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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚

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Queer English Major She/They 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇺🇦 Ban book bans Book thrifter at Dollartree Goodwill & Thriftbooks Support & read BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, & indie authors Genre Jumper 📚🗡️🌎🩸🖋️⚡💡🪐 Someday Author app.thestorygraph.com/profile/vixusg

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 18h

Melissa review:
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/6dc5...

Tender is the Flesh review:
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e82f...

Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 18h

What a contrast in books. I finished Melissa, a young girls quest to play Charlotte in Charlotte's Web and the obstacles that prevent her because she's perceived as a boy, 4.5⭐. Tender is the Flesh, explores the most depraved parts of humanity and what it means to be hungry and human, 4.25⭐.

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Book: Melissa by Alex Gino. Rainbow lettering on a white background, with a child peeking through the A.

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 1d

I finished Melissa too, reviews up tomorrow

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 1d

Just when I think it can't get any worse, it does. 😭 Finished but at what cost. Holy shit.

Picture of a book: Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica. With matching bookmark on top and colorful pens next to it

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 2d

There's a prequel?? I'm so glad you told me so I can reserve it after Elatsoe, thank you!

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 2d

Here's my current reads! I'm also reading Sailor Moon on the side but I think I'm going to finish Melissa and maybe Tender is the Flesh today, we'll see!

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Current Reads: Melissa by Alex Gino 68%, Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica 34%, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V E Schwab 25%, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline 7%. Up Next: What Move the Dead by T. Kingfisher, Elatso by Darcie Little Badger.

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 2d

That's amazing, I can't wait to read it!

Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 2d

When can we read it?? 👀

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 2d

They were wonderful!

Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 3d

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 3d

I read some really great books over the last month, here's all my stars! If you want to see my reviews for these books you can check out my StoryGraph. I will be going back to the DNF to immersive read (audio along was too difficult for me)

What have your favorite books been this month?

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Text on light blue background "Reading Wrap Up." Books include: The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall, Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, Witchlings By Claribel A Ortega, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes, Cemetary Boys by Aiden Thomas, and Creep by Myriam Gurba. There is also a DNF'd book: Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia.

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 9d

Easily my favorite book of the year, a 5 ⭐ read for me. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer talks about reciprocity in a consumer world. I highly recommend this short read.

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The Serviceberry: Abundance and reciprocity in the natural world by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Author of Braiding Sweetgrass. Simple tan background with a watercolor illustration of birds, serviceberries, and leaves.

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · 14d

I managed to pick up some real gems this last September, I'm so excited to read them. I've got some pretty big updates in terms of what I've read so far, especially now that I'm using Libby too, coming soon!

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Two stacks of books. Left stack: The serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, the spirit bares it's teeth by Andrew Joseph White, what feasts at night by T Kingfisher, Solito by Javier Zamora, Sing me to sleep by Gabi Burton, Blood Moon by Britney S Lewis, The Last Tiger by Julia & Brad Riew, They bloom at night by Trang Thanh Tran, You weren't meant to be human by Andrew Joseph White.

Right stack: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavelle, Faebound by Saara El-Arifi, the sun eater trials by Aiden Thomas, Brother by Ania Ahlborn, What stalks the deep by T Kingfisher, Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas, Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, 107 Days by Kamala Harris, the night eaters by Marjorie Liu and Santa Takeda, the phantom of the opera graphic novel by Varga Tomi.

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · Sep 21

You can read my reviews here, although they're not as long and detailed as I usually try to be.

Fox & I
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8da2...

The Bluest Eye
app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/3ab2...

Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · Sep 21

Finished two books this week:

Fox & I by Catherine Raven If Thoreau had a degree in biology & made friends with a fox. This I rated 3.75⭐
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison that tells the story of Pecola & her trauma with abuse & a society that prioritizes white beauty which I rated 4.75⭐

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Book cover: Fox and I, An uncommon Friendship by Catherine Raven.

Book cover: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · Sep 17

Here are the 6 books I picked up

List of audiobooks: The witch and the vampire by Francesca Flores, the hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley, I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman, The Floating World by Axie Oh, The Cemetary of Untold stories by Julia Alvarez, and We Will be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson.

Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · Sep 17

You can also get 3 credits when you sign up for a new membership with the code SWITCH. Which means you can get 6 audiobooks for the price of 1. Thanks to @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social for posting this on her Tiktok, I finally made the switch from Audible to Libro!

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · Sep 16

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · Sep 16

Haven't posted in a while but I'm still reading! I went and picked up some books today. I got very lucky and grabbed the only copy left of Among the Burning Flower and Fable at the End of the World!

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Stack of books from top to bottom: Fable at the end of the world by Ava Reid, When the tides held the moon by Vanessa Vida Kelley, I am the dark by Jamison Shea, Bat Eater and other names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker, and Among the burning flowers by Samantha Shannon.

Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · Sep 15

If you don't have empathy in life, you'll never get my sympathy in death and that's all there really is to it.

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew @benjanun.bsky.social · Jun 11

Damn okay.

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · Jun 10

SO, I made a discord server for a new banned book club! A bit late in the month but we're reading Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas this month. We've got a book related Q's, banned book resources, a writing corner, & memes!

If anyone would like to join us, here's the link:
buff.ly/FekcbyC

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Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · Jun 1

Now that I have finished school (and graduated), I finally have more free time! I can go back to posting, yay! I have a book club to share with you guys later!

Ash 🏳️‍🌈📚 @vixusg.bsky.social · Jun 1

This looks so sick! I can't wait to read it!

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Bijhan Agha @bijhan.bsky.social · May 30

I'm a disabled trans author living with food insecurity.

Please back my Kickstarter comic, Kobra Olympus #3.

It's a standalone story about a transbian Muslim superhero wrestling with daily life and a Vampiric conspiracy who gets tech and info from the future.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...

On the left is the cover of Kobra Olympus Issue #3. On the right is a comic page from that comic. From the script:

PAGE 8 - PANEL A
Kobra is in a new place, without the tupperware. There is a tree on the left, and the side of a building on the right. She is using her phone.

SFX: BEEP

KOBRA ACTIVATES A SECRET APP ON HER PHONE . . .

PAGE 8 - PANEL B
Contiguous. Kobra is leaping up into the tree. Her phone is put away, and her left hand is now “Tha-ified”.

SFX: HUP

NANITES COME OUT OF HER CELL . . .

PAGE 8 - PANEL C
Contiguous. Kobra is bouncing off the tree toward the building. Her left arm is now fully “Tha-ified”.

SFX: HUP

TRANSFORMING HER INTO . . .

PAGE 8 - PANEL D
Kobra/Tha is leaping up into the rooftops. On her left (our right) she is “Tha-ified”; the opposite side is her regular Kobra self. We’re looking up at her as she jumps over our point of view. In the upper right hand corner the moon peeks out from behind the buildings.

. . . AGENT THA!

PAGE 8 - PANEL E
We’re looking at the back of Agent Tha, who is now fully transformed with her cape unfurling. She’s leaping from a short rooftop to a higher rooftop, with a high rise building in the background.

SFX: HUP

THE NANITE SUIT ENHANCES HER NATURAL ATHLETICISM!

PAGE 8 - PANEL F
Tha is finally revealed to anyone reading this as their first comic, standing proud while surrounded by tall buildings, the moon in the upper righthand corner, and a troubled stormy sky above her. She is posing like a real hero, her cape flapping in the wind.

SHE IS THE ENEMY OF EVIL!

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