At the moment I am reading a chapter of one book, then a chapter of another, then a chapter of a third, then a chapter of a fourth, then going back to the top again, and I recognise that this may seem unhinged to others but it is how I read as a kid.

Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post: This week reporting on a smallish book spree (by my standards), rounding up my week's posts as usual, and chatting about my weekend reading! breathesbooks.com/2026/06/20/s... #booksky 💙📚

Review - Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 5, by Itaru Kinoshita: this volume had me a bit more emotionally involved, and I was on tenterhooks for the next volume. Love this series. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/19/r... #booksky 💙📚

Review - In the Hollow of the Wave, by Nina Mingya Powles: a bit of a multimedia poetry collection, mixing images with the words. Not 100% my thing, but I enjoyed it well enough. Rating: 3/5 ("liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/18/r... #booksky 💙📚

Very nonplussed to read a non-aphantasic person explaining that aphantasic people don't like to read books because we can't make mental pictures and reading isn't enjoyable... It was well-meant, but based on her experience of just one aphantasic child. Please don't do this, folks.

Review - Queer Georgians, by Anthony Delaney: an interesting survey of Georgian queer people, some of which is surprising/not the usual narrative. Enjoyable, if sometimes sad and sometimes sordid. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/18/r... #booksky 💙📚

Desperate for people to STOP spreading the myth that book bans increase sales/visibility. Whenever a (dominant) writer says "I hope my book is banned; it means I'm doing it right!", I die inside. My friends have had their books banned. Their livelihood is at stake. This is NOT a badge of honor.

I meant to be productive this lunchtime, but instead I accidentally read 30 minutes of my danmei. Oh well.

WWW Wednesday: The usual weekly update on my recent reading, featuring a mix of queer books, mostly! breathesbooks.com/2026/06/17/w... #booksky 💙📚

Review - Puzzles of the Parish, ed. Martin Edwards: a fun collection of church/clergy based mysteries, though it gets a bit more modern than I'd like. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/17/r... #booksky 💙📚

Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Wishes. This week's theme asks for the books you're hankering after - and a wishlist link so people can grant those wishes. I obliged, with my usual weird mix! breathesbooks.com/2026/06/16/t... #booksky 💙📚

In is Independent Bookshop Week in the UK, so we thought we should highlight some of the places where you can buy our books (or order them via bookshop.org). First up are our lovely friends at The Portal in York: the-portal-bookshop....

Review - Solo Leveling (light novel), vol 7, by Chugong: a bit of an uneven volume but definitely has some hard-hitting stuff. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/16/r... #booksky 💙📚

Fantasy with Friends: Merch. This week's prompt is about what merch you'd like if you could have some from any book, and my answer is possibly boring... spoiler: the answer is bookmarks! breathesbooks.com/2026/06/15/f... #booksky 💙📚

20 Books of Summer: Getting Started! Here I pick out a wishlist of books to read (and provide myself with some alternatives). breathesbooks.com/2026/06/14/2... #booksky 📚💙 #20BOS26

I can't believe I am this stiff and sore after my trip to Manchester yesterday. I am old, decrepit! 😱

Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post: A pretty quiet post this week, rounding up a couple of new-to-me books, the reviews/posts from this week, and my current reading. breathesbooks.com/2026/06/13/s... #booksky 💙📚

Let's Talk Bookish: Pride Month Reading. In which I start out by having some reservations about the topic, but dig into queer books of various different genres all the same. breathesbooks.com/2026/06/12/l... #booksky 💙📚

Review - Seasons of Glass and Iron, by Amal El-Mohtar: a pretty strong collection, though the poetry sat oddly amongst the short stories, and inevitably I didn't love all of them. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/11/r... #booksky 💙📚

Somewhere, some kind of bot's been turned off, because my blog hits have just about halved... Which is good, but doesn't look great for my blog stats! If you're curious, I posted a monthly wrap-up recently that highlights some of my favourite posts of May: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/04/m...

Review - Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 4, by Itaru Kinoshita: another fun instalment, this time with a bit of variation as Suma leaves the dino-park to help find a dinosaur who has escaped from smugglers. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/11/r... #booksky 💙📚

WWW Wednesday: The usual weekly update, wherein I disclose that I haven't been finishing a lot lately but have been more enthusiastic about my current reads at my own pace! breathesbooks.com/2026/06/10/w... #booksky 💙📚

Review - The Stranger in the Hoarding House, by Joe Aruku: a one-shot romance which is a bit rushed but kinda cute. Rating: 2/5 ("it was okay"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/10/r... #booksky 💙📚

I am so tired of people telling me I'm doing so much reading when I know I'm reading less than half the amount I usually do and it makes me sad...

