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[elfspectations]

Finished reading Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire today

Always fun to read the newest installment in the Wayward Children series 📚

[strangemonochromes]

Night of the Living Cat // Hawkman & Mecha-Roots

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault and Lois Ehlert (1989)?

yes

no

I've never heard of it

Remaining time: 3 days 45 minutes

[emilybeemartin]

I had a dream that Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli were solving a murder mystery in a giant mansion. Legolas kept eating popcorn.

[emilybeemartin]

Part II

[titsay]

(i know it won't 🥹)

[readtilyoudie]

NIGHT OF THE LIVING CAT VOLUME 1

[chzdavmpr]

Started a new manga recently (yes another one) and it's quite funny.

(for context: yes the cute kitty cat is what they are so hype to see. Also cute kitty cats are the main antagonists)

[elfspectations]

In May I read four books:

The Art of Impactful Communication by Patrick King ⭐️⭐️½

City of Lies by Ramita Navai ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Night of the Living Cat Vol 2 by Hawkman and Mecha Roots ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[perpetual-bad-guy-shipper]

the ‘sheep detectives’ trio of lily, mopple and sebastian possess 2 brain cells in total. with lily and mopple passing one between them in constant motion while sebastian hoards the second on that cliff, occasionally sharing it with the winter lamb

[stuck-in-jelly]

Lets be movies about memories and trauma together

[mewdoughs]

something something, people can only take so much before it hurts too much to stay

[phantomtomes]

Im going on an adventure. 🌿

[macrolit]

Open up Gail Crowther's new bestseller Marilyn and Her Books (now available in the U.S.) and the first thing you'll see are some of the editions Marilyn owned. I was thrilled to see she had a penchant for my beloved Modern Library books, which I'm used to thinking of as "vintage," but they were contemporary for her. And I actually own most of the editions she had.

I've been reading the book (I'm about a third of the way through), and it's beautifully written and absolutely fascinating. This is a perfect read for ALL book lovers, not just those who appreciate Marilyn Monroe. It speaks to us as readers, delving into things like: what the books we own and read say about us (as well as the books we don't read); shelf-snooping--something we're all guilty of; books we read vs. books we skim; books we bought versus books we received as gifts; and so much more.

I'd say it's the best book about books/reading since Maureen Corrigan's So We Read On (about The Great Gatsby), but Crowther's book is better.

Are you thinking of reading it?

[tinynavajoreads]

I'm definitely thinking of reading this! While I don't know much about Marilyn Monroe, the one thing I do know about her is how much she loved to read and that she had a LOT of books! So when I heard this was coming out, I was excited to be able to read more about her and to learn more about her love of reading and books!

Just checked out the audiobook for it from my local library, so I'll be able to start listening to in on my commute to and from work. Excited to learn more about a fellow bookwork!

[stefito0o]

Bank holidays are for slowing down and catching up on reading 📚

[themelodyofspring]

Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters.

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

Buddy reading with my unhinged family again @stefito0o, @appleinducedsleep, @mangoslixes

[gloriousclio]

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.

[lexsreadingcorner]

May Reading Wrap Up 📚

Fiction:

Idol, Burning by Rin Usami, trans. Asa Yoneda 2 ⭐️

An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole 4 ⭐️

The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark 4.5 ⭐️

The Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefleur 5 ⭐️

Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu

Short Story Collections:

salt slow by Julia Armfield

Poetry:

Blood Orange by Yaffa As

Graphic Novel/Manga:

The Liminal Zone by Junji Ito 4 ⭐️

May was the best reading month I've had since I was a teenager, wooo!!!! I'm still on the fence about star ratings, which is why some have ratings and others don't. I gave them all ratings on storygraph for the sake of a more accurate average, but just ignore those. Overall, I've enjoyed almost everything I read to some degree or another.

I enjoyed An Arcane Inheritance, but I'll probably never read it, or much of any dark academia, again. It was well-written and very interesting, just not the genre for me.

The big letdown of the month was Idol, Burning, which promised to explore toxic fandom culture, but did so in a way that felt like surface level wasted potential. I wanted teeth. The author gave me gums.