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Books (and other stories) read in 2024

Fiction:

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley: ★★★★✩

The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tukoda-Hall: ★★★★★ (I cried so hard)

All Out. The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages by Saundra Mitchell (ed.): ★★★★✩

Galatea by Madeline Miller: ★★★★✩

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki: ★★★★★ (the feelings I felt omg)

Ministerium der Träume by Hangemeh Yaghoobifarah: ★★★★✩

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White: ★★★★★ (holy shit holy shit holy shit)

The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Nova: ★★★★★ (absolutely loved it!)

Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Nova: ★★★★✩ (this book opened up a discussion between a friend and I if historical fiction can be a utopia) (we have not yet reached a conclusion)

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi: ★★★★✩

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone: ★★★★✩ (I would be lying if I said I understood it all but I still thoroughly enjoyed it!)

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas: ★★★★½

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins: ★★★✩✩ (amazing writing, but the story could have easily been a novella)

Confessions of the Fox by Jody Rosenberg ★★★★½

Lore by Alexandra Bracken: ★★★✩✩ (oh wow, I was disappointed by this)

Der Spurenfinder by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩ (I am not the target audience but if I was, I think this would be a fair rating)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (re-read): ★★★★✩ (re-reading these for the first time in 12 years and it's a fucking GUT PUNCH)

A Tempest of Tea by Hafzah Faizal: ★★★★½ (omg I need to talk about this book) (they would have made such a hot throuple)

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (re-read): ★★★★½ (I cannot believe I read these at 14)

The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields: ★★½✩✩ (good ideas, but clearly a debut)

The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Nova: ★★★★★

So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole: ★★★★✩

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas: ★★★★½

Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig: ★★★½✩

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins: ★★★★✩ (the tears)

Atalanta by Jennifer Saint: ★★★★✩

The Prince's Dearest Guards by Beau van Dalen: ★★★✩✩ (smut)

The Prince's Dreamy Gods by Beau van Dalen: ★★★✩✩ (smut)

The Prince's Loving Guards by Beau van Dalen: ★★★½✩ (smut)

The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White: ★★★★★ (holy shit holy shit holy shit)

Spell Bound by F. T. Lukens: ★★★★✩

Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Kallender: ★★★★✩

The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara: ★★★★½ (I cried on the subway)

Otherworldly by F. T. Lukens: ★★★★✩

The Bootlegger's Bounty by Adriana Herrera: ★★½✩✩ (smut)

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers: ★★★★★ (lovedlovedloved this)

The Stars and the Stage by D. N. Bryn: ★★★★½ (the hottest scenes I've ever read)

Adas Raum by Sharon Dodua Otoo: ★★★★✩

Vengeance of the Pirate Queen by Tricia Levenseller: ★★★✩✩ (oh wow this was disappointing)

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree: ★★★★✩

Icarus by K. Ancrum: ★★★★½

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Prince of Lust by Lucien Burr: ★★★✩✩ (smut)

Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas: ★★★★✩

Hell and its Pleasures by Lucien Burr: ★✩✩✩✩ (smut) (absolutely not) (you'll have to be a VERY specific kind of person to be into this)

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers: ★★★★★ (the most delightful book I've ever read)

How to Bite your Neighbor and Win a Wager by D. N. Bryn: ★★★★✩

Out of the Blue by Jason June: ★★★✩✩ (it's always weird when adult authors write explicitly about teenagers having sex)

So This is Ever After by F. T. Lukens: ★★★½✩ (the least good of Lukens' books imo)

Our Bloody Pearl by D. N. Bryn: ★★★★✩

The Dos and Doughnuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar: DNF

Ellbogen by Fatma Aydemir: ★★★★✩

How to Sell your Blood and Fall in Love by D. N. Bryn: ★★★★✩

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White: ★★★★½ (holyshitholyshitholyshit)

How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck by D. N. Bryn: ★★★★½ (t4t powerplay vampire romance hngg)

