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When you're the girl who overthinks...
-- 'And yet, you are here' by Eileen Lamb
So the ADHD Handbook post struck a chord with a lot of people...
I don't think I have it in me to write the book I suggested, mainly because most of what I want to write about is variable by situation. I can't actually offer a magic formula for getting a good assessment, all I would be able to do is say "Here are the warning signs, here's my personal story, shit's just rough". Which I could do but it'd be basically an entire book of "shrug emoji". The best possible way would probably be to offer it as a workbook, like "Here is a page for you to record every communication with the clinic doing your testing. Here is a page for you to write down possible other approaches to getting your medication if the pharmacy is out." etc.
I do think I might write it as a novel of some kind. Possibly even a novel about someone writing a handbook, I haven't decided. I had a dream last night about the book, in which I saw a woman watching a revolution taking place in the distance, thinking, "This is not what I intended when I set out to write a self-help book." Baller way to start a novel, honestly.
Anyway there were several suggestions for books in the notes, so I thought I'd compile those here. I have read none of these, so I can't vouch for their contents, but I'm including what my readers said about them.
@blogquantumreality linked to How To ADHD by Jessica McCabe, who is a well-known ADHD youtuber (I haven't found her videos super helpful but they're also not aimed at me). @knitsinweirdplaces added "The last section of the How to ADHD book is literally called 'how to change the world' and exactly points out we can advocate for a more disability friendly world that traumatizes ADHDer less in the first place. It's the only book I've read that hits the balance of 'your brain has immutable challenges' and 'these strats may help' right. Bonus, it is inclusive of people who use adhd meds and those who don't/can't."
@theindefinitearticle mentioned "I read how to keep house while drowning recently and it's been much more practical for me in terms of actual usable advice." This book has also come up numerous times during National Clean Your Home Month as a helpful guide to cleaning.
@buginateacup said "The year I met my brain is the only one I've read that actually felt like it was making useful suggestions for living with ADHD."
@cabloom said "iampayingattention on Instagram wrote How Not To Fit In."
@grison-in-space said "Do you have any idea how over the top excited I was when I found I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder?"
@doubleminorforroughing wrote "Please read Devon Price. He wants to tear it all down and I love it." I will add that I don't think I've read Laziness Does Not Exist but I have read Price's shortform work extensively and I think he's been very influential in rethinking how we frame laziness and productivity in relation to both work and neurodivergence, so I can second the recommendation.
Happy Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day! 💖💛💙
I'm making a celebratory post for awareness days/weeks with book recs so here you go!
Books in the pictures:
• Concerto in Chroma Major by Naomi Tajedler
• Miles Away From You by A.B Rutledge
• Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie
• In The Ravenous Dark by A.M Strickland
• Wild And Crooked by Leah Thomas (edit: questioning character)
• Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer
• The Melody Of You And Me by M. Hollis
• It Goes Like This by Miel Morelaand
• Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate
• Soft on Soft by Mina Waheed
• Once And Future by Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy
• A Dark And Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth
• The Library of The Unwritten by AJ Hackwith
I’ve been following you for I don’t know how long and I’ve only just now learned that you have books… plural… Like… multible books written and published and on sale for me to buy right now 🤯
Me: I better not reblog my work too often or people will get annoyed and think I'm bragging or pushing it on them 🥴
Followers: You wrote a book???
Sometimes y’all say things that make my head go
but in a good way!
Anyway, here are my two books!!
eBook 🌸 paperback 🌸 Goodreads
Mermaids trapped in zoos, floating continents that block out the sun, curses that sprout flowers from your skin, astronauts on dying spaceships, and princesses bothering hungry bog witches. Five short stories that revolve around the love between women and the fantastical worlds they inhabit.
Get a copy here!
eBook 💗 Paperback 💗 Goodreads
Werewolves sharing early morning conversations with waitresses. Phantoms reappearing and disappearing in wild lavender fields. A coming-of-age story of a paper delivery girl as she uncovers the mystery surrounding a strange house and the girl inside who never seems to leave. Love stories of the odd, strange, and utterly lovely.
Get a copy here!
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I also have a new story up on my Patreon!
