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Kenyazero

Kenyazero

Joined December 2019

Lots of LGBTQ+ books (esp. fantasy) & comics. Also a fan of reading books you aren‘t sure of. You may be surprised! 🏳️‍🌈
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Here are my final points for this year's #HauntedShelf @PuddleJumper

🎃From midway checkin: 774 pts
🎃pre points: 60 pts (forgot to add to midway)
🎃word scavenger hunt: 30 pts
🎃book cover scavenger hunt: 465 pts
🎃book chain game: 880 (forgot to add to midway)
🎃cluedo: 190
🎃time reading: 260
🎃posts: 12
And not a single bingo line complete 😆

👻total: 2,671 for #BlackCatCrew @BookwormAHN

PuddleJumper Brilliant! Well done 🦇🦇 4d
BookwormAHN Fantastic 🐈‍⬛ 3d
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White Trash Warlock | David R. Slayton
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Thanks to the tagged author who encourages people to do so, we always put out free used books (which we buy at the annual big book sale from our library's Friends org) for Halloween alongside the treats we hand out. This year we also did food for folks in need. Both were a huge hit! 📚🎃🍬 #Halloween

IriDas What a wonderful idea. ❤️ 5d
TheBookHippie Oh next year I‘m setting up like this!!! 5d
Kenyazero @TheBookHippie I highly recommend it! The kids are pretty excited about it each year. 5d
TheBookHippie @Kenyazero I set out books -but now must have skeleton!!! 5d
Kenyazero @TheBookHippie oh! Nice! 🤩 this is the first year we set up the skeleton with the books and the kids also liked this addition 😆 5d
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These should be my last book cover scavenger hunt finds for #HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew!

📚The House in the Cerulean Sea: building
📚Kilt for Christmas: tartan (the only find that was not on my shelf)
📚Venom: scream (thanks random dude in the corner!)

@PuddleJumper @BookwormAHN

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 7d
BookwormAHN 🧡🐈‍⬛🧡 7d
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Tea Dragon Society | K O'Neill
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A few more of my finds for #HauntedShelf book cover scavenger hunt! #BlackCatCrew

📚Wayward: Supernatural
📚Saga: bloody
📚Tea Dragon Society: unputdownable
📚 Descender: red

@PuddleJumper @BookwormAHN

BookwormAHN 🧡🐈‍⬛🧡 7d
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Pickpick

Lewis does some interesting storytelling in this graphic memoir. I like the way he represents his anxiety, and uses the man points and character selection to convey his dysphoria. Moving through your late teens early 20s while also transitioning can definitely be complicated and I'm glad he shares his story here. #LGBTQIA #Nonfiction #Comics

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 Read in one week 1w
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Another fun continuation of this story. I am enjoying seeing the characters slowly grow through their relationships. I wish we saw a little more growth through their music like we did in the first two volumes, but that's my only tiff. #LGBTQIA #Manga

Kenyazero Used for #GottaCatchEmAll Pikipek: a band or musical group @PuddleJumper ; and #OwlHouseReadathon Raine: a musical character. 1w
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Lost and Found | Shaun Tan
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Tan's work is always to visually and conceptually compelling, and these three short stories are no exception. They tackle the bigness of depression, the lost feeling of not fitting society's expectations, and the process of colonization. This is a pretty quick read since it is formatted like a picture book. #Art

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Another set of book cover scavenger hunt finds from my shelves for #HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew

📚Dreams of Gods and Monsters: cursive
📚Hell Followed with Us: frightful
📚The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: atmosphere
📚Inkheart: smoke (probably)
📚Strange the Dreamer: yellow
📚The Hobbit: possessive

@PuddleJumper @BookwormAHN

BookwormAHN 💜🐈‍⬛💜 2w
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Each page features gorgeous illustrations of houses and floor plans, plus the skeleton of a story about the building and its occupant. This is such a fun and imagination-focused picture book. I especially loved that in the end, the artist shows off his own studio and talks about how he develops his projects. #PictureBook

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Flesh and Spirit | Carol Berg
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A few more book cover scavenger hunt pics for #HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew
I decided to hunt for the cover prompts on my own shelves.

