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Currently reading No.6 novels and I have a very important question

Does anyone get Nezumi×Shion vibes from Silver Spoon by Erin LeCount

Like this:

And I bet you grew up eating at the table Fed love from silver spoons, reasons to be grateful You ask about kids, I don't know if I'm able I bet you grew up being asked how your day was

And this

You were kind, I was cruel In another life, maybe I was you And I grew up into something good Somebody who could swallow love, oh

I only have 2 volumes in, but I have strong vibes. Also, every chapter is soooooo long. Like at least 18 pages

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While I stared at my ridiculously tall currently reading book stack, I started wondering what kind of readers other people are. (I’m clearly a mood reader).

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🩵 Trans & Nonbinary Books to Watch for in 2025

🏳️‍⚧️ I'm so excited for these trans and nonbinary books that are coming out over the next few months! These stories are diverse, heartfelt, and important. Let's all support and amplify trans, nonbinary, and queer voices in 2025. 🏳️‍🌈

💜 Please remember that we see you, and love you exactly for who you are.

❓Which of these books caught your eye first?

🩷 Please help me by liking and reblogging this post to ensure it reaches people who need it now more than ever!

🩷 We Are Villains - Kacen Callender 🩵 Notes From a Regicide - Isaac R. Fellman 💜 So Many Stars - Caro De Robertis 💛 In Case You Read This - Edward Underhill 🩷 Hot Girls With Balls - Benedict Nguyễn 🩵 Glitch Girl! - Rainie Oet 💜 These Vengeful Gods - Gabe Cole Novoa 💛 A Gentleman's Gentleman - TJ Alexander 🩷 The In-Between Bookstore - Edward Underhill

🩵 My Best Friend's Honeymoon - Meryl Wilsner 💜 Costumes for Time Travelers - A.R. Capetta 💛 Paper Doll - Dylan Mulvaney 🩷 Marsha - Tourmaline 🩵 Trans History - Alex L. Combs & Andrew Eakett 💜 And They Were Roommates - Page Powars 💛 Beyond They/Them - Em Dickson & Cameron Mukwa 🩷 Stag Dance - Torrey Peters 🩵 The Build-a-Boyfriend Project - Mason Deaver

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Unpopular Opinion: Reading spoilers before starting a book actually makes it more enjoyable. (Yes, I wanna be emotionally prepared! 😭)

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Reading is political and it always has been. Here are some of the classic books on the banned list that you should definitely check out.

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💙💜💖 Bi Books Coming Out January 2025

💖💜💙 Hey there, beloved bookish bats! Here are a few bisexual books coming out in December that would make fabulous additions to your never-ending TBR! Happy reading!

💙 I apologize for any discrepancies. Publishing days are subject to change.

💖 For One Night Only - Jessica James 💜 Love on the Sunny Side - Cozy DuBois 💜 The Afterdark - E. Latimer 💙 Build a Girlfriend - Elba Luz

💖 Vessel of Shadows - Rowan Redfield 💜 Goaltender Interference - Ari Baran 💜 Virulence - Toni Duarte 💙 In Love and Death - Aldrea Alien

💖 Tavern Tale - Kristina W. Kelly 💜 A Spark of Something - Shelby Rhodes 💜 Tarnished - Erica Rose Eberhart 💙 An Honored Vow - Melissa Blair

💖 Kissed and Missed - Cleo White 💜 Unromance by Erin Connor 💜 Dawn of the Obsidian Sun - R.N. Barbosa 💙 A Traitorous Heart - Erin Cotter

💖 The Broposal - Sonora Reyes 💜 This Feast of a Life - Cynthia So

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Finished reading this book last night and all I can say is wow. Definitely a 5/5 stars⭐️. Meddling kids follows three main characters: Andy, Nate, and Kerri, along with their dog, Tim, as they travel back to Blyton Hills to open an old case they solved on Sleepy Lake when the were 11 years old. Left with deep mental scars, the gang of 20 something year olds must discover if they caught the true bad guy 13 years ago, or if something even more sinister still lurks there. This book is a mix of Scooby-Doo, Stranger Things, and H. P. Lovecraft. I deeply enjoyed the mix of horror/suspense and the small bits of comedy thrown into this book. While reading it, you think that it’s just a mystery about resolving past issues and unmasking the bad guy, but as you get closer to the end, you realize that when you face the past, it’s usually not a masked man.

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Staring this year with "The book of Non-Binary Joy" by Ben Pechey

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faves of 2023: YA contemporary fantasy/paranormal

The Feast Makers

The Spider and her Demons

Every Gift a Curse

Monstrous

Zombabe

All That Consumes Us

Sixteen Souls

The Buried and the Bound

The Memory Eater

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💜 Queer Fairytale Retellings

🌙 Good afternoon, my beloved bookish bats. For many of us, fairytales were our first introduction to the fantasy & romantasy genres. Here are a few queer fairytale retellings filled with magic, mischief, & mayhem that are bound to enchant your heart.

