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Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Random House Publishing Group - Random House | The Dial Press Publish date: May 27 2025 Number of pages: 320 pages Author’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicoladinan/?hl=en Support local! Preorder the book on BookShop! After a rough tumble and maybe-serious head injury, a disillusioned trans poet falls for a charming corporate lawyer in a love …
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Last year, I did The Diverse Baseline Reading Challenge to encourage me to be intentional with reading books from authors with different experiences and perspectives from my own. Something I didn't expect with this challenge is that I also read genres I don't typically read! I felt like I really branched out in the books …
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Genre: Romance Published by: Berkley Books Publish date: April 08, 2025 Number of pages: 416 pages Author’s website: https://www.jasmineguillory.com/flirting-lessons Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! The exciting new contemporary romance—and her first to feature a queer romance—by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine GuilloryAvery Jensen is almost thirty, fresh off a breakup, and she’s tired of always being …
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https://www.joellewellington.com/ Genre: LGBTQIAP+ | Mystery & Thrillers | Teens & YA Published by: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Publish date: July 30, 2024 Number of pages: 336 pages Author’s website: https://www.joellewellington.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adult thriller …
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/152689/grady-hendrix/ Genre: Horror, Thriller Published by: Berkley Publish date: January 14, 2025 Number of pages: 496 pages Author’s website: http://www.gradyhendrix.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where …
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The Reindeer Readathon is an annual book reading challenge created by Erik from Breakevenbooks and runs Dec 1st to the 31st. I have linked his announcement on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8JWveNxrhw&t=83s The readathon includes prompts titled by the names of Santa's Reindeers and includes some bonus festive prompts. I participated last year on Team Candy Cane and …
I'm back with more memoir recommendations. This time they are graphic novels! I love graphic novels -- they are like more in depth/longer comics that tickle that visual part of my brain while also diving into some tough topics. If I can convince you to read anything, I hope it's one of these but especially …
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This was intended to go out in late October/ early November but life had other plans -- similar to the stories that I'll be recommending below. For me, memoirs have been an easy way to step my toe into the non-fiction reading space. Hearing a first person account of someone's life, has opened by eyes …
Rating: 3/5 Genre: Memoir A natural wine-soaked memoir about finding your passion -- and falling in love -- by the publisher of Pipette Magazine. It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the French windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment, wearing second-hand Isabel Marant jeans and sipping a glass of …
What is a Final Girl? The term "final girl" was coined by Carol J. Clover in her article "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film" (1987) and expanded upon in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. A final girl in cinema is a woman or girl who …
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