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New Releases: June 18, 2024
A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell Former painter and unreformed rake Kit Griffith is forging a new life in Cornwall, choosing freedom over an identity that didn’t fit. He knew that leaving his Sisterhood of women artists might mean forfeiting artistic community forever. He didn’t realize he would lose his ability to paint altogether. Luckily, he has other talents. Why not devote himself to selling…
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#A Shore Thing#Akwaeke Emezi#CeCe Telfer#Dahlia Adler#Four Squares#Go Tell It on the Mountain#Home Field Advantage#Joanna Lowell#Lilah Sturges#Little Rot#The Science of Ghosts
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Little Rot
I just finished Akwaeke Emezi's new novel, Little Rot, and let me just say that even though I could barely put it down and it has a striking cover, I will not be pairing it with a stethoscope on this blog lol. I have such strong feelings about things and in the last 20 pages or so, I thought oh this is going nowhere near any stethoscopes. It was graphic and disturbing and there was really no hope. There are so many things in my head now that never really needed to be there. Picking up a lighter teen novel to read next, tbh. Emezi is still really something, though--I'm still going to read whatever they publish next.
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June 2024 Book Releases You'll Love to Read
Happy June! and Happy Pride Month! I’m delighted to share this list of new books—there’s so many big names and even more queer content that I can’t wait to read. While I won’t be able to get through all of them, I am hoping to get my hands on at least a few. Let me know if you’ve read any and what books you’ll be putting on hold at your local library! Wish You Weren’t Here Author: Erin…
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#a novel love story#akwaeke emezi#ashley poston#blessings#book releases#but how are you#by Jocelyn#chukwuebuka ibeh#claire lombardo#ella dawson#erin baldwin#experienced#june 2024#june 2024 book releases#kate young#little rot#lucy foley#middle of the night#new books#nicola yoon#one of our kind#patrick nathan#really#riley sager#same as it ever was#the future was color#the midnight feast#wish you weren&039;t here
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She was going to be illegible to her parents again, and it would have hurt, but right now she was illegible to herself, and that hurt more.
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
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Year of Lists
July Books
She a long one
I also left this so late, I don't remember much
The Trespasser by Tana French - don't remember anything about this, just that I enjoyed speeding through it. I think Tana French's work has that quality of quiet enjoyment to it. A small break from reality - so a 3*? (that's my goodreads rating anw)
Μαμά by Μαργαρίτα Καραπάνου *4.7/5 - this, I do remember. It's a quick read, much of Karapanou is; none of it is light and this one is darker and more complex than most. It's a melee of the writer's relationship with/memory of her mother. Vignettes, impressions, memories, snippets of a life lived, felt or imagined. Karapanou was a remarkable artist, and boy, could she weave a sentence.
I'm Not Here to Give a Speech by Gabriel García Márquez *4.5/5 - delightful; just a neat little collection of speeches. Isn't it funny how gifted some people are at things they don't really enjoy doing?
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang *5/5 - nothing to see here. Love all around. <3 <3
Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto *3.5/5 - this was yummy. If you find oldish, matter-of-fact writing, noir-type police procedurals with limited but astute action delicious, this is for you.
Girl Goddess Queen by Bea Fitzgerald *4/5 - okay. Hear me out.
*sidenote* This is Lore Olympus in novel form. So much so that I wondered if Bea Fitzgerald wasn't a pen name for Rachel Smythe and vice versa.
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Was it repetitive, occasionally annoyingly so? Yes. Did I think it could have benefitted from better editing? Yes. Did I obsess over it and think about the characters and the slow-burn romance of it all for at least a week? Yes. Did I buy Bea Fitzgerald's new novel a day into publication and can't wait to read it but I'm travelling a lot and didn't want to carry it cause it's huge? Yes. Did it make me hyperfixate on finding the epic romance of the decade - the century even, the book that makes your knees tremble, to no avail? Yes.
I loved this. I loved this so so much, flaws and all.
*sidenote, again* Madeline Miller rewriting Persephone too - would love to read that version
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo - like a 3*. It's not something that sticks but it's readable and you do care when you're reading it. One thing I can say for certain, I was sure I wanted to read more Leigh Bardugo, and I have, since reading this, spent a lot of time on deciding what that'll be. (Six of Crows, probably this Autumn, early Winter)
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi *3.7/5 - It's a good narrative from a very talented writer/artist, whose work I've admired from the get-go and will continue to consume either til the end, or til the potentially inevitable decline. The .7 purely on talent.