📚Guard in the Garden: embrace
📚Moloka‘i: grey
📚Flesh and Spirit: single
📚Revelation: landscape
📚The Wolf‘s Den: moon
📚Quaint Creatures: boots

@PuddleJumper @BookwormAHN

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Inverse Cowgirl: A Memoir | Alicia Roth Weigel
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Activist and advocate Alecia Weigel shares about her experiences as an intersex woman and talks extensively about the inequities intersex people face, especially in medical practice. A thoughtful read, and a good place to start if you are not familiar with the issues intersex folks face. Content warnings for medical mispractice, sexual assault, and gaslighting. #LGBTQIA #Intersex #Memoir

Kenyazero Used for a medium in #PumpkabooHunt @puddlejumper; #GottaCatchEmAll spooky edition Calyrex: healing; #LGBTQIA2025 Pride flag colors; and points for #HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew @bookwormAHN 2w
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A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry
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Another round of book cover scavenger hunt for #HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew!

📚Bad Blood: AI/CGI
📚The Graveyard Book: graves
📚Practical Rules for Cursed Witches: cozy
📚Shopping All the Way to the Woods: trees
📚City of Laughter: eyes
📚A Raisin in the Sun: real people

Hopefully the goal wasn‘t to use only autumn and spooky themed books 🤭

@PuddleJumper @BookwormAHN

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I‘ve been listening to this for an hour and still have no compelling reason to care about anything and continue reading. When does the so-what factor hit? Also, having a prologue followed by the start of book 1, followed then by the start of part 1 some time later feels beyond presumptuous.

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Bailedbailed

I know I only have 46 minutes left but I realized this book is irritating me. I‘m not sure if I just suddenly started noticing the writing was rough or if the writing took a bad turn at 70% (it was passable before, not amazing but not the worst). I maybe should have bailed way back when the characters were laughably thirsty all the time or when the author used the sound of stirring wet macaroni as a description in a sex scene 😐

Nebklvr Ew 2w
PuddleJumper 😬 2w
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Here‘s my first round of Book Cover Scavenger Hunt for #HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew!

📚Natsume‘s Book of Friends: green
📚Ash‘s Cabin: weapon (Ash is holding a bow)
📚Go Luck Yourself: gold (gold coins by the Y)
📚Twistwood Tales: monster
📚Most Ardently: fake sticker (I am not sure if printed on versions of awards counts since they used to be stamped in)
📚Be Prepared: group (in the background)

@PuddleJumper

Kenyazero @BookwormAHN are you aware of how much trouble Litsy‘s system has in tagging you? 😆 2w
PuddleJumper It looks like a fake sticker to me so it counts! 😂 2w
BookwormAHN No, but I'm not surprised 😸 2w
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Ashs Cabin | Jen Wang
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Follow Ash as they prepare to run away and live in a cabin their grandpa built in the woods (if it exists). Beautifully illustrated and told. My adult perspective on this book (worried about the logistics of Ash‘s safety and their family‘s fear and grief for their missing teen) is probably a lot different than how teens would experience the book. #Survival

Kenyazero Used for a medium in #PumpkabooHunt @puddlejumper ; #LGBTQIA2025 no romantic focus; #GottaCatchEmAll Lycanroc: knives; #OwlHouseReadathon Matt Tholomule: someone builds something; and points for #BlackCatCrew in #HauntedShelf @bookwormAHN 2w
PuddleJumper 🖤🧡🖤 2w
BookwormAHN 🧡🐈‍⬛🧡 2w
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If I‘m doing this right, I have built up this many points for #BlackCatCrew in #HauntedShelf so far:

🍁Word finder in my reading: 12 words found, 180 points
🕰️29 hours read, 435 points
📖5 books read (non-tbr, non-seasonal): 50 points
📚4 books read (tbr): 100 points
📷9 Litsy posts (including this one): 9 points
(And I‘m not reporting guessing game points yet so I don‘t lose track!)

Total: 774 points
@BookwormAHN

BookwormAHN Fantastic 💜🐈‍⬛💜 3w
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 Brilliant! 3w
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12 words found in my reading so far for #SpookyStacks counting toward #BlackCatCrew! I think the ones that surprised me most were owl (because I thought “hm, that may be a pretty specific word I‘ll have to actively look for” and turned the page and there it was in a short story in Amplitudes!) and mischief (found in the tagged while talking to mischief the inn caused).