Ah! That's so exciting!
And for anyone else, you can also order my books at your local library like this:
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https://vocal.media/pride/was-jo-march-little-women-a-lesbian-was-he-a-trans-man
Historical Children’s Literature and LGBTQ+ Identities
Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-
Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.
Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.
Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.
Free downloadable digital links of Richelle Mead’s short stories about Vampire Academy!
The Untold Stories | Mead, Richelle | download | Z-Library. Download books for free. Find books
The Turn and The Flame (the story of how Christian Ozera’s parents turn Strigoi)
From the Journal of Vasilisa Dragomir (The Princess’s private thoughts during their life on the run)
The Meeting (Meeting Rose Hathaway from Dimitri’s POV)
Hi, My Name is Rose Hathaway (Dimitri and Rose become unlikely teammates during a highstakes scavenger hunt)
Kisses from Hell | Kristin Cast, Francesca Lia Block, Kelley Armstrong, Richelle Mead, Alyson Noel | download | Z-Library. Download
Kisses from Hell features a Richelle Mead short story called “Sunshine” which is about how Eric and Rhea Dragomir met. It comes along with several different stories from other vampire authors.
Foretold 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction (Anthology) | Ryan, Carrie; Mead, Richelle; Elkeles, Simone; Cabot, Meg | download | Z-Library.
Foretold features another short story by Richelle Mead called “Homecoming” which is set during Last Sacrifice as Rose and Dimitri travel back to Russia to visit his family.
This site is great for digital books in general
…Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any of Adrian’s lost chapters 🥲
Do you like Les Mis, Black Sails, Robin Hood tales, queer pirates, found families and epics? Paperback pre-orders for Sailing by Orion’s Star (The Constellation Trilogy, #1) are live! Release is set for 4/26.
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Book Depository (Sometimes if you’re using Chrome the cover doesn’t pop up, so if you don’t see it, it is the right listing and you can still pre-order! The cover has popped up on all other browsers)
Bookshop (US friends, if you haven’t used this website before, you can choose a digital “storefront” for participating indie bookstores, and they will profit off the sale. If you’re near the DC area, I tend to choose Kramer’s or East City Books. And hey, if enough folks buy from particular indies, maybe they’ll consider stocking it in store!)
International friends: you should be able to buy paperbacks from Amazon if it’s available in your country, and Book Depository (above) ships to something like 160 countries (The UK, pretty much all of Europe, some parts of Asia and South America, etc.)
Interested in e-books? I have those too! You can get it on Kindle, Kobo, Nook, and others. (Kobo is easy for international folks!)
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whyyy arent there any shows or books with no conflicts and just people living their life. i want to watch and read about people living their lives without any conflicts. i already have enough conflicts in my life i dont want them in things i do to escape from them
You want to watch a slice of life anime then
I have what you want! I write slice of life with a big emphasis on positivity, found family, and how no matter how lonely we feel, we aren't alone. I have several more chapters written I just need someone to proof read them. So here's my announcement to my current readers: it's coming soon!
But OP, I write short, episodic stories about a witch and her dragon familiar and the neighborhood she lives in where nobody has a whole lot, but they work together to make it just enough.
Characters include 1) orphan witch named Serenity that I made an orphan so anyone who felt alone could see themselves in her and be comforted by her getting to live a good life surrounded by found family 2) retired witch who everyone calls Granny who takes one look at the main character and is like "anyone adopting this one?" And then doesn't wait for an answer (there is one hilarious episode where she tries to get Serenity to hook up with her great niece or great nephew and she really isn't picky which one so long as Serenity gets to be Officially Family) and 3) A Dragon who is sentient but he's just a baby, you see. He can't talk yet and he hasn't unlocked all his powers yet but he LOVES making mischief and sometimes causes problems on purpose at the worst (most hilarious) times.
And a host of neighbors and friends who work together to make life good.
Self promo feels weird but I genuinely wrote this story for people exactly like OP who don't want a lot of conflict, they just want to enjoy watching characters live their lives. And I specifically wrote this story so hopefully if someone who is lonely reads it, they'll be comforted and feel just a little bit better.
It's all fluff, give it a read!
