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Here's a sneak peek at librarian Beth's reading life lately!

Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

I almost didn't read this, I was in the midst of a reader's block. I am so glad that I did. This book is a joy! Cute, full of characters that you will both love and hate.

Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close

I just started Marrying the Ketchups but I love character-driven novels and this one is set in Chicago around a close-knit family so I'm looking forward to the family drama and dynamics unfolding.

The Island by Adrian McKinty

This was added to my reading list because it sounds like a twisted thriller set in a far-off locale-- the vast Australian outback. (Basically the opposite feels of Marrying the Ketchups.) It seems to be plot-driven but I look forward to traveling with the mix-up of characters. Apparently, it's also going to be a Hulu series too.

See more of Beth's recs

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The List.

Hi Everyone! After some demand, people would like to see the current TBR that I have in place for myself! For all the 63 books, we have a lot of different options. I kinda read everything haha (Please note that if I have the same series, I plan to read the series at least for the first book. If I like it, I will continue on.)

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

Too Hot to Handle by Tessa Bailey

The Witch Collector by Charissa Weaks

Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

Lightlark by Alex Aster

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

That Dark Infinity by Kate Pentecost

Book of Night by Holly Black

Sinner by Sierra Simone

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Bite of Loyalty by R.L. Caulder

The City of Brass by S.A. Charkraborty

Furyborn by Claire Legrand

For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten

Where the Crawdad Sings by Delia Owens

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

The Shadow Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

The Secret Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab

Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

Namesake by Adrienne Young

Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

Think Again by Adam Grant

These Twisted Bonds by Lexi Ryan

Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

Beach Read by Emily Henry

The Chain by Adrian McKinty

King of Battle & Blood by Scarlett St. Clair

A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross

Yinka, Where is your Husband? by Lizzie Damilolam Blackburn

The War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. Armentrout

A Darker Shade of Magiv by V.E. Schwab

The Bridge Kingdom by Danielle L. Jensen

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The Traitor Queen by Danielle L. Jensen

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa

The Curse of Saints by Kate Dramis

A Soul of Ash & Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson

The Awakening by Nora Roberts

The Girl Who Could Move Shit With Her Mind by Jackson Ford

Deal with the Elf King by Elise Kova

Once More Upon a Time by Roshani Chokshi

The Duke & I by Julia Quinn

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Any recommendations on where to begin? I could use help!

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Peacemaker

♥︎ Adrian Chase

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Stranger Things

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Our Flag Means Death

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Our Favorite Reads of 2023

Inspired by this post from the Queer Liberation Library, we asked our awesome rec-list contributors to name their one favorite read of 2023, and the result is a list wonderful in its diversity of formats, genres, characters, stories, and authors. Check um out!

@adrianharley Favorite: Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

@dei2dei Favorite: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha

@shadaras Favorite: The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

@terrapwaters Favorite: Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

@unforth Favorite: Mo Du by Priest

hullosweetpea’s Favorite: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

Shea Sullivan‘s Favorite: Death by Silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold

@thechaoscryptid Favorite: The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K. S. Villoso

@hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon Favorite: Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir

@fpwoper Favorite: November by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

@captainhaterade Favorite: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

@tryslora Favorite: To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh

@ramblingandpie Favorite: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

@nursinggeek Favorite: The Heartbreak Bakery by A. R. Capetta

@boneturtle Favorite: Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley

An anonymous Favorite: Heaven Official’s Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

@diroxy Favorite: Add Magic to Taste

@maggiepageauthor Favorite: A Power Unbound by Freya Marske

Lyonel Loy’s Favorite: The Last Sun by K. D. Edwards

@crowbraiin Favorite: Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

@not-gwaenchanha Favorite: Open Throat by Henry Hoke

What was YOUR favorite read of 2023? Dare ya to try to pick only one!

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Adrian Jimenez

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Heyy boo, do you have a book that is not star wars related that you wish you could read for the first time or reread all the time?

I am searching for books recommendations and I am pretty open about every genre, maybe not horror but everything else is totally fine.

My number one book recommendation that I will always obnoxiously shove in everyone’s faces is Lord of the Rings. It is my heart and soul and favorite thing in the world and if you’ve never read the trilogy I highly recommend it. But I also have quite a few other recs!

