At The Library With Megan

Megan Diversify your reads, read banned books, & support your libraries.🏳️‍🌈♾️ 📚: 3/30

[atthelibrarywithmegan]

Welcome to At The Library With Megan!

While I never posted content on BookTok, I am feeling the loss of that community. I know TikTok was "unbanned" here in the US, but it feels icky to use the platform. I do post over on Instagram under the same username; and was able to find all of my favorite creators over there as well.

I don't really know a whole lot about the tumblr book community, but I'm here to find out! I am passionate about diverse reading, queer books, fantasy novels, audiobooks and graphic novels are real books, reading banned books, and utilizing your local libraries in every way.

I hope you find this to be a space you enjoy and kind find new book recommendations. Even if I end up just speaking to the void most of the time, my words will still be here for someone to find.

Happy reading!

[betsmusings]

As Pride Month comes to an end, I just want to remind you that July is Disability Pride Month and there's a flag and everything!

Charcoal Grey: Mourning for people who have died due to ableist violence, abuse, suicide, and illness

Red Stripe: Physical disabilities

Gold Stripe: Neurodiversity

Blue Stripe: Emotional and psychiatric disabilities

Green Stripe: Sensory disabilities

White Stripe: Undiagnosed and invisible disabilities

[prettyaveragewhiteshark]

So turns out…..you guys are not gonna believe this…….but it turns out. Reading real books. Is good for you actually.

[prettyaveragewhiteshark]

Let me be completely clear - I’m not being a sarcastic ass. I’m just realizing all over again, in real time, for myself, that reading a real life published book makes your neurons feel like they’re getting a spa day. Like I can feel my brain getting juicer and wrinklier with every page I turn. This shit is no joke, this is like hard drugs if hard drugs were good for you and made your brain feel revived and alive.

[greenlabcoat]

can you let me in pleeeeeaase. i promise i wont use my raptorial limbs to attack and kill you

[segamascott]

[muttsys-deactivated20260425]

Anyone else noticing theres no websites anymore. You never go to website.com anymore its always some bullshit like "go to the smeeple app store and download the flubi app" i dont want toooo what ever happened to websites. I do not like it

[not-mjmarlowe]

It’s the Trans Rights Read-a-thon ya’ll, go get your queer on and support the community🫶🏻🏳️‍⚧️

https://www.instagram.com/transrightsreadathon?igsh=MTBib251MjJiZG94Ng==

[caffeinated-bibliophile]

There's something very off-putting and distasteful (imo, at least) about books written by men being prominently featured in a display for women's history month, international women's day, etc.

[fangorn-forest]

not enough secret gardens and hidden passageways and bookshelves that open to a mysterious library these days. get working on that girls.

[paperjoshi]

on it boss

[paperjoshi]

trapped in the catacombs boss

[atthelibrarywithmegan]

This year’s Trans Rights Readathon starts on Friday! It is running 2 days longer than it has in the past. It ends on March 31st, the Trans Day of Visibility. I was a little bit behind putting my tbr together so a lot of what I wanted to read, I’m long a LONG Libby waitlist for. We will see what I am able to get to!

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[atthelibrarywithmegan]

The first round of nonfiction/books by Black authors about Black history has arrived! I’m jumping into Read This to Get Smarter first and I’m already really enjoying it! One thing I love about it though is that I feel like I am reading it in Blair Imani’s voice because I watch her videos so often. It’s like an audiobook without being an audiobook. 😅 Also, am I about to become a book annotating girly? I need the best book annotating pen recommendations if you’ve got them!

[atthelibrarywithmegan]

Reading diversely is one of the best things I ever started doing as a reader. While I read Black authors all year long, I feel it’s important to place emphasis on them during Black History Month. The US govt. is trying to erase Black history, and we can’t let that happen. The best way we can do that is by reading Black authors and listening to Black creators and learning the true facts of history (not just what we were barely taught in school). I’m expanding my tbr for this month by adding in some non fiction titles. I don’t normally read non fiction, but it’s something I want to do, something I need to do. I have already started a couple of these and I can’t wait to immerse myself in all of the different worlds and learn more.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

💖 Upcoming Sapphic Books Releasing in 2025

🩷 Good afternoon, bookish bats. By now, you know how much I love a sweet sapphic romance. Here are 20 upcoming sapphic book releases keep on your radar in 2025!

