Tag Archives: mental health

Repeat Rewind Book Tag #2: How I learned to love cheesiness as much as angst

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Ryn PB

I’m back with another Repeat Rewind Tag! After doing that first one, I’ve been pairing songs and books together in my head all the time. It’s so fun! So I decided to give myself another challenge and let Spotify choose … Continue reading →

Posted in polysyllabic spree | Tagged 5 seconds of summer, 5sos, bo burnham, book, book tag, books, booktube, harry styles, im just a kid, laura dean, leigh bardugo, LGBT+, maggie stiefvater, mental health, molly knox ostertag, music, one direction, perks of being a wallflower, reading, repeat rewind, simple plan, six of crows, sleeping with sirens, tag, the poppy war, the raven cycle, the witch boy, writing | Leave a comment

September 2021: How the Magical Readathon helped me find purpose in the simple things

Posted on September 30, 2021 by Ryn PB

What I Got: Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey The Girl Who Became a Beatle by Greg Taylor Vogue Dec. 2020 What I Read: King of Scars (reread) by Leigh Bardugo The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen Rule of Wolves … Continue reading →

Posted in LGBT+, mental health, polysyllabic spree | Tagged adaptations, bees, black history, books, challenges, dark academia, discrimination, emily m danforth, fairytales, fear, ghost stories, ghosts, graphic novels, grisha, grishaverse, historical fiction, horror, justina ireland, leigh bardugo, LGBT+, life lessons, literature, magic, magical, memoir, mental health, middle grade books, movies, nonfiction, novice path, orilium, paranormal, queer lit, queer literature, queer women, racism, readathon, reading, six of crows, supernatural, the devil all the time, tom holland, wasps, writing | Leave a comment

July 2021: How I accidentally did “Nonfiction July” instead of “Nonfiction November”

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Ryn PB

What I Got: Juliet Takes a Breath (1st Edition) by Gabby Rivera Can I Say by Travis Barker Rolling Stone, July 2020, Issue #1341 Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (Revised Edition) by Susan Stryker What Storm, What Thunder … Continue reading →

Posted in polysyllabic spree | Tagged books, bookworm, buying books, cat, depression, graphic novels, life lessons, mental health, nonfiction, reading | 1 Comment

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

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

Stories are the Cure: How I’m embracing and facing my anger

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Ryn PB

There is a sticker on the lefthand corner of my laptop, below the keyboard I am typing this on, that says, “You got this.” It is slowly peeling away, curling up, to leave only the white background the words had … Continue reading →

Posted in LGBT+, mental health, new era | Tagged airplane, airport, anger, anxiety, death, depression, grief, hannah gadsby, honesty, LGBT+, loss, mental health, nanette, queer, relapse, self harm, stories, transphobia, trauma, travel, trigger warning, truth, tsa, tw, writing | Leave a comment

Solitaire and Bedtime Stories: How My Anxiety and Creativity Live in the Same Room

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Ryn PB

As I’ve been getting out of my month-and-a-half-long sickness stupor, I’ve been getting back into my creative pursuits—bullet journaling, writing, etc.—and I’ve noticed one big change since I have been accessing this part of my brain again: I can’t fall … Continue reading →

Posted in mental health, new era | Tagged anxiety, bedtime stories, creativity, depression, hydra monster, mental health, sleeping, solitaire, writing | Leave a comment

June 2019: How This Month of Reading and Connecting Reinvigorated My Mind

Posted on July 2, 2019 by Ryn PB

What I Read: Dreadnought by April Daniels The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag Real Queer America by Samantha Allen We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia The Love Songs of Sappho translated by Paul Roche Let’s … Continue reading →

Posted in LGBT+, polysyllabic spree | Tagged asexual, denver pride, family, howls moving castle, latine, lemony snicket, LGBT+, literacy, live music, mental health, music, nonfiction, pride, pride month, queer eye, queer literature, red states, sapphic poetry, sappho, sci-fi, series of unfortunate events, siblings, sister, song of achilles, tan france, tattered cover, trans experience, twenty one pilots, usa | Leave a comment

May 2019: How I Read Too Much Because of Boredom, Anxiety, and Unemployment

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Ryn PB

What I Read: The rest of Do What You Want edited by Ruby Tandoh Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol The Bad Beginning (re-read) by Lemony Snicket The Reptile Room (re-read) by Lemony Snicket … Continue reading →

Posted in new era, polysyllabic spree | Tagged books, booktube, drag, eliza and her monsters, ghost, graphic novels, i wish you all the best, lara jean, lemony snicket, LGBT+, mason deaver, mental health, mick jagger, neil gaiman, nonbinary, owlcrate, paperbackdreams, prince, queer lit, radio silence, romance books, series of unfortunate events, the rolling stones, to all the boys i've loved before, umbrella academy | Leave a comment