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I am very excited to read the tagged book!

How is it already June?? Our book this month is Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe.
#WithTheBanned #buddyread

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

I have three terrific and captivating stories that I have on rotation at the moment. I don‘t usually have so many fiction books going at once, especially if same delivery method: Audition and Woodworking are both hardcovers and due soon at the library. I have Broken Country captured on my Kindle in Airplane ✈️ Mode

In honor of Pride Month starting tomorrow, here's a rainbow themes #WeekendReads template.

Northanger May is behind us and Northanger Adaptation June is ahead! I'm going for a re-watch of the 2007 film (they get it so right!), a handful of YA versions (the perfect genre for this one, can't deny it) and a book centered on the flowers and plants in Austen's work. Perfect timing as I get my own garden in gear, and who knows - maybe it'll help me learn to love a hyacinth??

Who else has some adaptations to explore this month?

I wanted to like this more than I did, for me it was between a pick and so so. Cozy fantasy about an arboretum where you can plant your loved one‘s ashes and they can grow into a magical tree. Some of the characters have dark secrets, and the consequences are causing their home to crumble. Frank is a Beast, and there are cupids, witches, and a fairy and magic is normal.

Read on kindle so here are Igor and Venkman making goofy sleepy faces.

I'm not sure now that I've finished it that it was worth it.

Things I liked: lots of queerness, Mallory's fibro, the closeness of the main characters, the platonic love between Mallory and Theodore. Forensic science on magic.

Things I didn't like: it felt kinda of... young? The concerns of the trio of girls were very teenage. The real clues started to become so obvious. Obnoxious monologuing to explain a load of tortured clues.

I am determined to finish this tonight, but I have to pause to scream and clear my mind about how obviously they have the wrong culprit.

I picked up this book SOLELY for the fact that Vico Ortiz read for one of the characters, and this is such a heart warming story?? Coming of age magical realism about accepting yourself in every way possible, I loved it and immediately recommended it to a friend lol.

4.25 stars | #urbanfabtasy ? #ya #lgbtqia #lgbt #magicalrealism #twowitches #twowitchesbeltane

I thought I'd probably be DNFing this, but I guess I'm curious enough to stay the course. At least at this point, when my tracker app says I can finish it in 1h30m. I probably wouldn't be up for investing another two hours into it, though.