216/400 💙📚⚡️📚 📖: Strange Pictures by Uketsu Genre: Mystery Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: my first Uketsu

215/400 💙📚⏳📚 📖: The Hounding by Xenobe Parvis Genre: Historical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: Not what I was wanting right now

214/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Idol, Burning by Rin Usami Genre: literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: quick read #booksky

213/400 💙📚 📖: Meeting New People by Daniel M. Lavery Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: Reminds me of listening to my grandmother catching my mom on all the latest gossip. Thank you Harper Via for the review copy #booksky

212/400 💙📚 📖: Infinite Country by Patricia Engel Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: We can’t listen to enough immigration stories #booksky

211/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe Genre: Weird girl lit fic Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I love these snakes who take on human form

210/400 💙📚 📖: Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami Genre: Literary Dystopian Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: so much to chew on

209/400 💙📚 📖: Private Rites by Julia Armfield Genre: Clifi Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: I love when a dystopian/clifi setting is used to explore deeper things (like sisterhood and grief)

208/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Y/N by Esther Li Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I always thought the Y/N thing was weird, so I found this exploring it and fan culture interesting

207/400 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: Shut Up and Read by Jeannine A. Cook Genre: memoir Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: interesting memoir about an intersectional bookstore

206/400 💙📚 📖: The Glow by Jessie Gaynor Genre: contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: It didn’t really get there…and I’m not sure where “there” was. So much potential, but ultimately unsatisfying

205/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Hard Copy by Fien Veldman Genre: weird girl lit fic Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I wanted it to be more weird

204/400 💙📚⏳📚 📖: We are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezon Camara Genre: Literary historical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: Interesting background for a character study

203/400 💙📚🪐📚 🎧📖: Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard (2nd read) Genre: YA Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I reread the first 2 with the intent of continuing the series on audio, but I think I’m good

202/400 💙📚 📖: The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad Genre: Literary dystopian Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Interesting idea excellently done

201/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Hexes of the Deadwood Forest by Agnieszka Szpila Genre: Weird girl lit fic Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: This book is a lot, and perhaps too much for me. While I love that it centers a very anti-patriarchal religion, ultimately the overwhelming focus on female pleasure comes off hollow

200/400 💙📚 📖: Andromeda by Therese Bohman Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I really enjoyed the first half, but then there is a perspective shift, and I didn’t enjoy it as much

199/400 💙📚⏳📚 📖: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Genre: Historical, Magical Realism Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I really enjoyed the older couple at the center of the story

198/400 💙📚🌈📚 📖: Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Emily Austin’s protagonists always do a good job making me feel less alone in my quirks and feelings

197/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: American Han by Lisa Lee Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: What appears as a mother-daughter fraught relationship was so much more, deeper and darker

196/400 💙📚🩸📚 📖: You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado Genre: Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: This was more thriller than horror for my tastes

195/400 💙📚🖋️📚 🎧📖: Heart the Lover by Lily King (2nd read) Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Luckily I made it home before the part that makes me sob ugly tears

194/400 💙📚💡📚 📖: The Roma: a Traveling History by Madeline Potter Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: It was good to learn more of this history

193/400 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: A Good Person by Kirsten King Genre: Weird Girl Lit Fic Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: this hit the perfect balance between an unlikeable, unhinged FMC and real-world scenarios. #booksky

192/400 💙📚💡📚 📖: Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve by Regina Mahone and Renee Bracey Sherman Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: So important

191/400 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Burn the Sea by Mona Tewari Genre: Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I’ve been tired of “fantasy” that is just reskined colonizer stories, so this is refreshing. Female empowerment and bravery stands up to the literal monsters modeled after historical colonizing power.

190/400 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton Genre: Memoir Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: I most appreciated how he highlighted the humanity of those on death row, regardless of guilt or innocence

Outlook even acts up in space.

189/400 💙📚🖋️📚 🎧📖: The Renovation by Kenan Orhan Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: this book takes an interesting premise and uses it to explore dealing with caretaking for a loved one with alzheimer’s as well as being a political exile from your fascist homeland #booksky

188/400 💙📚⚡️📚 🎧📖: Wayward Souls by Susan J Morris Genre: Mystery Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I really enjoy Sam and Hel #booksky

187/400 💙📚🩸📚 📖: Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher Genre: Historical horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Has everything I love in a gothic read #booksky

186/400 💙📚💡📚 🎧📖: The Barn by Wright Thompson Genre: Nonfiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: An important look at the systems and society that enabled the murder of Emmett Till

185/400 💙📚🌈📚 📖: You Make a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi Genre: Romance Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I would have never made these choices, but that makes for a good read

184/400 💙📚🌈📚 📖: More Than Organs by Kay Ulanday Barrett Genre: Poetry Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Beautiful

183/400 💙📚🌈📚 📖: A Language of Limbs by Dylan Hardcastle Genre: Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Interesting exploration of the choices we make

I just finished a 5-star read (The Renovation by Kenan Orhan) that would break into my top 5 books for the quarter. But I already made my quarterly top 5 list content on Bindery and TikTok. So I’m going to pretend that March 31st is in Q2. #booksky

John Green is perhaps the only cishet white man who will get me to instantly respect preorder their next book. #booksky

182/400 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore Genre: YA Magic realism Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Glad this book exists for trans and questioning youth

181/400 💙📚🪐📚 📖: In the Watchful City by S Qiouyi Lu Genre: Science Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: This is described as a “mosaic novella” and rightfully so

180/400 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Song of the Dark by Bryn Suddarth Genre: Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: A fun fantasy adventure

179/400 💙📚 📱📖: This is How the World Ends by Disco Barrington Genre: Literary Dystopian Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.25/5 Thoughts: I love a literary dystopian work that makes us reflect on our world and what it means to be a human living in it. #booksky

178/400 💙📚🩸📚 📖: Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey Genre: Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: So atmospheric and creepy. I love the juxtaposition of typical struggles with parental relationships, coming of age, and death next to the unknown horrors. #horror

177/400 💙📚⚡️📚 🎧📖: Lost Man’s Lane by Scott Carson (2nd read) Genre: Thriller Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: I could have done without the heavy-handed Y2K cultural references

176/400 💙📚🪐📚 📖: Awakened by AE Osworth Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Super cute, affirming community-forward world

175/400 💙📚🩸📚 📖: I Am the Dark that Answers When You Call by Jamison Shea Genre: YA Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: I appreciated how the horror elements highlight the true horrors of systemic oppression

174/400 💙📚🌈📚 📖: Bellies by Nicola Dinan Genre: Contemporary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: I liked Disappointment Me better…I can’t wait to see what she writes next

173/400 💙📚🪐📚🩸📚🌈📚 📖: Innamorata by Ava Reid Genre: Gothic Fantasy Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Ava Reid’s prose was the star here and had me taking this slow to take it all in. As much as I was truly enjoying it, there were a few plot/character choices that felt lazy. #booksky

172/400 💙📚 🎧📖: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard (2nd read) Genre: Fantasy Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: Audio is a better fit for me for this series and I look forward to continuing

171/400 💙📚 📖: The Merge by Grace Walker (2nd read) Genre: Dystopian Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/5 Thoughts: Such a powerful jumping off point for discussion

170/400 💙📚🩸📚 📖: The Sacrifice by Rin Chupeco Genre: YA Horror Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Thoughts: Colonizers getting their comeuppance? Yes, please.