This is a delightful middle grade adventure. I love Mona's baking magic and the creative ways she puts it to use in a pinch. A lot about this book is fairly average otherwise, and there are a few awkward spots where something important is repeated almost word-for-word. I also lost it a bit when the baker threw flour on a fire to put it out. #Magic #Baking

Jones creates a school full of loveable and hateable students and tells this story in an interesting manner. I liked it a lot better now rereading it with my husband, but didn't care for this when I first read it as a teen. It's an interesting entry in the Chresomanci series. #Witches #Magic

June bonus prompts (part 4 of 4):

a book that's lived on your shelves too long (or pulled from older depths of your tbr)
a library read
includes unique formatting somewhere in the book
involves modern or future technology other than a cell phone
By an Asian American or Pacific Islander author

Feel free to complete these all in June, or from June-December! Not already playing? Everyone is welcome any time!

#lgbtq2023 #lgbtqbookbingo

June bonus prompts (part 3):

Takes place in a place you want to visit
A prize winner
FREE SPACE
A comic, graphic novel, or manga
by an author who is a person of color

includes a cat
by an LGBTQIA+ Muslim author or with Muslim characters
romance is not the focus
nonfiction if you usually read fiction or fiction if you usually read nonfiction
An LGBTQIA+ author with disability or characters with disability

June bonus prompts (part 2):

Faries or Fae
Tackles an LGBTQIA+ topic
queer joy
more than 5 colors in the cover
an author with a different identity than yours

a new to you author
part of a series
published in 2023
involves a bookstore/library
by an LGBTQIA+ Jewish author or has Jewish characters

Itsy Pride Month! As always, I'm adding a bonus bingo board to this year's LGBTQ+ book bingo challenge about reading books by LGBTQ+ authors or with LGBTQ+ characters. You'll find prompts on The Storygraph, or in this series of posts. No actual BINGO card right now, sorry, I am mid-move and don't quite have time to make one! Feel free to make your own with prompts organized however! #LGBTQ2023 #LGBTQBookBingo
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So looking forward to organizing my bookshelves, but for now I'm just throwing books on shelves to get rid of so many boxes! #Moving #Shelfie #BookHabit

When you're moving and your primary goal is to get most of the boxes in your living room broken down. #Moving #BookHabit #TooManyBooks #Shelfie

A thoroughly unsettling, intriguing read. Definitely an intense metaphor and illustration of trans experiences. Definitely want to check out the content warnings before you dive in. #LGBTQ #MagicalRealism

An absolutely delightful read! I loved the narrative structure with Nina and Oli‘s stories running parallel like their worlds. The characters are all super fun and the Native American storytelling style of Oli‘s adventures adds so much. I enjoyed Darcie Little Badger‘s previous book quite a bit, and this one blew it out of the water! #NativeAmerican #Snake #TwoWorlds
Used this for my mythology pick in #LGBTQBookBingo! #LGBTQ2023

Other than being a D&D adventure, nothing about this comic stood out to me. I snagged it as a #HooplaBonusBorrow this month, and it was entertaining. The art is nice as well. #Comic #DungeonsAndDragons

The baker in this book just threw flour on a fire to put it out 😨 you‘re a baker, you should absolutely know better!

I‘ve got my June #Roll100 all prepped! I think I still need to pick up any of my May picks, of course 😝

I caught a science-focused Volume of this series a while back as a #HooplaBonusBorrow and fell in love with the artist‘s style. The water color is beautiful and the attention to detail is amazing. The story itself is adorable and adventurous. #Comic #Ocean #Ghosts

This seemed like a boring and somewhat pointless picture book. This guy takes an umbrella to Berlin, promises it it‘ll see Berlin, but then never needs it. Indignant, the umbrella jumps out the window and floats over the city for like… 3 pages? #Picturebook #Umbrella

Your parents have been missing for a week and you just found their vehicle nose-dived into a fountain. But sure, waiting for them to come back seems like a logical conclusion to me 😂 #comic #Apocalypse

This comic didn‘t work for me, but I‘m sure someone will love it for its unique art, story, and exploration of personal freedom. The story lost me about half way through, but it was interesting enough to finish even so. #Comic #LGBTQ

Dracula: Only sleep in your room. Everywhere else is unbelievably dangerous.