I‘m working on tallying points now. @PuddleJumper @BookwormAHN

Kenyazero Woops I called it spooky stacks because that‘s a program I‘m currently marketing for at my library 😆😵‍💫 #HauntedShelf 3w
BookwormAHN 🧡🐈‍⬛🧡 3w
PuddleJumper Spooky Stacks is a great name 3w
Kenyazero @PuddleJumper It‘s a cool program too! Our regional history team decorates their department (which is in a 120 year old building) and lead tours through to showcase their offerings. They also put on mini scenes at different points of the tour depicting deaths from our region‘s history found in the archives. 3w
PuddleJumper @Kenyazero Oh that sounds like so much fun. I bet they have a blast decorating and planning it 3w
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Mehso-so

A teen forms an unexpected bond with a wolf and a team of scientists and tries to survive her death trap of a world. I read this because it‘s one of my library‘s community reads this year. I didn‘t care for it. It‘s an interesting book, and well told, but the main character‘s self-blame pity parties got really old and so did the author‘s shortening of words to sound futuristic and edgy (predator? Pred. Corporation? Corpo. Transport? Transpo. Etc)

Kenyazero Used as #HauntedShelf points for #BlackCatCrew @bookwormAHN; a large in #PumpkabooHunt @puddlejumper; #GottaCatchEmAll Spooky Edition Polteageist: chill; and regular #GottaCatchEmAll Lillipup: wolf companion 3w
BookwormAHN 💜🐈‍⬛💜 3w
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Mehso-so

I don‘t always enjoy short story collections, and this one was no exception. These shorts depict a pretty stark image of queer and trans futurity (which maybe I should have expected with Mandelo as the editor😆) and felt more like scifi than futurist works. Most of the stories also seemed to use sex specifically to be edgy and uncomfortable, but maybe it was just my Demi brain missing the point. I had to skip a few. #ShortStories #LGBTQIA

Kenyazero Used for #HauntedShelf points for #BlackCatCrew @BookwormAHN ; #GottaCatchEmAll Spooky edition‘s free space @PuddleJumper ; another medium in #PumpkabooHunt 3w
Kenyazero Woops, large pumpkaboo not medium 🤭 3w
BookwormAHN 🧡🐈‍⬛🧡 3w
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I wound up missing a volume or two because of the confusing way this manga is structured, and it really showed up in this volume because I missed some important character introductions 😆 otherwise, another excellent volume. I liked the way we lean about Taichi‘s past in-chapter instead of in a chapter all its own. #LGBTQIA #Disabled #Manga

Kenyazero Used for #HauntedShelf points for #BlackCatCrew @BookwormAHN ; a medium in #PumpkabooHunt @puddlejumper ; and #GottaCatchEmAll spooky edition Brambleghast: lonely 3w
BookwormAHN 💜🐈‍⬛💜 3w
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I am still loving this series. We get to see the characters continue to grow in their relationship and in their professional lives in this volume, and dove into the lives of some side characters as a fun aside. #LGBTQIA #Manga

Kenyazero Used for points in #HauntedShelf for #BlackCatCrew @BookwormAHN; a medium in #PumpkabooHunt @puddlejumper; and Duoblade: duo in #GottaCatchEmAll spooky edition (edited) 3w
PuddleJumper Have you watched the live action adaptation? I've heard it's good 3w
Kenyazero @PuddleJumper I have not! I‘ll have to go find it! 🤩 3w
BookwormAHN 🧡🐈‍⬛🧡 3w
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A witch who lost her powers after casting a resurrection spell as a child uses her now minimal powers to manage her chaotic inn and the wayward folks it brings in. I enjoyed this cozy tale and all of its charming characters. I wish Posey and Clementine got to be more character than a plot device though. #Cozy #Fantasy

Kenyazero Used for points for #BlackCatCrew in #HauntedShelf @BookwormAHN; A medium in #PumpkabooHunt @puddlejumper; Polteageist in spooky #GottaCatchEmAll and Sylvion: victorious underdog character in the regular; and #OwlHouseReadathon Hooty: set in a unique home 4w
PuddleJumper 🩷💚🩷 4w
BookwormAHN 💜🐈‍⬛💜 4w
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Panpan

Two guys who work together decide it would be convenient to get married. The concept behind this one is pretty weak. LGBTQIA+ marriage becomes legal, and suddenly everyone is trying to secure marriages regardless of who it's with. I don't get it and it seems to be fueled by the fearmongering tactics of people who argue that marriage equality will lead to people getting married just to cheat the system instead of for love.