Anything written by Andy Weir. “The Martian” is his best known work,which they made the Matt Damon movie of,and while I do love it “Project Hail Mary” is my favorite of his and one of my favorite sci-fi books of all time.

I loved “To Sleep in a Sea of Stars” which was Christopher Paolini’s sci-fi debut a couple years ago but he just came out with its prequel “Fractal Noise” and I liked it even more.

For some good old fashioned space opera brilliance I recommend the “Final Architecture” trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The last book of the series just came out and I DEVOURED it. Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time,Ruin,and Memory are also phenomenal, you really just can’t go wrong with him.

For more space opera and politics I highly recommend Arkady Martine,she DEBUTED with “Memory Called Empire” which won all sorts of awards. The sequel also recently came out but I haven’t gotten the chance to read it.

I’m in the middle of reading Pierce Brown’s “Red Rising” saga,which I would describe as adult Hunger Games,and have thoroughly enjoying it as well!

For fantasy I love Samantha Shannon’s “Priory of the Orange Tree” and “A Day of Fallen Night”. You’ll get varying opinions of what to read first,I read Priory when it first came out so that’s my biased opinion.

I’m a massive fan of “She Who Became the Sun” by Shelly Parker-Chan and their sequel “He Who Drowned the World” and I want it to go on record I read SWBS when it first came out and before it blew up *flips hair*

R.J. Barker’s “Tide Child” trilogy is awesome,first book of that series is “The Bone Ships.” It’s high seas fantasy with dragon bone ships and epic war and amazing world building.

I always highly recommend “Gideon the Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir and now also the rest of the books in the series. I think the usual pitch is lesbian necromancers in space.

I cannot cannot recommend “The Shadow of the Gods” by John Gwynne enough! It’s quintessential epic fantasy told as a Norse epic and it’s in my top five of modern fantasy books.

While I have serious beef with Song of Achilles just like our fellow obikin Will,I did love and devour Madeline Miller’s “Circe.” In every way I think it’s her superior work.

I can’t recommend fantasy without recommending “The Grace of Kings” by Ken Liu. His entire series will blow your socks off,but the first book won nearly every award for fantasy books that have ever existed.

I’m a huge fan of R.F Kuang’s “The Poppy War” series although I’ve heard this one is a contentious recommendation. I think this series is hate or love it but if for whatever reason you don’t vibe with this series I also highly recommend Kuang’s “Babel.”

If you want something a little less well known I could chew through drywall over Simon Jimenez’s “The Spear Cuts Through Water.” It was in my top five of 2023 release books.

I can also make a separate rec list of less new books and overall classics I always recommend or gift to people,both fiction and nonfiction!

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8 for the ask game

8: favorite queer fiction

Oh that's a good question, lets split it up by genre!

Fantasy: The Serpent Gates duology by AK Larkwood (disaster gays, wlw/mlm frenemies, really cool worldbuilding and plot), The Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin (post apocalyptic fantasy world with slight scifi vibes, crimes against humanity, polyamory) & The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez (funky narrative experimentation, more disaster gays, gods, so much murder)

Urban fantasy: The Arcadia Project trilogy by Mishell Baker (scary faeries, disabled and bisexual protagonist, soulmates done in a unique and interesting way)

Science fiction: The Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee (so many war crimes, so many queer characters, math magic in space, possession), The Gates of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky (alternate timelines, cryptid hunting girlfriends, dinosaurs, the impending end of the multiverse)

Romance: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (timetravel, found family, pancakes) & This is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar (more timetravel, enemies to lovers, epistolary, most beautiful prose you’ve ever read)

Horror: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle (demons with fascinating lore, homophobic cults, autistic and lesbian lead) & The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling (caves in space, antagonistic romance, so much claustrophobia)

Young Adult: Contagion duology by Erin Bowman (space zombies, mind bonds, one sapphic lead, one with demiace vibes), In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan (portal fantasy, most bisexual and chaotic love triangle in history, elves with reversed gender norms, bastard boy protagonist) & Market of Monsters trilogy by Rebecca Schaeffer (aroace protagonists who commit murders together, monsters, Everyone Is Getting Worse)

