. Therefore, we usually FaceTime the second we can after separating.

We’re quite the symbiotic pair.

‘Spit it out, Andy. What do you want?’ I ask.

‘I was wondering what your plans are,’ Andy says. ‘Mainly for tonight.’

I can’t help but chuckle. ‘There was a plan of me hanging on the couch, watching a movie with my best friend while we eat junk food, but your voice is telling me that you have something else in mind for the two of us.’

He nods. ‘I was thinking about you and I doing some FindUrPricing tonight.’

‘FindUrPricing is not a word, you idiot.’

‘I don’t care, miss Doyle,’ he retorts with a sassy undertone. He shakes his head, gestures I have to wait (like I’m going anywhere) and comes back into frame, this time with a tablet in his hands. ‘I have like five of these things, so what do you say? Want to bury them tonight, while we try to find something cool for it in return?’

Andy has this obsession with solving puzzles in newspapers like the old soul he is and since he is quite good and really fast, he has won multiple prizes, including multiple tablets.

‘Only if I find a diamond ring,’ I answer with my mouth full of yogurt.

‘Yeah, that’s attractive. You’ll find yourself a boyfriend in no time with those manners.’

I show him the finger. ‘I don’t need etiquette lessons from you,’ I say.

Andy sticks out his tongue. ‘Are you coming with me tonight?’ he asks me. ‘You know I need you.’

I chuckle. Andy is a disaster when it comes to being in the dark, but since FindUrPrice is just more fun at night, I have become his personal guard. ‘Okay, okay, but only if I can sleep at your place tonight. I have no idea what time my mom will be back from work.’

Andy’s parents are going to the opera’s tonight and afterwards, they’re staying in a hotel near the big city. Normally, they aren’t the type of people to go to the opera’s, but when their son wins tickets, including a stay in one of the most luxurious hotels in the area, who are they to say no?

Since I have no idea what time my mom manages to pull herself from city hall (to say she is a workaholic is an understatement), I’d rather sleep at Andy’s, then telling her we’ve been wandering on the street late at night.

Especially on a school night.

Sure, my mom knows about FindUrPrice, but she forbade me to ever do it late at night, because “you never know what can happen”. I personally think it’s not that big of a deal, since Starfall Fields is boring as hell and absolutely harmless, but my mother wouldn’t be my mother if she didn’t envision my death.

FindUrPrice is an app for the younger folks in our city and the few around. The organization hid a few gifts and presents and whenever you follow the leads and find something, you have to place something nice in return. It’s cute and me and Andy do it from time to time.

‘You’re coming over now?’ Andy asks.

‘To help you do your laundry?’ I ask, nodding towards the screen, mainly towards the enormous pile of clothes on his bed. ‘Didn’t think so. See you in a few hours, Andy.’

‘Please,’ he begs, right at the same time as I hear his mom in the background yelling for him. ‘Yes, wait a minute!’ he yells. ‘Can I live with you? I feel like your mother never pushes you to do chores around the house.’

‘That’s because I do them voluntarily. If mom doesn’t do laundry, no one does it. If mom doesn’t clean the toilet, no one does it. Believe me, with a mom who all of the sudden turns a bit blind when it comes house chores, there is more to do here than there is at your place. Don’t you dare whine about it, Andrew Carter.’

We hang up and I grab a magazine from the table, reading through some of the articles. How to painlessly bikini wax yourself, how to get rid of strawberry legs, how to get yourself a man in a week.

Geez, mom, why do you read this?

No wait, better question: mom, why haven’t you gotten yourself a man in a week? This issue is three months old.

My phone rings again and without looking I answer, since I know exactly who is calling me. ‘Andy, I’m not helping you with your laundry,’ I say. ‘Shirts, sweaters and other items for your upper body go on a hanger and the rest with clothespins on a drying rack. How many times do I have to tell you that?’

‘Thank you for this wise, yet unnecessary lesson in laundry,’ mom says and I can hear her smile in her voice. ‘But laundry is your chore, so I pretend I didn’t hear it.’

‘What do you want?’ I ask my mom.

‘Wanted to know your plans for tonight.’

‘I was planning on hanging out with Andy,’ I say. Go outside, do some FindUrPricing. ‘Watch a movie. Probably sleep at his place. He is home alone, you know how he gets.’

Mom snorts. ‘Oh, do I know. How old was he when he rang our doorbell, nearly crying because he was afraid of the dark?’

‘The last time was a few months ago,’ I chuckle. ‘Why do you want to know my plans for tonight?’

‘You know,’ mom starts and I do know. ‘There is still a lot to do here at city hall.’

‘Right,’ I say, ‘and you wanted to know whether or not I mind. Mom, I’m your daughter, I truly don’t care.’

‘I’ll make it up to you,’ she says, mostly because she is trying to feel less guilty.

And I wouldn’t be her daughter if I wasn’t going to totally exploit her sweet offer. ‘So, you’re making breakfast for me and Andy tomorrow?’

