Litsy

The Shadow Cabinet: A Novel | Juno Dawson

Yes, I have a giant stack of books I wanted to get to this month. Yes, they are all being put aside because my hold for this one came in (blame it on @CBee ands her wonderful book taste and @monalyisha and her bookish matchmaking voodoo). And yes, I am eating KD and drinking Diet Coke for lunch, because that is my #MondayMood

#AuldLangSpine -ish

lil1inblue I would love some KD right about now. ❤ 23h

dabbe #bestfoodever 💙🩶🖤 19h

CBee Welp, I love EVERYTHING about this post 💚💚💚👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 16h

Ruthiella I had to look up KD. 😂 I love it too. Brings me back to happy childhood memories. 😋 14h

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Chelsea.Poole

Us | Sara Soler

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Still surprised at how amazing this format is for communicating feeling and a deep understanding; my love for graphic memoirs grows with each I read. In Us, Sara and Diana share their relationship before, during, and after Diana‘s transition. Sexuality and gender norms are explored and explained, with careful consideration of the fact that this is one experience and all are as individual as people going through this. Translated from the Spanish.

IndianBookworm Great review! This looks too pretty to not read.😍 2d

TieDyeDude Yay! I love graphic memoirs. This was a great one. I really liked that the author gave her partner just as strong a voice as her own. 19h

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NotCool

You Weren't Meant to Be Human | Andrew Joseph White

so-so

I didn‘t like this. I don‘t know if that makes it bad. Because I think I‘m supposed to dislike it? This might be a book that would warrant a dead dove do not eat tag, if we tagged books. That doesn‘t make it intrinsically bad. But I didn‘t find anything worth the reading of it.

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IriDas

The Diablo's Curse | Gabe Cole Novoa

The library finally has this on audio just in time for a weekend with two long car trips. My youngest loves this author.

#audiobooks

Kerrbearlib Enjoy! 1w

IriDas @Kerrbearlib thanks 😊 1w

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Larkken

Woodworking | Emily St James

#12Booksof2025 August / Book 8 : highlighting these two books from #camplitsy25 that I loved and wouldn't have had on my radar without the buddy read!

TheEllieMo

TheEllieMo This was clearly a very popular one from #CampLitsy25! 2w

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Robotswithpersonality

The Seep | Chana Porter

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A fantastic final read for 2025. Unusually for a novella, I think it was just the right amount of plot for the page count. There are aspects to this science fictional world that I'd love to explore further, side characters I wish we'd spent a bit more time with, but the main arc for the protagonist is satisfying, and still leaves room for things to be weird and wonderful and truly eerie. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? For most of this book I would give equal weight to sci-fi and horror, but that last bit definitely leans weird lit fic.
Certain things are resolved, but Porter doesn't make the mistake of trying to wrap everything up regarding what might be termed the larger threat, because the concepts introduced are, I'm gonna say purposefully messy, a reflection of life, and it works all the better for letting it be. 2w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Touches on themes of transformation, I was honestly surprised transgender identity was not a bigger part of the narrative. There's something about the larger ideas of bodily autonomy in regards to the alien presence that feel like a reflection of modern anxieties around gender identity and expression, the right to choose, the notion that you can't make other people's choices for them, and if they're happy, you love by letting them BE. 2w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? The rumination on immortality, on genetic manipulation, if you take the possibilities of the human body beyond the limits of the current science, how long before the euphoria of freedom becomes the hunger for something even more extreme?
Stagnation in loss, grief, for a way of life, for a loved one, for an old self that resists change, is perhaps the strongest theme for the main character. 2w

Robotswithpersonality 5/5 think between the Compound and the Seep, I had reservations about whether it would be a brittle rebellion or a bitter assimilation, and by the end it was neither and I'm glad.
A strong sense of self even if things don't work out how you planned, a recognition of the process required to acknowledge what you have to let go of.
Good lessons to take into the new year.

⚠️suicide 2w

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