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Category Archives: new era
Book Review: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton is so freaking good. It’s Daisy Jones & the Six dialed up to 11. Now, I’ll admit that this book already has a lot of elements I like—oral history format, … Continue reading
August 2021: How I relaxed my reading expectations after losing my job
What I Got: The Heartbreak Bakery (ARC) by A.R. Capetta The Prodigal Tongue by Lynne Murphy We Are Not Like Them (ARC) by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza As You Were (ARC) by Elaine Feeney Grievers (ARC) by adrienne maree … Continue reading
Posted in mental health, new era, polysyllabic spree
Tagged anxiety, ar capetta, arcs, athletes, bakery, baking, bojack horseman, book nerd, bookish, books, bookworm, depression, erin morgenstern, fantasy, fence, getting fired, graphic novels, green day, illustrations, jobs, kevin panetta, LGBT+, life lessons, magic, music, queer lit, reading, romance, romance books, sapphic, skateboarding, sports, the starless sea, work, writing
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June 2021: How a pile of Hydra heads fell on top of me and my reading life reflected it, or How I’m all bullshitted out
What I Got: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi L’arbre généreux: l’école de loisirs by Shel Silverstein Honing Your Craft: Developing Your Writing Skills on a Budget (zine) by Lydia Rogue World War Z by Max Brooks is5: poems by e.e. cummings … Continue reading
Posted in mental health, new era, polysyllabic spree
Tagged ace rep, alice oseman, anthropocene reviewed, anxiety, bo burnham, books, comics, dark humor, depression, elatsoe, freshwater, inside, james baldwin, john green, julia kaye, LGBT, LGBT+, lgbtq, loveless, maggie stiefvater, mental health, mister impossible, pandemic, queer lit, readathon, reading, tea dragon, the dreamer trilogy, the raven cycle, trans
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December 2020: How I’m closing out the year with hope, easy reading, and a Match.com ad
What I Got: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern A Book of One’s Own: People and Their Diaries by Thomas Mallon A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock #1) by Sherry Thomas The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan … Continue reading
Posted in new era, polysyllabic spree
Tagged anxiety, books, books about music, charles dickens, christmas, death, depression, erin morgenstern, graphic memoir, graphic novels, grief, holidays, lemony snicket, LGBT, lgbt lit, mental health, mystery books, nick and norah's infinite playlist, phantom of the opera, queer lit, reading, series of unfortunate events, the starless sea, zines
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October 2020: How I Listened to So Many Audiobooks and Had So Many Thoughts
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
Posted in mental health, new era, polysyllabic spree
Tagged adaptations, audiobook, book-to-movie, books, check please, dune, ella enchanted, fall, frank herbert, ghosts, graphic memoir, graphic novels, hockey, howls moving castle, jason reynolds, karen m. mcmanus, miles morales, motel, mystery, mystery books, october, persepolis, reviews, scooby doo, spider-man, spiderman, spooky, tattoo
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September 2020: How I Discovered That Time Isn’t Money, It’s Books
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
Posted in new era, polysyllabic spree
Tagged abfe, audiobook, books, books in verse, bookworm, comedy, comedy book, comics, david levithan, elizabeth acevedo, essays, graphic novels, guernsey literary and potato peel pie society, hank green, kiki's delivery service, memoir, mystery, mystery books, nonfiction, percy jackson, plane crash, reading, rick riordan, romance, romance books, thriller, tillie walden
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In Lieu Of a Book Post: How Emily Dickinson helps when I feel hopeless
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
The Mini Apocalypses in My Life: How I’m watching doors close around me with no way to open them back up … yet
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
Posted in mental health, new era
Tagged anxiety, apocalypse, bookstore, chosen family, colorado, depression, doctor who, endings, found family, graduation, grief, grishaverse, harry potter, hydra monster, indie bookstore, jackson bird, jk rowling, job, john green, LGBT+, loss, pandemic, podcasts, quarantine, safe space, school, six of crows, spider-man, spidey, trans, trans experience, transphobia, unemployment, work
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April 2020: How I read about plagues and the world ending during a pandemic
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
Posted in new era, polysyllabic spree
Tagged aliens, alison bechdel, comics, dystopian lit, end of the world, fun home, graphic novels, harry potter, legend, legend series, marie lu, marvel, owls, owls magical readathon, pandemic, peter parker, plague, psychics, readathon, seanan mcguire, self care, self harm, spider-man, spidey, stephen king, superheroes, the outsider, wayward children series, witches, young adult
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As Cool As Mint Ice Cream 
January 2021: How I started off the new year by reading about ghosts, music, and intelligent kids
What I Got: The Toll by Neal Shusterman How Do You Live? (ARC) by Genzaburō Yoshino Brown Girl Ghosted by Mintie Das Roving Pack by Sassafras Lowrey An Abundance of Katherines by John Green Nobody Likes You by Marc Spitz … Continue reading →