💖 Which ones are you adding to your TBR?

🩷 Roll for Love - M.K. England 🩷 Single Player - Tara Tai 🩷 But Not Too Bold - H. Pueyo 🩷 Love Points to You - Alice Lin 🩷 Dream On, Ramona Riley - Ashley Herring Blake 🩷 Ready to Score - Jodie Slaughter 🩷 Hammajang Luck - Makana Yamamoto 🩷 Idolfire - Grace Curtis 🩷 Amelia, If Only - Becky Albertalli 🩷 The Incandescent - Emily Tesh 🩷 Murder by Memory - Olivia Waite 🩷 The Mercy Makers - Tessa Gratton 🩷 Aunt Tigress - Emily Yu-Xuan Qin 🩷 The Starving Saints - Caitlin Starling 🩷 Advocate - Daniel M. Ford 🩷 Kiss Me, Maybe - Gabriella Gamez 🩷 Marisol Acts the Part - Elle Gonzalez Rose 🩷 All-Nighter - Cecilia Vinesse 🩷 French Pressed Love - MC Hutson 🩷 Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame - Neon Yang

[brennabaileybooks]

Adding my sapphic romance: And They Were Neighbors by Brenna Bailey, out on Kickstarter in March, out wide in July!

[booksinmythorax]

I'm already seeing advice from people in the US to purchase queer books and other banned or "controversial" books on paper as a way to combat the wave of government censorship that is coming. While this is a good idea (it is! absolutely!), it's not accessible to everyone, and truly, we're not going to be able to consumerism our way out of this one.

If you can buy the books, do. Whether you can buy the books or not, borrow them from your library.

Borrow the paper versions. Borrow the ebook or audiobook versions. Request the titles you want that your library doesn't have. The more a title circulates or is requested, the better librarians are going to be able to defend keeping it if and when it's ever challenged.

Use libraries like @queerliblib too. The more members they have, the better they'll be able to fundraise.

Your community resources depend on you using them. Borrow the books before they go away.

InB4: Piracy is not the solution here. We're trying to keep community resources available, not make sure individual people can read individual books. Different problems.

The books are still available. Borrowing them from your library and returning them on time and in good condition will help keep them that way.

[atthelibrarywithmegan]

Really hoping I can bust out the rest of The Stardust Thief in the next few days before the month is over. I'm over halfway through it, I just have to commit to listening to it while I do other things instead of having the tv on in the background.

[atthelibrarywithmegan]

Cursebound by Saara El-Arifi | Book 3 of 2025

I received an eARC in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group - Del Rey, Random House Worlds, and Inklore for providing me with copy.

While I did enjoy this book, and will be reading the third book when it comes out, I did have a few issues with it. Some of the pacing felt quite off, particularly the intimate scenes. There were three scenes, all relatively mild to me (think mostly fade to black/some on page); but each one felt ill timed. All three came after something big and distressing had happened, or was supposed to happen. I actually found myself trying to read them as quickly as possible so I could get back to the rest of the story. I also wish that it had been a longer book. Faebound was well over 300 pages, and this sat at just under 300 (at least on the eARC). I feel like there could have been a lot more explanation to certain things or things could have just been fleshed out a bit more. All of that being said, I am curious to see where book three takes us. Now, all of that aside, I did enjoy the story!

You begin by following Yeeran back to the Waning Tribe where she hopes to deliver news that will help the fae, elves, and the Forever War. She comes across our new, slightly mysterious, character, Alder, one of the Nomads (wandering elves) who may be who they've been looking for all along. Lettle and Golan end up topside, searching for secrets that may uncover the answers to the curse. Rayan and Furi try to search out the threat that has infiltrated the royal court, as well as a deep betrayal. Mind you, all of this is going on while trying to navigate their own romantic relationships, new places in court, and their relationship with the Lightless.

I personally really enjoy the queer normativity of this world. There's even a character guide in the back providing pronouns and little blurbs about each person.

Some bits of this were quite predictable, but I still found it enjoyable enough to finish the book. Overall, decent enough book and I'll continue with the series.