Lakelore by Anna-Maria McLemore: ★★★★✩

The Flowered Blade by Taylor Hubbard: ★★★½✩

Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland:★★★★✩ (surprisingly hilarious)

Stupid Cupid by Maeve Black: ★★✩✩✩ (smut) (when you base your whole story on respecting consent and then you don't

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal: ★★★★✩

The Palace of Eros by Caro DeRobertis: ★★★✩✩ (I wanted to love this; I really did)

Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas: ★★★½✩

Open Throat by Henry Hoke:★★★★✩ (a fever dream)

A Bone in His Teeth by Kellen Graves: ★★★★½

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender: ★★★✩✩

The Companion by E. E. Ottoman: ★★★★✩

Stone and Steel by Eboni J. Dunbar: ★★★✩✩

A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck: ★★★★✩

The Craft of Love by E. E. Ottoman: ★★★½✩

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo: ★★★★✩

Awakenings by Claudie Arsenault: ★★★★✩

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh: ★★★½✩

How Not to Date a Dragon by Lana Kole: ★★★★✩

Flooded Secrets by Claudie Arsenault: ★★★★✩

Silver in the Woods by Emily Tesh: ★★★½✩

Non-fiction:

Angry Cripples by Alina Buschmann & Luisa L'Audace: ★★★★✩

Ace by Angela Chen: ★★★★½

Clit by Louisa Lorenz: ★★★★★ (the book that got me reading excitedly again after a slump)

Feminismus für die 99% by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, & Nancy Fraser: ★★★½✩ (super good content, but super inaccessibly written)

Versöhnungstheater by Max Czollek: ★★★★½

The Transgender Issue by Shoan Faye: ★★★★★

Das Asexuelle Spectrum by Camilla DeWinter: DNF

Der Tag, an dem ich sterben sollte by Said Etris Hashemi: ★★★★★

Wozu Rassismus? by Aladin El-Mafaalani: ★★★✩✩

Wie ist Jesus weiß geworden? by Sarah Vecera: ★★★★✩

Continuum by Chella Man: ★★★★✩

Inter - Ein Handbuch über Intergeschlechtlichkeit Carolin Fritzsche:★★★✩✩

Why We Matter by Emilia Roig: DNF

Die Zukunft ist Nicht Binär by Lydia Meyer: ★★★★✩

Concrete Kids by Amyra León: ★★★★★

The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli: ★★★★✩

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.: ★★★★★

As audio books:

Süss. Eine feministische Kritik by Ann-Kristin Tlusty: ★★★★✩

Comics & graphic novels:

The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag (re-read): ★★★★★

Die verlorenen Briefe (orig. Lettres Perdut) by Jim Bishop: (amazing setting & drawing style, but the storytelling...): ★★½✩✩

Paper Girls 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang & Matt Wilson: ★★★★✩

Paper Girls 2 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang & Matt Wilson: ★★★★✩

Paper Girls 3 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang & Matt Wilson: ★★★★✩

Paper Girls 4 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang & Matt Wilson: ★★★½✩

Paper Girls 5 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang & Matt Wilson: ★★★★✩

Paper Girls 6 by Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang & Matt Wilson: ★★★★✩

The Hidden Witch by Molly Knox Ostertag: ★★★★★

Frauen hinter Stacheldraht (orig. Totální nasazení) by Tomáš Hodan, Ondřej Nezbeda, Petra Soukupová et al.: ★★★★✩

Von unten (orig. Wage slaves: En memoar av en prekär migrantarbetare) by Daria Bogdańska: ★★★★✩

Drachenläufer (orig. Kite Runner) by Khaled Hosseini & Fabio Celoni: ★★★★✩

Verdad by Lorena Canottiere: ★★★✩✩

The Midwinter Witch by Molly Knox Ostertag: ★★★★★

The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O'Neill: ★★★★★ (the coziest of graphic novels)

