Apparently, this is the last book in the series. But there's so much more to tell. What about Sistersong? I would totally read that. I really want more. More Bennetts. More Wolves. More Pack Pack Pack. Really, how could I get so hooked up in this series? It's just so addictive, funny, emotional. So many feelings.

#roll100 @PuddleJumper

Happy #5JoysFriday 💛

It was a great week! Here we go:

1) Aarau Pride with the AroAces = Awesomeness!
2) Scrapbooking while angry at the world
3) First PSL this season
4) The children of one of my bookie besties sent me postcards - how cute is this?!
5) My Pichu evolved into Pikachu! Yes, I'm turning 36 this year, what's your question?

@Debinhawaii

This book confirms my Simone St. James strike - 4 stars, 3 stars, 4 stars, 3 stars and this is another 4 stars book 😄 This amuses me so much, but I really did have a good time with this book and kept on wondering what's happend. Also, it's the perfect book to say goodbye to summer and hello to autumn. It's eerie, dark and captivating.

#roll100 @PuddleJumper

What a fitting title! And even though not my favourite of the series, still a very good book. Loved the girl power in this (passes the Bechdel test for sure). Especially Deva was really, really cool.
Also, we finally can start to hope again! Good thing after all the heart break...

#StarWarsBuddyRead @BookwormAHN

It's a Pick, of course it is, even though not as good as the first part. Or maybe it just has been too long since “The Last Kosmonaut“ was published. But most of it came back to me, eventually. It's possible to read this book without knowing the first part, but since the world-building happens there, I recommend reading the books in order. And I'd say there will be a third book, the ending hints this way.

My first Mieville in English! I was a bit scared to read this chunkster, but I think I managed pretty well. I had to fight sometimes to make it through, but as always, Mieville is worth it.
The world-building is just amazing, and I got sucked into this special world. We deal with a lot during this story. Politics, betrayal, death, but also friendship, honesty and making things right.

#roll100 @PuddleJumper
#BacklistReadathon @@Clwojick

Didn't realise it was Friday until @Debinhawaii tagged me 😂 What gave me joy this week:

1) Our office plant blooms! (how did that happen?!)
2) This tiny chair for our tiny customers 💗
3) New hair!
4) Lucerne Pride! Blahaj made a new friend too 🌈
5) Secco paws 🐱

#5JoysFriday

The first of the nine books I struggled with. Don't know if it was the length, or the wrong time for this book, or if it's me... If this wouldn't have been the second to last volume (for now), I would've bailed on the series. At the end it slowly started to draw me in again. The scenes became more captivating and I finally -finally!- reading didn't felt like a chore anymore.

#bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

Loved this second part even more than the first one. The characters are so lovely, I loved spending time with them. Then there's Pondie and pirates and a great example of how a healthy relationship looks like. What's not to love? ❤

I did realte to Georgia so, so much. All her struggles, thoughts, questions... all the things she goes through... This was a very intense read. Oseman did so much for the aro-ace community with writing this book. It helps reducing prejudices and informes about an identity not much talked about. Sometimes I wish, books like this existed when I was young. Happily, they do now.

And here's my #bookspinbingo board for September. Realised, that I put some books twice on the list 😅

@TheAromaofBooks

This was such a good book, not only about how we can raise kids to live a life free of gender expectations, but also a dive into society's binary thinking. And how disastrous this can be.

#bookofthemonth #botm

What a surprise - NOT 😂 Loved Gideon all over again.

#bookofthemonth #botm

Before I peek at the numbers for September, I post my August #BookSpinBingo board. Squeezed in Camp Concentration for a third bingo 😁

#BookSpin #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

Still loving this feature! 🤩

Happy #5JoysFriday 💛

1. We are getting new shelves for our storage room in the bookshop. Finally!
2. My nails are aces!
3. Fangirling about Gideon the Ninth. Again.
4. Paralympics have started
5. I have a date to finally cut and shorten my hair. It's going to be boyish and it gives me gender euphoria.

@Debinhawaii

I'm back in this stunning world! I'm loving it! Still loving it! Gideon is just as awesome as four years before, when I got to know her. Maybe I even love the book a bit more now. 💙 💀

One might has to know more about the BRZRKR universe to truly get this story? I just went with the flow. There's some deep sh... going on, which I totally could not grasp. But it still kept me going. Maybe that was China Mieville's part of the story. Who knows? Don't read if you're not ready for weird stuff going on.

