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Riots I Have Known Ryan Chapman This Is Kind of An Epic Love Story Kacen Callender Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam Thien Pham The Dawn of Yangchen (Chronicles of the Avatar #3) FC Yee The Exes Leodora Darlington Next Time Will Be Our Turn Jesse Q Sutanto All the Real Indians Died Off and 20 other Myths about Native Americans Dana Gilio-Whitaker, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Detained: A boy's journal of survival and resilience D. Esperanza Midnight rooms Donyae Coles Like In Love With you Emma R. Alban Wrong Order Alice Li Detective Aunty Uzma Jalaluddin Summer Official Rebekah Weatherspoon A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking T. Kingfisher In the country we love: My Family Divided Diane Guerrero Wayward Magic AD Reece The Wandering Queen Claire Heywood Carnival Fantastico Angela Montoya Take It From Me: An Agent's Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career from Scratch Alia Hanna Habib Those People Next door/Perfectly Nice Neighbors Kia Abdullah Let Me Hear A Rhyme Tiffany D. Jackson What You Leave Behind Wanda M. Morris

What I read in February

Have you read any of these? What did you think?

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Oooooh I totally agree! Yes I gotta check to see if my library has more & if not, I will suggest they make a purchase hehe ☺️

No, I haven’t but it is on my TBR!

I loved that book sm! The audiobook was excellent hehe

I genuinely felt like I was dragged into the trenches with our main character😭 Diop is an incredible atmospheric and immersive writer. It was a tough read and different from everything else I read, but I def wanna check out Diop’s other work! What was your reading experience w/ the book??

I don’t have DID so I can’t speak to the authenticity of the portrayal, I know UNHELPFUL AS WELL😭 but!!!!! I found the different personalities to all have such distinct narrative voices. Audiobook was hard to grasp at first for me so maybe try the ebook or print book?

Was so much fun!

The Best American Essays 2025 Jia Tolentino Honey in the Wound Jiyoung Han Audrey Lane Stirs The Pot (Winner Bakes All #3) Alexis Hall When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era Donovan X. Ramsey The Shadow of Kyoshi (Chronicles of the Avatar #2) F.C. Yee Men of Maize Miguel Ángel Asturias Make Room for Love Darcy Liao Sunset Springs Kacen Callender Son of The Morning Akwaeke Emezi Thunder Song: Essays Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe Say You'll Be Mine Naina Kumar The Take Kelly Yang Such Lovely Skin Tatiana Schlote-Bonne Rules for Ruin (The Crinoline Academy #1) Mimi Matthews At Night All Blood Is Black David Diop How to Be Less Miserable: End the Negative Mind Loops and Find Joy Lybi Ma The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom Felicia Rose Chavez The Mean Ones Tatiana Schlote-Bonne Against Borders: The Case for Abolition Luke de Noronha, Gracie Mae Bradley Chaos King (Infinity Alchemist #2) Kacen Callender Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education Sola Mahfouz, Malaina Kapoor The Art of Taking Second Chances Varsha Chitnis Every Spiral of Fate (This Woven Kingdom #4) Tahereh Mafi We Are Villains Kacen Callender Rez Ball Byron Graves One Of Us Knows Alyssa Cole Human Rites (Her Majesty’s Royal Coven #3) Juno Dawson Moonflower Kacen Callender Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice Anna Lapera Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir Bishakh Som

What I read in January 📚

Have you read any of these? See any faves?!

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Voting for upcoming book club picks (books & dates/times) so join my book club on storygraph to chime in!!! #BookSky

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thank you sm for joining! I loved chatting with you synchronously via video hehe

Book club is absolutely the highlight of my month — join us on @thestorygraph.com here (we meet via Discord video call) app.thestorygraph.com/book_clubs/c...

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Oh I love Renee Watson! Enjoy!!

Cover reveal of What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne

“The darkness isn’t empty. It’s hungry.”

The darkness isn't empty. It's hungry. At the edge of the City of the Void, a massive chasm extends miles into the earth, its treacherous terrain overrun with vicious monsters and carnivorous plants. For orphaned best friends Petra and Jade, guiding treasure-seeking tourists down into the Void is the only way to earn enough to pull themselves up out of the slums for good. Petra prefers to play it safe and take jobs only in the Void's upper levels, where the dangers are better understood, while Jade wants to risk a descent to the deepest and most mysterious Sixth Layer. Because the deeper they go, the better the payout, and the sooner their dreams can become reality. Their friendship is Petra's whole world, and Jade's approval means everything so Petra agrees to do it Jade's way. When their job goes wrong and Jade is lost in the Void, Petra must plunge deeper than she's ever dared to save her friend. But she doesn't know the truth of the Void... or what really waits for her in its depths.

You can pre-order a *signed* copy of What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne! @binderybooks.bsky.social @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social @thebuffwriter.bsky.social

The cover is gorgeous & this book sounds right up my alley.

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I’m seriously considering it too, like I understand it is a free app, but I don’t want my words and pictures and videos to train AI 😭

Meta using public accounts’ posts & stories archive to train Meta AI is so disheartening & exhausting.

I feel like I am banging my head against the wall, begging us to get AWAY from all things AI😭

Sending everyone who has a hard time with holidays in general a really tight, warm virtual hug ❤️‍🩹

Bookish Millennial Bookshop Hi, I'm Brittany also known as Bookish Millennial in bookish spaces. I review books on social media (see my linktree), share musings on Substack, and run a book club on Discord.  Reading is political,...

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8am!!! Hehehehehe

YAYYY four more days til we share details on the 2026 challenge!! 😭🥹💕

Okay so I woke up again in the middle of the night to a spider crawling on my leg.

WHY DO SPIDERS HAVE BEEF WITH ME AND/OR LOVE ME?!

This can *not* be a frequent occurrence or I will go craaaaaaazy I’m serious 😩

Book club to discuss Real Americans by Rachel Khong today — love connecting with others this way! #BookSky

OH okay gotcha!! I haven’t seen any yet on tiktok, but I so would!

Small press like Bindery books?? (Genuinely asking to make sure I understand the question hehe)

Absolutely loved how unserious (but good!) Honey Don’t was! #MovieSky

Solo dates are so underrated!

Superman was so precious, I loved it so much 🥹 #MovieSky

Omg the song is called House Tour but my subliminal thoughts took over & renamed track 11 hahahahahahahahaa oops 😇

Overall, I give this a C- for how catchy & funny Manchild is, how fun WDYGH?, & how relatable the lyrics of ST, WABULN & Goodbye are.

I’m gonna go listen to Short n’ Sweet (Deluxe) instead!

#SabrinaCarpenter #MansBestFriend