#Hannah E. Meyers

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Hannah E. Meyers

Published; Jan 2, 2025

In the early hours of New Year’s Day, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran from Houston, plowed his rented truck through revelers on New Orleans’s Bourbon Street. Then he jumped out and initiated the shootout that ended his life, wounding two police officers. Police found an ISIS flag, weapons, and an improvised explosive device in Jabbar’s pick-up truck, along with two more IEDs in the area. Jabbar’s attack left at least 14 dead and dozens more hurt.

The FBI now believes that Jabbar probably acted alone. And officials have found no link between his attack and the suicidal explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas hours later—an attack also apparently committed by a military veteran. In a video posted to social media before the attack, Jabbar expressed a “desire to kill” and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. He originally considered inviting his entire family to a “celebration” and massacring them before choosing to attack strangers in New Orleans instead.

In many ways, Jabbar fits the decades-old mold of a homegrown extremist. His life wasn’t going great: two divorces and a failing business left him cash-strapped and sounding desperate in correspondence with lawyers. One of his exes stopped allowing him to see their shared daughters. Jabbar’s religious observance became increasingly “radical,” and he kept largely to himself. It’s a familiar portrait.

What these incidents suggest is a growing lack of awareness and care by American citizens and institutions. We have lost much of the “see something, say something” mentality of the early post-9/11 era. This obliviousness is evident not only in our response to jihadi threats but also in our ignoring many criminal and anti-Semitic threats.

As I know from a decade spent studying, teaching, and working in counterterrorism, identifying and combating radicalization is frustrating and difficult work. The world is full of unstable individuals and brimming with jihadi rhetoric and literature.

We have yet to learn whether authorities missed any crucial signals leading up to Jabbar’s attack. But in our current relaxed milieu, it’s easy to imagine. We have convinced ourselves that vigilance is just another symptom of our Western privilege. This was evident in June, when we allowed pro-Hamas “protesters” to block gay pride marches from Boston to Philadelphia to Denver.

The sight of anyone flying the flag of a designated terror group in American streets warrants calling in a lead to law enforcement. There is no such thing as benign terror support. And while most of the deluded, ignorant anti-Zionist protesters who have waved Hamas or Hezbollah flags won’t go on to drive trucks into crowds, there is no way to find out who will without investigating.

Government officials have let down their guard. Last June, the Department of Homeland Security belatedly identified more than 400 migrants smuggled into the U.S. by an ISIS-affiliated network. Record-breaking illegal border crossings in recent years demonstrate a collapse of institutional vigilance.

We’ve also stopped responding to leads when it comes to ordinary criminal violence. Just two weeks before Darrell Brooks killed six people by driving through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 2021, he threatened, punched, and drove over his then-girlfriend. In 2020, Brooks had been charged with three felonies—including shooting at his own nephew—but was ultimately released on a cash bond of just $500. And this followed more than two decades of convictions, for which Brooks served minimal prison time and frequently received early release.

When the criminal-justice system ignores so many signs that someone is dangerous, it’s no wonder that citizens drop their guard, too. Recent weeks have seen several horrific New York City subway attacks by disturbed individuals. But New Yorkers have become so accustomed to erratic behavior underground—from fare evasion to drug use to physical assault—that most of these red flags also go unreported.

We have also stopped “saying something” when we “see something” anti-Semitic. Students at elite universities and high schools across the country have been subjected to hundreds of incidents of harassment over the past year just for the sin of being Jewish. Too many of us write off these incidents as mere “anti-Zionism.” And when such incidents do get reported, too many institutions—like the City University of New York—lack official policies recognizing them as anti-Semitism.

We’ve yet to learn the full story about the New Orleans and Las Vegas attacks. There may be good reasons for why these individuals slipped through the cracks. Still, the evidence of our indifference, public and institutional, to dangerous threats is too abundant to ignore. It is a recipe for more carnage in the future.

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One of the other obstacles in the way is that many institutions, including government and academia have been captured by intersectional ideology and are in full-blown denial.

[transmutationisms]

i think you do a really impressive job balancing comprehensive/concise while referencing a lot of complex frameworks(contexts? schools of thought? lol idk what to call that. big brain ideas) but if you have any readings specifically on the institution of psychiatry topic that you would recommend/think are relevant, I'd be interested. it's absolutely not a conversation that's being had enough and I want to be able to articulate myself around it

yes i have readings >:)

first of all, the anti-psychiatry bibliography and resource guide is a great place to start getting oriented in this literature. it's split by sub-topic, and there are paragraphs interspersed throughout that give summaries of major thinkers' positions and short intros to key texts.

it's from 1979, though, so here are some recs from the last 4 decades:

overview critiques

mind fixers: psychiatry's troubled search for the biology of mental illness, by anne harrington

psychiatric hegemony: a marxist theory of mental illness, by bruce m z cohen

desperate remedies: psychiatry's turbulent quest to cure mental illness, by andrew scull

psychiatry and its discontents, by andrew scull

madness is civilization: when the diagnosis was social, 1948–1980, by michael e staub

contesting psychiatry: social movements in mental health, by nick crossley

the dsm & pharmacy

dsm: a history of psychiatry's bible, by allan v horwitz

the dsm-5 in perspective: philosophical reflections on the psychiatric babel, by steeves demazeux & patrick singy

pharmageddon, by david healy

pillaged: psychiatric medications and suicide risk, by ronald w maris

the making of dsm-iii: a diagnostic manual's conquest of american psychiatry, by hannah s decker

the myth of the chemical cure: a critique of psychiatric drug treatment, by joanna moncrieff

the book of woe: the dsm and the unmaking of psychiatry, by gary greenberg

prozac on the couch: prescribing gender in the era of wonder drugs, by jonathan metzl

the creation of psychopharmacology, by david healy

the bitterest pills: the troubling story of antipsychotic drugs, by joanna moncrieff

psychiatry & race

the protest psychosis: how schizophrenia became a black disease, by jonathan metzl

administrations of lunacy: racism and the haunting of american psychiatry at the milledgeville asylum, by mab segrest

the peculiar institution and the making of modern psychiatry, 1840–1880, by wendy gonaver

what's wrong with the poor? psychiatry, race, and the war on poverty, by mical raz

