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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 THE MERMAID, THE WITCH & THE SEA by Maggie Tokuda-Hall if you love ships, arranged marriages, queer love, mermaids (obvi), the sea as a character, the horrors of colonialism, learning to read, genderfuckery, good soup, learning your own magic, escape, comeuppance & doilies.

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Read THE DEAD TAKE THE A TRAIN by Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey if you love blood & guts & viscera, eldritch horrors, corporate bullshit, eyeballs (so many eyeballs), backstabbing, best friends, vodka, New York, more blood, more guts, more viscera, magic, takeout, doors & bookstores.

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Read PALADIN'S FAITH by T. Kingfisher if you love global politics, spies, big brothers, feeling hollow, taking baths, remote locations, mudslides, cults, doggos, feeling safe, running for your life, strike solidarity, gadgets, gods, a good pair of boots & salt.

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Books 13-18 read in 2024 (see Alt Text for mini reviews, or full reviews already posted on my page).

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Read PALADIN'S STRENGTH by T. Kingfisher if you love long road trips, magnificent breasts, giant beasts, broken people, manhunts, kidnapped nuns, acorns, demon chickens, intense longing, snake oil, gladiators, shapeshifters, sacrificing yourself for love, safehouses & tea.

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The body as a haunted house. Incredibly beautiful, reflective & something I already want to go back to.

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Read PALADIN'S GRACE by T. Kingfisher if you love crises of faith, tremendous loss, feeling broken beyond repair, trudging onward, perfume, meet cutes but make them deadly, killers on the loose, gingerbread, best friends, political intrigue, assassination attempts, amazing kisses & civets.

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Read PEW by Catherine Lacey if you love not knowing, uncertainty, slowly uncovering, hiding, sleeping, secrets, drawing pictures, confessions, festivals, expectations, nothing, no one, mirrors, undercurrents, divisions, churches, bodies, dissociating & silence.

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Read SO LET THEM BURN by Kamilah Cole if you love ancestral magic, the bond between sisters, the story that happens after the war is over, young people stepping up to save the world, dragons, libraries, magic schools, anti-colonial frameworks, intense crushes, the grey areas & dancing all night.

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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.

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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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What books are you ending your year on?

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

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Read WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT by T. Kingfisher if you love remote villages, disreputable cabins in the woods, mysterious illnesses, nightmares, fungi, strongly spiced sausage, trauma narratives, endless cups of tea, propriety, knives & very good horses.

I received an advance copy of this book for review.

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Read WALK AMONG US by Genevieve Gornichec, Cassandra Khaw & Caitlin Starling if you love the RPG Vampire: The Masquerade, novellas, uncertainty, isolation, starting college, twists, Iceland, fraternity, contracts, sustainable farming, overwhelming passions & blood.

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Read THE DEEP SKY by Yume Kitasei if you love locked room mysteries, space travel, climate change, artificial intelligence, duel narratives, competitive schools, class dynamics, reproductive justice, best friends, desperate decisions, virtual reality, mother-daughter relationships & birds.

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Read MISLAID IN PARTS HALF-KNOWN by Seanan McGuire if you love thrift stores, maple syrup, reunions, mischiefs of magpies, classrooms, nonsense, running as fast as you can, dinosaurs, goblins, beautiful girls, seeking justice, vegetarian food, croquet, crushes, and goodbyes.

I received a copy of this book for review.

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Read LOST IN THE MOMENT AND FOUND by Seanan McGuire if you love trauma narratives, grief, the uncertainty of childhood being exploited, magpies, lost things, found spaces, running away, the moment everything changes, teeth, journals & the addiction of novelty.

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Read WHERE THE DROWNED GIRLS GO by Seanan McGuire if you love nightmares, lost things, bathtubs, choices, oatmeal, dormitories, new schools, expectations, solitude, running away, deer, tiny girls, names, mysteries & unkindness.

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Read ACROSS THE GREEN GRASS FIELDS by Seanan McGuire if you love horses, centaurs, satyrs, fauns, minotaurs, kelpies, unicorns & all manner of hoofed creatures; secrets, expectations, destinies, best friends, found family, ridiculously soft denim, breaking cycles & going to the fair.

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Read COME TUMBLING DOWN by Seanan McGuire if you love horrifying murder worlds, reanimation, lightning, body swapping, revenge, heros, actions having consequences, bone ponies, the last vestiges of sanity, cruel light, killing dark, deep sea terrors & endings.

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Read IN AN ABSENT DREAM by Seanan McGuire if you love ordinary & remarkable children, goblin markets, birds, besties, delicious pies, wanting & needing, losing yourself in books to avoid the pain of reality, loopholes, pencils, fair trade, being sure, sisters & debts.

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Read BENEATH THE SUGAR SKY by Seanan McGuire if you love girls falling from the sky, human statuary, confectionery delights, turtles, quests, soda pop, time travel, spirits, nonsense, mermaids, bones, bakers, and righting wrongs.

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Read DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES by Seanan McGuire if you love emotionally absent parents, horror movies, creepy twins, blood moons, running through the moors, pretty girls, mad scientists, learning to be yourself, wearing gloves, avoiding eye contact & playing dress up.

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Read EVERY HEART A DOORWAY by Seanan McGuire if you love pomegranates, what happens after, boarding schools, wearing black, murder mysteries, attics full of books, creepy girls, beautiful boys, Wonderlands, Underworlds, hope, hurt, finding doors, dancing bones, and being sure.

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Read THIS COULD ALL BE DIFFERENT by by Sarah Thankam Mathews if you love first jobs, immigration narratives, queer love, building community, restaurants, fishing for memories, terrible landlords, recessions, navigating white America as a POC, lofty dreams & planting seeds.

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Hey. It's ok if you're behind on your yearly reading goal. That number was arbitrarily chosen in a January fog of optimism & champagne anyway, and you don't need to turn something you love & brings you comfort into a stressor. Read good books. Enjoy them. Be gentle with yourself.

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Read VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE by Isabel Cañas if you love interesting vampire lore, supernatural western historical romances, colonialism narratives, sneaking around at night, class dynamics, young love, big dreams, grief, salt, rosemary, coming home, Yanquis as villains, and desert road trips.

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Read THE MEMORY THIEVES (Conjureverse Book 2) by Dhonielle Clayton if you love New Orleans, secrets, rewriting history, perfume, pandemic narratives, elections, familial legacies & the passing down of knowledge, standing up to oppression, fear responses, uncovering the truth & masks.

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Read THE MARVELLERS by Dhonielle Clayton if you love magic schools, jollof rice, The Underworld, floating cities, best friends, diverse cultures, starlight, twilight, integration, mysteries, something new, feeling different, maps, spices, creepy dolls, and circuses.

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