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong - deets on this with the sequel which I read in August - and it's a lot
#the trespasser#tana french#margarita karapanou#mama#i'm not here to give a speech#gabriel garcia marquez#gabriel garcía márquez#american born chinese#gene luen yang#graphic novels#fiction#non-fiction#writers#thriller#literary fiction#ancient fiction#reimaginings#queer reimaginings#tokyo express#seicho matsumoto#girl goddess queen#bea fitzgerald#persephone#hades#romance#the familiar#leigh bardugo#fantasy#little rot#akwaeke emezi
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Summer Read #5
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i’m currently reading little rot and it is queer as fuck and west african as fuck - Akwaeke Emezi is a fucking lightning strike of an author and everything I hope to be. but little rot feels so completely in line with where I’m at in life ESPECIALLY in my pursuit of pleasure shared with other black women and nbs, with poc too. we do not need white people to Queer things up for us, we have always been here. hedonistic and nasty and inventing types of play white queers could never dream of.
overlook that mild overshare to focus on my main point of: I love when you find a piece of media that only means so much because of the point in your life at which it came to you, how easily it can settle into the gaps formed during the process of your becoming.
#like when I start calling an older woman Aunty in the bedroom what then. WHAT THEN#my txt#little rot#bookblr#funny coincidence: I read#you made a fool of death with your beauty#while seeing an older man#like akwaeke you may doing something divine here#11kinkstrings
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Not these two again (I will do it again).
Ummmm, soon-to-be father-son angst or something.
Jason's line after this was originally: "I don't need a lecture from the guy who swapped his scales and sword for cigarettes and guns," but I have other stuff I wanna move on to and the frames kinda got fucked, sooo.
Ko-Fi.
#This WIP was rotting in my folder for a week. I just had to shove it out because I was going a little mental. I hate having WIPs.#Hence why the drawings themselves aren't the best and aren't consistent with my other stuff.#Anyway yeah.#Also hooray! I didn't do night lighting this time!#harvey dent#two face#jason todd#red hood#two-dads au#fanart#gifs#dc comics#tw: smoking#retro aesthetic#artists on tumblr#procreate#reginalususart
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mannn little rot was a messy ass ride but the clarity i gained from it? superb
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#girlblogging#i’m just a girl#just girly thoughts#girl rotting#pretty little psycho#girlhood#live laugh girlblog#coquette#vintage americana#yours truly#this is what makes us girls#tumblr girls#just girly stuff#pinterest
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going through divorce with the entity in my head
#compulsory husbands#little freaks these two#just two guys and their completely not imaginery husbands#new venom and malevolent in one weekend#this is entities weekend fr#malevolent#malevolent brain rot#malevolent podcast#venom the last dance#venom#eddie brock#symbrock#mo arts
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a daily struggle
#girlblogging#girlhood#lana del rey#girl interrupted#lana del ray aesthetic#buffalo 66#girl rotting#girly stuff#this is a girlblog#this is what makes us girls#coquette#i'm sad#im cryin#im just a girl#female hysteria#lana del ray aka lizzy grant#just girly things#female rage#lizzy grant#coquette girl#lana del ray coded#lana how i hate those guys#sweet little nymph#girl blogger#girlblog#coquette aesthetic#soft girl#hell is a teenage girl#lana unreleased#the virgin suicides
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The actual author reblogging my last post was not something I saw coming at all. Now I feel guilty and sheepish like I was critical of their novel because I didn't feature their work in the way that I have others' on here. But it was really difficult to read and it fucked with me a lot. I know they meant for it to, though.
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on first loves yunqing lol they are silly that's it that's the prompt anyways i think this is like the first thing i've posted here that has an actual background which is kind of insane. i think you can tell i don't draw backgrounds very often. anyways yunqing is so ponytail puller annoying each other even though they've realized they like each other core and it's satisfying my peepaw heart
bg only/closeups under keep reading
#artwork#digital art#art#hsr fanart#hsr#honkai star rail#illustration#yanqing#hsr yanqing#yunli#hsr yunli#yunqing#yunli x yanqing#yanqing x yunli#jing yuan#jiaoqiu#moze#huaiyan#big sword little sword dynamic#they are so little kids being mean to their crushes core#in the words of keebs “the perfect enemies to lovers”#i think it's so funny how the moment boomer jiaoqiu steps in they both turn to gank him because they're in the old people are uncool phase#ig they're more rivals to lovers than enemies to lovers#but i think their duel makes them enough of enemies that it counts#probably i think#anyways i actually slaved over this (it only took like 6 hours max i am exaggerating)#drawing is more productive than playing games though ig#i've actually been rotting away this summer#i'm gonna have to get back in the grindset in art school#yeah i'm going to art school that's funny huh
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#eyeshadow#lana del ray aka lizzy grant#lana del rey#female hysteria#girlblogging#girlcore#blog#girls experience#hell is a teenage girl#im just a girl#girlhood#just girl stuff#pink#lizzy grant#this is a girlblog#coquette#pretty little liars#coquette angel#just girly thoughts#girly stuff#manic pixie dream girl#lana unreleased#this is what makes us girls#alana champion#eyeliner#girl experience#girl blogger#bed rotting#deercore#deergirl
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Piou piou!
#you know it's a serious case of brain rot if I'm drawing anthro characters for fun#also happy birthday to Siffrin!!#also also yeah I have no idea how textiles work#but I had fun#this is based on the very first bird on the way to Dormont of course#silly little guys#isat#in stars and time#isat siffrin#isat fanart#art#cinnamon's doodles
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