Tag Archives: comics

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

Posted on July 9, 2021 by Ryn PB

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 | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in polysyllabic spree, stories | Tagged amber ruffin, antiracism, arcs, books, colson whitehead, comics, graphic novels, historical fiction, LGBT, lgbtlit, lit, nigeria, nigerian civil war, nonfiction, queerlit, romance, romance books, self care, sherlock holmes, sherlock holmes retelling, talia hibbert, the nickel boys | Leave a comment

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

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

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 →

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 | Leave a comment