Tag Archives: nonfiction

TBR Playlist: Saviors by Green Day

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Ryn PB

I’m starting a new blog installment purely for my own enjoyment… again. As we all know, I love pairing songs and books together, but I’m running out of books I’ve read that I want to recommend and that go well … Continue reading →

Posted in Another New Era, LGBT+, original writing | Tagged 1990s, 2000s, 7fates: chakho, alice waler, alice walker, anna-marie mclemore, book, book tag, books, brian broome, bright young things, bts, chloe gong, classic lit, classics, emo, evelyn waugh, foul lady fortune, graphic novels, green day, hayley kiyoko, historical fiction, janelle monae, kpop, laura hankin, laura taylor namey, leigh bardugo, LGBT+, literature, memoir, mental health, mtv, music, music lit, nick hornby, ninth house, nonfiction, pop punk, punk, punk rock, queer lit, reading, rock, rock music, sci fi, science fiction, shanghai, sonora reyes, the color purple, the great gatsby, these violent delights, vile bodies, YA, YA lit | Leave a comment

September 2022: How I finally chilled out and read a normal number of books during a month determined to bury me

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Ryn PB

What I Got: What I Read: As expected, this was a slow reading month, so this post won’t be a mile long for once. I had to give myself a break before my zombie-themed October TBR, especially since I felt … Continue reading →

Posted in polysyllabic spree, stories | Tagged bookmarks, books, bookworm, crafts, diy, fall, fantasy, history, illness, ireland, izombie, life lessons, netflix, nonfiction, reading, sickness, ve schwab, wrap up, writing, zombies | Leave a comment

June & July 2022: How I got the world’s most popular virus (but at least COVID waited until after Pride Month)

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Ryn PB

What I Got: I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman This Winter by Alice Oseman Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman Heartstopper, Vol. 1, 2, & 4 by Alice Oseman Solitaire by Alice Oseman I Want to Die but … Continue reading →

Posted in polysyllabic spree, stories | Tagged alice oseman, artemis, book nerd, books, covid, graphic novels, greek myth, heartstopper, history, illness, korean lit, LGBT, lgbt lit, LGBT+, lgbtq, memes, middle grade lit, music, nonbinary, nonfiction, pandemic, queer, queer lit, quinta brunson, reading, sickness, translated lit | Leave a 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

November 2021: How two YA-author Queens took ahold of my reading life

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Ryn PB

What I Got: Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong Just Like You by Nick Hornby What I Read: The Dream Thieves (reread) by Maggie Stiefvater Two Can Keep a Secret (audio) by Karen M. McManus Blue Lily, Lily Blue (reread) … Continue reading →

Posted in polysyllabic spree | Tagged audiobooks, black cat, books, buddhism, cat, graphic novels, history, karen m mcmanus, maggie stiefvater, mental health, mysteries, nonfiction, poetry, reading, short stories, the raven cycle, thrillers, YA, young adult, zen | 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

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

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