She sighs. ‘Goodness gracious, really? I’m going to pull an all nighter.’

‘You wanted to be mayor and you’re also a mother. Deal with it.’

Mom scoffs. ‘And here I was thinking I was gonna get some sympathy from my daughter.’

‘Ew never,’ I say.

‘Well, I might just make breakfast for you, only if you eat it here. I might be your chef, but I’m not a waiter and I’m certainly not gonna walk it to the Carters.’

I scoff. ‘Okay, I think I can live with that.’

‘Alright, enjoy your night, Josie and don’t make it too late okay? Ten o’clock lights out, okay?’

No. ‘Of course. Bye mom.’

I look at the picture on the dining table. Despite not being blood related, my mom and I are really close. According to Andy’s mom, it never seemed like my mom would settle down. She moved to this boring place a few years prior to finding me on her doorstep. She was thirty and didn’t have a husband (nor had any intention of settling down with anyone—she turned down a lot of men who asked her out in Starfall Fields). Even back then, she was already a workaholic and worked over time as the mayor’s assistant.

One day, when she was getting herself ready for work, she heard soft cries from her front porch and when she checked it out, there was yours truly.

I was around a year old and in the cradle, there was a note saying that whoever found me, to take good care of me. My DNA wasn’t available in any database, just like there were no matches at all.

I have no idea who I am, who my biological family is and where I’m from.

Mom adopted me, because I only felt safe with her and since that moment, we were a duo.

A year and a half ago she became the mayor and since then she is everywhere in Starfall Fields, except home. I barely see her, but she does a lot for this town and I don’t think I have the right to whine about it, especially because it means many many sleepovers with Andy and many nights wandering around the woods to play FindUrPrice.

Sure, I miss her from time to time, because she’s still my mom. From someone who was home a lot, would wait for me on the porch no matter the weather when I came back from school and had chocolate pie ready for me and Andy, she changed to a real career woman who is everywhere in town.

But that’s okay, she’s happy and when she is, I am too. I should be, especially after everything she has done for me.

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bihoodnerd · 2 years

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On benevolent whites interacting with semi-brown media

This is gonna be long, but I’ma break it up into lil chunks cause my brain can’t deal with big paragraphs.

Now, I am not in a lot of fandoms. I have had media hyperfixations for a very long time and i tried being in fandom once or twice, but it never felt right. So me, in simple terms, I’m mexican, african american, bi, nonbinary and neurodivergent. In my terms, I’m a detribalized purepecha, blackfoot, black, fuck-gender, colonial-called-crazy kid.

And fandom is mostly white.

I decided as a college junior to limit my white media consumption to 10 per year (which faltered a bit in the pandemic) because white media bores me. I’ve never really found anyone like me in movies or shows or books until Trini in the 2017 power rangers.

And this was probably where I started to notice it. At this point, I was in Honolulu, getting my masters in creative writing and learning more about colonialism and decolonization. And I noticed that the queer white authors did some weird stuff in the trimberly fics.

At the begining people would use “the latina” as a narritive epithet for Trini, while never calling Kim “the indian” cause I guess they had some sense. They’d also use this weird spanish for Trini dispite the fact that she and no one in her family ever spoke spanish in the movie. They also could never get her character quite right, and that is for a simple reason.

Becky G is mexican, Trini is mexican, both are born in the US and that is a tricky nuance for white people to understand becuase they don’t spend enough time around chicanxs (latines don’t get on my ass for this, I use x in english and e in spanish).

All this to say that one cannot remove a character from their culture.

And this all repeated with Luz Noceda and now Encanto. They inserted Luz into Miguel’s role in Coco (being Dominican and Mexican are not the same). Encanto is being analyzed by white people with no regard for its history. And don’t even get me started on the white washing fanart of all of these.

I was actually regularly “yelled” at for telling people to color Trini darker.

But Encanto has hit really hard lately. Because I don’t even want to watch it. I don’t want to see characters who are culturally adjacent to me get stripped down for queer white consumption.

But of course I’m on tumblr and it finds its way to me. And I saw someone analyzing Encanto in one of the most frustrating ways possible. With zero context.

If you love Encanto and don’t know who Gabriel Garcia Marquez is then what the actual fuck are you doing? Isabel Allende? Anna Marie McLemore?

I did not sit through an entire year of IB English listening to people misunderstand GGM and IsaAll for yall to continue doing the same shit.

All of my friends know to never mention magical realism to me unless they want me to go on a huge ass rant. I’ll condense it. I don’t think MR is a literary technique, I think it’s a cultural aspect. Classic MR comes from South America for a very specific reason: Spanish Colonialism.

Spanish colonialism is somewhat different in its tactics, because they decided to paint over the indigenous religions with catholicism. And in that way the spiritual practices are always kinda rubbing against one another. You see this also in the caste system of latin america. And that’s why when people ask me what religion I am I say, I’m culturally catholic, but I hate it. And then if they ask me if I believe in ghosts, I’m like duh, I’m mexican.

