Such a great bookstore!!
On main street in Huntsville, Onrtario, Canada. 🇨🇦
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Such a great bookstore!!
On main street in Huntsville, Onrtario, Canada. 🇨🇦
Reading after canoeing in Algonquin Park, Canada, while my family goes on a hike! I like to paddle but hate hiking lol.
Loving this so far but I‘ve got a long way to go.
I have access to ChatGPT for work this month so I decided to prompt DALLE to make a kawaii poster of my PhD research into the RNA expression of fish eggs development and this is what it gave me. 😂
It‘s so cute!
Lots of eggs, fish, and some graphs with hearts.
It‘s perfect. 🐟🥚❤️
Managed to get a signed copy of All Fours for #camplitsy24 from B&N!
Can‘t wait!!
The holds for the library copies are like 24 weeks out so I decided just to splurge and buy physical copies of these two. I have holds for The Alternatives and James which should come just in time (fingers crossed!). I‘ve also maxed out the number of books I can have on hold across both library cards (NYPL and Brooklyn public library). Whoops 😅
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Three interconnected stories of women who are related, set in 1619, 1942, and 2019. The women face challenging scenarios and navigate their way through with the help of their connection to nature.
I devoured this and read it over the weekend, pausing for a bit to sleep.
A bit predictable, but in the way that was pleasing for me.
Trigger warnings for: rape, domestic violence, miscarriage, and more.
#BOTM #BOTY finalist
Reading on the balcony!
Listening to the sweet sounds of construction across the street 😂
Someone broke the little free library by my work! 😭
Why??
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A fun short read about three retired professors eating cheese and drinking their favourite drinks and musing about…. Murder.
Only 35 pages and a great palate cleanser between longer reads.
This was my #firstreads selection for kindle in April.
I was worried I wasn‘t going to get this in time for #camplitsy24 but my library purchased 7 additional copies!! I should get it in time now. 😅
Who else is excited for summer camp? ⛺️
My little personal heated blanket (Hazel) is preventing me from reaching my cross stitch (splayed over the rest of the couch) and my kindle (on the coffee table)!
I decided the best option was to read a short story on the kindle app on my phone, so I‘m starting the tagged.
#catsoflitsy
« I light myself on fire for everyone »
#poetry #poetrymatters
pickMoving poetry by the LGBT singer Mary Lambert.
Perfect for poetry for #lgbaqbookbingo2024! Some formats were more successful than others, I didn‘t like the screenplay one but maybe that‘s just me and what I‘m used to.
Trigger warnings for rape, incest, and abuse.
I had no idea her story was so brutal and how much she struggled with her mental health. Some very relatable stuff in there.
« I light myself on fire for everyone »
Discovered a new bookstore in NYC today! So cute, half English and half French.
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Just a so-so, I enjoyed some of the stories in this collection more than others but wasn‘t blown away by any of them.
The first one felt so anticlimactic to me, I don‘t think I understood it at all.
Oh well, on to better things or at least something new!
#BOTM
Bonus: Hazel in the background. #catsoflitsy
Inspired by @TheAromaofBooks I bought myself my favourite book in this beautiful copy by Chiltern Classics.
So pretty! 😍
I think I own 4 copies of The Picture of Dorian Gray now, but always love a new cover.
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Wow finally an audiobook I enjoyed!
Jennette never wanted to be an actor and was coerced into it by her mother at age 6. What follows is a lifelong attempt to make her mother happy at the expense of her own desires. The memoir follows her journey as a child actor and into adulthood as she develops an eating disorder, which is encouraged by her mom.
Lots of trigger warnings for this one: eating disorders, emotional abuse, alcoholism.
Going to try out Spotify audiobooks!
Still reading the other one (tomb sweeping) but I wanted to do some stitching today and usually listen to podcasts while I do it.
Starting this!
Happy world book day!
When I was living in the UK, we had World Book Night which is the first Thursday in March (they moved the date because it conflicts with school holidays).