national and cross-national contexts

mad by the millions: mental disorders and the early years of the world health organization, by harry yi-jui wu

psychiatry and empire, by sloan mahone & megan vaughan

ʿaṣfūriyyeh: a history of madness, modernity, and war in the middle east, by joelle m abi-rached

surfacing up: psychiatry and social order in colonial zimbabwe, 1908–1968, by lynette jackson

the british anti-psychiatrists: from institutional psychiatry to the counter-culture, 1960–1971, by oisín wall

crime, madness, and politics in modern france: the medical concept of national decline, by robert a nye

reasoning against madness: psychiatry and the state in rio de janeiro, 1830–1944, by manuella meyer

colonial madness: psychiatry in french north africa, by richard keller

madhouse: psychiatry and politics in cuban history, by jennifer lynn lambe

depression in japan: psychiatric cures for a society in distress, by junko kitanaka

inheriting madness: professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in 19th century france, by ian r dowbiggin

mad in america: bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill, by robert whitaker

[jessread-s]

What's your favorite book you've read so far?

Thank you so much for your ask! 🫶📖✨ Picking just one is impossible, so here are some of my favorites of all time (in no particular order - with my reviews linked):

Love Redesigned by Lauren Asher

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

The Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo

Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young

The Selection series by Kiera Cass

The Legendborn Cycle quartet by Tracy Deonn

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Once Upon a Broken Heart trilogy by Stephanie Garber

The Secret Shanghai series by Chloe Gong

Daydream by Hannah Grace

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The Legend quartet by Marie Lu

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas

The Assistant to the Villain series by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

The Dance of Thieves duology by Mary E. Pearson

The Letters of Enchantment duology by Rebecca Ross

Not Another Love Song by Julie Soto

The An Ember in the Ashes quartet by Sabaa Tahir

Pestilence by Laura Thalassa

You can find my complete list of favorites here.

[bookscorpion73]

books I read this year! Total: 66

A good girls guide to murder - Holly Jackson

2. good girl bad blood - Holly Jackson

3. the prisoners throne - Holly Black

4. These violent delights - Chloe Gong

5. our violent ends - Chloe Gong

6. kill joy - Holly Jackson

7. if you could see the sun - Ann Liang

8. assistant to the villain - Hannah Nicole Maehrer

9. dreadful - Caitlin Rozakis

10. as good as dead - Holly Jackson

11. firekeepers daughter - Angeline Boulley

12. the invisible life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab

13. Gallant - V. E. Schwab

14. the girl who fell beneath the sea - Axie Oh

15. Emily Wildes encyclopedia of faeries - Heather Fawcett

16. Destroy the day - Brigid Kemmerer

17. eragon - Christopher Paolini

18. Apprentice to the villain - Hannah Nicole Mather

19. a darker shade of magic - V. E. Schwab

20. a gathering of shadows - V. E. Schwab

21. a conjuring of light - V. E. Schwab

22. thieves’ gambit - Kayvion Lewis

23. the fragile threads of power - V. E. Schwab

24. a tempest of tea - Hafsah Faizal

25. hearts overboard - Becky Dean

26. lightlark - Alex Aster

27. Nightband - Alex Aster

28. legendborn - Tracy Deonn

29. Emily Wilde’s map of the other lands - Heather Fawcett

30. bloodmarked - Tracy Deonn

31. her radiant curse - Elizabeth Lim

32. the hazel wood - Melissa Albert

33. the boy who didn’t come home (the hazel wood 1.5) - Melissa Albert

34. I hope this doesn’t find you - Ann Liang

35. the kamogawa food detectives - Hisashi Kashiwai

36. what you are looking for is in the library- Michiko Aoyama

37. wrath of the triple goddess - Rick Riordan

38. stars and smoke - Marie Lu

39. love and other great expectations - Becky Dean

40. icon and inferno - Marie Lu

41. realm breaker - Victoria Aveyard

42. happily never after - Lynn Painter

43. Mr. Wrong number - Lynn Painter

44. the do-over - Lynn Painter

45. this savage song - V. E. Schwab

46. our dark duet - V. E. Schwab

47. the American roommate experiment - Elena Armas

48. the odyssey- homer

49. accidentally Amy - Lynn Painter

50. the restaurant of lost recipes - Hisashi Kashiwai

51. betting on you - Lynn Painter

52. the poppy war - R. F. Kuang

53. not in love - Ali Hazelwood

54. Meet me in the margins - Melissa Ferguson

55. shipped - Angie Hoffman

56. not in love by Ali Hazelwood

57. save the cat writes a young adult novel by Jessica Brody

58. 100 days of sunlight by Abbie Emmons

59. this time it’s real by Ann Liang

60. I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki by Baek Se-hee

61. better than the movies by Lynn Painter

62. Spectacular by Stephanie Garber

63. Heartless by Marissa Meyer

64. Dungeons and Drama By Kristy Boyce

65. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

66. Nothing Like The Movies by Lynn Painter

[villainousauthor]

Favorite reads of 2024

Apprentice to the Villain - Hannah Nicole Maehrer

I have no mouth and I must scream - Harlan Elison

Twisted Games - Ana Huang

The Housemaid - Frieda McFadden

Renegades - Marissa Meyer

Into the Drowning Deep - Mira Grant

Between Love and Loathing- Shain Rose

Least favorite reads of 2024

What Lies Beyond the Veil - Harper L Woods (Dnf at 60%)

Illusions of Grandeur - Kathryn Ann Kingsley

Once You're Mine - Morgan Bridges (Dnf 30%)

Wisteria - Adalyn Grace

2025 TBR

Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots

Parasite - Mira Grant

Swordheart - T. Kingfisher

Vengeful- Victoria E. Schwab

Bunny - Mona Awad

Catherine House - Elisabeth Thomas

The Deep - Nick Cutter

More Ana Huang

[kenna-is-reading]

Kennaisreading's Fall TBR/Recs

Dear Readers,

Happy Mid-August!