Harker: I think I‘ll sleep in the old wing I found where I suspect women used to live.

Also, It took me a sad amount of time to realize I didn‘t need to picture sad boobs here 😆👀

Heavy wet snow knocked out the power so I can't do any work. Guess I'll read 😆 #Spring #Colorado #Snow #GuessIllRead

This is such a delightful middle grade adventure! I love the art style (so many good page layouts) and energy of this. It'll absolutely be a favorite of many kids, especially anyone worried about fitting in. I didn't anticipate some of the turns this took. #Comic #NewKid #Aliens

Valérie examines her experiences caring for a senior with Alzheimer's through intriguing page layouts and stark visual metaphors. She conveys not only her own feelings, but those of the woman throughout, and shows systemic problems in France (though they apply more widely) facing seniors who can no longer care for themselves. #Comic #NonfictionComics

I noticed that this excellent ebook is currently on sale for $2 on Amazon. I highly recommend it, especially if you're interested in history, diverse perspectives, and the fight for equality.

A super fun conclusion to this epic story! I'll miss meeting all of the city avatars and watching New York fight an otherworldly entity that weaponizes hate, political unrest, and corporate stores. I feel like I wanted a little more from the ending than this whole Digimon-esque wrapup, but was not deebly disappointed. #LGBTQ #Fantasy

Adorable, whimsical, and dorky! I probably would have loved this more if I had played the game it comes from, but even so each story was cute and the different art styles were fun. #Comic #LGBTQ

Alright, I'm doing it! My friend signed up for #DraculaDaily last year and really enjoyed the experience. I hope I can keep up! This seems like a more accessible pace for me to enjoy this classic. #ClassicLiterature

I just don't appreciate satire the way it deserves to be appreciated. This had a lot of intruiging and funny moments, and I loved the jokes on framing and the Mona Lisa, but I just didn't enjoy this Louvre comic that much. #Comic #Louvre

I like framed short stories like this, and always enjoy queer and inclusive stories. The framing story felt a little clumsy from time to time, but it was intriguing. I really wish we got more stories out of that box! #LGBTQ #SciFi #FramedStory

Did I adore this? No, but I'd still recommend it because it was a fun read. The world is interesting and I enjoyed watching as the main character tried to fix her error. I was a little disappointed in the underdeveloped situation with the bureaucrats. #Comic

I happen to be in the process of moving now too!

The perfect touch to any room!

When everything goes from middle school bullying story to terrifying monster in the woods 😨

My #Roll100 picks for May! I don‘t think I read a single one of my April picks (but I have one borrowed on audiobook that I plan to read soon). I‘m in the process of packing up to move at the end of May, and my work keeps spilling out into my regular life, so I haven‘t been reading as much.

I can‘t decide if I am intrigued by this absurd comic poking fun at museums, art academia, and itself, or if I hate it. Either way, this discussion about literal framed art devolving into such simple frames that the curator imagines art presented as sequences (that look familiar to any comic reader) is killing me 😆

Just sharing a weird coincidence this month. I recently reread The Lives of Christopher Chant, and as a child Christopher wanders his way into different worlds in his multiverse. He calls them Anywheres. While listening to the tagged today, I came across another character who calls the worlds she travels to in her own multiverse Anywheres! 😮 #Similarities #Coincidence #Multiverse

Continuing my reread of this series with this book that I don‘t remember at all (other than that I didn‘t like it as a teen). It‘s a pretty quirky story packed full of Romeo and Juliet nods, cats, and an interesting sung magic system. This hardly has anything to do with Chrestomanci compared to the books collected in the first volume. #magic #cats #MultipleWorlds