Kenyazero Used for a medium in #PumpkabooHunt and this will count towards points for #BlackCatCrew in #HauntedShelf @BookwormAHN (edited) 4w
PuddleJumper That sounds weird 4w
Kenyazero @PuddleJumper it tried for a cute angle - what if anyone cod get married and two guys who secretly love each other propose a marriage of convenience? But the whole thing just came off kind of weird. 4w
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Midsummer's Mayhem | Rajani LaRocca
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Mimi discovers the art of magical baking while preparing for a baking competition at a local cafe and chaos breaks out within her family. This is a fun adaptation borrowing from A Midsummer Night‘s Dream. I enjoy books with kitchen magic, and Mimi is a charming character. This is middle grade, but it did feel like she was a little more clueless than I would have expected. #Magic #Baking #MiddleGrade #Adaptations

Kenyazero Used for #GottaCatchEmAll Comfey: features fae @PuddleJumper ; and #OwlHouseReadathon Steve: a character resigns from a job 1mo
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1mo
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This was definitely and interesting adventure into speculative evolution. The author takes the time to explain different adaptations on Earth in detail and why those adaptations formed, and poses thoughts on why we might expect to see similar (or different) features in animals on another life-sustaining planet.

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Of Thunder & Lightning | Kimberly Wang
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Mehso-so

Two cybernetic supersoldiers battle in a hyper-sensationalized war where they are treated like pop idols. This was unsettling and I found it hard to follow. I don‘t think I got out of it what the author was going for. #comics #war #LGBTQIA

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 AAPI author; #GottaCatchEmAll Raticate: cute but deadly character @puddlejumper; and #OwlHouseReadathon Terra Snapdragon: characters are pitted against each other 1mo
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A few hand-drawn bingo boards, prompts written on a series of notecards, and an old unused October calendar from two years ago to track my reading points. All ready for #HauntedShelf! @BookwormAHN

PuddleJumper 🙌🙌 1mo
BookwormAHN Yay 💜🐈‍⬛💜 1mo
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Panpan

This one was pretty bad, which is surprising because I love stories with kitsune. The premise was weak and contrived, designed to be edgy sexy instead of being a real story. The character relationship was just toxic, and the spicy scenes were really just uncomfortable. #manga

PuddleJumper That's unfortunate 1mo
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While helping a friend with his gay dating app, competitive salaryman Izumi makes a stronger connection than expected with another user. This was way better than I thought it was going to be. Very glad I picked it up despite my reservations. #LGBTQIA #Manga

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Strange Bedfellows | Ariel Slamet Ries
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When Oberon develops late powers from a generational mutation, he relies on his own projection guide to help him through the ensuing crisis. I don‘t remember why I picked this up, but it was a fun read. Beautiful art and a saga of character development facing your own fears and destructive anxieties. This had a lot of fun twists and turns. There are a few things that are a bit weak, but not so weak that the story is unenjoyable. #LGBTQIA #Comics

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 Queer normative world; and #GottaCatchEmAll Psyduck: psychic character @PuddleJumper 1mo
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1mo
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Time Is a Mother | Ocean Vuong
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While there were quite a few poems in this collection that my brain didn‘t quite parse, there were many more with stunning formats and vivid storytelling power. My favorites were this Amazon shopping history poem that tells a story (content warning for terminal illness), and one in which the poet rewinds backward through his entire life, capturing significant moments as points observed through a reverse timeline. #Poetry

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Two manga artists who love each other‘s work strike up a fake dating relationship for no reason? (There was a reason, I just can‘t remember because it wasn‘t compelling). This manga is just ok. It‘s cute, and will probably be great for the right reader. I was not very invested in the characters‘ relationship until pretty late in this volume, which wasn‘t enough to make me want to read the next one. #manga #Artist #LGBTQIA