Now typically I steadfastly refuse to begin any sort of autumnal celebration until 12:01am on September 1st, but I am trying to plan ahead for my reading for the remainder of this year. This month has truly been sipped away like a bottle of wine, if you will, and preparing to lock in for fall classes has made me more ready to get into the upcoming season. Therefore, here is my long-awaited, (unsolicited), perfectly realistic (desperately ambitious) TBR for the months of September and October!

Fantasy

The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde (Find my Pinterest board for this book here).

2. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Don't kill me! I have never read the Twilight series. You got me. But I did purchase every single book in the series a few months ago, and plan to quickly amend this personal shortcoming by reading as much of the series as I possibly can this fall.

3. Harry Potter

I have only ever read the first 4 books, but I once again recently bought the whole series. (Rest assured that I bought every single book secondhand so as to not give any support to that author.) I read the first four in late middle school/early high school, so I am glad to be getting that same nostalgic feeling that people who read these books in elementary get.

4. Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

I have heard great things, and I am expecting great things.

5. The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

I was actually like 30% of the way through this book a couple of years ago and was loving everything about it, but simply didn't have time to finish. It seems like the perfect fall read, so I am looking forward to this one a lot, especially as I reenter the university scene.

6. The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi

Another one I have heard wonderful things about. I hear it has a great found family, which we all know is my most favorite trope of all time, so I hope it lives up to the hype!

7. Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

Excited to be the last person on earth to read this series. Seemed like a cozy fairy-tale-esque fantasy to read for fall.

8. The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

I read Ashley Poston's Once Upon A Con series in middle school and loved it, and I've heard nothing but rave reviews about her adult releases, so I have high hopes for this. The vibes seem perfect for fall.

9. The Stolen Heir Duology by Holly Black

Binged the original FotA trilogy in November 2020 when I was sick and delusional from Covid, so I am prepared to take on this duology perfectly well and in my right mind.

10. Powerless by Lauren Roberts

PRAYING y'all are telling the truth about how good this is. I need another fantasy series hyperfixation!!!

11. The Kiss of Deception by Margaret E Pearson

So excited to get into this whole universe. I was convinced to read this series by queen Sunny Kim (@ sunnykimreads on YouTube take your butt to her channel and subscribe NEOW!) and I trust her with my life so let's go!

12. Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

One thing about me I am a sucker for a villain and I did not hesitate to buy this without looking up a singular comment or review.

13. Lightlark by Alex Aster

Heard mixed reviews on this one, so I have to see for myself!

14. Stars & Smoke by Marie Lu

Marie Lu raised me, schooled me, packed my lunches, sent me to college, and is one of the reasons I write. I am so late to this release but SO stoked to read it! What do y'all know about the Legend trilogy and also the Young Elites and also Warcross!!! Get into those!

15. Fable by Adrienne Young

Once again, miss Sunny Kim's love for the prequel novel of this series was influential enough to make me want to read the whole thing.

16. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

The aesthetic of this book, as well as that cover, made me SO excited to pick this up! Another great fantasy that looks perfect for fall.

17. Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli

Expecting enemies to lovers fantasy greatness from this based on what I've been told!

18. Swordcatcher by Cassandra Clare

So excited to read my first non-Shadowhunter Cassie book! I love her writing and always get so attached to her characters, plus I met her at the event I went to for this book, so I'm biased.

19. Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

DID SOMEBODY SAY LIBRARY??? Sign me up!

20. The Infernal Devices Trilogy by Cassandra Clare

Now you know it is not autumn or winter if I do not reread the best series of all time! If you have not read the Infernal Devices (Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, Clockwork Princess), then GET in the car and GET to your local library. And if you're like me and your brain won't let you read stuff out of order, then get through those first 3 Mortal Instruments books (City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass) ASAP! I PROMISE it's worth it! Shadowhunters is such a wonderful universe I could cry. TID contains the best love triangle ever written, and I don't even like love triangles. At all. This series is truly my everything and I think about it every day without fail. There's nothing left to say but Pick This Series Up if you haven't! Perfection for fall reading!

Mystery/Fiction

1 Karen M McManus

I have read One of Us is Lying, The Cousins, and You'll Be the Death of Me and enjoyed all of those, so this fall I am hoping to get through One of Us is Next, Two Can Keep A Secret, Nothing More to Tell, and One of Us is Back.

2. Enola Holmes by Nancy Springer

I love the Enola Holmes movies (putting Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin in the same film right in front of my eyes was crazy work actually), so I read the first book back in winter. I'm looking forward to reading this middle-grade mystery series, because it's something I've lacked since I was much younger!

3. Reign by Katherine McGee

I have procrastinated finishing the American Royals series for such a long time because if it does not end the way I hope it will, I might lose my mind a little. Loved the drama in these books.

4. Games Untold by Her Royal Majesty Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I am reading the Grandest Game right now, and it has only confirmed that the best place to be in life is sitting somewhere binging a JLB book at breakneck speed. This is what life and writing and literature and reading are all about. I was lucky enough to get to meet Jennifer on the book tour for TGG less than 2 weeks ago, and it was such a wonderful time. I cannot wait to read these novellas about my beloved TIG characters even though this book comes out in November and this is technically a Sept/Oct list.

5. We Were Liars by e. lockhart

You know it. You love it. Or you hate it. Either way, I haven't read it yet, and I must decide for myself.

6. The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Every tongue that rises against JLB shall fall, and this is the last book of hers I have to read.

Romance

Fall is when I'm locking in on SPORTS ROMANCEEEE!!!

Whether you love it or hate it, sports romance is one of the most popular current genres out there, and I love picking up football and hockey romances when football and hockey season returns. I forced myself to leave 2 Elle Kennedy hockey books for myself to read in fall when hockey comes back, and I cannot wait.

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

I have never read a Mariana Zapata book, so I am excited to see what all the commotion is about.

2. Daydream by Hannah Grace

I <3 Henry and that is all I have to say on the matter.

3. Heartstopper v5

Heartstopper is such a cute and cozy series, so I will be finally picking up the most recent volume this fall.

4. Flawless by Elsie Silver

I am finally diving in to the Elsiverse! I wanna join in on the cowboy summer movement, I just haven't had time! So it is henceforth going to be Yeehaw Fall.

5. Unsteady by Corinne Peyton

Another Sunny Kim rec that I need to get my hands on immediately.

