SpookyLucy

🔍 Each month I feature different My Taste books based on various categories I choose monthly. 🔍 In June 2026 I present books I like that have queer themes.

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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England

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Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld, #1)

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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

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The Everlasting

Alix E. Harrow

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The Everlasting

Alix E. Harrow

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, comes a moving and genre-defying adventure through time – as a reluctant lady knight and a not-so-heroic-historian will fight through time and space to rewrite their tragic fates . . . and finally reveal the truths hidden beneath the greatest legend ever told. It begins where it ends: beneath the yew tree – a girl not yet a knight, and a boy without a story. It is where she pulls a sword from the heartwood and becomes a legend. And it is where, more than a thousand years later, he will find her – and lose her – and find her – and lose her again. It is where a new story will be written – but whose will it be?

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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4

Beth Brower

"It all began very innocently. Truly." The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.

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Tuesday Trivia & Tidbits - What have you learned this week?

This is going to be my last Tuesday Trivia & Tidbits! If someone else feels up to taking it over, I would love to read and participate in them! My schedule is a bit swamped, so I haven't been able to keep up with the threads in the way I would like to. So if you wanna take it over - I would love that!

So for one last go (from me at least) What have you learned from your reading this week? Whether it's a quick piece a trivia, a deep dive into a niche interest, or a tidbit your learned about yourself over others - we'd love to hear it!

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I Am You

Victoria Redel

In 1600s Amsterdam, two women—a painter and her assistant—defy the norms of their time as they take on the male-dominated art world and fall in love—from “fantastic prose writer” (Vulture) and “true master” (Guernica), Victoria Redel.“I loved it in a way that is no doubt different than other books I have loved. The period and touches on time, sexual politics, art, history, class, women’s rights and the significance of Amsterdam and all the details the author shares of this particularly rich period kept me thoroughly engaged and is a brilliant backdrop to Gerta and Maria’s story.” —Sarah Jessica Parker, SJP Lit At seven years old, Gerta’s hair is lopped off and she’s sent to work for the Oosterwijcks under the name Pieter because it’s a boy they need. As Pieter, she splits wood, minds the hens and rabbits, scrubs the wooden floors of the house, and tends the garden—all while the family’s teenage daughter, Maria, looks on, sketching Pieter’s every movement. A few years later at the dinner table Maria lays Gerta’s deception open alongside a demand that Gerta accompany her to Utrecht, where Maria will apprentice in the workshop of a famous painter. In Utrecht, Maria learns to paint skilled still lives—though she is the only woman in her workshop and because of her gender will never be accepted into the painters’ guild. As Maria ascends to great heights of skill and fame, the relationship between maid and employer deepens and shifts, and it becomes clear that Gerta, too, possesses abilities far beyond what society expects. Inspired by the little that is known about Maria van Oosterwijck’s actual life, I Am You is a love story, a meditation on gender—the ways it binds and frees us—and an ode to artistic creation. As beautifully wrought as Oosterwijck’s paintings delicate, blazing in color, and at times enveloped in shadow, Victoria Redel’s new novel brings to life the copious spoils of Amsterdam’s Golden Age, and the perils that lay hidden within them for women like Maria and Gerta.

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Cinder House

Freya Marske

Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske—a queer Gothic romance perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and T. Kingfisher.Ella is a haunting.Murdered at sixteen, her ghost is furiously trapped in her father's house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters.Even when she discovers how to untether herself from her prison, there are limits. She cannot be seen or heard by the living people who surround her. Her family must never learn she is able to leave. And at the stroke of every midnight, she finds herself back on the staircase where she died.Until she forges a wary friendship with a fairy charm-seller, and makes a bargain for three nights of almost-living freedom. Freedom that means she can finally be seen. Danced with. Touched.You think you know Ella's the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince.You're halfway right, and all-the-way wrong.Rediscover a classic fairy tale in this debut novella from "the queen of romantic fantasy" (Polygon).At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Death Takes Me

Cristina Rivera Garza

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.A city is always a cemetery.When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning scrawled on the brick wall beside the body, written in coral nail “Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.”After reporting the crime to the police, the professor becomes the lead informant of the case, led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures on her back. But what has the professor really seen? As more bodies of men are found across the city, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems, and if they are facing a darker stream of violence spreading throughout the city.Death Takes Me is a thrilling masterpiece of literary fiction that flips the traditional crime narrative on its head, in a world where death is rampant and violence is gendered. Written in sentences as sharp as the cuts on the bodies of the victims—a word which, in Spanish, is always feminine—Death Takes Me unfolds with the charged logic of a dream, moving from the professor’s classroom into the slippery worlds of Latin American poetry and art, as it explores with masterful imagination the unstable terrains of desire and sexuality.

