Tag Archives: mystery

Problematic Faves: Why I Love Them, Why They’re Problematic, and Why I Give Them Passes

Posted on March 31, 2024 by Ryn PB

Introduction To me, the term “problematic fave” is a bit redundant, especially when in reference to a celebrity. Almost everyone and everything is “problematic” in some way, or has been in the past. Generally, I see people use the phrase … Continue reading →

Posted in Another New Era, polysyllabic spree | Tagged art, bo burnham, books, boys love, cancel culture, comedy, content warning, detective show, fiction, gilmore girls, gravitation, high fidelity, hulu, LGBT+, make happy, manga, media, mental health, monk, murder mystery, music, mystery, netflix, nick hornby, ocd, problematic, problematic fave, psych, reading, trans, trigger, trigger warning, tv, tv series, tv show, warning, writing, yaoi, youtube, zoe kravitz | Leave a comment

Addy Kraz and the Case of the Stolen Cookies

Posted on June 16, 2023 by Ryn PB

“Meet me at the Orange Julius” was the mantra of our junior high years. Before Dijon O’Reilly got a job at Juice Stop and Kiera Moore became a vegan, the three of us would come from our different middle schools—Dijon … Continue reading →

Posted in Another New Era, Fiction Short Stories | Tagged auntie anne, bakery, bffs, bojack horseman, books, candy, cookies, crush, diane nguyen, fake books, fake fiction, food court, friends, hardy boys, hot dogs, indian food, ivy tran food court detective, junior high, kiosk, life lessons, mall, middle grade, middle school, mystery, nancy drew, nonbinary, nostalgia, orange julius, series, shopping mall, short story, stealing, suspects, thief, toy, toys, tweens, writing | 1 Comment

May 2022: How May showers bring June rainbows

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Ryn PB

What I Got: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson Café con Lychee by Emery Lee De Profundis by Oscar Wilde Zone One by Colson Whitehead The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake What I … Continue reading →

Posted in LGBT+, polysyllabic spree | Tagged a good girls guide to murder, anxiety, books, cafe con lychee, disney, emery lee, fairytales, family, graphic novels, half price books, heartstopper, holly jackson, importance of being earnest, japan, lgbt lit, LGBT+, library, manga, mermaid, mika, murder mystery, music, mystery, nonfiction, oscar wilde, public library, punk, queer lit, reading, romance, sexology, sexuality, the little mermaid, writing, YA, young adult lit | 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

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