Honorary mentions: when the angels left the old country, imperial radch, the murderbot diaries, the scorpion rules, sing the four quarters, to shape a dragons breath, xenogenesis

Bookworm ask

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Adrian Waldo by Anthony Amadeo

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Adrian Waldo Jimenez

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ComicList: DC Comics New Releases for Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Batman #137 (Cover A Jorge Jimenez)(Batman Catwoman The Gotham War), $4.99

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Batman Adventures Omnibus HC, $150.00

Batman Justice Buster Volume 1 TP, $9.99

Batman Under The Red Hood The Deluxe Edition HC, $49.99

Birds Of Prey #1 (Cover A Leonardo Romero), $3.99

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It's the solstice tonight, and a good time to reflect on my favourite books from the past year.

I'm making very little attempt to rank these titles. They're simply the books that I enjoyed most, and they're presented in the order I read them. • "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet," by Becky Chambers (2014) • "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within," by Becky Chambers (2021) • "Locklands," by Robert Jackson Bennett (2022) • "Beloved," by Toni Morrison (1987) • "Exhalation," by Ted Chiang (2019) • "Fugitive Telemetry," by Martha Wells (2021) • "Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future," by Patty Krawec (2022) • "The Vanished Birds," by Simon Jimenez (2020) • "The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family," by Joshua Cohen (2021) • "Utopia Avenue," by by David Mitchell (2020) • "The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery," by Amitav Ghosh (1995) • "Moon of the Crusted Snow," by Waubgeshig Rice (2018) • "Bea Wolf," by Zach Weinersmith; illustrated by Boulet (2023) • "Fighting the Moon," by Julie McGalliard (2021) • "The Empress of Salt and Fortune," by Nghi Vo (2020) • "The Glass Hotel," by Emily St. John Mandel (2020) • "New York 2140," by Kim Stanley Robinson (2017) • "When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain," by Nghi Vo (2020) • "The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Omnibus," by Ryan North et al; illustrated by Erica Henderson & Derek Charm & Jacob Chabot & Naomi Franquiz & Tom Fowler & Rico Renzi et al (2022) • "Buffalo Is the New Buffalo: Stories," by Chelsea Vowel (2022) • "Greenwood: A Novel," by Michael Christie (2019) • "The House of Rust," by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (2021) • "Children of Memory," by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2022) • "Jade Legacy," by Fonda Lee (2021) • "A Deadly Education: A Novel: Lesson One of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2020) • "The Last Graduate: A Novel: Lesson Two of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2021) • "The Golden Enclaves: Lesson Three of the Scholomance," by Naomi Novik (2022) • "To Be Taught if Fortunate," by Becky Chambers (2019) • "Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution," by Carlo Rovelli (2020), translated by Erica Segre & Simon Carnell (2021) • "A Psalm for the Wild-Built," by Becky Chambers (2021) Ah, but I said I'd make "very little attempt" to rank them, not "no attempt." So here is that attempt: my favourite five books from the last solar orbit — the five I enjoyed even more than those other thirty — also presented in the order I read them.

• "Nona the Ninth," by Tamsyn Muir (2022) • "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands," by Kate Beaton (2022) • "Record of a Spaceborn Few," by Becky Chambers (2018) • "Briar Rose," by Jane Yolen (1992) • "Babel, or, The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution," by R.F. Kuang (2022)

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Book Review

This is the third and final book in The Friend Zone series by Abby Jimenez. You can read my reviews of the first two books here and here.

Vanessa Price is a 28-year-old video blogger on YouTube who lives in Minnesota. After her younger sister leaves her three-week-old daughter named Grace at Vanessa's apartment and never comes back, Vanessa is suddenly faced with taking care of an infant by herself. One night when Grace will not stop crying at 4:00 in the morning, Vanessa's next door neighbor, Adrian Copeland, goes over to help her. Adrian is a 32-year-old lawyer who is the cousin of Josh from The Friend Zone and The Happy Ever After Playlist.

