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“Love is our Resistance”

- Muse

#Sailor Moon #c: Usagi Tsukino #c: Mamoru Chiba #gif #mangaedit

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May TBR | Asian Readathon

I usually make a separate post for readathons but not this time. Its my focus for this month. Especially for the nonfiction I’ve included. But first- In the Name of the Father (And of the Son) by Immanuel Mifsud, trans. Gatt, A Back from his fathers funeral, the narrator starts reading a diary his father kept during his days as a soldier during the Second World War. The diary is very scant,…

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#Asian Readathon #Books #Readathon #TBR

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Public enemy #1 Zhu Chongba

#She Who Became the Sun #c: Zhu Chongba #fan art #art

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bnha characters 2/?

Katsuki Bakugo 

#My Hero Academia #c: Bakugō Katsuki #mangaedit

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every book i have read (or can remember reading) with a d/Deaf/hoh main character:

el deafo - cece bell - children’s - graphic novel memoir of bell’s experience as a raised-oral profound deaf kid in the 70s (i think?)

you don’t know everything, jilly p.! - alex gino - children’s fiction - a hearing white girl who has a deaf sister and her messy friendship with a Black Deaf boy.

give me a SIGN - anna sortino- ya fiction - main character has hereditary progressive hearing loss, and is a counselor at a deaf summer camp where she improves her asl and engages more with the wider Deaf community.

you’re welcome, universe - whitney gardner - ya fiction - a Deaf of Deaf high schooler is expelled from her private school for graffiti and starts mainstream school; outside of school, she is engaged in a graffiti battle all over town with a mysterious fellow artist who keep ruining her pieces.

the silence between us - alison gervais - ya fiction - main character is late deafened; after moving states, she attends mainstream school for the first time since losing her hearing, where she faces a lack of accessibility and the ignorance of her classmates.

the words in my hands - asphyxia - ya fiction - deaf raised-oral main character who meets a coda and begins to learn auslan, involve herself in the Deaf community, and participate in community activism.

true biz - sara novic - adult fiction - follows the community at a deaf institution. main characters include the CODA headmistress, a fourth-generation Deaf student whose popularity somewhat stems from being from a deaf “legacy” family, and a language-deprived student who failed out of mainstream school.

the sign for home - blair fell - adult fiction - DeafBlind main character who takes a college writing course that helps him explore his past trauma from his childhood and the deaf institution he grew up at.

#books #book recs #deaf/hoh

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16 days to go until THE CROWS is re-released, so I thought I'd do a countdown with the book's timeline. OTD in Pagham-on-Sea, Carrie tries to come to terms with the fact her house is alive.

"Carrie lay awake inside a sleeping house, listening to its ticking heartbeat keeping time to her pulse and striking the hours."

THE CROWS - C. M. Rosens

UK (May 2024): tinyurl.com/38258z5v US (Oct 2024): tinyurl.com/msvz4pbp

Her fate is sealed. Her death is inevitable...

Carrie Rickard, leaving an abusive relationship back in London, tries to escape her past by throwing herself into her restoration project: Fairwood House, known to locals of Pagham-on-Sea as The Crows.

Unable to resist as it whispers to her, Carrie’s obsession only grows when she discovers it was the site of a gruesome unsolved murder. As she digs deeper into the mystery, she awakens dark and dangerous forces.

Cue an introduction to her foul-mouthed neighbour, Ricky Porter, who is as obsessed with The Crows as Carrie is, and who has several secrets of his own. Not least of which are what’s really under his hood, and what he’s got in the cellar...

A chilling gothic horror novel of haunted houses, eldritch monsters and things that go bump in the night.