6. The Wingman by Stephanie Archer

Get into the Vancouver Storm series if you haven't!!! The Fake Out was one of the best hockey romances I've ever read in my life. I am SO READY for this book!

7. Offside by Avery Keelan

Has been on my KU TBR forever and a day. Will be devouring as many hockey romances as possible I fear.

Recs!!!

Now that we've covered the books I'm planning to read this fall, most of which I've never read, let's get into what YOU should read this fall!

Fantasy

ACOTAR by Sarah J Maas

I had to get this one out of the way if you somehow have never read ACOTAR. I think it's written somewhere in my nonexistent reader/blogger contract that I must mention this. Fall and winter are a perfect time to dive into this universe and hop on this bandwagon.

2. The Grishaverse by Leigh Bardugo

Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows duology, if you somehow have not heard of them, are excellent. Or if you have heard of them and haven't read, take this obscure blog post as your sign to pick them up! This universe is so immersive and amazing when you don't have somebody in your ear whining about ship wars. I had a book hangover for weeks my freshman year after finishing these books, which I hardly ever get, but I still think about them regularly to this day.

3. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

There is nothing remotely fall-like about these books at all, but if you're looking for a fantasy series with a found family and fairy-tale callbacks, get into Cinder! Truly such a beloved and nostalgic series to me. I am in the process of rereading them, and I absolutely love the characters so much. For being considered a "classic YA throwback series", we really don't talk about it enough.

4. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

LOOK UP TRIGGER WARNINGS! This is an adult novel that deals with some very dark themes, so be aware of that going in. A lot of dark academia/fantasy/mystery vibes going on here, but definitely read at your discretion.

5. The Cruel Prince Trilogy by Holly Black (Folk of the Air)

Perfect fall fantasy vibes, enemies to lovers, pretty quick reads. There's a lot of politics involved in this series, and a very immersive setting, in my opinion. You kind of have to get past the "hey what is going on btw" and just go with it! Great reads.

6. Sisters of the Salt Duology by Erin A Craig

House of Salt and Sorrows and House of Roots and Ruin are wonderful spooky fantasy books to get you through the fall/winter. A murderous retelling of the 12 Dancing Princesses set in a seaside manor with a horror twist! I loved it simply for how unique and original the plot was (despite it obviously being a retelling, it was just a fresh take okay?).

7. Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare

Just trust me, okay? They really are amazing. I'll give you the reading order; don't be intimidated I know it's a lot of books just walk with me.

8. Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

YA fantasy that I read in a day and really enjoyed. It is a Beauty and the Beast retelling; arranged marriage enemies to lovers vibes.

9. The Beautiful Quartet by Renee Ahdieh

VAMPIRES! In New Orleans! In 1872! That is all I shall say as I have not finished the series yet!

10. Kerri Maniscalco

Her books are perfect for fall, whether you pick up the Kingdom of the Wicked series or, my personal favorite, the Stalking Jack the Ripper series. These have mystery, supernatural elements, fantasy, and romance, so there's something for everyone.

11. A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

This is another Beauty and the Beast retelling, and the perfect fantasy series for fall and winter.

12. Caraval by Stephanie Garber

Excellent fantasy for fall and I know I keep saying that, but this series just screams October to me; idk why.

13. Three Dark Crowns Series by Kendare Blake

SOOOO not talked about enough. I loved this series when I read it. It is spooky and dark, with really interesting female characters set in a very intriguing matriarchal setting.

Classics

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Greatest love story of all time literally I wish Gilbert Blythe was real! Wholesome, dreamlike, cozy series perfect for fall. I have never loved a classic more. And when you're done reading, you get the pleasure of going to watch the 1985 movies starring Megan Follows and Jonathan Crombie. This book literally gave us the "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers" quote like come on!

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

I read this book once in middle school and it was the only thing I ever genuinely enjoyed reading for school. This was the original Knives Out/Inheritance Games I fear.

Mysteries

1 Charlotte Holmes Series by Brittany Cavallaro

2. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

3. The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4. The Naturals Series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

5. The Debutantes Duology by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

6. The Dead Queen's Club by Hannah Capin

Romances

Off-Campus/Briar U Series by Elle Kennedy

Hockey Romance Essential Viewing

2. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

For nostalgic fall vibes

3. Once Upon A Con Series by Ashley Poston

4. Vancouver Storm Series by Stephanie Archer

Fiction

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Mother Daughter Book Club Series by Heather Vogel Frederick (Middle grade but please read it anyway)

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Another middle grade for nostalgic vibes

And that is it! The longest discussion about fall books I've ever done. If you have any other recommendations please feel free to let me know! As you can see my TBR is obviously not at all long enough.....

Anyway! Thank you so much for reading, and definitely let me know what you are reading this fall if you feel like it/if you even care fr omg. I hope y'all have a fantastic end of summer and that you're ready to have an amazing, vibey Gilmore Girls-esque autumn! Queuing up the Norah Jones as we speak, and until the next time I find time to scribble my literary thoughts down!

Xoxo,

Kenna

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[sapphicmsmarvel]

2023 reading catalog

January

a million to one by adiba jaigirdar 💜

Iron widow by xiran jay zhao 💜

An encore of roses by st gibson 💜

Im a therapist and my patient is going to be the next school shooter by Dr. Harper 💜

I’m a therapist and my patient is in love with a pedophile by Dr. Harper 💜

I’m a therapist and my patient is a vegan terrorist by Dr. Harper 💜

The disturbing incident at lonesome woods boarding school by dr. harper 💜

One dark window by rachel gillig 

February 

The twisted dead by darcy coates 

The house across the lake by riley sager 

Renegades by marissa meyer 🤍

Archenemies by marissa meyer 🤍

Supernova by marissa meyer 🤍

Daisy darker by alice feeney 

March 

The lost apothecary by susan penner 

MHA 37 by kohei horikoshi 

The pronoun lowdown by nevo zisin 

The queen's english by chloe o davis

MHA team up 1 by kohei horikoshi and yoko akiyama 

To make monsters out of girls by amanda lovelace 

MHA team up 2 by kohei horikoshi and yoko akiyama 

JJK 0 by gege akutami 

MHA team up 3 by kohei horikoshi and yoko akiyama 

Hell bent by leigh bardugo 

Spice road by maiya ibrahim 

The stardust thief by chelsea abdullah 

The london seance society by susan penner 💜

All the dangerous things by stacy willingham 

April 

The fae princes by nikki st crowe 

Carnage by sarah bailey 

Final offer by lauren asher. 