Shayla Lawson converse a wide variety of issues of equality. I found this thought-provoking and useful because it returned some issues to the forefront of my mind for continued consideration. I liked that she also includes poems in this work, though occasionally these breaks didn't work well for the audiobook. #SocialJustice #Equality

My husband recently decided he needs more Diana Wynne Jones books in his life, so I'm revisiting some of my favorite high school reads with him. I definitely don't remember a lot of what happens in these books, so the reread has been super fun! #Magic #MultipleWorlds

This was delightfully odd. The format is intriguing and the story's weirdness-as-normal(?) feel reminded me a lot of Welcome to Night Vale. The story itself was such a fun ride. The ending felt a little sudden on the solution, but getting there was still a ton of fun. #LGBTQ #Formatting #Weird

"You might not have a great quantity of stories, [...] But you will always have at least one: the story of your life."

I might feel like the framing story is a little clumsier than the ones it frames, but that's a pretty good line.

A super cute travelogue comic collection about Sarah and their boyfriend's experiences visiting the U.S. for a comic convention. Super short, took me about 30 minutes to read (so it'll probably take most people less than 30 minutes). I picked this up as part of my bookstack for Trans Day of Visibility and simply had to read it before relinquishing it. #Comic #TravelComic #Cats (cats have fewer appearances than usual due to the travel)

I had a surprising amount of trouble focusing on this one. The back-and-forth between Vera's past and present was intriguing but it didn't feel like it added much to Vera's current situation. The setting and characters were interesting. #LGBTQ #Spy #HistoricalFiction

This isn't a so-so read at all. It's poetic and highly literary. I just didn't enjoy it. I don't always love literary fiction, and being neither a teen nor someone who experiences lust, I didn't connect with this whole ode to teenhood lust and first love. It's definitely an interesting read. #LGBTQ #Literary

I just reread this (already!) thanks to #LGBTBookClub and greatly enjoyed it a second time. This time I went with the audiobook and it was a fun ride. I did enjoy reading it myself a bit more than listening, but it was a close second. #LGBTQ #Magic

I enjoyed this volume just about as much as the others! I‘m disappointed to see that I‘m almost out of volumes to read! #Comic #Unicorn

I was looking forward to having an Ace main character, but I'm bailing on this book already. I just absolutely hate it. I'll have to join in on the #LGBTBookClub fun next month! #LGBTQ

Someone who messaged my library a post about #TransDayOfVisibility a few days ago reached out about the book stack post I put together (in which I didn‘t mention TDoV so my manager didn‘t get on about not looking like we have an agenda) and it made my day ❤️😭

I grabbed this for my #TransDayOfVisibility post for the library I work for, and decided to read it after flipping through and seeing the interesting format. It is several people at a PR/marketing company communicating over Slack as unusual things happen (that nobody actively acknowledges). I‘m really enjoying this weird story so far. #UniqueFormat #LGBTQ #Weird

I don't remember why I wanted to read this. It was on my #Roll100 list. I didn't love the last book I read by this author. This starts of with tons of promise, but it feels like the author isn't committed to the character's bad-girl-with-a-past persona. I can't suspend disbelief that one session with a therapist who pointed out her trauma magically solved half her problems, and I am not feeling the whole mystery stolen object plot any more. #SciFi

I put together a video featuring this lovely stack of books by trans and nonbinary authors for my library's social media. I didn't acknowledge #TransDayOfVisibility in the post text or tags because my director is always bringing up looking like we have an agenda when it comes to queer content, but this post is for visibility. #LGBTQ #TransAuthors #Bookstack

("Those" being whitecaps on the disturbed ocean)
It'll be hard to convince me this isn't a reference to The Last Unicorn, where the whitecaps in the sea were literally unicorns and the sea was an actual trap for them ?