If you want to be amused, entertained, and also sometimes grossed out, read Replaceable You by Mary Roach! 💙📚

You approach a corgi in her bed. Do you: 1. Rub the belly 2. Throw the ball 3. Give her a treat

Erotic horror is not my usual thing (I'm way too demisexual for this), but I'll read basically anything Sarah Gailey writes. The characters and pacing had me tearing through this in less than 24 hours even as I was creeped out! 💙📚 🌈📚

Great advice for all voters - return directly if possible: “To ensure that your ballot counts this year, it’s vital that you return it using a drop box so that it goes straight to your county elections office” #waelex

Amplitudes is not just one of the best books I read this month, but one of the best anthologies I've read in recent memory. Check it out! 💙📚 🌈📚

How often do people actually bite their lips? Not in the "I accidentally bit myself while chewing" way, but in the way that characters in romance novels are constantly doing? Because both FMCs in the book I'm currently reading do it all the time, and I don't think I ever do. Am I bad at being femme?

The Last Cold Place by Naira de Gracia is less about penguins than you might expect from the cover, and as such, so is my review of it. Still an interesting book, I just suggest reading with your eyes instead of ears. 💙📚

Californians: do it

This IS a great headline and also: Seattle! Get the word out! Someone was exposed to rabies and needs to seek medical care IMMEDIATELY!

Wearing a mask is an act of resistance. It helps protect your health and the health of those around you. It tells the government you don’t believe anyone is expendable. It says you value community care. It shows solidarity with the disability community. Covid is not over.

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher takes as bit to get going, but once it does, hoo boy. 💙📚

I don't tag authors in even my positive reviews, because I believe reviews are for readers, but it is fun when an author finds one of my reviews anyway.

Listen, on the one hand, we're not going to Reading List our way out of this mess, but on the other hand, it is vital that we keep circulating the stories from the communities under attack and the easiest way to do that is read & talk about their books. So let's talk about some trans books!...

Am I alone in finding the word "rump" incredibly unsexy? Because the author of the romance novel I'm reading keeps using it.

My review of Wild in Seattle, a nice book for people who love PNW nature. 💙📚

You're telling me that when the majority of books under attack are books by and about BIPOC and queer identities, and that this present wave of bans is an attempt to erase marginalized representation entirely, that ALA chose to theme Banned Books Week around George Orwell's 1984?

My co-worker likes to come over to my desk and just stare at me.

Happy to have started my day by saving someone from reading a really problematic, mismarketed book that tricked me last year.

Automatic Noodle was one of my favorite reads this summer. A book about hope, community, and yeah, noodles. 💙📚 🌈📚 ajreardon.com/book-review-...

My favorite thing about publishing is how they’re like “we can market 1 (one) book a season” it’s really cool and it doesn’t make me sad or tired at all

If you've got some cash to spare, please help Outsider Comics so they can continue to recommend great books like Bolero by Wyatt Kennedy and Luana Vecchio. 💙📚 🌈📚

Independent Bookstores Stop Promoting You Have Those Dang Dramione Books Challenge 2025. If people want it, they'll find it. Promote something unique and original and awesome instead, I'm begging you.

A MURDEROUS BUSINESS is a week old! 🥳 Round out your #SapphicSeptember with a #historical #cozy featuring two women determined to make it in a world that constantly underestimates them. #ResistTheHeteropatriarchy bit.ly/AMurderousBu... #BookSky #NewRelease

I'm seeing a lot of neurotypical people with widely spread posts about the latest autism nonsense, but unless you're following and boosting #ActuallyAutistic people, you're part of the problem. Stop boosting neurotypical takes over ours, we have a voice and you're choosing to ignore it.

Bro you can’t give up. You were born in a world that has onions AND garlic. You gotta hang in there it's worth it

A special place in hell for the guy who invented the leaf blower

There is no faster way to get me to DNF a YA fantasy than to have a female main character start describing the unlikely eye color of a boy she's just met.

I have SIX books on my TBR all publishing on September 30 and I would like someone in publishing to 1. Tell me why that day specifically and 2. Convince my bosses to give me the week off so I can get through at least some of them.

disney adults are currently doing pretty much exactly what they should be doing, and dumping on them is super counterproductive.

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

It's never a bad time for an Ea-Nasir joke.

Today's Love Letter comes from the magnificent @chucktingle.bsky.social: "In a world where possession & ownership is so highly praised, I think it’s important to carve out space for these ephemeral moments—to literally bathe in them—because it guides us towards something very important: gratitude."

You can't solve everything. So pick one or two areas you can focus on and work there. Remind yourself you're working on those things when you feel tempted to take on the world of issues. Seek support from your community. You got this.

When you thought you were gonna learn about penguins but instead you gotta listen to a story about Vit A toxicity. This Self-indulgence September read is letting me down!

I got my COVID and flu shot at the same time today. Usually I space them out. Let's see how my body feels about doubling up! I'm bribing it with German chocolate cake to behave.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

I'm about a month behind on book reviews and there were a few things in the queue I didn't have a lot to say about, so please enjoy these mini-reviews! 💙📚 🌈📚

Free Palestine forever 🇵🇸

Yes, Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle is an over-the-top horror novel, but it's also about finding your way back to hope in the face of that horror. If you can handle violence and gore, I really recommend reading it. 💙📚 🌈📚 ajreardon.com/book-review-...

Take classes with RJ, you won't regret it!

Not me adding most of these to my TBR (I already read Slither and bought a hard copy of Insectopolis).

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H was definitely one of the best books I read this summer. Check out my review to learn what I loved about this book. 💙📚 🌈📚

When you have short little leggies, the only way to get the ball out from under the couch is to look real sad until a human helps you. No, playing with another ball is not an acceptable substitute.

Emma had a great time at Cider Summit Seattle today!

hate when folks take “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” to mean “fuck it, we ball” instead of as a prompt to reduce their freaking consumption

Reminder that muting specific words on social media for a day, a week, a month, or even forever can be laudatory self-care.

When you thought you were gonna read a fun second chance romance with a remodeling theme but SURPRISE it's also enemies-to-lovers. I'm way too demisexual for this nonsense. Bed and Breakup by Susie Dumond was not the book for me, and that's a real shame because I loved the setting. 💙📚 🌈📚

Catching up on book reviews again, expect a deluge this week! Starting on the difficult but insightful read, The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. It's never fun being reminded of the fact that instead of going back to "normal", we could have built a better world. 💙📚 🌈📚

Today in "Ball stuck, plz help", the ball bounced onto the bookshelf and is wedged behind the horizontally stacked books. Human assistance is required.