✨ The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller 🌙 The Nightmare Verse Series - LL McKinney ✨ Icarus - K. Ancrum 🌙 A Clash of Steel - CB Lee ✨ Cinderella is Dead - Kalynn Bayron 🌙 The Fox Maidens - Robin Ha ✨ Briar Girls - Rebecca Kim Wells 🌙 Beast - Brie Spangler ✨ Malice - Heather Walter

🌙 The Witch and the Vampire - Francesca Flores ✨ Gwen & Art Are Not in Love - Lex Croucher 🌙 The Magic Fix - Trung Le Nguyen ✨ Not Good for Maidens - Tori Bovalino 🌙 Relit - Various ✨ Tink and Wendy - Kelly Ann Jacobso 🌙 Hunting Monsters - S.L. Huang ✨ Burning Roses - S.L. Huang 🌙 Caged Bird Rising - Nino Delia

✨ Summer in the City of Roses - Michelle Ruiz Keil 🌙 A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams - Dax Murray ✨ Girl, Serpent, Thorn - Melissa Bashardoust 🌙 Winterglass - Benjanun Sriduangkaew ✨ Robber Girl - S.T. Gibson 🌙 Ash - Malinda Lo ✨ Sword In The Stars - Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy 🌙 Darling - K. Ancrum ✨ Girls Made of Snow and Glass - Melissa Bashardoust

🌙 Dark And Deepest Red - Anna-Marie McLemore ✨ Ghost Wood Song - Erica Waters 🌙 His Hideous Heart - Various ✨ The Bone Spindle - Leslie Vedder 🌙 Legendborn By Tracey Deonn ✨ The Midnight Girls - Alicia Jasinska 🌙 Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao ✨ The Mercies - Kiran Millwood Hargrave 🌙 She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

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She's Always Hungry: Stories by Eliza Clark

Release date: 12 November 2024

Genre: adult horror/weird fiction short story collection

Synopsis

Moving from California to Newcastle, from Frontier-era America to an unexplored planet in the near future, from a pub down the road to an incel-occupied office IT department, She’s Always Hungry revels in every aspect of being human.

Unsettling, revelatory, and laced with her signature dark humor, Eliza Clark's debut short story collection plumbs the depths of that most basic human feeling: hunger.

Review

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC!

These stories range from straightforward to weird to weirder.

Usually, I find that short story collections will inevitably have a few duds, but I enjoyed everything in this collection.

A lot of these stories are written in a darkly humorous tone, which threw me off initially, but it really grew on me. I love the contrast between the tone and the contents of the stories.

My favourites were the scifi horror stories Hollow Bones and Extinction Event. After reading these I went to double check if the author had written any full length scifi books because these were soo good. Like, these aren't groundbreaking, but the author introduces them in a way that makes it easy to quickly grasp, and she creates an atmosphere that is truly chilling.

I have to mention Shake Well, which legit gave me the creeps. It's like sort of mundane and also sort of horrifying, with the body horror in this being the most unnerving to me from this collection, possibly because it hits a little closer to home.

I am also obsessed with The King, which is an absurd genderbent incel power fantasy. I think people might hate this story, but the absurdity of it, plus the writing style, was so ridiculously entertaining. I also liked the cannibalism and gore.

There's a content guide at the back of my eARC, which is much appreciated, as some of these stories can be quite dark/gory, and the content guide covers the necessary warnings in detail.

Overall, the writing is engaging and accessible, and there's something for everyone. I will definitely check out the author's other works.

Content Guide

These are screenshots from the content guide, which covers the content warnings for each story in depth.

Some of them are spoilery, but if you need to be warnings for certain topics, especially for body image issues, eating disorders, sexual assault, or gore/body horror, I would advise checking the guide.

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She sat in a classroom full of her contemporaries, looking like everything was the same as usual, but inside she was standing in a forest screaming until her heart burst.

"Anxious People" Fredrik Backman

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No one can really explain, either before or after, what makes a teenager stop wanting to be alive. It just hurts so much at times, being human. Not understanding yourself, not liking the body you’re stuck in. Seeing your eyes in the mirror and wondering whose they are, always with the same question: “What’s wrong with me? Why do I feel like this?”

"Anxious People" Fredrik Backman

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The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.

"Anxious People" Fredrik Backman

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But we weren’t ready to become adults. Someone should have stopped us.

"Anxious People" Fredrik Backman

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Because the terrible thing about becoming an adult is being forced to realize that absolutely nobody cares about us, we have to deal with everything ourselves now, find out how the whole world works.

"Anxious People" Fredrik Backman