Glitch by briana michaels 

Never lie by frieda mcfadden 

The locked door by frieda mcfadden 

The inheritance by cassie cole 

Emily wildes encyclopedia of faeries by heather fawcett 

 The stolen heir by holly black 

May 

Chaos by sarah bailey 

Corrode by sarah bailey 

Cataclysm by sarah bailey 

Howl's moving castle by diana wynne jones 

Fourth wing by rebecca yarros 

Cursed crowns by catherine doyle + katherine webber 

Girls of fate and fury by natasha ngan 💜

We free the stars by hafsah faizal 

A war of two queens by jennifer l armentrout 

The crown of gilded bones by jennifer l armentrout 🤍

Malice by heather walter 💜

Misrule by heather walter 💜

June 

MHA vol 38 by kohei horikoshi 

Sofi and the bone song by adrienne tooley 

jjk vol 21 by gege akutami 

jjk vol 22 by gege akutami 

lore olympus vol 4 by rachel smythe 

the fiancee farce by alexandria bellefleur 💜

the only survivors by megan miranda 

what lies in the woods by kate alice marshall 

the last word by taylor adams 

you’re invited by amanda jayatissa 

ward d by freida mcfadden 

once returned by darcy coates 

double pucked by lauren blakely 

mated to the monster by sarah spade 

July

the thicket by noelle w ihli 

the good lie by ar torre

a naughty lesson by mika lane 

love creekwood by becky albertalli 💜

the heartstopper yearbook by alice oseman 💜

demon in the wood by leigh bardugo and dani pendergast 

the young elites by marie lu 

nick and charlie by alice oseman 💜

a haunted road atlas by christine schiefer and em schulz 

the rose society by marie lu 

the midnight star by marie lu 

a wicked education by mika lane 

a sinful classroom by mika lane 

the girl from the sea by molly knox ostertag 💜

August

how to sell a haunted house by grady hendrix 

the foxglove king by hannah whitten 

seven faceless saints by mk lobb 💜

divine rivals by rebecca ross 

sing me to sleep by gabi burton 

silver in the bone by alexandra bracken 

foxglove by adalyn grace 

assistant to the villain by hannah nicole maehrer 

September

a broken blade by melissa blair 

bonesmith by nicki pau preto 

the angelmaker by alex north 

the family across the street by nicole trope 

October 

the sun and the star by rick riordan and mark oshiro 💜

lore olympus vol 5 by rachel smythe 

the chalice of the gods by rick riordan 

fangs by sarah anderson 

throne of the fallen by kerri maniscalco 

kingdom of the wicked by kerri maniscalco 🤍

kingdom of the cursed by kerri mansicalco 🤍

kingdom of the feared by kerri maniscalco 🤍

the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon 💜

catwoman soulstealer by louise simonson, samantha dodge and sarah j maas

starling house by alix e harrow 

November 

savage hate by amanda richardson 

a curse for true love by stephanie garber 

forged by blood by ehigbor okosun 

if i have to be haunted by miranda sun 

heart trick by kristen granata 

the legacy by elle kennedy 

odd man rush by kristen granata 💜

that one night by emily rath 

pucking around by emily rath 💜

pucking ever after vol 1 by emily rath 💜

iron flame by rebecca yarros 

my hero academia team up missions vol 4 by yoko akiyama and koehi horikoshi 

December 

spin the bottle by stephanie alves 

as good as dead by holly jackson 

the lightning thief by rick riordan 🤍

the sea of monsters by rick riordan 🤍

i am not your final girl by claire c holland 

the titans curse by rick riordan 🤍

the battle of the labyrinth by rick riordan 🤍

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Kiss me like you do

by, Mavkediemackmack by Mavkediemackmack Idk the title is totally random bit it just spring to mind so deal with it idc. Just some fluff and maybe even some smut parts. Maybe something else idk yet. Just i have to many ideas to keep to myself so i took it on me to show then to you. Words: 387, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies (1992) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi, Other Characters: Annie Kelly, Jack Kelly (Newsies), Sarah Jacobs (Newsies), E. A. Monahan, Hannah (Newsies), Medda Larkson | Medda Larkin, Crutchie (Newsies), Meyer, Esther Jacobs (Newsies), Les Jacobs, Snaps - Character, Tumbler (Newsies), Cricket - Character, Pinky, Curls - Character, Tommy Boy (Newsies), Scooter, Scratches - Character, Purples, Pepper, Kitchin‘, Laces - Character Relationships: Kid Blink/Mush Meyers, David Jacobs/Jack Kelly, Albert DaSilva/Racetrack Higgins, Spot Conlon/Racetrack Higgins, Spot Conlon/Albert DaSilva, Spot Conlon/Albert DaSilva/Racetrack Higgins, Hot Shot/Ike (Newsies), Katherine Plumber Pulitzer/Darcy Reid, Katherine Plumber Pulitzer & Darcy Reid, Bryan Denton/Hannah, past spot conlon/ Jack Kelly, Sarah Jacobs (Newsies)/Original Female Character(s), Henry/Tommy Boy (Newsies), Sarah Jacobs/Laces Additional Tags: fem!hotshot - Freeform, Blush - Freeform, jelly - Freeform, space, i find it rly cool how all the ships in newsies are real words, semi romantic! Katherine pulitzer/Darcy Reid, spot conlon and Jack Kelly are Ex‘s, you can fight me on this, Racer has ADHD, u can fight me on that too, Annie Kelly was a masive asexual, hannah is hungarian, and left handet, and kidblink and henry are lefthandet as well, i have a very strong opinion on that, spot connlons pink suspenders, Period-Typical Homophobia, Maybe - Freeform, Everyone Needs A Hug, Sarah Jacobs is a Feminist, albertd nick name is flinchy, 92‘sies Henry, At this point im just making up oc‘s but thats okay, there are so many newsies, no ones gonna care, There are less girls than boys bc period typicall sexism, Mush and Blink are two switch asf motherfuckers, cant change my mind, that is a switch relationship, Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Mush has adhd, everyobe has adhd bc im projecting read : https://ift.tt/IpO27Vm - December 08, 2023 at 04:57PM

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@ospreyonthemoon

No! Other kelp forests have their own defenders, there are kelp forests all around the world. In the Northeast Pacific Ocean (the west coast of North America) sea otters play a vital role but don't work alone.

