Author Archives: Ryn PB

November 2020: How I Participated in NaNoWriMo, Didn’t Finish a First Draft Even After 50,000 Words, and Barely Read Anything with My Eyeballs

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Ryn PB

What I Got: Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger Every Day Failures Issue #1: A Punk Stuck in Suburbia (zine) by Sarah B. What I Read: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (ARC) by Dawnie Walton CW: racism, racist violence, … Continue reading →

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October 2020: How I Listened to So Many Audiobooks and Had So Many Thoughts

Posted on October 30, 2020 by Ryn PB

What I Got: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (ARC, April 2021) by Dawnie Walton Classical Comedy: Greek and Roman ed. by Robert W. Corrigan What I Read: Meddling Kids (audiobook) by Edgar Cantero (DNF at 65%) Check Please! … Continue reading →

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September 2020: How I Discovered That Time Isn’t Money, It’s Books

Posted on October 3, 2020 by Ryn PB

Books I Got: Dune by Frank Herbert Binti: The Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor Becoming Superman (old ARC) by J. Michael Straczynski Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman The Invention of Sound (old ARC) by Chuck Palahnuik The Humorless Ladies of Border … Continue reading →

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In Lieu Of a Book Post: How Emily Dickinson helps when I feel hopeless

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Ryn PB

August was a particularly bad month, even compared with the rest of 2020, so I’m not really feeling up to writing an entire reading wrap-up. Instead, I’m going to share this Emily Dickinson poem I always think about when the … Continue reading →

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July 2020: How I Went a Little Overboard with Graphic Novels and Book Acquisitions to Find a Little Joy

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Ryn PB

What I Got: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 2 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo The Deep by Rivers Solomon Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, … Continue reading →

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June 2020: How I turned this month into a magical, gay reading extravaganza

Posted on July 3, 2020 by Ryn PB

What I Got: Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive by Julia Serano Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston Wild Seed by Octavia Butler … Continue reading →

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The Mini Apocalypses in My Life: How I’m watching doors close around me with no way to open them back up … yet

Posted on June 24, 2020 by Ryn PB

CW: mentions of suicidal ideation, fatphobia, transphobia, JK Rowling, depression, anxiety My life has been full of endings lately. And the unsettling part is that these endings haven’t been followed by new beginnings. I’m stuck in place while things I … Continue reading →

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May 2020: How I Am Dealing with the Sad Chaos of the World with Books… and Punk Rock Mermaids

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Ryn PB

What I Got: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow The First … Continue reading →

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April 2020: How I read about plagues and the world ending during a pandemic

Posted on May 3, 2020 by Ryn PB

What I Got: Lumberjanes Volumes 1-5 by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Faith Hicks, Shannon Watters, and Carolyn Nowak (sorry if I left someone out!) Ultimate Spider-Man: Ultimate Collection Books 1-2 by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley Every Heart a … Continue reading →

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March 2020: How I’m reading and reconnecting with myself during this weird time

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Ryn PB

What I got: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler What I read: City of Night by John Rechy The Mariposa Club by Rigoberto González The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth An Orchestra of Minorities (audiobook) … Continue reading →

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