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Graphic showing the number of books I read in the month of June. 27 books, 5,107 pages, with an average rating of 4.53.
A graphic collage of the covers of the 27 books I’ve read in the month of June
June wrap up!
01.07.2025 02:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“And every day it was difficult, walking around and knowing that people saw me one way, knowing that they were wrong, so completely wrong, that the real me was invisible to them. It didn't even exist to them.
So: If nobody sees you, are you still there?”
The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi
“I will tell you that I worship your goodness. I will tell you that you are a bright light in this world. My world.”
Pray For Him by Tyler Battaglia
Yes!!
14.03.2025 00:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“We can choose to consume each other, or we can choose love. Even in the midst of despair, there is always a choice. I hope we choose love.”
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom
Of course, 4 of my Libby holds came in on the same day 🤪
07.03.2025 02:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0At the end of every episode I am like wtf??
06.03.2025 11:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“We spend years posing as something we’re not because we don’t know what we are.”
“Sometimes I just want to be a person, not my gender.”
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov
Graphic showing my reading stats for February: 30 books, 4,136 pages, 4.57 average rating. It also includes three of my 5 star reads: Lone Women by Victor LaValle, The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and The Viscount Says Yes by Sarah Wallace.
A collage of the 30 books covers for the month.
February wrap up!
01.03.2025 02:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“You can’t trust words. They have too many rules, and too many ways to break the rules.”
Homesick by Nino Cipri
“I’m out of practice at controlling my expression. Right now I’m pretty sure it was somewhere in the region of stunned horror, or maybe appalled horror.”
Murderbot - All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Until the Last Petal Falls by Viano Oniomoh is so beautiful!
16.02.2025 21:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0“The world in my head has been far more real than the one outside—maybe that’s the exact definition of madness, come to think of it…In many ways, you see, I am not even real.”
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
“People do not know what to make of me, and this pleases me. I don’t want to be scrutable.”
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Graphic showing the number of books I read in January (23) and my top three books (Yours Celestially, How to Survive this Fairytale, and Empire of the Wild).
Covers for the 23 books I read this month.
January wrap up! Started and ended the month with a book by Viano Oniomoh ☺️
03.02.2025 00:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“At this point, I’m pretty sure constantly doubting yourself and your right to belong is almost like a queer rite passage…You’re absolutely valid, and the most important seal of approval you really need is your own.”
Cupid Calling by Viano Oniomoh
“…What gets left behind? Gaps where people never see themselves or find information about themselves. Holes that make it impossible to give oneself a context. Crevices people fall into. Impenetrable silence.”
31.01.2025 02:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“…What is placed in or left out of the archive is a political act, dictated by the archivist and the political context in which she lives…”
31.01.2025 02:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the Dream House by
Carmen Maria Machado
“…Sometimes stories are destroyed, and sometimes they are never uttered in the first place; either way something very large is irrevocably missing from our collective histories…”
Yes! I feel the same!
31.01.2025 02:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“How do you stop love from hurting?” Yours Celestially by Al Hess
28.01.2025 02:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Sometimes, to survive the story you are in, you must change the story. This is not a simple thing to do. Sometimes, if you don’t change the story you’re living in, it will kill you.”
How to Survive This Fairytale by S.M. Hallow
Loved the Flos Magicae series! Just picked this up in the itch.io bundle and am excited to read it!
26.01.2025 03:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I haven’t figured out what to do with is app yet. So I think I will post book quotes…
“I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.” Murderbot, Network Effect by Martha Wells
Two book covers from the author A.L. Davidson. One book is “Lover Thy Name is Pestilence”. The second book is “The Spaceman and the Stars Between Them”.
A book cover for the book “The Night Farm” by A.L. Davidson.
A sticker of a bloody ax with the quote “all is fair and love and gore” written on it.
Bought some physical copies of books I have recently read and loved! Very cool when you can get them signed by the author (and get an awesome sticker too)💜 Thank you @maybemockingbird.bsky.social
21.01.2025 22:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Read some amazing books in 2024!
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