A really good example of this is the US state of Oregon located above California, in the Northeast Pacific. The sea otter has been extinct in Oregon since 1907 but urchin barrens were limited due to the Sunflower Sea Star (Pycnopodia helianthoides)! They are another keystone species in kelp forests. They helped pick up the slack created by sea otters going extinct.

In 2013 we saw the emergence of Sea Star Wasting Syndrome (SSWS) which is a syndrome where sea stars appear to disintegrate into nothing. (first photo is of SSWS progression on ochre sea stars, second is sunflower sea star with SSWS)

Large and soft bodied sea stars were more susceptible to it due to their surface area and soft body. In 2015 the Northeastern Pacific experienced a marine heat wave which increased the cases of SSWS, which is believed to be temperature dependent.

Between 2017 and 2020 there was a 99-100% decline of wild populations of Sunflower Sea Stars from Baja California, Mexico to Cape Flattery, WA, USA. In the northern part of their range from the Salish Sea to the Gulf of Alaska there was a decline greater than 87.8%. (this is part of the temperature sensitive theory)

Sunflower sea stars are now listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. In the California, Oregon, and Washington Range they are extremely close to being extinct in the wild. I have researched this topic and looked at a ton of data, as well as designing educational programs for an aquarium on SSWS and Sunflower Sea Stars. The way I would describe it is that in California, Oregon, and Washington there aren't really any populations left but there are individuals.

As some might know, when conservationists are creating a campaign to give the public about a large issue like habitat loss, they will often pick a "charismatic" animal to be the spokesperson for the issue. For kelp forest conservation the fluffy round-faced sea otter was chosen. Picking one animal also keeps the message simple. Despite what I believe and like to dream about being true, many people struggle to empathize with invertebrates. Which is another reason that sunflower sea stars aren't frequently included.

TLDR;

Grrrr

But also

I cannot speak specifically to the keystone species of non-Northeastern Pacific kelp forests. There are kelp forests all over the world. But just looking at the Northeastern Pacific; sea otters play a massive role in kelp forest health, but they don’t do it alone, the Sunflower Sea Star plays an equally vital role.

Sources:

Heady, W.N., R. Beas-Luna, M.N Dawson, N. Eddy, K. Elsmore, F. T. Francis, T. Frierson, A.L. Gehman, T. Gotthardt, S.A. Gravem, J. Grebel, S. L. Hamilton, L. Hannah, C.D. Harvell, J. Hodin, I. Kelmartin, C. Krenz, L. Lee, J. Lorda, D. Lowry, S. Mastrup, E. Meyer, P. T. Raimondi, S. S. Rumrill, V. R. Saccomanno, L. M. Schiebelhut, C. Siddon. 2022. Roadmap to recovery for the sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) along the west coast of North America. The Nature Conservancy, Sacramento, CA, US. 44 pages.

First photo:

Eisenlord, Morgan & Groner, Maya & Yoshioka, Reyn & Elliott, Joel & Maynard, Jeffrey & Fradkin, Steven & Turner, Mo & Pyne, Katie & Rivlin, Natalie & van Hooidonk, Ruben & Harvell, Catherine. (2016). Ochre star mortality during the 2014 wasting disease epizootic: Role of population size structure and temperature. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 371. 20150212. 10.1098/rstb.2015.0212.

Second photo: Jenn Collins

Ready to assemble your very own kelp forest?

Just follow these easy steps:

✅ Assemble kelp parts in cold, nutrient-rich water  ✅ Add fish and invertebrates  ✅ Add sea otters! 🦦 ✅ Watch your kelp forest thrive  ⚠️Warning: Without sea otters, your kelp forest may end up with an urchin overload!

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TBR List

Key:

Book

Next installment of said book

Already read

League of Liars- Astrid Schlote

Shadows of Truth- Astrid Schlote

You’d Be Home Now- Kathleen Glasgow

Girl In Pieces- Kathleen Glasgow

Kingdom of The Wicked- Kerri Maniscalco

Kingdom of the Cursed- Kerri Maniscalco

Kingdom of the Feared- Kerri Maniscalco

This Is Where It Ends- Marieke Nijkamp

If He Had Been With Me- Laura Nowlin

Dear Evan Hansen- Val Emmich with Steven Levenson, Benjamin Pasek, and Justin Paul

The God of Endings- Jacqueline Holland

Family of Liars- E. Lockhart

We Were Liars- E. Lockhart

The Shadows Between Us- Tricia Levenseller

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow- Gabrielle Zevin

This Woven Kingdom- Tahereh Mafi

These Infinite Threads- Tahereh Mafi

One of Us Is Back- Karen McManus

The Cruel Prince- Holly Black

The Wicked King- Holly Black

The Queen of Nothing- Holly Black

To Kill A Kingdom- Alexandra Christo

Powerless- Lauren Roberts

Heartless- Marissa Meyer

When I’m Dead- Hannah Morrissey

A Crooked Mark- Linda Kao

A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder- Holly Jackson

Good Girl, Bad Blood- Holly Jackson

As Good As Dead- Holly Jackson

Night Circus- Erin Morgenstern

Six of Crows- Leigh Bardugo

Crooked Kingdom- Leigh Bardugo

Three Dark Crowns- Kandare Blake

Caraval- Stephanie Garber

Legendary- Stephanie Garber

Finale- Stephanie Garber

Spectacular- Stephanie Garber

Once Upon A Broken Heart- Stephanie Garber

A Ballad of Never After- Stephanie Garber

A Curse For True Love- Stephanie Garber

The Obsession- Jesse O. Sutanto

I’ll Give You The Sun- Jandy Nelson

For Mist & Tar- Jinapher J. Hoffman

Serpent & Dove- Shelby Mahurin

Blood & Honey- Shelby Mahurin

Gods & Monsters- Shelby Mahurin

From Blood and Ash- Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Stolen Heir- Holly Black

