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She/They. Readerly Writer. Doodler. I helped stop some tar sands & used to feed folks in crisis. Survived Trolley Square.

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Read DEFEKT by Nino Cipri if you love big box stores, Corporate America, being overworked, employee handbooks, feeling broken & alone, taking a sick day, special projects, calezones, defective merchandise, found family, finding your super power & "Clair de Lune."

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Read FINNA by Nino Cipri if you love (loath) creepy big box stores, freshly broken hearts, wormholes, the daily grind of capitalism wearing you down, cannibalistic plants, queer relationships, chocolate cake, bed rotting, being an anxious mess & the multiverse.

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Read IN THE DREAM HOUSE by Carmen Maria Machado if you love haunted houses, gut wrenchingly beautiful prose, autobiographical accounts, trauma narratives, exceedingly queer stories, a meticulous exploration of abuse, thematic echoes & brilliantly structured books.

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Read VENOM & VOW by Anna-Marie & Elliott McLemore if you love duel perspectives, enemies-to-lovers, warring kingdoms, secret identities, So Many Knives, badass mobility aids, genderfuckery, T4T romance, magical creatures, living castles, disguises, disability representation, being seen for who you really are.

(Also Vico Ortiz narrates the audiobook & gives an AMAZING performance).

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Puzzles & Audiobooks are an amazing combination. Like peanut butter & chocolate for your brain.

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Read THE FRAGILE THREADS OF POWER by V.E. Schwab if you love old friends, new friends, strong tea, being a hero, rebellions, running away, heists, chronic illness, magic items, sacrifices, festivals, markets, crowded shops, mirrors, f**ked up families & seeing what others do not.

#ReadThisIf #bookstodon @bookstodon #readersofmastodon #readersonmastodon #bookrecs #bookreviews #book #books #IReadBooks #ninsiana0ReviewsBooks

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Read A CONJURING OF LIGHT by V.E. Schwab if you love jumping right into the action, invasions, infections, sacrifices, pirate ships, magical markets, sharing pain, the scars left behind, so much blood, betrayals, the terror of love, dungeons, flashbacks & a shit ton of knives.

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Read A GATHERING OF SHADOWS by V.E. Schwab if you love magical tournaments, secret identities, political intrigue, lovers' reunions, shared pain, rebirth, masks, pirate ships, learning who you are, dysfunctional families, impossible decisions & body modifications.

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My brain is currently a mess (whomst among us is not floundering while the world burns), and you know what that means: COMFORT REREADS. I'm revisiting THE SHADES OF LONDON series by V.E. Schwab before I read THE FRAGILE THREADS OF POWER.

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Read A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC if you love traveling between parallel worlds, interesting magic systems, collecting trinkets, pickpockets, plagues, night markets, masquerades, the river Thames, dive bars, fancy coats, too many knives, lucky kisses, queer dynamics & secrets.

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Books 1-6 read in 2024

"You Just Need to Lose Weight": And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

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Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns

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Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

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Brothersong by TJ Klune

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System Collapse by Martha Wells

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Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

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Read STARLING HOUSE by Alix E. Harrow if you love houses as characters, small coal towns, familial trauma, bisexuals, dingy motel rooms, creepy childrens' books, searching for home, tattoos, intense longing, terrifying beasts, the neglected & abandoned, and unsettling dreams.

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Read SYSTEM COLLAPSE by Martha Wells if you love grumpy murderbots, annoying humans, trauma narratives, corruption corporations, saving those in peril, drones, watching media, using storytelling as both a technique for persuading as well as healing, and fixing the broken bits.

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Read BROTHERSONG by TJ Klune if you live complicated family dynamics, the color pink, trauma narratives, heartbeats, tiny cabins in the woods, lonely road trips, ghosts, finding your place in the world, deep-seated guilt, repetition, community support, queer werewolves & breaking cycles.

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Read BIRNAM WOOD by Eleanor Catton if you love late stage capitalism, radical organizing spaces, gorilla gardening, New Zealand, truly terrible people, endangered birds, idealistic anarchists, unscrupulous billionaires, tasty soup, bunkers, secrets, manipulation & puzzles.

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Read YOUR DRIVER IS WAITING by Priya Guns if you love children of immigrants, rideshare apps, grief narratives, queer lust, organizing spaces, protests, the crushing weight of capitalism, getting swole, chocolate almonds, white girl tears, incendiary emotions, Michael Douglas & overpriced coffee.

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Read "YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT": AND 19 OTHER MYTHS ABOUT FAT PEOPLE by Aubrey Gordon if you love discussing complex topics with thoroughness & kindness, the podcast Maintenance Phase, the body positive movement, and dismantling anti-fat bias & other forms of oppression.

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Read NIGHT SIDE OF THE RIVER by Jeanette Winterson if you love ghost stories, the horrors & possibilities of the virtual world, oranges, grief narratives, hauntings, the space between lives, the stories we tell, being very cold, soup, the dissolving of time, support ghosts,, theatrics & liminal spaces.

I received a copy of this book for review.

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Total books read in 2023: 78
Advance reader copies: 23
Library books: 27
Owned: 18
Digital/ebook editions: 77
Physical copies: 1
Women authors: 34
Men authors: 6
Trans or nonbinary authors: 9
Queer authors: 19
POC authors: 17
Fiction: 78
Anthologies: 2
Written by Seanan McGuire: 15

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The ebook editions of ASK BABA YAGA and POETIC REMEDIES FOR TROUBLED TIMES by Taisia Kitaiskaia are currently on sale for $1.99 at all the places you would buy ebooks.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Poetic-Remedies-for-Troubled-Times/Taisia-Kitaiskaia/9781524855031

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Books 73-78 read in 2023.

The last reading roundup of the year.

LOST IN THE MOMENT AND FOUND by Seanan McGuire

MISLAID IN PARTS HALF-KNOWN by Seanan McGuire

The great 2023 Reread of the ENTIRE Wayward Children series was so much fun. I see so much of myself & my loves in these books, which is, I think, the entire point.

THE DEEP SKY by Yume Kitasei

A Very Queet, Who Done It, Locked Room, in Deep Space. Delightful.

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75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024 by R.O. Kwon

https://electricliterature.com/75-books-by-women-of-color-to-read-in-2024/

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What books are you ending your year on?

I'm currently reading NIGHT SIDE OF THE RIVER by Jeanette Winterson.

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@CindyWeinstein Sounds like some great reads! My Year has been on my TBR list for ages! I should definitely prioritize it next year.

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@CindyWeinstein She's one of my favorite authors! STONE GODS was really influential for me as a writer & organizer. I've only just started the introduction to NIGHT, but it's pretty great so far.

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