Lela💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸📚

I don’t blame you at all. America is a scary place to anyone not born here right now. Do what’s necessary for your own safety and well being.

Feeling more and more like Katniss Everdeen every day. And I feel like I’m not the only one. And that should really scare certain people

If you want my book recommendations, find me on StoryGraph, lelapetterson99 or on tumblr, books-are-my-life1999

Anyone else feel like we are going to witness the United States turn into actual fucking Panem? Like the Hunger Games series is going to become real? Or is that just me?

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I had a thought about doing an A-Z reading challenge next year, but only doing it with banned or challenged books. Thoughts?

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

So here’s the thing. I like Travis Kelce because of Taylor Swift. Harrison Butker is a misogynist asswhipe who thinks that women shouldn’t amount to anything. And the fact that he blew out his knee is like some divine Karma that I had thought went away from the world a long ass time ago.

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”

Ursula K. Le Guin .

My bookshelf is a hot mess I don’t know if yall want to see it…

Just my beautiful and strong 16 year old lady with Kidney Disease and a Heart Murmur. She’s my rock