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Nich
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Beware the autumn people

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monalyisha
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Monthly Reading Tracker

FEBRUARY
(8 books)

The Book of Speculation 4.25 ⭐️
Transient & Strange 4.25 ⭐️
The Celebrants 4.0 ⭐️
This Is How You Lose the Time War 4.0 ⭐️
Astrid Parker Doesn‘t Fail 3.75 ⭐️
Enchanted to Meet You 3.5 ⭐️
Everybody Come Alive 3.5 ⭐️
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known 3.0 ⭐️

Chelsea.Poole Good month! I‘m looking forward to Transient & Strange. 4w
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monalyisha
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I‘ve had a great reading month! The Book of Speculation takes the February slot. It couldn‘t not. It felt tailor-made for me. The collection of memoir/science essays by Nell Greenfieldboyce, Transient & Strange, was pretty fab, too, though! If I had to guess right now, I‘d say T&S may end up snagging one of the bonus spots for the first half of the year.

Turtle Diary could sweep the whole board. It‘s pretty singular. 🐢

#ReadingBracket2024

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maich
Carnival | Elizabeth Bear
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It's #CarnivalDay. The day when we can be something else🤡👹
We were Minnie Mouse and Gabby, we went from house to house from doors to doors (our phrase for trick or treat)...and it was fun day.

#carnival #motheranddaughter

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monalyisha
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You know how you can sometimes just sense that someone is your kind of person?

I read this in Swyler‘s bio AFTER declaring my love for her. When you know, you know. 🐇

Scochrane26 I have this book and still haven‘t read it. Loved her Light From Other Stars (?) though 2mo
monalyisha @Scochrane26 As did I! I can‘t believe how long I let this languish on my shelves. I‘ve already checked to see if she has any forthcoming novels — and she does! It‘s called We Lived on the Horizon and is about a “bio-prosthetic surgeon and her personal AI.” If I weren‘t already a devotee of the author, I might have skipped it based on the synopsis, but I‘m sure it‘ll be amazing. (edited) 2mo
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monalyisha
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Pickpick

Swyler describes her own book as being “difficult to explain: a dual narrative in two time periods, an abundance of plot threads, circus, tarot, drowning, horseshoe crabs, a house falling off a cliff, all as told by a reclusive librarian.”

I know this book isn‘t for everyone but it was absolutely for me. I love Erika Swyler‘s writing, her sensibilities. I can‘t say how much I enjoyed this heartbreaking and salt-stained novel.

#UnpopularOpinion

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monalyisha
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“There‘s a solid sureness to fingernails, the shell over the tenderest parts of us.”

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🤍🤍🤍 2mo
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monalyisha
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“And then I am in the black relief of night swimming. Below is life, tails twitching against shells, above is water, then sky — in the in-between there is only me. I swim farther into the dark.”

Pairing this quote with a Michael Stipe valentine (singer of R.E.M.‘s “Night Swimming”) because I found it today and it‘s too good not to share.

CBee This is so great 😂♥️ And I love that song! 2mo
Deblovestoread Love this 💜 2mo
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monalyisha
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Recently, I listened to an interview with Ross Gay, author of The Book of Delights. Though I haven‘t yet read his book, I think he‘d approve of Swyler‘s definition of delight as being like “a little light that settles in [your] sternum.”

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Faranae
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My January (tracked) reading. I'm chipping away at my backlog of modern children's books (I try to know what's out there to gift to friends' kids and also for fast URC solutions haha). The only book here I DO NOT recommend is “A River's Gifts“. It plays fast and loose with facts and assumes children are too stupid for nuance. It's also not written by Klallam people and it shows. The two queer romances are both @willaful's fault, thank you. ❤

willaful Any time. 😊 2mo
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