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Boring Asian Female

Canwen Xu

“Thank you for your interest in our school, but we regret to inform you that…” you’re not special. You’re too average. You’re too boring. Well, in that case, she’ll have to show them just how interesting she can be. Elizabeth Zhang is well aware of her place in the world. She’s in the tenth percentile for likability, the seventieth percentile for attractiveness, and the ninety-ninth percentile for academics. While she’s never been the most beautiful or the most liked, she knows she has the intelligence and ambition to achieve her greatest dream: Harvard Law School. But when Harvard rejects Elizabeth for not standing out enough—which she knows means she's just another boring Asian female—her carefully constructed life falls apart. What shocks her even more is that Laura Kim, a classmate at Columbia, got in. Elizabeth can’t figure out how this could have happened. Why was Laura accepted? What makes her so interesting? At first, she follows her because she’s just curious. What Laura orders for lunch. Where Laura shops. What Laura’s hobbies are. All of these things must contribute to her overall package, what makes her an acceptable person to Harvard. But still, Elizabeth just can’t see it. The only thing she sees is that Laura has taken her spot. A spot that she knows she deserves after working so hard. A spot that she’ll simply have to take back. Layered and subversive, this novel brings to light how, in the face of societal expectations and self-inflicted pressures, a person can unlock the darkest parts of themselves and show how far they’re willing to go to achieve their vision of success.

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4.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.5

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From this Asian female, I found this book anything but boring!

Elizabeth has been rejected from her dream of Harvard law school. But somehow Laura Kim got a place. Elizabeth is convinced there is only a certain number of places set aside for "boring Asian females" and she will do anything to get her deserved place back from Laura.

This book is UNHINGED! We go deep deep into Elizabeth's mind and her all-consuming obsession. She believes in her derangement so intensely that I began to believe her too. Her insane behaviour and delusional fixation begins to seem almost logical. This book is exceptionally well executed in that sense. I really enjoyed the ending too, it came as a surprise. My only negative comment is that it dragged a little in the first half.

Overall it was very funny, suspenseful, and smart. 4.5 stars. Thanks netgalley for the opportunity to review the ARC.

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Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity

Elizabeth Wilson

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as "the best I have read on the subject, bar none." From haute couture to haberdashery, "deviant" dress to Dior, Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity. She also discusses fashion's vociferous opponents, from the "dress reform" movement to certain strands of feminism. Wilson delights in the power of fashion to mark out identity or subvert it. This brand new edition of her book follows recent developments to bring the story of fashionable dress up to date, exploring the grunge look inspired by bands like Nirvana, the "boho chic" of the mid 90's, retro-dressing, and the meanings of dress from the veil to soccer player David Beckham's pink-varnished toenails.

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Wrapups are live on the app! [06/10/2026]

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Head to the Stats tab on your profile and look for the "Generate Wrapup" button. You'll see we have 7 different wrapup views (2 extra for Royalty members) with customization options. You can also change the color scheme for your wrapup!

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For the next few weeks we'll be working on some Roadmap requests and quality of life updates. You can check the roadmap by clicking the link in the footer on web or on the app, clicking the link in the hamburger menu (the three lines next to the logo in the navbar).

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Happy reading, wrapups, & Pride, Jennifer + Lucy 💙💜

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Audiobook Hobbies?

What do you audiobook readers do hobby-wise while listening? I'm looking for new ideas.

I currently play games on my tablet but am starting to get bored. I used to do jigsaw puzzles and that's great but in the mood for something different. I also need something that doesn't require too much brainpower and thinking/counting. I started a new search and find game but I was having to think of what I was looking for and keeping it in mind and it was a bit distracting.

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How much do you spend on books a month?

I try to be as frugal as I can with my reading. I get most of my books from the library, I borrow books from friends/family, I buy second hand both from physical stores and sites like vinted/awesomebooks etc, and I recently got an ebook subscription service too.

That said, I still think I spend between £50-£100 on books each month. I do read quite a lot and would consider it my main 'hobby', but even so that's prolly a lil much.

How much would you estimate you spend on average? (pls make me feel better about myself)

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