Miss Bookish Munchkin

Just a lil blog where I fangirl over books! Follow my bookstagram & goodreads at bookishmunchkin! I love weird lit fic & weird romance, but I’ll read almost anything fiction! I follow from @artsyalette

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I’m a little late with this yet here I am! Happy Pride 🌈 Month!!!! Here’s some of my Pride month reads!!! Disappoint Me is about a trans woman navigating a relationship with a cis man in London. And Hemlock is a queer Midwestern gothic, that’s what it’s described as and believe me I RAN to pick this up when I heard that! Really enjoying both so far!!! Yay pride!!! 🏳️‍🌈

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I thrifted these books from Savers last week!! Olga Dies Dreaming, a diverse lit fic which I’m LOVING!! Middlesex, a Pulitzer Prize 🏆 winner which I’ve had my eye on for awhile! And Luckiest Girl Alive, a thriller that sounds like a fun read for by the pool! Yippee 🥳 and a lil sheep 🐑 friend to bless y’all’s timelines lol 😂 booksta at bookishmunchkin

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Here’s what I’m currently reading this weekend!!! (I have a short attention span lol 😂) we’ve got several thrillers, a much anticipated lit fic, speculative fiction, and a fun romance! Yippee 🥳 booksta at bookishmunchkin

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Two books I’ve been reading lately: The Maidens (a thriller about a murderous professor lol) which I’m loving! And Hand of Isis is a 5 star reread! I reread it every summer. It’s about Cleopatra and her sisters with a touch of magic and mythology. It’s a completely unique take on the life of Cleopatra, highly recommend it!! Booksta at bookishmunchkin

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Here’s my latest library book haul!! We’ve got some books about robots 🤖 some short story collections, some coming of age lit fic, some apocalyptic fiction, Black History Month picks, and some random lit fics! I hope y’all like my little porcelain lady sitting on top lol! Bookstagram at bookishmunchkin

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Here’s my library haul! I checked out a whole lotta lit fic yippee 🥳 Creep (stalker? Story), If You’re Seeing This, It’s Meant For You (purely a check out for love of the cover), Blue Ticket (a dystopian world where blue ticket women work and white ticket women get married/have kids), Tiny Threads (sinister fashion world, oh yes!), Happiness & Love (satire about NYC art world and pretentiousness, DYING to read this lol), Hekate (a poetic novel about the goddess Hekate).

I’m booked for the weekend haha 🤣 anyway, my bookstagram is at bookishmunchkin I’ll be posting reviews for all these books so stay tuned!! 💜

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I thrifted these books awhile ago from Savers! I’ve really been wanting to read The Goldfinch so I was so excited to find it! Supermarket is a book by the rapper Logic and I’m very intrigued to see what it’s about! Bookstagram at bookishmunchkin

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Possibly the prettiest bookstack photo I’ve ever taken!! Bookstagram at bookishmunchkin

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I swooned when I saw the absolutely beautiful interior art!!! Can’t wait to read this dark romance!

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This book hasn’t gotten the hype it deserves so here it is!!! It’s a Southern Gothic creepy story set in a little town called Carrion, Georgia where every 13 years swarms of cicadas come and people start to go missing! I just started this and omg it’s so good and creepy, I think I’m going to love this book! Plus it’s STUNNING with cicadas on the edges! It’s Xan Kaur’s debut so I’m happy to support a new author! Check it out y’all! Bookstagram at bookishmunchkin

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I finally got this series after checking the first book out at the library and loving it (I only read these first part so I need to finish it but still!) Gonna read em all and watch the movie 🎥 so trippy and unsettling I love it!! Bookstagram at bookishmunchkin

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Kill For Me, Kill For You Rant Review *Spoilers*

Omgggg y’all,,,, I finished this damn book. And I am SO disappointed!!! Here is my ranting review, there will be spoilers bc people need to know what the fuck kind of message this author is sending with his shitty book. Here we go:

So, this book started out so intriguing. Two women bonded by trauma decide to murder each others “villain”. I like revenge, I like women doing wrong things, I was all here for it!! I was having fun with all the plot twists and turns, thinking all the time wow! 🤯 and then we hit the 70% mark,,,,,

Enter my most hated plot device: one of the “evil” characters is??? You guessed it!!! MENTALLY ILL!! There is a poor woman who is villainized for the rest of the story for being traumatized from an attempted murder, having a psychotic break from the trauma, and setting out to kill her attempted killer so she can feel safe. Reading about her trauma and psychosis was so sad, disturbing and triggering for me, I felt awful for her.