GGM is also Columbian. Just like Encanto. So why don’t queer white people go researching Columbia and its original people? What gives white people the audacity to think that they can just de-contextualize something from a culture they may not have even thought of and make proclamations about it? And I know the answer and if you know the answer, I’m sorry friend, and if you don’t: figure it out, cause I’m not gonna tell you.

Sigh. Like I don’t even wanna read fics anymore. That used to be one of my favorite things. And now it’s the same bullshit over and over. Yall ruin everything.

Go educate yourselves and leave my brown kids alone

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therefugeofbooks · 3 years

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I read some amazing books in August, but I was in a weird mood for most of it. So at the beginning of this month, I gave myself a break to rethink my priorities. I think I've been facing reading as a daily chore, and with all the other things in my life, I feel tired. I'm working through a way to be here on Tumblr (that makes me want to read more and more) and my enjoyment for reading.

Anyway, talking about all the books I read in August under the cut!

In reading order:

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

It's a super interesting thriller set in an Indian reservation and dealing with violence, drugs, corruption, and what justice means. I liked all the twists of the story, although the pacing felt a little bit off in the middle.

Read if you want: short thrillers, vigilante stories.

The Ancestors by Tananarive Due, Brandon Massey and L.A Banks

There are three novellas in this book, and I enjoyed Tananarives's story about ghosts and ancestors. It was spooky and tense, and it lived up to my expectations. Brandon Massey's one had cool elements, but it never really got suspenseful. And L. A Banks's story was not for me.

Felix After Ever by Kacen Callender (x) (x)

I loved this book so much! It deals with painful topics, but the problems and teenagers are so realistic! I laughed, got mad, and cried, and it made me feel so many things and go back to my teenage years. In the end, this is a beautiful story with a message about loving yourself, being open to constantly discover more about yourself, and accepting that we deserve love, an easy and comfortable love.

Read if you want: realistic ya, trans characters, characters questioning their identity, ya about art.

Championess by Tarun Shanker, Kelly Zekas and Amanda Perez Puentes

It's a fun and short graphic novel! See my review here.

Read if you want: historical fiction with non-white protagonists, women challenging gender norms, action graphic novels.

In Deeper Waters by F. T. Lukens

I don't usually go for romance with fantasy, but the blurb mentioned Pirates of the Caribbean, and I got excited! I thought the prince was a bit annoying and naive, but Athlen's story is cool. The resolution of the problem at the end was a bit off for me, but at least it was a happy ending.

Read if you want: lighthearted romance with fantasy.

The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

This story, unfortunately, fell flat for me. I didn't care for the characters and the magical aspect of it was so underused! I kept listening to the audiobook waiting for some interesting turn of events, but it never happened.

Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin

This book was so good!!! I think I loved the family aspects of it the most and the sense of community. I loved how family stories and secrets are a theme throughout the book! And Hana is such a lovely character, and I cheered for her all the time! I'm soft for stories with podcats, and I loved that she works in the radio industry!

Read if you want: family secrets and stories, enemy to lovers, stories dealing with food, podcast and radio shows.

When Tara met Farah by Tara Pammi

It also fell flat for me. It started with some embarrassing scenes, but at least I was laughing. But it became too cheesy, and the writing was not that good. I was excited about the cultural aspects, and although there are some entertaining themes regarding that, I had to push through the second half of it.

Sadie by Courtney Summers

This book is devastating! It touches on some heavy topics, like abuse, pedophilia, and rape. I knew from the beginning that there'd be some kind of abuse, but all the indications leading to the final revelation shocked me. I liked the structure of the narration, changing from the podcast to Sadie's narration. I loved Sadie as a character. Also, I liked the commentary about how this is a common and overseen story. It's a sad book but beautifully written.

Read if you want: ya thrillers, revenge stories.

The Summer of You by Nagisa Furuya

Read my review here.

The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

It was an emotional and very slow-paced story. It deals with complicated feelings, family relationships, mother and daughter dynamics, immigrant life, and family secrets.

Read if you want: family secrets, complicated family dynamics, immigrant stories.

Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

This book wrecked me emotionally. It deals with an abusive relationship and the dark side of the music industry. It's the second book by Tiffany D. Jackson that left me devastated, and she's becoming one of my favorite authors. Read the trigger warnings if you're interested.

Read if you want: the dark side of the music industry, ya thrillers/mysteries.

Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia

I chose to read this book because of the ace mc and the spooky vibes, and I liked Zora a lot. I don't know what exactly I didn't enjoy about the story, but I didn't care much for the other characters or the mystery.

Re-read:

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (x) (x) (x)

Disponíveis em Português (links para os meus reviews no skoob):

O Mar me Levou a Você de Pedro Rhuas (x)

Quem Matou Capitão Gancho? de Anna Anchieta (x)

A Mariana Errada de Julia Braga (x)

And feel free to talk to me about the books of this list :)

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