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April 2022: How LGBTQ+ media, sunshine, and a magical readathon are lifting my mood

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Ryn PB

What I Got: This Song Is (Not) for You by Laura Nowlin The Ensemble by Aja Gabel The Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King Heart Shaped Fire by P.W. Davies Take My Hand by P.W. Davies The Complete Poetry … Continue reading →

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January 2022: How a really good book, a really bad book, and an overwhelming life put me in a reading slump

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Ryn PB

What I Got: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas A Little Tea Book: All the Essentials from Leaf to Cup by Sebastian Beckwith, Caroline Paul, and Wendy MacNaughton The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Once & Future by A.R. Capetta and … Continue reading →

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December 2021: How I read some pretty good books this year while trying to escape reality (a.k.a. my favorite books of 2021)

Posted on January 2, 2022 by Ryn PB

2022 still doesn’t feel like a real year… and yet here we are! Like 2020, this past year was challenging, but some good things did come out of 2021. I got top surgery, my parents got an amusing new dog, … Continue reading →

Posted in polysyllabic spree | Tagged adaptations, anthropocene reviewed, anxiety, books, chella man, chloe gong, classics, colson whitehead, continuum, erin morgenstern, favorites, fence, graphic novels, grishaverse, hawaii, john green, leigh bardugo, lgbt lit, LGBT+, life lessons, maggie stiefvater, magic fish, mental health, new year, nickel boys, pandemic lit, phantom of the opera, poppy war, queer lit, raven cycle, reading, starless sea, these violent delights, trans stories, translated lit, writing | Leave a comment

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 →

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Author Spotlight: Michelle Cruz Gonzales, The Spitboy Rule

Posted on October 14, 2021 by Ryn PB

Michelle “Todd” Cruz Gonzales claims that her journey from punk rock drummer to college English professor was not all that far-fetched. For a Xicana from a small town who taught herself how to drum and started her own hardcore feminist … Continue reading →

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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

August 2021: How I relaxed my reading expectations after losing my job

Posted on August 31, 2021 by Ryn PB

What I Got: The Heartbreak Bakery (ARC) by A.R. Capetta The Prodigal Tongue by Lynne Murphy We Are Not Like Them (ARC) by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza As You Were (ARC) by Elaine Feeney Grievers (ARC) by adrienne maree … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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