But SHE is the villain of this stupid story!!! The author even attempts to have a brain and use a snippet from the DSM 5 to justify having a mentally ill, psychosis having, traumatized, survivor of a woman be the evil killer. Meanwhile we have an actual evil killer running around called Mr. Blue Eyes (he’s the one who attempted to kill the previously mentioned woman). He is LITERALLY so evil and apathetic, he even (in a very stupid and heavy handed way) gets his surviving victim (the poor woman with psychosis) institutionalized and VISITS HER AND MENTALLY TORTURES HER!!!! What the fuck?

BUT, this dingbat of an author makes him the hero because he kills a pedophile for the main character. Wow okay ONE ☝️ right does not negate all of his evil wrongdoings!!

Why have I not mentioned the main character til now?? Well because the author (a man) wrote this woman so blandly, so inept, boring, and just made her a pawn and tool for the other characters, not giving her any agency of her own. Typical and what I would expect for someone who wrote this garbage.

This book was so messily and offensively written and people are just eating it up and applauding this moron like he’s the next great Author of Our Illustrious Era.

When are thriller authors going to stop using psychosis to make their characters evil??? Just STOP 🛑 it’s so stigmatizing, hurtful, false, and just inhumane to paint an already downtrodden and vulnerable population with that label. People with psychosis are more likely to BE harmed rather than TO harm.

I could rant more but gahhh I HATE this book, I HATE the praise it’s getting, I HATE the misogynistic undertones of it and I DESPISE the setback in progress it’s causing in mental illness stigma. 😑

The End.

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Another library book haul, all literary fiction!! We’ve got Second Place by Rachel Cusk (described as “a haunting fable of art, family and fate”), Peach Pit (a short story anthology of 16 different tales of unsavory women, can’t wait to read this!!!)

Follow Me to the Ground by Sue Rainsford (described as a “dream between a fairytale and nightmare, desire and delusion, folktale and warning”)

Sea Change by Gina Chung (a woman coming to terms with trauma in her past and current state of her life while being friends with a mall aqauarium octopus 🐙) this sounds SO good!!

Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling (something about a woman trying to secure safety in the midst of our climate ravaged world, I’m not too sure)

That’s my book haul from the library!!! Up next later today is a ranting review lol!! 😂 so keep an eye out for that! Bookstagram at bookishmunchkin

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Here’s my latest library book haul!! Mostly new releases! Got some weird lit fic, some speculative fiction, a short story collection and a sapphic romance! I did a cutesy kawaii theme today for this photo, hope y’all enjoy ☺️ bookstagram at bookishmunchkin

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I’m currently reading Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer! I checked it out at the library and was surprised to see it was a really beat up copy lol, BUT turns out it’s the first edition, so I see why the library has kept it. I’m only a bit into the story but I love the writing and atmosphere so far!! Lots of mystery about this strange environment!

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I’m reading Kill For Me, Kill For You (took forever to get it at the library), and omg it’s sooo good. I’m 64% of the way through and have no idea who’s really done what and WHY! Lol 😂 very good so far!

⬆️ hopefully Patrick will be me before I finish the book! I Live for guessing the ending correctly!!!

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I’ve wanted to expand my reading variety so I bought these two books of essays. Bluets is a lyrical almost poetic essay book about the color blue! And The Book of Delights is a diary about daily delightful and joyful things. I’ve heard really good things about both of these books so very excited to read them 🥳 bookstagram at bookishmunchkin