You used to apply to give away the selected books. You‘d find people who don‘t read often or at all and give them a book (provided to you for free). I think now bookstores and libraries give them away.
It was great! I wish we had something similar here.
Yay voting day for #CampLitsy24
My choices:
- A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
- How to Knit a Human by Anna Jacobson
- Clear by Carys Davies
- I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger
- Knife by Salman Rushdie
- Extinction by Daniel Preston
It was so hard to choose!
Getting excited for camp now and to see what the final books are! Thanks so much to the organizers @Megabooks @squirrelbrain @BarbaraBB
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Wow, I loved this. On the edge on my seat and finished it in two days.
It‘s about a newly graduated Black nurse in Alabama working at a family planning clinic in 1973, shortly after the uncovering of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments. She fiercely fights for her patients, including a pair of young girls, ages 11 and 13. This novel jumps through time between 1973 and 2016 where she reflects on their case.
Highly recommended.
Willow helping me read outside today.
Bingo!! Double bingo!!
I‘ve really been focusing on lgbtq books this year and succeeded in readying a lot so far, although this includes novellas, short stories, and poetry so they aren‘t all big chunksters.
Going for a full card by the end of the year.
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#lgbtqbookbingo2024 #lgbtq2024 @Kenyazero
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An interesting sapphic/queer dystopian science fiction gender swapped Sherlock Holmes and Watson retelling, set on Jupiter.
Mossa‘s investigation starts after a man disappears from one of the less often visited platforms they live on. Potential suicide? Or is there something more going on?
Read this book after doing a quiz by @CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian !
https://www.autostraddle.com/quiz-which-queer-mystery-novel-should-you-read/
Here‘s my nominations for this year‘s #CampLitsy!
Excited to be a camper again and interested in what we will be reading!!
Went for a nonfiction as the first one, it‘s about a woman with psychosis and sounds fascinating. I doubt it‘ll be for everyone (I love a mental health memoir but they are really tough to read sometimes) but I‘ll just read it anyway if it doesn‘t get picked.
Links below
#CampLitsy24
@BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain @Megabooks
Obligatory eclipse photo, taken through some eclipse glasses with my iPhone today.
🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕
Had fun watching it even if we weren‘t in the totality path! We had about 90% coverage here in NYC.
Hit 10,000 today!!
I know this is low compared to some of you (looking at you @DebinHawaii 😂) but I‘m happy to be a part of this community!
Here‘s to 10,000 more!
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Cute story about finding yourself and your gender presentation.
Dawn discovers a love letter written between two women dating from the 1950s in a book she‘s rebinding and follows the mystery of who they are and what happened to them. What enfolds ends up mirroring her life in unexpected ways.
Predictable, but a good story and what I needed for the moment.
#lgbtqbookbingo2024 #lgbtq2024 #hyggehour
Only $1.99 on US kindle! Should I get it? Has anyone read this?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09Z7QWC78
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I had such high hopes for this, but really struggled with it. In part because of the language. (I had to look up several words I didn‘t know in the dictionary, and English is my first language!) I found it hard to focus, it was so dense.
Very damning of Canada in terms of the treatment of indigenous peoples and an interesting perspective on NDN queer life, I‘m glad I read it but wouldn‘t recommend it.
#lgbtbookbingo2024 #lgbt2024
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Great book of poetry. They cover hard things like trauma, homophobia, transphobia, colonialism and family dynamics. Lots of trigger warnings.
My favourite poem was the first one, about sea glass and being shaped into something soft, instead of sharp with jagged edges that cut. It‘s about trauma and the face we present in order to be accepted.
It‘ll stay with me.
#transrightsreadathon #lgbtq2024 #lgbtqbookbingo2024 #indigenous
Picked up this poetry book on kindle for my next read in the #transrightsreadathon.
Beautiful cover and looks interesting! I don‘t read much poetry but I‘m getting into it slowly.
#trans #indigenous #lgbtq2024 #lgbtqbookbingo2024
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JVN discusses queer life in a series of personal essays complete with research and data to back up his opinions (love a good reference). Covering grief, public perception and imposter syndrome, as well as his HIV+ status and the HIV safety net, among other things - this was a great quick read.