Top Ten Tuesday: Handwriting on Covers. This week is a cover-based challenge, and I admit I struggled! But here are some picks that do feature handwriting/handwriting-like fonts. breathesbooks.com/2026/06/09/t... #booksky 💙📚

Review - A Dress of Locusts, by Safa Khatib: a collection that didn't work for me, in part because it felt like the references to sex were about shock value in a way that didn't gel with the rest of it. Rating: 1/5 ("didn't like it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/08/r... #booksky 💙📚

Fantasy with Friends: Series or Standalones. This week's prompt is about whether you prefer fantasy series at the moment or whether you're leaning toward standalones, and it'll be probably no surprise that I'm with the latter. breathesbooks.com/2026/06/08/f... #booksky 💙📚

Review - Japanese Dress in Detail, by Josephine Rout: this is as lovely as most books in the series, with some fascinating-to-me titbits. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/07/r... #booksky 💙📚

Me these days I guess #tgcf #天官赐福

ちゅー描くのに2年かかった🦋🌸

Ohhh sad noises. I've got enough of an issue with the blanket that I actually need to start over entirely... just as I actually finished the first section. (Let's just say it's a gauge problem and leave it there...)

Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post: A bunch of library books, mostly non-fiction with some poetry... and of course the usual roundup of this week's news and posts. breathesbooks.com/2026/06/06/s... #booksky 💙📚

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Review - The Unicorn Murders, by Carter Dickson (AKA John Dickson Carr): not a favourite of Carr's, though the way it dips between different genres is kinda delightful. Mystery's a bit overengineered. Rating: 3/5 ("liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/05/r... #booksky 💙📚

Today me and @ehlyah.bsky.social went to see the UK Aids Memorial Quilt, since it is currently on display not terribly far away. I do recommend the experience, but you can also view it online here with written and audio descriptions that sometimes add more context: www.aidsquiltuk.org

Early this morning, we received an email from @namecheap.com that the domain neocities.org was being suspended because of a court order from New Delhi, India (a jurisdiction we don't operate in), which was for an unrelated court order about a sports streaming site on a different domain.

May Reading Wrap-Up: Little life update, and then the reading and blogging stats, and a bunch of recommended posts from my own blog and others! breathesbooks.com/2026/06/04/m... #booksky 💙📚

Review - Solo Leveling (light novel), vol 6, by Chugong: one of my favourite instalments, I think, with some emotionally significant stuff for Jinwoo and some great scenes with Jinho. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/04/r... #booksky 💙📚

WWW Wednesday: The usual weekly update on my reading! This week featuring mostly non-fiction. breathesbooks.com/2026/06/03/w... #booksky 💙📚

Another day, another chance to remember Grandma, say to myself, "You can't educate pork"... And NOT respond to that ragebait thread/person being deliberately obtuse/pile-on/etc.

Review - The Killing of a Chestnut Tree, by Oliver K. Langmead: I'm always here for a queer fantasy Sherlock Holmes pastiche, and I enjoyed the mystery of the forest as well as the murder. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/06/02/r... #booksky 💙📚

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Can't Believe I've Never Read. I could've gone with classics, but instead I turned to my actual TBR to unearth some books I really ought to have read by now... breathesbooks.com/2026/06/02/t... #booksky 💙📚

Fantasy with Friends: Fantasy Tropes. My mind went a bit blank with this topic, so I just grabbed a list and picked some top favourites... and rambled a good bit about manga and danmei I've been reading. breathesbooks.com/2026/06/01/f... #booksky 💙📚

I've never again bought anything by the author who posted on Twitter that anyone who had only read her book from the library was not a "true fan". She deleted it (without owning up to it) when I pointed out how horrible that was, but I've never forgotten. (I don't have the receipts so no names.)

I am dragging myself through my tasks today with sheer determination and in a humane world there would be a way for me, a freelancer, to take paid time off when I'm not well (including mental health), but there isn't, so here we are.

#tgcf #mdzs #svsss #hualian #wangxian #bingqiu 🌸🍃🎍

Review - Dinosaur Sanctuary, vol 3, by Itaru Kinoshita: the format is a little formulaic at times (new dinosaur's introduced, has an issue, issue gets resolved), but I enjoy that predictability. And it's dinosaurs! Rating: 3/5 ("liked it") Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/05/31/r... #booksky 💙📚

Review - The Great British Bump-Off, by John Allison et al: Great British Bake-Off meets Agatha Christie, basically. Some fun art/designs, and though it suffers a bit from feeling rushed, it was fun. Rating: 3/5 ("liked it") Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/05/30/r... #booksky 💙📚

Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post: A couple of new books of very different genres, some poetry, and the usual roundup of my posts and the books I finished this week. Oh, and a sneak peek at my crochet. breathesbooks.com/2026/05/30/s... #booksky 💙📚

Review - Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature, by Emma Laws et al: a pretty good overview highlighting not just Potter's art and stories, but her personality and activism. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it"). Full review: breathesbooks.com/2026/05/29/r... #booksky 💙📚