Ronnica Fatt
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Ravenous reader. Opinionated woman. Diverse book recs. 💙📚 🏳️🌈
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Follow me if you’re interested in: - Genre fiction with well-developed characters and intriguing themes 📚 - Unhinged women 📚 - Dark academia 📚 - Dystopian 📚 - Speculative fiction 📚 - Literary 📚 - Weird 📚 - Edifying non-fiction 📚 - 📚 by Black and brown authors - 🏳️🌈 📚 - Disability rep in 📚
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313/400 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: Flamboyance: the Power of Living Boldly by Jack Parlett Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Interesting exploration of the history of flamboyance: its celebration, appropriation, and condemnation
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312/400 💙📚⚡️📚 🎧📖: Guilt by Keigo Higashino Genre: Mystery Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I’m glad I switched to audio
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311/400 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: A Hymn to Life by Gisele Pelicot Genre: Memoir Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: While I knew her story, it was good to hear it in her own words
about 2 hours ago
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My Aardvark book picks this month.
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310/400 💙📚 📖: Maria the Wanted by V Castro Genre: Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: fun vampire romp
about 4 hours ago
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309/400 💙📚 📖: The Glowing Hours by Leila Siddiqui Genre: Gothic Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I appreciate the more nuanced take on the impacts of colonization on England
about 4 hours ago
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I love that Book of the Month offered so many literary and sapphic books this month:
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about 5 hours ago
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May reading wrapup
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about 12 hours ago
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308/400 💙📚⏳📚 🎧📖: The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 2 by Beth Brower Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Okay, I’m hooked and excited to continue
3 days ago
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307/400 💙📚⏳📚 🎧📖: The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1 by Beth Brower Genre: Historical Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I chuckled at the idea of gambling on obviously losing horses just to waste someone else’s money
4 days ago
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306/400 💙📚🪐📚 🎧📖: When I Was Death by Alexis Henderson Genre: YA Urban Fantasy/Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Interesting premise to explore death and grief
4 days ago
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305/400 💙📚 📖: Leave Your Mess at Home by Tolani Akinola Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I love a messy group of siblings (think the Most Fun We Ever Had or Hello Beautiful).
4 days ago
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304/400 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: Darkology by Rhae Lynn Barnes Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Though blackface wasn't a new concept to me, I didn't understand before reading this book the depth of its influence on American culture, to our shame.
4 days ago
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303/400 💙📚 📖: Rebel English Academy by Mohammed Hanif Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: the violence/hatred against women felt played for sensationalism
4 days ago
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302/400 💙📚 📖: Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent Yu Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: An interesting exploration of a catalyst in several different lives
5 days ago
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301/400 💙📚 📖: Fat Swim by Emma Capley Eisenberg Genre: Short stories Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: The titular story was my favorite
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300/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Everytime I read a good book with disability rep, I feel less alone
5 days ago
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299/400 💙📚 📖: Break Room by Miye Lee Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I don’t miss working in an office
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298/400 💙📚🪐📚 📖: The Language of Liars by SL Huang Genre: Sci fi Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: unique use of language in a story
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297/400 💙📚🩸📚 📖: Honey by Imani Thompson Genre: Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: but why do men make it so easy to kill them? 😂
6 days ago
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296/400 💙📚💡📚 📖: America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: an important read for the 250th anniversary celebrations
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295/400 💙📚🩸📚 📖: Aviary by Maria Dong Genre: Gothic thriller/horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: Creepy gothic vibes that have you doubting reality, as our main characters do.
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294/400 💙📚⏳📚 📖: Liar’s Dice by Juliet Faithfull Genre: Historical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: beautiful story
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293/400 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: important disambiguation
6 days ago
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Garden planted. Teaching the next generation, as I was taught. Just did cucumbers and basil this year.
8 days ago
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292/400 💙📚 📖: Boring Asian Female by Canwen Xu Genre: Weird Girl Lit Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: highlights the myopic focus on a goal thwarted. I’m not sure I should admit how much I could relate to our main character.
