If you’re around the bookish internet a lot, especially if you watch booktube, you’ve probably seen this tag going around. I have never done a tag, and I wasn’t tagged by anyone, but I had the week off from my day job and wanted to reflect on my favorite reads of the year- and give them […]
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April Reading Wrap-Up and Really Good Rec’s
April ended two weeks ago (?!), but like all of us out here in this world, I’m somehow busier than I expect so I’m a little behind on, well, everything. But I did read a lot last month, so I’m here with a wrap-up for you! April is National Poetry Month, and I read a […]
Steamy, Dreamy and Gay: Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
“I often wondered why we couldn’t talk about the present, why the past held all the promise while the future sat before us like stagnant water.” (CW: suicide, light spoilers) Kristen Arnett is one of my favorite people to follow in the internet. Though Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) is her debut novel, she’s […]
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Memoir March and Other Love Stories
March went by so fast, how did that happen?! I had a great month. I had some articles published; I went to AWP and saw Kristin Stewart *and* got a selfie with Melissa Febos (bless her gracious heart for dealing with my fangirling), both of which made my gay life; I heard T Kira Madden […]
Love and Memoir: On T Kira Madden’s ‘Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls’ and Melissa Febos’ ‘Abandon Me’
Don’t miss this one, it is magic!
February/Black History Month Reading Wrap-Up
Black History Month 2019 by the books: classics, fiction, nonfiction, dystopia, romance, all the things!
Unblemished Self: Esmé Weijun Wang’s ‘The Collected Schizophrenias’
The Collected Schizophrenias is a memoir and a sociological exploration, an inside story and an academic examination.
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January Reading Wrap-Up: New Releases, Backlist, Stats, and Some Stellar Reads
A great month of reading for me means a long list of recommendations for you! Plus, a challenge check-in and some stats!
Monster Body, Miracle Body: ‘On Being Ill’ by Virginia Woolf
“…this monster, the body, this miracle, its pain, will soon make us taper into mysticism, or rise, with rapid beats of the wings…”
All Dressed Up and Everywhere To Go: Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Clothing of Books’
There’s a word that comes to mind for me when I think about this, my first 5-star (and first backlist) read of 2019: serendipity.