#The Crows #Pagham-on-Sea #book

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#This is How You Lose the Time War #fan art #art

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WWW Wednesday | 24 April

WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam of Taking On a World of Words. To take part you answer three questions, which are: What are you currently reading?What did you recently finish reading?What do you think you’ll read next? 📖 What did you recently finish reading? I Think Our Son is Gay vol.1 by Okuro, trans. Leo McDonagh, lett. Lor Prescott, cover des. Andrea Miller, ed. Tania Biswas I learned of…

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#Books #WWW Wednesday

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listen dracula is my favourite gothic novel for many MANY reasons, but the winner has to be the literal ghost ship with a desperate dead man tied to the wheel in eternal prayer

#Dracula

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Tayseer Abu Odeh, from A lullaby from Gaza, published here

#A lullaby from Gaza #Tayseer Abu Odeh #poetry

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An A-Z of Fantasy | Horror

Within a sunken ship a man is caught in the strands of a forbidden woman’s hair, the tendrils burrowing into his ears, nose and throat. Over the course of The Grave Robbers’ Chronicles a myriad horrors set upon the Iron Triangle but Angry Sea, Hidden Sands is by far my favourite. There are a lot of monsters to be found within the series’ tombs from zombies who infect you with a single, glancing…

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#Patience Agbabi #video #youtube video #bame #black british #poets #Telling Tales #Refugee Tales

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The other day one of my friends was like “Where on earth do you hear about all the books you read?” and I’m honestly trying to think about that because I don’t really pay attention to Booktube, Booktok, Book Twitter, or Bookstagram, only occasionally dip back into book blogging, and mostly use Goodreads as a place to track books I want to read or have read rather than searching for recommendations, so I’m trying to make a list of the places I hear about books from besides a few trusted social media mutuals.

Tor.com is one major place I hear about science fiction and fantasy books–they do deal announcements, cover reveals, lists of new releases, and reviews, as well as columns reviewing backlist work. I really like “The Book Queered Me,” for instance, which is people looking back on books that were important to their understand of identity. 

The Book Smugglers isn’t really that active anymore, but they reviewed science fiction and fantasy media, as well as publishing essays and short fiction and I read them religiously for a long time.

Book Riot I read occasionally and they publish bookish news and essays. I forgot I was subscribed to their LGBTQ+ book newsletter for a while and went through the emails I’d been sent earlier this week and that particular newsletter is nice because it highlights a couple books and does a round-up of recent news about queer books.

Austraddle’s book section, especially the Rainbow Reading column, does reviews, interviews, and news related to queer books, mostly queer women. It’s helpful for non-SFF stuff because I’m usually very up-to-date on news in the science fiction and fantasy world but they cover poetry, nonfiction, romance, etc.

We Need Diverse Books is a great resources, of course, and I really like the interviews they do with authors of recent releases.

LGBTQ Reads is an invaluable resource for queer literature–new release highlights, author interviews, lists of books by representation or age/genre if you’re looking for something specific.

Electric Literature is where I hear about more adult lit fic/nonfiction stuff, they also have a column called Novel Gazing in which people write about books that have impacted them and I find that really interesting. They also publish poetry and short fiction but I haven’t read much of that.

The Lesbrary does reviews of books about lesbian and bisexual women, as well as round-ups of new releases. Good resource for keeping up with sapphic books.

Rich in Color reads and reviews diverse YA books and is a good place to keep up with books by authors of color.

#recs

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readin perdido street station in between hw

#Perdido Street Station #c: Lin #fan art #art

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2024 Memoirs and Biographies

This is more of a serious list. However there are some lighter entries that have made their way onto the list. I’m quite intrigued by The Bookshop Woman. A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter, trans. Jane Degras | 09 / 01 / 24 – Pushkin Press Classics In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable home for a year with her husband on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen. On…

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#2024 #Books #Memoir #Nonfiction #releases

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JUST yesterday I gave the library director my elevator rant about why webtoon is evil lmao webcomic library is your friend

#webtoons #bookish

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Today is gonna be all about THEM and soon I will say WHY

Art of Jean and Muirin from A SWEET STING OF SALT,  created by the oh-so-talented @bernard-the-rabbit​, I am forever in love with this piece.

#A Sweet Sting of Salt #art #fan art #book recs #queer #lesbian #sapphic #to read