Avatar. The Last Airbender. The Promise (re-read): ★★★★✩

Lore Olympus 1 by Rachel Smythe: ★★★✩✩

Avatar. The Last Airbender. The Search by : ★★★★✩ (I think the German translation isn't doing any of these any favors)

Gender Queer. A Memoir. by Maia Kobabe: ★★★★✩

Lore Olympus 2 by Rachel Smythe: ★★★✩✩

Lore Olympus 3 by Rachel Smythe: ★★★✩✩ (can't believe it took 3 books for someone to acknowledge that Apollo sexually assaulted Perspehone, but I'm glad it FINALLY happened)

Avatar. The Last Airbender. Katara and the Pirate's Silver: ★★★★✩

Avatar. The Last Airbender. Toph Beifong's Metalebnding Academy: ★★★½✩

Kisses for Jet by Joris Bas Backer: ★★½✩✩

Snapdragon by Kat Leyh: ★★★★★

Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo: ★★★★★ (BIG recommend)

The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu: ★★★★★ (probably the first human x robot romance I ever felt comfortable with)

The Moth Keeper by Kay O'Neill: ★★★★½

Brooms by Jasmine Walls & Teo DuVall: ★★★★★ (BIG recommend)

Aquicorn Cove by Kay O'Neill: ★★★★✩

Doughnuts and Doom by Balazs Lorinczi: ★★★✩✩

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen: ★★★★✩ (the LAYERS)

Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman: ★★★✩✩

The Deep and Dark Blue by Niki Smith: ★★★★½

The Well by Jake Wyatt and Choo: ★★★★½

Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks: ★★★★★

Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen:★★★★★

Garlic and the Witch by Bree Paulsen: ★★★★★

M is for Monster by Talia Dutton: ★★★★½

Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier: ★★★½✩

The Sprite and the Gardener by Rii Abrego:★★★★½

Bingo Love by Tee Franklin: ★★★✩✩

Northranger by Rey Terciero: ★★★★½

Another Kind by Trevor Bream: (fuck, this was SO SWEET but then it hits you with an antisemitic trope? fuck)

Cheat(er) Code by S. A. Foxe: ★★★½✩

The Baker and the Bard by Fern Haught: ★★★½✩

Viscera Objectica by Yugo Limbo: ★★★✩✩

Sheets by Brenna Thummler: ★★★★✩

Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights by James Persichetti: ★★★★✩

Leftstar and the Strange Occurence by Jean Fhilippe: ★★★✩✩

The Chromatic Fantasy by H. A.: ★★★★★

Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell: ★★★★✩

Enigma by xx: ★★★✩✩

Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jadzia Axelrod: ★★★★✩

Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun by Kaz Rowe: ★★★★✩

Webcomics:

The Moth Prince by Sonderfairy: ★★★★½

The New Recruit by Moscareto & Zec: ★★★✩✩

Semantic Error by J. Soori & Angy: ★½✩✩✩ (why I continued reading this remains a mystery. My best guess is the sunk cost fallacy)

The Fallen Duke & the Knight Who Hated Him by Poisson: ★★★★✩ (probably the best of these online comics I've read so far)

No Love Zone by Danbi: ★★½✩✩

Whispers Through the Willows by Moscareto & Sue: ★★★★�� (these BL online manga and manhwa just hit different. by which I mean: the bar is on the floor and I appreciate any and every bit of good storytelling and healthy-ish relationship)

Countdown to Love by Wonknown et al.: ★★★½✩

Vampire Beru & Ghost Aki by Humiko: ★★★★½ (I cried) (It's so beautiful)

The Dangerous Convenience Store by : ★★½✩✩

Traces of the Sun by : ★★★½✩ (I thought I was getting into a casual read but then the last chapter emotionally wrecked me)

My Sweet Dear by : ★★★✩✩

Osora by Toni Renea: ★★★★½ (genuinely very good!)