#lgbtq2024 #lgbtbookbingo2024
“The fear of being unloveable due to past experiences is the literal definition of shame, and shame isn‘t something to keep buried.” 👏
#transrightsreadathon #lgbtq #nonbinary
Starting this for the #transrightsreadathon. I saw him speak last year and he signed my copy!
JVN is famous for doing hair & makeovers on Queer Eye but is also known for being outspoken about being #nonbinary (he/they/she pronouns) and for living publicly with #HIV. He was well spoken and I hope the essays in the book are interesting!
He‘s also written a memoir: “Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love”
#lgbtq #lgbtq2024 #lgbtqbookbingo2024
I‘m doing pretty good so far on my #lgbtqbookbingo2024 card!!
I think I‘ll check off another square for the #transeightsreadathon!
#lgbtq2024
@Kenyazero
Head about this from @ChaoticMissAdventures and thought it would be great to participate in the #transrightsreadathon!
Going to be reading the tagged book I bought after seeing Johnathan Van Ness give a talk at the 92Y.
Check out the website for the master list of books, bingo cards, and more!
https://transrightsreadathon.carrd.co
A great chance to check off some #lgbtqbookbingo2024 squares.
#trans #nonbinary #lgbtq #lgbtq2024
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I had to look up a lot of words but thankfully kindle makes it easy. A lovely story, but sad.
Anyone have any recommendations for adult beginner/intermediate French books?
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Interesting debut by a trans author!
Centred on an intense friendship in a New York City high school that begins on 9/11, this novel kinda slightly missed the mark for me.
I was interested in the fate of the characters but the chapters using AIM chat and livejournal blog posts were off putting to me.
Something about Nell and Fays blog really made me uncomfortable? I don‘t know how to articulate it.
#lgbtq2024 #lgbtqbookbingo @Kenyazero
#wonderouswednesday @Eggs
1. Something valuable I learned during my career: patience and perseverance.
2. Current career: Genomics scientist! I study DNA 🧬 and what we can learn from it in human health and disease (I specialize in cancer diagnostics).👩🏻🔬 Here‘s me during Covid working in the lab!
3. What I would do otherwise: I worked for a while in marine biology, I would love to do that or scuba dive every day and teach scuba diving. 🤿
“What‘s the oldest book you‘ve read by publication date?” ~ @BookmarkTavern
I had to look this one up on my trusty goodreads stats page and the oldest book I‘ve read written in English is A Midsummer Nights Dream by Shakespeare.
I‘ve also read Tao Te Ching which was published in 401 but I read a 1997 translation so that doesn‘t count.
It‘s funny you can see when I started keeping track of the books I read and see the pub year increase. 🤓
But late for this one for #litsyToB24 but I‘m going to start it today!
New happy lamp that looks like the moon 🌕 perfect for this rainy day.
#litsyToB #lgbtqbookbingo #lgbtq2024
so-soSome aspects really resonated with me while others did not. I don‘t cry easily and really struggle to allow myself to feel emotions. Her depression and utter heartbreak is relatable, but I didn‘t see myself in this.
I listened to this as a audiobook, narrated by the author. The version I had from #BOTM had her reading out the numbers of each chapter and this bothered me because there‘s so many chapters and it took me out of the story a bit.
No reading for me yesterday. Decided to learn a new stitch (brioche) and make a near ear warmer headband thing!
I have to get into audiobooks so I can craft and read at the same time! Anyone have any recommendations? I was turned off by the narrator in the last one I tried. 🙉🙈
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I‘ve had this on the TBR for years because I knew there was a description of rape, and as a survivor myself, I wasn‘t in a place where I could read it.
I‘m glad I did.
Our stories are similar. We both suffered sexual assault and gained weight as a defence mechanism. We‘re queer. We both hunger for more. More food, more love, more acceptance.
I want to tell my own story one day. #botm
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