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 free space; and #GottaCatchEmAll Goomy: set somewhere humid @PuddleJumper 1mo
PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 1mo
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A wild dash through two-spirit and indigiqueer speculative fiction. I enjoyed exploring these writers‘ world experiences, hopes, and fears through this collection. The stories are dire, making this a difficult read at times. #LGBTQIA #Indigenous #ShortStories

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 multiple authors; #GottaCatchEmAll Magearna: set in space @PuddleJumper (edited) 1mo
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Remedial Magic | Melissa Marr
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A complex cast of characters find themselves ripped from their lives when their latent magical powers emerge. In their new magical home that may be slowly dying, everyone has their own reasons for wanting to leave or stay. If you enjoy not-quite-rooting for gray characters in tenuous situations, this is a good one for you. I wish the mom got to be more than just a mom. #LGBTQIA #Witches

Kenyazero I almost forgot to tag the challenges I used this for! #LGBTQIA2025 witchy or magical realism; and #OwlHouseReadathon Hunter: a character changes sides 1mo
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The story and character relationships continue to develop as Alto and Elva band together with new and old allies to solve the newly discovered supernatural and political problems of the island. Some hilarious and adorable moments tucked into all of the seriousness. #LGBTQIA #Fantasy #Manga

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 Rec or library borrow 2mo
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Someplace Generous | Amber Flame, Elaina Ellis
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I spotted this on a library book display and thought it sounded intriguing. It was a lot of fun! I didn‘t expect it to have so many LGBTQIA stories, which is always a delightful surprise. A few of these were so-so, as is the case for most short story collections. I loved the one with the ghosts. #ShortStory #DiverseStories #LGBTQIA

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 read during pride month 2mo
peanutnine Sounds great! And a lovely cover 😍 1mo
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While trying to avoid attention, Tao stumbles into an adventuring party‘s quest and builds a found family along the way. This is charming and funny, with sweet characters. A low pick because it just reads like someone‘s D&D campaign with slightly flat characters and underdeveloped side characters and elements of the story. #Fantasy #FortuneTelling #Cozy

Kenyazero Used for #GottaCatchEmAll Lillipup: a character with facial hair @puddlejumper; and #OwlHouseReadathon Tibbles: a silly name (edited) 2mo
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Leo and Grim begrudgingly go on a quest together to remove a curse that binds them together. This was such an incredibly fun read! Adventure around every turn of the page. I wound up reading through the climax twice before finishing the book to take it all in again. #LGBTQIA #MusicMagic #Fantasy

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 A musician; #GottaCatchEmAll Pikipek: features a musician and instrument on cover @puddlejumper; and #OwlHouseReadathon Stringbean: an intense or epic ending 2mo
PuddleJumper I really enjoyed this. Looking forward to her other works 2mo
Kenyazero @PuddleJumper me too! I can hardly wait 🤩 2mo
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This volume of jaye simpson‘s poems is turbulent, capturing the hard and soft edges of being trans, woman, and indigenous. The collection is intriguing, varied in form, and interesting to read. I‘m glad I picked it up. #Poetry #LGBTQIA

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 BIPOC author; and #GottaCatchEmAll Lillipup: a beige cover @puddlejumper 2mo
Kitta Oh I read this and enjoyed it too! 2mo
Kenyazero @Kitta it‘s a worthwhile read! 2mo
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Go Luck Yourself | Sara Raasch
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I greatly enjoyed this return to the holiday worlds, this time following Kris as he tries to solve the problem of magic theft. This enemies-to-lovers romance is just as hilarious, charming, and sexy as the first book, and is definitely joining Nightmare Before Kissmas as a top favorite for the year. #LGBTQIA #Holiday #Romance

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 bilingual character; #GottaCatchEmAll Goomy: a slimy character @puddlejumper; and #OwlHouseReadathon Philip: a conniving character 2mo
Jari-chan Can't wait for the next one in the series! 2mo
Kenyazero @Jari-chan same! 2mo
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Rubyfruit Jungle | Rita Mae Brown
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A young lesbian is cast out of her home when she is outed at college. Throughout this book we see this charismatic woman figure out how to make it on her own as she navigates financial and interpersonal challenges. I wouldn't say I enjoy classic literature, but ever now and then I do strive to read it. #LGBTQIA #ClassicLit