Serenity and Dragon is like a fluffy blanket, a big hug and a mug of your favorite warm drink! Wonderful fluffy, and honestly it's past time for me to give it a re-read
u guys know theres other movies and books than hp right. like you dont need to and cannot "find ways to read/watch hp without supporting jkr". unless youre literally doing literary research, engaging with it knowing about jkrs shittiness is a form of support. fucking read something else
‘why does every setting consider witch and wizard the magical genders’ they dont, read other books ‘im upset at how all goblins are antisemitic stereotypes’ they arent, read other books ‘im unhappy that the only careers shown for these kids after wizard school is wizard teacher and wizard cop and dont explore the wizard world outside of the school’ boy, would you be thrilled to hear about this thing called other books ‘its so unsatisfying how they never really went anywhere with the house elf liberation thing’ i am going to beat you with a copy of ‘feet of clay’ ‘but theres no other female fantasy authors to give a good role model for aspiring women writers to prove a woman can succeed in male dominated literature’ i could make a moderately sized house of of the books written by Ursula K Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey , and Margaret Weis alone, with the front door made of the awards theyve earned ‘we cant ignore her contributions to popular culture’ oh yes we can! Margaret Weis, who i pointed out above, was part of the team that put dragons in dungeons and dragons, i would argue thats more of a sticking point then ‘what if wizards went to school’, which, itself, was handled infinitely better by Ursula describing magic schools and apprenticeships and got made into a ghibli movie so its hardly an original idea that a small child is treated badly but then hes told hes the protagonist and gets to go to the land of whimsy where he always wins and the education consists of ‘point stick and say stoppus badguyus’ and school houses that just reinforce brittish social classes and magic racism READ
OTHER
BOOKS
theres a lot of them, theyre good, many of them are free, i could write a list of books that have really good magical settings/systems thats longer then my arm
Reasons why you should PICK UP The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri IMMEDIATELY🌿
The slowburn, enemies to lovers relationship will leave you at the edge of your seat! The tension is IMMACULATE!
The magic is so intriguing and I love the use of (mild) body horror. Plant-like body horror is one of my favorite ways to present body horror in books.
This book has some complex and well thought out political intrigue.
The female characters in this book are beyond BADASS (and I have a weak spot for Bhumika)
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If you’re still unconvinced, look out for my 4.5⭐️, spoiler free review on mousethatreads.com SOON!
The third book I have read on Caligula, and my favorite so far. Aloys Winterling does an excellent job of placing Caligula’s actions and his “proof of madness” in the context of the period. I thought the book was loaded with relevant information, but not so much that it grew tedious. My final positive note is that this book did not take me a gazillion years to read. Yes, it is nonfiction, but for me it read almost as fast as a novel.
A new book into my reading list
I’m pleased to announce that my first novel is out now!
A gothic fiction, Lacrimore is available for purchase as a printed paperback and kindle ebook on amazon, as well as an ebook on gumroad.
Synopsis: Sivre Sen is a spiritual medium who’s lost her faith. Though it’s been years since the epidemic that swept the mainland and changed her life, she has yet to find the answers—or closure—that she’s looking for. When she’s summoned to conduct the funeral rites for a reclusive scholar, the unusual circumstances give her hope that maybe, finally, she’ll find the answers she needs.
Far from the mainland, on a small island in the middle of a lake, stands Lacrimore, centuries old and wreathed in grim legends. But something much darker than legends thrives within its walls, waiting to lay claim to the house’s inhabitants. As Sivre rediscovers her place in the world, she’ll need all of her newfound strength to dig her fingers into the monstrous foundation of Lacrimore and expose the secrets it is built upon.
If you like faithless mediums, morally-dubious doctors, evil sentient houses, and a meditation on the weight of history, it might be a book for you!
Thank you all so much for your interest and support in this over the years. It means the world to me, and I’m so excited to finally share it with you. If you end up enjoying the book, please leave a review to help more people find it!
A note on content: While this book isn’t about an epidemic, the lingering aftermath of one and the grief that arises from it is a significant narrative element. Some parts might feel more pertinent than I would have expected them to when I first started writing this. Please use your discretion in reading, and take care.
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