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[annes-room]

☀️ June 2025

summer reintroduction! I'm taking a proper break from school this summer so my blog will be turning a bit more into a bookblr! 📚

I'll share my own study stuff again in the fall, but I'm still sharing others' posts :)

I've already posted a few book reviews and I'll also be sharing more things surrounding shows and movies and possibly even cooking! 🩷

as always, my blog is a place for me to share things that make me happy ✨ more about my tagging system below 💐 enjoy your stay

and thank you for 100 followers :)

📚 my bookshelf: what I'm reading, have read, recommendations, and reviews. for my reviews, I've been using this review system!

📺 my tv: shows, movies, and video games

🛏️ my bed: cozy things and aesthetics I like

🖼️ my walls: art I would like to own and hang up

👗 my wardrobe: fashion inspo

💿 my record player: playlists and recommendations

📖 my journal: thoughts I'm sharing

📝 my desk: my schoolwork. reblogs go under study inspo.

📷 my photo album: not used a ton, but some of my own photos

🌱 monthly review: self explanatory lol

[lacetulle]

Waad Aloqaili | Yamal

[ankhisms]

my favorite little pink flowers outside the grocery store

[holespoles]

Asako Yoshihama

吉濱あさこ

[annes-room]

Are You Sara? by S. C. Lalli (2022)

🌟 my rating: 5/5 stars

Starting off this month strong with a 5-star read! I was so captivated by the premise and I was along for the ride the whole time (pun intended).

Two girls, Sara and Sarah, meet at a bar one night, and after a heart-to-heart session, they order rideshares and head home, but they accidentally take each other's Rides, and one Sarah ends up dead.

This simple yet unique plot opened the door for a larger conversation about violence against women, sexism, racism, and all of their intersections. A lot of reviewers seemed upset that the book "veered from the plot," but I don't think it did at all. The book blurb describes the inciting incident, and the rest is an exploration of the world we live in where people aren't perfect, and you don't always make the safest choices. I appreciated how both Sara(h)s wanted to escape the expectations placed on them. I think they both had a vision of what they wanted to do and I don't think it's wrong to be selfish in shaping your life and living how you want.

If you're looking for a book with a unique hook, I'd recommend this!

[rah-moo-neh]

green tech 💚

[veryluckyclovers]

[annes-room]

Alice Isn't Dead my beloved is back 🥹

[termagax]

infomania is like my worst vice. i want to read everything see everything know everything listen to all music and watch all movies and be at all events. and what do i do with this emotion? watch nothing read nothing see nothing

[fluffysheeps]

Silly salmonids 🌈🐟

[i-am-a-fish]

don't be mean to yourself that's you

[i-am-a-fish]

you live there

[lacetulle]

Atelier Couture | Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week

[itsallbookshere]

The Boyfriend - Thriller

method: Kindle Unlimited page count: 364

Starts pretty slow, but as it picks up, it gets pretty good. Oh man I did not expect the turn of events. Just when I had it figured out, I did not have it figured out at all. I do wish more of the action happened earlier in the book and not mainly nearly the end.

Rated:⭐⭐⭐⭐.5

[roseanned]

we exist for love btw

[pianta]

childhood memories 🧵🍪

★ twitter | ko-fi | ig | prints ★

[vamptits]

don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.

[halberdbooks]

Yeah

[duckprintspress]

itch.io Pride Bundles!

Pride is a great time to load up your device of choice with queer e-books to last you all year. In addition to the short story and art bundles of Duck Prints Press titles we’re selling to raise money for charity, we’re also part of five (!!!) different itch.io bundles currently running.

Pride Book Fair: PRIDE HARD!

The Pride Book Fair is a month-long virtual book fair hosted on Instagram and Bluesky, aiming to uplift queer authors and books. During the first week, the Book Fair is offering four different itch.io bundles, and Duck Prints Press has books in… all of them! Each bundle is $40 USD, and each contains either 37 or 38 queer books.

Pride Book Fair Bundle 1: PRIDE HARD includes a lot of awesome stuff, including our anthology Scholarly Pursuits. The bundle’s $40 USD price tag is a savings of 73% off the list price of the included books.

Pride Book Fair Bundle 2: PRIDE HARD with a Vengeance is a 72% savings at $40 USD, and our book Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley is among the 37 books in it. (The artist-author May Barros, who has done a fair amount of art with DPP, also has a book in this bundle!)

Pride Book Fair Bundle 3: Live Free or PRIDE HARD has 38 titles at a 71% discount, and includes novelette In Good Company by Nicola Kapron.

Pride Book Fair Bundle 4: A Good Day to PRIDE HARD is the last bundle, $40 for 38 titles (73% off list price). The first book of our recently-fully-published trilogy Twinned, Commit to the Kick by Tris Lawrence, is in this bundle!

Get one bundle or get ‘um all, there’s a lot of really awesome queer fiction in these bundles, so I hope you’ll check ‘um out!

These bundles end on June 8th!

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LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Bundle

This Pride bundle features 23 stories for only $10, an 82% savings. Among the titles is Puppetry by Nina Waters! As the title indicates, all the works in this one are under the speculative fiction umbrella – they’re either science fiction, fantasy, or horror (SFFH).

Get this one between now and June 13th!

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Can’t get enough? Well, as a final note, there are still a little over 12 hours left to get the Queerly Beloved bundle, featuring 32 queer romances for only $10! We’ve got three titles in this one – To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh, Moongatherer by Willa Blythe, and Lightbringer by boneturtle.