#my books #books #reading #2024reading

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peraltasass · 1 year ago

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Read in 2023

✩✩✩✩✩ - ★★★★★

Fiction:

Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes: ★★✩✩✩ (HUGE disappointment)

Babel by R. F. Kuang: ★★★★★ (HUGE recommend)

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas: ★★★★✩

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron: ★★★★✩

Pet by Akwae Emenzi: ★★★★★

The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick: ★★★★✩

The Deep by Rivers Solomon: ★★★★★ (big recommend!)

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: ★★★★★

Nevada by Imogen Binnie: ★★★★✩

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (re-read): ★★★★✩

Das Känguru Manifest by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker: ★★★★✩

Die Känguru Offenbarung by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩

Die Känguru Apokryphen by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩

Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee: ★★★★✩

Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi: ★★★★✩

Peter Darling by Austin Chant: ★★★★✩

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty: ★★★★½

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi: ★★★★★

Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha: ★★★½✩

Dschinns by Fatma Ayedemir: ★★★★★

Blutbuch by Kim De L’Horizon: ★★★★✩

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang: ★★½✩✩

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall: ★★★★✩

Gwen and Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher: ★★★★✩

The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard: ★★★½✩

Der Duft der Sterne by Simon Klemp: (can’t fairly rate, a friend of mine is the author)

The Binding by Bridget Colling: ★★★★½

In Deeper Waters by F. T. Lukens: ★★★★½

Non-fiction:

Von hier aus gesehen by Celestine Hassenfratz, Anna Luise Rother, & Ulla Scharfenberg: ★★★★½

Behindert und Stolz by Luisa L’Audace: ★★★★½

Ich, ein Kind der kleinen Mehrheit by Gianni Jovanovic mit Oyindamola Alashe: ★★★★✩

Radikale Selbstfürsorge jetzt! by Svenja Gräfen: ★★★✩✩

Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum (Your Homeland is Our Nightmare) by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah: ★★★★★

Bad Gays. A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller:

Unlearn Patriarchy by Lisa Jaspers, Naomi Ryland and Silvie Horch (eds.): ★★★★✩

Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel: ★★★★✩

Sprache und Sein by Kübra Gümüşay: ★★★✩✩

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei: ★★★★✩

Lieber Jonas oder Der Wunsch nach Selbstbestimmung by Linus Giese: ★★★★✩

Gender. A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele: ★★½✩✩

Hood Feminism by Mikkie Kendall: ★★★★★

Let’s Talk About Sex, Habibi by Mohamed Amjahid: ★★★★★

Wie kann ich was bewegen? by Raúl Krauthausen & Benjamin Schwarz: (stopped bc it made me unhappy)

Caliban and the Witch by (not finished yet)

NichtMutterSein by Nadine Pungs: ★★★½✩

Desintegriert euch! by Max Czollek: ★★★★✩

Pageboy by Elliot Page: ★★★★★

Hass by Şeyda Kurt: ★★★★½

Die stille Gewalt by Asha Hedayati: ★★★★★

Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats by Margarete Stochowski: ★★★★½

Identitätskrise by Alice Hasters: ★★★½✩

Anti-Girlboss by Nadia Shehadeh: ★★★½✩

Graphic novels and webcomics:

Pimo & Rex by Thomas Wellmann: ★★★★✩

Pimo & Rex: Die interdimensionale Hochzeit by Thomas Wellmann: ★★★★✩

Freibad by Paulina Stulin & Doris Dörrie: ★★✩✩✩

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O’Neill: ★★★★★

Medusa & Perseus by André Breinbauer: ★★✩✩✩/★★★✩✩

#books #my books #read in 2023 #reading list #book tracking #reading tracking

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Read in 2023

✩✩✩✩✩ - ★★★★★

Fiction:

Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes: ★★✩✩✩ (HUGE disappointment)

Babel by R. F. Kuang: ★★★★★ (HUGE recommend)

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas: ★★★★✩

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron: ★★★★✩

Pet by Akwae Emenzi: ★★★★★

The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick: ★★★★✩

The Deep by Rivers Solomon: ★★★★★ (big recommend!)