No need to overthink this, so I just drop my #BookSpinBingo list here.

Yes, I am ready for fall.

@TheAromaofBooks

Got hooked again with Gideon 💀 So I did this test, and it confirms what I've already knew 😁🙌📚
Nerd.

Here are my three #roll100 books for September. The third is Amina al-Sirafi, but I'm sure you all already guessed that 😁

@PuddleJumper

I've only known Kelly Osbourne from her song “Daddy don't preach“, but when I came along this book, the cover just spoke to me. And after reading it, I'd say I would like to be friends with Kelly. We wouldn't agree on everything, but I'm deeply impressed with her, her honesty, and her attitude. She's very, very honest and open in those letters, about herself, the showbiz, her family.

#BookishMonopoly @AkashaVampie
#Roll100 @PuddleJumper

Happy #FiveJoysFriday 💛

1. Enjoying time with @VaniBarelyReads and Secco on the porch. And ice cream.
2. A friend of mine came over to buy some books and chat a little
3. More ZoomZoom with @VaniBarelyReads
4. We came out a little more and hung up our lovely pride flags 🌈
5. Shared a video by talented BMXer Iveta Miculyčová on Insta and she liked it! Fangirl moment!! 🙌

@DebinHawaii

Soft pick. For a debut it's not bad, but it lacked depth and setting and characters could've been more fleshed out. It works with the typical Warhammer 40K elements, so for avid readers of these books, there's nothing really new or surprising to find. For beginners, I'd say it's a good book to start with.

Ground Zero of Trans Literature - that's what this book is called, and it totally fits.

It's an open and honest insight into life as a trans person, and all that comes with it. It's a messy book with a somewhat messy MC, but what do you expect, if you're living in a transphobic world as a trans person? Maria's thoughts and opinios were fascinating to read, and I hope that this book helped me understanding and relating a bit more.

This book crossed my way quite often, and now I finally got down to read it. Thanks, #queerbc ❤ I love reading books with trans MCs, even though I get so angry when reading about how trans people get treated. But to change that, we need more books with trans characters.

If you're listening to the audiobook, I recommend also listening to the interview at the end. Aiden and Avi have such a good chemistry ❤

@PuddleJumper

Happy #5JoysFriday 💛

Lots of joys this week:
1) going for a walk by the river
2) Pfloof is now the guardian of our children's book section 😁
3) ZoomZoom with @VaniBarelyReads ❤️
4) eating at our favourite Korean restaurant
5) Rossa spying on our neighbours 😅

@DebinHawaii

Some bad news were flying around, so I needed something to brighten my mood. So what could be better than a bunch of Jedi kids still fighting, even though everything seems hopeless? Exactly!
Loved this one, just as expected. Loved all the characters, and got really, really attached. It was also great to meet some old friends again. So much love for these books 💙

#StarWarsBuddyRead @BookwormAHN

Blue is for boys, pink is for girls. Girls like that, and boys like that. That's how it always was, and always will be.

Nope.

As writer Ravna Marin Siever states, gender stereotypes are potentionally deadly. They hurt us all. Cis people too. And of course all the children that can't find themselves inside the binary system.

It's time to finally time to break with these stereotypes. This book shows us how we all benefit and how it can be done.

Since I've finished my book for #BookishMonopoly yesterday evening, I made a new roll, and landed on “Chance“ again. So once again, I noted down all the books I have planned to read the next months and made a blind draw.

I got lucky, because I have planned Kelly anyway for later this month as part of my #roll100 rolls. Guess this book really wants to be read 😁

@AkashaVampie

All the points for this book! At first I thought, this might not be for me. But Shafak was sneaky and got me hooked. Seriously, sometimes I got really, really angry. Sometimes I wanted to vomit. And sometimes I almost cried. The characters are amazing and diverse, of course I had a soft spot for Nostalgia Nalan. But also the setting of Istanbul is fascinating, the historical facts, the culture and so much more.

