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1. The last book I read: Game Changer by Rachel Reid. I really wanted to see how the books and such hold up with Heated Rivalry (show) and found myself pleasantly surprised. No complicated prose or metaphors, just some dudes banging it out and also hockey. What could be better than that?
2. A book I’d recommend: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix. If you're a fan of the horror genre in movies, you'll like this book. I loved the concept of final girls existing irl and becoming sort of famous against their will, bonding together. I was obsessed with this book while I was reading it.
3. A book I couldn’t put down: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. I am an unapologetic YA novel lover and I'm not afraid to say that!! I've also been a Hunger Games fan since day one, so I devoured this novel immediately. A lot of people wanted to argue that they felt it was "fanservice-y" but I disagree. I felt like the story was well woven and made the earlier (later storywise) books feel even more devastating.
4. A book I’ve read twice or more: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. Also would be one I'd recommend over and over again but it does have some major triggering themes for some people. A couple decide to create their own freak show by having the mother ingest drugs, creating deformed children; the story is narratively told by the eldest daughter, Oly, an albino hunchback, and the fucked up family dynamics that follow. CW for incest, sexual assault, hate crimes, and several other weird ass things that happen in that book but I swear it is SO GOOD.
5. A book on my TBR: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. I have been wanting to read this book for ages but had never been able to get ahold of it, until I found it recently at a Goodwill for like two bucks. Now it's next on my list. What's better than magic, ghosts, and trans man protagonist??
6. A book I’ve put down: Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James. Now admittedly I ended up picking the series back up but these were truly a struggle to get through. I did it out of spite when I was in high school because I thought they were going to be terrible and I was right. Did I enjoy them? No. Do I regret reading them? Not really, mostly because they were inadvertently hilarious when they weren't supposed to be.
7. A book on my wishlist: Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies by Pamela Des Barres. It's a collection of interviews and such from groupies across time. I'm deeply fascinated by the groupies of past stars and how strange the relationships these fans had with them were.
8. A book I’d give to a friend: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I read this book in the height of my Les Mis era and let me tell you... it helped morph my brain into what it is today. That book is SO GOOD. It's a classic queer book at this point, I think everyone should pick it up if they like gay shit and Greek mythos.
9. A book of poetry or lyrics I own: I think it's required by law in Maryland to own at least one book of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, and I think I might own two.
10. A nonfiction book that I own: Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture by Trevor Kelley and Leslie Simon. I picked this up years ago in a thrift store and it is hysterical - a good mix of the truth while poking fun at itself as well. Satire at its best.
11. What I’m currently reading: I've been on a brain break for a hot second, but the next thing I'm picking up is probably Grady Hendrix's How to Sell a Haunted House.
12. What I’m planning on reading next: After reading the mentioned above book, I'll admittedly probably go back and read The Final Girl Support Group book again because this reminded me how much I fucking loved that book. If it's not that, I'll probably end up reading 100K+ word fanfiction, which is sort of like a book.
Also tagging: I'm scared of tagging actual people but please feel free to do this and tag me as if I tagged you :)