Secrets Never Die- Vincent Ralph

To Kill A Shadow- Katherine Quint

She’s Gone- David Be

Suddenly A Murder- Lauren Muñoz

If We Were Villains- M. L. Rio

Five Broken Blades- Mai Corland

Last updated: 4/16/24

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laur’s 2024 reading log

the reservoir;

Key: 🩷 - favorite | 💌 - arc | 🔄 - reread | 👥 - buddy read | ❌ - DNF

Barbarian’s Prize by Ruby Dixon

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Air Awakens by Elise Kova

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Barbarian’s Mate by Ruby Dixon

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Barbarian’s Touch by Ruby Dixon

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Barbarian’s Taming by Ruby Dixon

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Fire Falling by Elise Kova

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🔄

Earth’s End by Elise Kova

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Legendary by Stephanie Garber

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Water’s Wrath by Elise Kova

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Finale by Stephanie Garber

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Half-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout

⭐️⭐️⭐️

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Crystal Crowned by Elise Kova

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A Touch of Darkness by Scarlett St. Clair

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🔄

A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

A Touch of Malice by Scarlett St. Clair

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Gild by Raven Kennedy

⭐️⭐️

Glint by Raven Kennedy

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Bride by Ali Hazelwood

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👥

The Awakening by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🔄 👥

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔄

Love On the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Legacy by Shannon Messenger

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Crave by Tracy Wolff

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Phoenix Selected by Claire Luana

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

⭐️⭐️ 🔄

Phoenix Protected by Claire Luana

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Risk by C.M. Owens

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

The Forest Grimm by Kathryn Purdie

⭐️⭐️ 💌

Phoenix Captured by Claire Luana

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sidetracked by C.M. Owens

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

Scarlet Angel by C.M. Owens

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

All The Lies by C.M. Owens

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

Paint It All Red by C.M. Owens

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

The Library of Shadows by Rachel Moore

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💌

Gleam by Raven Kennedy

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Silver In the Bone by Alexandra Bracken

⭐️ ❌

Unlocked by Shannon Messenger

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Loathe To Love You by Ali Hazelwood

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout

⭐️⭐️

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Phoenix Trafficked by Claire Luana

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

⭐️⭐️

Crush by Tracy Wolff

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

Kill Joy by Holly Jackson

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han

⭐️⭐️🌟

We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ember of Night by Molly E. Lee

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Choosing Theo by Victoria Aveline

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Heist Society by Ally Carter

⭐️⭐️🌟

Assistant To The Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Lies We Conjure by Sarah Henning

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💌

Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

This Time It's Real by Ann Liang

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Fairest by Marissa Meyer

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Heartstopper, Vol. 5 by Alice Oseman

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Wren In the Holly Library by K.A. Linde

⭐️

All of Our Demise by Amanda Foody & C.L. Herman

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💌

King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

King of Fools by Amanda Foody

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💌

Kingdom of the Feared by Kerri Maniscalco

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Prodigy by Marie Lu

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Phoenix Revealed by Claire Luana

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Prince of Song & Sea by Linsey Miller

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 💌

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Champion by Marie Lu

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fable by Chanda Hahn

⭐️⭐️

Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 👥

Apprentice To The Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Capturing The Devil by Kerri Maniscalco

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

⭐️⭐️

Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

⭐️⭐️🌟

The Au-Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey

⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👥

Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷 💌

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

⭐️

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

Not In Love by Ali Hazelwood

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👥

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

House of Ash and Shadow by Leia Stone

⭐️

Inheritance by Katharine McGee

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Sanctuary of the Shadow by Aurora Ascher

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Foxglove by Adalyn Grace

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🩷

A Ruinous Fate by Kaylie Smith

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

The Improbable Meet-Cute by Abby Jimenez

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Two Can Play by Ali Hazelwood

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟 🩷

Barbarian's Heart by Ruby Dixon

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cruel Winter With You by Ali Hazelwood

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

The Coven by Harper L. Woods

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Rumple Buttercup by Matthew Gray Gubler

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

stats;

Overall Reading Goal: 100 Books (Read 110/100)

Minor Goals:

Start 5 Series: ?/5 Series

Finish 5 Series: ?/5 Series

Read 10 New Authors: 31/10 Authors

Read 3 Classics: 2/3 Classics

Stats:

Finished Series: TBA

Up-To-Date Series: TBA

Favorite Reads: TBA

5-Star Reads: TBA

ARCs Read: 7

DNFed Books (Over 50% Read): 1

DNFed Books (Under 50% Read): 2

2024 Releases Read: TBA

Best Book of the Year Award: House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

Honorary Mentions: As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson, Love On The Brain by Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood, Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

Worst Book of the Year Award: The Wren In The Holly Library by K.A. Linde

Honorary Mentions: House of Ash and Shadow by Leia Stone, The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic, We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han, Gild by Raven Kennedy

Most Read Author of the Year Award: Ali Hazelwood (9)

Honorary Mentions: Ruby Dixon (5), Holly Jackson (5), Elise Kova (5), C.M. Owens (5)

last updated 1•1•2025

[just-a-bookish-reader]

Back to School Readathon 2023

Starting a few days after the fall semester starts for my university, Liv is helping to host another readathon, except that this one is not 24 hours, its almost a week long! With both reading prompts and photo prompts, each based on particularly school themed events and classes, there is about to be so much going on from August 25-August 31!

Unlike the graphic novels and manga readathon, I do not plan to try to read more than the books I'm selecting for each reading prompt this time, unless I read way faster than I'm expecting! As far as the photo prompts, based on the spirit week we all know and love, we don't actually have to dress up or even have our faces in any of the photos! As mentioned in Liv's announcement video, you can simply use props to do flat lays with books, and I'll be mentioning one that I'm already planning out (and will likely take the picture super ahead of time!).

Gwen has put out some awesome movie suggestions for the "study hall" prompt as well, specifying that the prompt is just that the movie needs to take place in a school, not necessarily a dark academia or anything like that (literally you can watch High School Musical even!) and if you are a patron of Gwen, she'll be hosting a live viewing of Heathers!