#DoubleSpin @TheAromaOfBooks

Yesterday I felt off, so I wasn't able to post my #5JoysFriday - but it might still be Friday somewhere. So here we go:

1) Went shopping in Austria with @VaniBarelyReads ❤
2) Berne Pride! 🌈
3) Vegen FroYo 😍
4) Vegan Biber 😄 (Biber is a traditional sweet treat from the Swiss canton of Appenzell)
5) Found a new queer WhatsApp group with people my age (finally! 🙌)

@DebinHawaii

At first, I thought I might get a little tired of this series. Tbh, the books are all kind of the same - Fast Food in book form 😄 But then Felicia appeared and I was hooked. I hope there'll be more books with her. And yes, I would read a whole spin-off series about her! Cain is Cain, as always, and once again, I enjoyed Jurgen and the dynamics between them. Fun and fast paced.

Not exactly the tagged book, but the third installment of the series.

Loved this volume just as much as the previous books. Pixie is a great and snarky narrator, a cat through and through. Lots of things to laugh about (eg. the way he describes the kiwi birds), but he also tells us about the negative things (colonisination, hunting...).

The pictures by Jonathan Petry are as amazing and stunning as always. Can't get enough of them!

#hailthebail

Don't feel this. I was curious because people said it's crazy and weird, and I am totally in for crazy and weird. But all I got was old, mostly white men talking about themselves. Maybe I should've pulled through a bit more - but... no.

#BookSpin @TheAromaofBooks
#serieslove2024 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

Liked it, but not loved it. Maybe because the whole Prom Night Date isn't a thing in Switzerland (or at least wasn't when I went to school), so I couldn't really get the hype about it. But Liz is a great character and Leah Johnson wrote her really good. High potential of identification for younger readers. The message this book sends is great and so, so important! Loved the ending.

Another emotional journey into The High Republic. Again, my heart ached, but at least the ending isn't as devastating as with the other books in this series. And there are some happenings that made me really, really happy 😄 I think Avar's story line was my favorite 😄

#StarWarsBuddyRead @BookwormAHN

Wow, what a book! What a story! It was totally different from what I expected - in a very good way! I mean, there's a Ghost doggo! For some reason I just read it shortly after “Wandering Stars“, those books might have been calling me. Darcie Little Badger addresses another target audience, so the story has another narrative tempo, but just as much information about the Indigenious culture. So impressive!

And here's also my #BookSpinBingo for August. One book I was already able to finish (Elatsoe).

@TheAromaOfBooks

I remember being impressed by There, There, but rarely remember it. Still, I wanted to read this one as well. And I'm glad I did, because it's so important to remember what Europeans did to Indigenious people all over the world. That colonization is not over and done, that it still lives on from generation to generation. Therefore, it's so important that we read those books and listen to what their authors have to tell us.

#roll100 @PuddleJumper

Here are my #BookSpin and my #DoubleSpin for August. I might split Closing Time for two months, because I'm not sure I can finish it in one. But we'll see 🤷

@TheAromaofBooks

Yey for #5JoysFriday 💛

1) Playing with Secco & Rossa (or rather, watching Rossa running wild 😅)
2) Going to the swimming pool for the first time in ages
3) Visiting a dear friend's grave (it's like going for a coffee with her)
4) Getting to know Instagram as a way to connect with my favorite authors
5) Olympia. Especially Hannah Roberts, Iveta Miculycova & Poe Pinson 🙌

@Debinhawaii

A bit late, but here are my #Roll100 books. It might be that I only get around to the Pratchett one in September, because I want to get myself one of the old editions. The new ones have awful covers.

@PuddleJumper

Still managed to get a #BookSpinBingo 🎉

@TheAromaOfBooks

Love this 😁😁

Still managed 15 books, even though I've had a reading slump, care work to do, and to watch the Olympics 😁 I might keep my reading schedule like this, because it's nice to spend my evenings with other things as well - and hey, 15 books is still a good amount, right? At least my non-reading friends seem to be impressed 😅

I somewhere stumbled upon this at some point and it just fitted a challenge prompt, so I went into this without really knowing anything about this book. And yes, at the beginning it has some strong SoG vibes and some things might go to easy, but the characters simply deserve this. Next to the scenes that made my heart overflow, Massey addresses some heavy topics (homophobia, ableism, mental health...). There's also a cute GSD and a lovely cat.

I do adore Charlie Jane Anders as a person, but her books don't seem to be mine? 🤷 The message in this is great and to me totally clear, but I felt weirdly distant. I couldn't really imagine the Gelet, and the book should have been split in a trilogy imo. Couldn't understand many of the characters decisions either...

#queerbc @PuddleJumper