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: ★★★★★

Nevada by Imogen Binnie: ★★★★✩

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (re-read): ★★★★✩

Das Känguru Manifest by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker: ★★★★✩

Die Känguru Offenbarung by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩

Die Känguru Apokryphen by Marc-Uwe Kling: ★★★★✩

Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee: ★★★★✩

Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi: ★★★★✩

Peter Darling by Austin Chant: ★★★★✩

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty: ★★★★½

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi: ★★★★★

Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha: ★★★½✩

Dschinns by Fatma Ayedemir: ★★★★★

Blutbuch by Kim De L’Horizon: ★★★★✩

Yellowface by R. F. Kuang: ★★½✩✩

The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall: ★★★★✩

Gwen and Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher: ★★★★✩

The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard: ★★★½✩

Der Duft der Sterne by Simon Klemp: (can’t fairly rate, a friend of mine is the author)

The Binding by Bridget Colling: ★★★★½

In Deeper Waters by F. T. Lukens: ★★★★½

Non-fiction:

Von hier aus gesehen by Celestine Hassenfratz, Anna Luise Rother, & Ulla Scharfenberg: ★★★★½

Behindert und Stolz by Luisa L’Audace: ★★★★½

Ich, ein Kind der kleinen Mehrheit by Gianni Jovanovic mit Oyindamola Alashe: ★★★★✩

Radikale Selbstfürsorge jetzt! by Svenja Gräfen: ★★★✩✩

Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum (Your Homeland is Our Nightmare) by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah: ★★★★★

Bad Gays. A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller:

Unlearn Patriarchy by Lisa Jaspers, Naomi Ryland and Silvie Horch (eds.): ★★★★✩

Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel: ★★★★✩

Sprache und Sein by Kübra Gümüşay: ★★★✩✩

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei: ★★★★✩

Lieber Jonas oder Der Wunsch nach Selbstbestimmung by Linus Giese: ★★★★✩

Gender. A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele: ★★½✩✩

Hood Feminism by Mikkie Kendall: ★★★★★

Let’s Talk About Sex, Habibi by Mohamed Amjahid: ★★★★★

Wie kann ich was bewegen? by Raúl Krauthausen & Benjamin Schwarz: (stopped bc it made me unhappy)

Caliban and the Witch by (not finished yet)

NichtMutterSein by Nadine Pungs: ★★★½✩

Desintegriert euch! by Max Czollek: ★★★★✩

Pageboy by Elliot Page: ★★★★★

Hass by Şeyda Kurt: ★★★★½

Die stille Gewalt by Asha Hedayati: ★★★★★

Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats by Margarete Stochowski: ★★★★½

Identitätskrise by Alice Hasters: ★★★½✩

Anti-Girlboss by Nadia Shehadeh: ★★★½✩

Graphic novels and webcomics:

Pimo & Rex by Thomas Wellmann: ★★★★✩

Pimo & Rex: Die interdimensionale Hochzeit by Thomas Wellmann: ★★★★✩

Freibad by Paulina Stulin & Doris Dörrie: ★★✩✩✩

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O’Neill: ★★★★★

Medusa & Perseus by André Breinbauer: ★★✩✩✩/★★★✩✩

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books i read in 2022

✩✩✩✩✩ - ★★★★★

Fiction:

Myth Retold: Iphigenia by Winter J. Kiakas: ★★★★✩ (cute!)

Heroes by Stehen Fry: ★★★✩✩ (too much whitewashing)

Loveless by Alice Oseman: ★★★★✩ (was frustrated that at the end, only one type of friendship (deep, intense, emotional) was once again posited as the “right” type of friendship to have)

Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan: ★★★★✩ (read these once when I was like 12?)

Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan: ★★★★✩

The Wave by Morton Rhue aka Tedd Strasser: ★★✩✩✩ (ik it’s like a big thing but. the writing didn’t catch me at all - maybe it was the translation or maybe it is just not as well written as claimed)

Percy Jackson: The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan: ★★★★✩ (ah yes, we all know that girls saying no to love = saying no to men)

Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan: ★★★★✩ (just stop it with the jealousy between girls jfc)

Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan: ★★★★✩ (didn’t remember the ending at all, was surprised by how okay I was with it)

we are the ants by Shaun David Hutchinson: ★★★✩✩/★★★★✩ (am incredibly indecisive about how I feel about this one. made me feel more feeling that I thought at first but also frustrated me quite a lot)

A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes: ★★★★✩ (very powerful, I only have tiny notes)

Ulysses by James Joyce: ★★✩✩✩ (I don’t cARE if it’s the bEsT nOvEl Of ThE 20th cEnTuRy, I did NOT have a good time)

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao: ★★★½✩ (I hate to say it but it was too much like Percy Jackson for most of the main part)

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus: ★★★½✩ (did get me eventually; as someone who wrote their ba thesis on the breakfast club it was nice to see the stereotypes deconstructed but also frustrating at times)

Ausser Sich by Sasha Marianna Salzmann: ★★★½✩ (VERY overwhelming at times, but also intensely powerful)

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender: ★★★★✩ (cute)

Die Götter müssen sterben by Nora Bendzko: ★★★★★ (my new fav book)

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters: ★★★★✩

Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa: ★★★✩✩ (for uni)

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater: ★★★★★ (re-read)

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater: ★★★★★ (re-read)

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater: ★★★★★ (re-read)

The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater: ★★★★✩ (re-read, still the least good of all of them)

I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman: ★★★★✩ (cute quick and easy read)

Non fiction:

A Year Without a Name by Cyrus Dunham: ★★★★✩ (for uni)

Wir können mehr sein by Aminata Touré: ★★★½✩

Und jetzt Du by Tupoka Ogette: ★★★★★ (@German white people: READ THIS)

Read This to Get Smarter by Blair Imani: ★★★★✩

Queer Gestreift by Kathrin Köller and Irmela Schautz ★★★★✩

My Left Foot by Christy Brown: ★★★★✩ (for uni)

Read This to Get Smarter about Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More by Blair Imani: ★★★★✩

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon: ★★★★✩

Graphic novels, comics, and webcomics:

Tidesong by Wendy Xu: ★★★★✩

Princess, Princess Ever After by Katie O’Neill: ★★★✩✩ (too short!)

This Place: 150 Years Retold: ★★★★★

Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker, Wendy Xu, and Joanette Gil: ★★★★★

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O'Connell: ★★★★✩

Suki, Alone: ★★★✩✩ (liked it, wish it had given me MORE)

Fine. A Comic About Gender by Thea Ewing: ★★★★★ (STRONG recommend!)

The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill: ★★★★★ (too short but SO CUTE)

#text #me #books #my books #yeah so may be mostly inactive on tumblr but I always track my reading progress in my drafts lol #i read so much this year and it feels really good #my books 2023

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Now that the Parasite in chief has had her platinum Jubilee, i thought id share some fun facts about the monarchy in the UK and the Queen in particular. All of this information is easily found online.

-The Queen negotiated clauses in the equality and Diversity Act so she wouldn't have to hire 'coloured or foreign' staff in the palace. that clause is still there today.

-The Queen tried to use The State Poverty Fund to heat Buckingham Palace even with her own personal fortune.

-She lobbied the Scottish Parliament 67 times to ensure that new wildlife protections laws woudn't apply to her estates there.

-The main throne she sits on is worth an estimated £40,000,000,000. Her jewellery Collection worth circa £5,000,000,000 made with 28, 578 diamonds and gemstones, almost all of which were stolen from countries Britain invaded and enslaved...sorry colonised. She also banned the Police from searching her estates for stolen artifacts.