While there are enough prompts for a full school day, there is no particular order required or even recommended to my knowledge of how to follow each prompt. It certainly is not expected for you to knock out more than one prompt in one day unless your second prompt is the "study hall" aka movie prompt!

Here are some examples that I had to sift through of my own books to narrow down to my final selections!

English

Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress

My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin

The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrews

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Only a Monster by Vanessa Len

Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torzs

Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl by Brianna R. Shrum

Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Bunny by Mona Awad

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro

Math

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake

The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond by Amanda Glaze

The First Bright Thing by J. R. Dawson

Seven Faceless Saints by M. K. Lobb

One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater

The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow

Master of One by Olivie Blake

One For My Enemy by Olivie Blake

The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk

Once a Queen by Sarah Arthur

Physical Education

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen

We Are the Song by Catherine Bakewell

Sing Me to Sleep by Gabi Burton

Fairest by Gail Carson Levine

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

Lunch

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Heartless by Marissa Meyer

Science

Red Dust, White Snow by Pan Huiting

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan

Dragonfall by L. R. Lam

The Sun and The Void by Gabriela Romero-Lacruz

Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko

How High We go in The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

All the Dead Lie Down by Kyrie McCauley

Godkiller by Hannah Kaner

The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska

Book of Night by Holly Black

Study Hall

Grease

Love, Simon

Easy A

Edge of Seventeen

Legally Blonde

The Breakfast Club

High School Musical

Superbad

Booksmart

Dead Poet Society

Heathers

Social Studies

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Weyward by Emilia Hart

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

Furyborn by Claire Legrand

If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

First Bright Thing by J. R. Dawson

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland

How High We Go in The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Final Results:

English:

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

Math:

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

PE:

A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross (activity is music)

Lunch:

Poison by Bridget Zinn

Science:

How High We Go in The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Social Studies:

Weyward by Emilia Hart

Art:

Nimona

Study Hall:

Easy A

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The Accountability Doctrine - Hannah E. Meyers - Commentary Magazine

The Accountability Doctrine - Hannah E. Meyers  Commentary Magazine

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As I mentioned in this post, I'm changing up how I do my TBR this year! I'm doing four bingo cards with 25 books each, with the plan to read them over three months. I'm still working on recovering from a reading slump, so I don't want to overwhelm myself right off the bat.

I'm super excited to try this method, and I had a lot of fun putting together my TBR for this first quarter! 

I also have a few library loans I want to finish this month:

Marked by P.C. Cast & Kristen Cast (for a project)

How to Succeed at Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy

The Beauty of Darkness by Mary E. Pearson

Here's a full list of the books on my TBR and the prompts they fill for my 2023 Bingo Challenge!

When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler

A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

Wait for Night by Stephen Graham Jones (Shortest book you own)

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (Disability Rep)

Skyhunter by Marie Lu (On your TBR for over a year)

Obie is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar (Trans author)

Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed edited by Saraciea J. Fennell (Latinx author)

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds (Banned book)

The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska

The Kinder Poison by Natalie Mae

Here There Are Monsters by Amelinda Bérubé 

Jackpot by Nic Stone

All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody & Christine Lynn Herman

Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno Garcia

The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin

Rouge Princess by B.R. Meyers

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon

White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

The Martian by Andy Weir

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

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Addie's Mood Boards

All can be found under the tag 'Addie's Mood Boards'.

Requests welcome

Hi! I am currently trying to edit some of my mood boards. I will put a small heart next to the already edited ones, or ones I don't plan to edit!

COLORS

Lavender (Link) ♥️

Teal (Link) ♥️

Mint (Link) ♥️

PRIDE FLAGS

Bisexual Roses (Link) ♥️

HARRY POTTER

Wolfstar (Remus x Sirius) (Link) ♥️

NEWSIES

Newsies Blue Aesthetic (Link) ♥️

Katherine Plumber (Link) ♥️

Katherine Floral Aesthetic (Link) ♥️

Katherine Royalty Aesthetic (Link) ♥️

(Another) Katherine Royalty Aesthetic (Link) ♥️

Sarah Jacobs (Link)

Sarah Floral Aesthetic (Link) ♥️

Sarah Jacobs Royalty Aesthetic (Link) ♥️

(Another) Sarah Jacobs Royalty Aesthetic (Link) ♥️

Les Jacobs (Link) ♥️

David Jacobs (Link) ♥️

Jack Kelly (Link) ♥️

Jack Kelly Red Aesthetic (Link) ♥️

Mush Meyers (Link)

Crutchie Morris (Livesies) (Link) ♥️

Crutchy Morris (92sies) (Link) ♥️

Crutchie Morris Yellow Aesthetic (Link) ♥️

Albert DaSilva (Link) ♥️

Racetrack Higgins (Link) ♥️

Spot Conlon (Link)

Elmer Kasprzak (Link) ♥️

Medda Larkin (Livesies) (Link) ♥️

Medda Larkson (92sies) (Link) ♥️

Hannah (Link) ♥️

Javid (Jack x David) (Link)

Javid Royalty Aesthetic (Jack x David) (Link) ♥️

Newsbians (Sarah x Kath) (Link) ♥️

Newsbians Royalty Aesthetic (Sarah x Kath) (Link) ♥️

(Another) Newsbians Royalty Aesthetic (Sarah x Kath) (Link) ♥️

(Yet Another) Newsbians Royalty Aesthetic (Sarah x Kath) (Link) ♥️

Spralbert (Spot x Race x Albert) (Link) ♥️

Rainbow Newsies Mood Board Collection (Link) ♥️

Pink Newsies Mood Board Collection (Link) ♥️

THE MIGHTY DUCKS

Adam Banks (Link) ♥️

Charlie Conway (Link) ♥️

MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

Stucky (Steve x Bucky) (Link) ♥️

THE OUTSIDERS

Dallas Winston (Link) ♥️

Two-Bit Mathews (Link) ♥️

Ponyboy Curtis (Link)

Steve Randle (Link) ♥️

ANNE WITH AN 'E'

Cole Mackenzie (Link)

KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES

Dex Dizznee (Link)

Sophie Foster (Link)

Keefe Secen (Link)

Biana Vacker (Link)