Tag Archives: books

May 2021: How I read my entire Asian Readathon TBR but made little time for anything else (sorry, unnamed novel I need to edit)

Posted on May 31, 2021 by Ryn PB

What I Got: Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song (ARC) by Marlon Peterson The Poppy War & The Dragon Republic by … Continue reading →

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February 2021: How I slowed down and found my love for reading again (just in time for Valentine’s Day)

Posted on February 28, 2021 by Ryn PB

What I Got: Punch Me Up to the Gods (ARC) by Brian Broome The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead (ARC) by Emily Austin On the Books by Greg Farrell Out of the … Continue reading →

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January 2021: How I started off the new year by reading about ghosts, music, and intelligent kids

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Ryn PB

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 →

Posted in mental health, new era, polysyllabic spree | Tagged an abundance of katherines, books, books about music, comics, doodle, Indian lit, japanese classic, john green, miyazaki, music commentary, muslim rep in lit, new puppy, new year, nick hornby, phantom of the opera, pop music, pop science, queer lit, songbook, the great gatsby, the mysterious benedict society, translated lit, yesimhotinthis | Leave a comment

December 2020: How I’m closing out the year with hope, easy reading, and a Match.com ad

Posted on December 30, 2020 by Ryn PB

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 | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in LGBT+, polysyllabic spree | Tagged advanced reader copy, antiracism, arc, author, black cat, booknerd, books, books about music, bookworm, cat, chuck palahniuk, creative writing, crooked kingdom, e lockhart, elliot page, fight club, graphic novels, in progress, indigenous artists, indigenous writers, jason reynolds, leigh bardugo, lemony snicket, lgbt lit, mental health, music, nanowrimo, novel, queer lit, series of unfortunate events, six of crows, stephen king, trans, trans lit, transgender, writing, writing advice | Leave a comment

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 →

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 | Leave a comment

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 →

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 | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in polysyllabic spree, stories | Tagged advice, audiobook, becky chambers, black mage, booklover, books, bookstore, chronicles of narnia, creative writing, daisy jones and the six, death note, everyone's a aliebn, how to drag a body, i am not okay with this, job hunt, library, nanowrimo, queer lit, reading, sci fi books, sci-fi, writing | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in mental health, polysyllabic spree | Tagged agatha christie, books, diy, first rule of punk, gender, graphic novels, hercule poirot, hiv, hiv/aids, intersectionality, jonathan van ness, LGBT+, lumberjanes, murder mystery, music, mystery, nonfiction, nonfiction books, nyc, poc, poetry, punk, punk rock, queer, queer eye, sex pistols, sexuality, short stories, zines | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in new era, stories | Tagged books, city of night, cuban lit, high fidelity, legend, lgbt lit, LGBT+, next year in havana, popular lit, quarantine, trans, trans lit | Leave a comment