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 a sapphic book; and this was one of my recent #Roll100 picks @puddlejumper 2mo
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Aces Wild: A Heist | Amanda DeWitt
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A group of ace and aro teens (plus one tween) internet friends meet up, and to support one of their own, carry out a heist. I have questions about some elements, and never got fully invested in the main character's plight. I also wish the mom had been more developed and less of a concept driving the plot. #LGBTQIA #Heist #YoungAdult

Kenyazero Read for #Roll100 @puddlejumper; and #OwlHouseReadathon Tibbles: involves revenge 2mo
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Grease Bats | Archie Bongiovanni
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A collection of humorous comic strips following two (and then more) friends in their messy lives and queer experiences. The characters are heartfelt, and I enjoyed seeing their relationships grow. This style of comic never really resonates with me, so I can't speak to whether it will resonate with readers. #LGBTQIA #Humor #Comics

Kenyazero Used for #LGBTQIA2025 masculine female character; #GottaCatchEmAll Oricorio: a book with dancing @puddlejumper 2mo
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Such a good read! The characters are delightful, the trio's friendship spawns plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, and the world is very fun. Maybe it's just that I love stories with holiday worlds and magic, especially magic born from joy. This will definitely be a top read of the year for me. #LGBTQIA #Holidays

Kenyazero Used for #GottaCatchEmAll Cottonee: a playful character @puddlejumper; and #OwlHouseReadathon King: involves loyal subjects 2mo
PuddleJumper I'm hoping my library will get this one before Christmas. It looks super cute 2mo
Kenyazero @PuddleJumper I hope they do too, because it is very cute! 2mo
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The Evolution of Alice | David A. Robertson
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Mehso-so

This book takes a hard look at grief after the loss of a child, racism, and Native American experiences. From the title, I thought it would be a bit more about Alice but it's mostly about the men in her life. #NativeAmerican #Motherhood

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Weirdo | Tony Weaver, Jr.
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Tony does an amazing job of balancing humor and serious topics in this middle grade graphic memoir. His character introductions and friends are hilarious, and he doesn't back down from the bullying and racism he faced or the resulting mental health struggles. It was great watching him build his support network and their efforts to save the school too. Do read the content warnings. #MiddleSchool #BIPOC #Nerds

Kenyazero Used for #GottaCatchEmAll Goodra: A character discovers they have powers @puddlejumper; and #OwlHouseReadathon King: Puns (and got the bread pun bonus thanks to the dad! 🤩) 2mo
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Linus and Arthur‘s family continues to grow and strengthen in the face of oppression. This was just as corny, playful, sweet, laugh-out-loud, and heartwarming as the first book. The afterward was beautiful and made me cry a bit for various reasons. #LGBTQIA #Adoption

Kenyazero Used for #GottaCatchEmAll Dhelmise: set on an island @puddlejumper; and #OwlHouseReadathon Camila: an optimistic catchphrase 2mo
PuddleJumper ❤️❤️ 2mo
nanuska_153 Oh I didn't know THITCS had a sequel, I bought Under the Whispering Door but sounds like it's not really related 2mo
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SpeculativeFemale This is on my wish list right now! I've loved everything of his I've read so far! 2mo
Kenyazero @nanuska_153 this sequel came out recently! Under the whispering door is really good, but indeed not related. 2mo
Kenyazero @SpeculativeFemale hope you enjoy this one too! 🤩 2mo
nanuska_153 @Kenyazero Interesting, turns out I was right and my partner was wrong...I do NEED more books 😅 2mo
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I like volume 2 even more than volume 1! We get a deeper look into the family personalities and discover a second secret ally. I really enjoyed the horror game chapter 😂 The mom also had a lot of moments of reflection and growth as she noticed happenings in the world around her and realized ways they might impact her son. #LGBTQIA #Manga #Motherhood

Kenyazero Used for #OwlHouseReadathon Edric: green cover 2mo
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An adorable manga about a mom quietly being an ally for her less-than-subtle son who she suspects is gay. I enjoyed the high levels of fluff in this first volume. #LGBTQIA #Motherhood