9 days ago
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291/400 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It by Lisa Renna Genre: Memoir Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Nothing surprising, but that’s okay
9 days ago
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Music was a big connection point when I was in the church. Now as an exvangelical, I find break up songs often help me process through my deconstruction. Olivia Rodrigo’s The Cure and Maisie Peters’s Flat Earther, both out today, are great examples.
11 days ago
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290/400 💙📚⏳📚 🎧📖: The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje Genre: Historical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: What a LONG but somehow worth it exploration of memory and identity
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289/400 💙📚⏳📚 🎧📖: The White Princess by Philippa Gregory Genre: Historical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I don’t typically like historical fiction, but the political intrigue in these is just right
11 days ago
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288/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: A Mask the Color of the Sky by Basim Khandaqji Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: A Palestinian who passes as an Israeli is a powerful exploration of the harm of othering
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287/400 💙📚⏳📚 📖: Honey in the Wound by Jiyoung Han Genre: Historical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: beautiful writing
11 days ago
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286/400 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: To Catch a Fascist by Christopher Mathias Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I’m not convinced that doxxing is the most effective anti-fascist effort, but I still enjoyed reading it
11 days ago
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285/400 💙📚 📖: The Dog Meows, The Cat Barks by Eka Kurniawan Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: I appreciate the exploration of a rebellious teen
11 days ago
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284/400 💙📚 📖: Every Happiness by Reena Shah Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: interesting exploration of womanhood and competing demands
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282/400 💙📚💡📚 📖: Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America by Jane Borden Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Interesting perspective as to why Americans are susceptible to cults
13 days ago
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282/400 💙📚 📖: Cleo Dang Would Rather be Dead by Mai Nguyen Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: Mai wrote from her own grief. Beautiful if sometimes painfully, speaks to the struggle and isolation of grief in a world that quickly moves on, while also offering hope
13 days ago
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281/400 💙📚 📖: Make Me Better by Sarah Gailey Genre: Cult Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: As someone who has been harmed by community, I appreciated reading a story of the same but very different than my experience. Too many different characters/timelines/storylines to truly love it.
13 days ago
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Rebecca, Blood Over Bright Haven, 1984.
add a skeleton here at some point
16 days ago
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280/400 💙📚 📖: Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson (2nd read) Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: An interesting premise to explore family history
17 days ago
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279/400 💙📚 📖: Bad Asians by Lillian Li Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: Interesting exploration of millennials not living up to expectations due to the changing world and the pressures on Chinese Americans young adults, but I’d rather have gone deeper with fewer characters
18 days ago
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278/400 💙📚🪐📚 📖: The Heart of the Nhaga by Lee Young-Do Genre: Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I’m glad this has been translated into English
18 days ago
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277/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: The Witch by Marie NDiaye Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I wanted more (but less fatphobia)
18 days ago
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276/400 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: Foreign Fruit: a Personal History of the Orange by Katie Goh Genre: Memoir Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I love the framing of fruit
18 days ago
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275/400 💙📚 📖: The Take by Kelly Yang Genre: Speculative, weird girl light Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: if you liked Yellowface, you’ll like this one. Explores ageism, privilege, and ambition
20 days ago
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274/400 💙📚💡📚 📖: Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Black Genre: Memoir Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: centers a mother who makes her child responsible for her emotional needs
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273/400 💙📚⚡️📚 📖: Adrift by Will Dean Genre: Thriller Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: tough read given the content
20 days ago
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272/400 💙📚🪐📚 📖: The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu Genre: Science fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: short and sweet
20 days ago
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271/400 💙📚💡📚 📖: Racebook: a Personal History of the Internet by Tochi Onyebuchi Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: A millennial exploration of the internet’s golden days
21 days ago
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269/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (2nd read) Genre: Weird girl lit Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I love the quiet strangeness
21 days ago
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