This book takes place between Thanksgiving and New Year's. For the entire month of December, Vanessa and Adrian become inseparable as they hang out in each other's apartments and take care of Grace together like they are a family. They start to develop feelings for each other, but Vanessa refuses to date anyone because there is a fifty-fifty chance she has the gene that carries the fatal disease of ALS - and she is already starting to feel one of the symptoms as she approaches her 29th birthday. After her older sister died from it before the age of 30, she lives every day to its fullest in case she doesn't have much time left. She has decided not to spend the rest of her life getting treatment with medication and clinical trials after watching her sister go through with them unsuccessfully; she would rather have as many adventures and as much fun for as long as she can.

All three of these books deal with two people who are insanely attracted to each other while facing some kind of obstacle that makes it a bad idea for them to be together in the long run. In The Friend Zone, it's Kristen's infertility. In The Happy Ever After Playlist, it's Jason's career as a musician. In Life's Too Short, it's the possibility that Vanessa may only have one more year to live. The book also includes mental illness and addiction among her family members. It had some parts that were pretty depressing when Vanessa was trying to straighten things out for her family so they would be okay after she was gone, but it also had some very entertaining and heartfelt scenes.

Although I still enjoyed reading it, I liked the other two books better. I was excited to see Kristen, Josh, Sloan, and Jason from both previous books, but they are only in a couple of scenes. The first two are more closely related, but I liked how all three books took place in the same world from a different character's point of view in each one. They remind me of The Wedding Date series by Jasmine Guillory, which is also about the same group of people who all know each other. If you like books with characters that are interconnected, you may want to try those as well!

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January 2023 Reads

The River of Silver, S. A. Chakraborty (2022)

Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh (2019)

Drowned Country, Emily Tesh (2020)

The Spear Cuts Through Water, Simon Jimenez (2022)

Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky (2021)

Eyes of the Void, Adrian Tchaikovsky (2022)

Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky (2015)

Children of Ruin, Adrian Tchaikovsky (2019)

River of Silver ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

It's been over a year since I finished Empire of Gold, but jumping back in via The River of Silver, it was like I never left Daevabad. Reading these shorts was much the same comfort-food experience of scrolling through AO3 after finishing a series in search of fics tagged "Missing Scene". Some of my favorites were "Duriyah", the alternative epilogue to Empire of Gold, and the last chapter with Nahri & Ali. It's testament to the vividness of Chakraborty's characters that each of these stories felt like visiting an old friend.

Silver in the Wood ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A cozy little book, which manages to be sweet but not saccharine. At times it felt like events could use a little bit more room to breath, but an enjoyable read nonetheless.

Drowned Country ⭐⭐⭐½

A bit of a disappointment after Silver in the Wood. Silver is an altogether less sympathetic narrator than Tobias, and the story itself is much more disjointed and the ending a little too neat. I find myself wishing for a book about the adventures of Maud, Mrs Silver, and Tobias (sans Silver himself) all of whom were rather underutilized in this story.

The Spear Cuts Through Water ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

It was initially a little difficult to start this book—the second-person narration and setting seemingly disconnected from the synopsis raising the barrier to entry. But boy was pushing through it worth it! The prose really manages to convey a sense of mythic weight and wonder and the crush of ages. That being said, this book isn't going to be for everyone—it has ritualistic cannibalism, for a start. While some books are perfect on their own, I will admit that I find myself wanting to read more in this universe; it feels like room still remains for a sequel (a thread still unknotted, or just loosely so... easily unraveled).

Shards of Earth ⭐⭐⭐⭐

This book scratched the hyperspace-navigation-shenanigans itch that the Rebels sequel probably won't. I fully enjoyed the world-building and the ensemble cast. The romantic tension/chemistry fell a little flat for me, but honestly that's not really the point of the story so it's not a big deal.

Eyes of the Void ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This one was *very* fun and I'm excited to see how the series concludes! My only complaint is that at times the exposition felt repetitive, with the narration rehashing events multiple times as if we might have forgotten over the last 100 pages.

Children of Time ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I am obsessed with the world building in this book, and utterly fascinated by the time scales across which the plot occurs. Very unexpected and so interesting.

Children of Ruin

I'm currently at 51% and loving it! Both a direct sequel to Children of Time and an exciting, new narrative.

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Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36 years old

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