-Her crown estate is one of the largest property owners in the country. It has over 26 Royal residencies, inc 9 palaces that remain mostly empty and property portfolio that generates £300 million per year. Yet she had a family thrown out during the covid eviction ban for a £32 unpaid bill.

Her son is a nonce ( pedophile) that she protected through a £12 million payout.

-The 'free' book that was sent to every school to tell kids how wonderful the queen is cost the taxpayer £12 million.

-She has £420 million personal wealth, which doesn't include that for-mentioned crown estate or her antique furniture or her jewellery collection or all the stolen gold.

-She and her family cost the tax payer £345 million per year in security and other protections.

-The jubilee cost the tax payer £28 million , set aside by the chancellor for the purpose of funding it. Whilst there are currently 14.5 million people living in poverty here in the UK.

Celebrating the incredibly rich, racist and privileged whilst millions of our own citizens are suffering is disgusting.

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Try to have some respect the queen just DIED. It's not like she was evil or anything

And why should I do that for the head of a family that oversaw the British Empire's legendarily brutal concentration camps in colonialist Kenya during the 1952-1960 Mau Mau rebellion, has personally and repeatedly shielded credibly accused rapist Prince Andrew and tried to get the scandal to go away, personally paid Andrew's financial settlement while the family treated Meghan Markle terribly and gave her none of the same protection, exerted a huge amount of control over UK public finances without any transparency or disclosure (while also receiving huge amounts of that money), got to personally edit laws according to her likes and dislikes, enjoyed sweeping legal immunities that are described as a "threat to UK democracy," is the most visible figurehead of British colonialism even as her descendants put on a horribly tone-deaf Caribbean tour (twice in one year!) that was basically about unreconstructed imperial imagery of the kind that is poisoning Britain, while the entire country buys into the fantasy that she is an impartial, uninvolved, kindly and benevolent grandmotherly figure....?

Nah.

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With the news of Queen Elizabeth’s hospitalisation, it’s now a distinct reality that we could be looking at a change in monarch. And while everyone loves being performative and wants to look cool and join in on the ‘fun’ of celebrating her death, maybe instead you should be looking at doing something that might actually make a difference.

Queen Elizabeth II was an incredibly popular monarch. She was clever and cunning and played her apolitical political role well, taking care to remain in the good graces of the public. It is NOT a coincidence that while monarchies all around Europe toppled, Britain never once seriously looked at getting rid of their Queen.

This is not true of Charles. He is not as well liked. He does not have the benefit of longevity - most people alive have known the Queen as their monarch their whole lives, and have never seen the monarch change. Kicking a little old lady off the throne after what many people have seen as years of service to her country was a relatively unpopular proposition, but the same is not true of of a man who people aren’t all that fond of, and who doesn’t hold the position.

If you’re on tumblr you’re probably very aware of the questionable past and present of the British throne - and if you’re British or a member of a commonwealth state, now is the time to start talking about it. The monarchy is never going to be overthrown while Queen Elizabeth is still alive, but on her death… well, it’s pretty much fair game.

So instead of just celebrating on your blog, go out and talk about the monarchy. Sow seeds of revolution. Talk about the racism of the royal family. Talk about the racism inherent in the system, and the very personal racism that Megan Markle exposed. Talk about how it isn’t fair that in a unilateral society based on principles of equality, we have not just a monarch but an entire class of people who are born into titles. Talk about how the royal family hoard wealth, how their modern wealth has come from their past subjects, as well as the burden on tax payers. Talk about how unfit they each are for their positions. How you don’t like Charles, or don’t want him as king. Talk about how outsiders are treated - Megan, Diana.

Talk about all the downsides of the monarchy, and do it loudly and publicly, especially with people who are on the fence or who don’t think they care. We will only step away from the monarchy when the general public demand it, and for that to happens, people need to be informed. People need to consider what things would be like without the institution they’ve lived with all their lives- and if the figurehead of that institution is changing, now is the perfect time.

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