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What Would Cleopatra Do?: Life Lessons from 50 of History's Most Extraordinary Women

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Phrases/words you can’t stand?

Vent post about something relatively inconsequential!

I am reading Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert right now and Bob the Drag Queen has used the phrase “if I’m being honest” at least 3 times in the first hour of listening. I am starting to despise this phrase, mainly because it seems to add nothing to 90% of the sentences it’s used in. There are a couple other authors I’ve read who use it a lot and I’m getting annoyed just thinking about it!

What turns of phrase or words make you cringe when you read them?

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4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.0

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I really, really like the premise. It is a bold and new way to tell someone’s story, by taking the reader on a journey to actually get to know the person, not just hear their story.

Where the premise falls apart for me a little is when it comes to the question of how accurate this really can be. I find it very bold to include Harriet complaining about inaccurate depictions of her life in a book that is a fictious, speculative story

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What Would Cleopatra Do?: Life Lessons from 50 of History's Most Extraordinary Women

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What Would Cleopatra Do?: Life Lessons from 50 of History's Most Extraordinary Women

Elizabeth Foley

Irreverent, inspirational, and a visual delight, What Would Cleopatra Do? shares the wisdom and advice passed down from Cleopatra, Queen Victoria, Dorothy Parker, and forty-seven other heroines from past eras on how to handle an array of common problems women have encountered throughout history and still face today. What Would Cleopatra Do? tackles issues by reminding us of inspiring feminists from the past, telling their stories with warmth, humor, and verve. From sticking up for yourself, improving body image, deciding whether to have children, finding a mentor, getting dumped, feeling like an imposter, being unattractive, and dealing with gossip, we can learn a lot by reading motivational stories of heroic women who, living in much tougher times through history, took control of their own destinies and made life work for them. Here are Cleopatra’s thoughts on sibling rivalry, Mae West on positive body image, Frida Kahlo on finding your style, Catherine the Great on dealing with gossip, Agatha Christie on getting dumped, Hedy Lamarr on being underestimated—to list only a few—as well as others who address dilemmas including career-planning, female friendship, loneliness, financial management, and political engagement. Featuring whimsical illustrations by L.A.-based artist Bijou Karman, What Would Cleopatra Do? is a distinctive, witty, and gift-worthy tribute to history’s outstanding women.

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SUPERNATURAL/PARANORMAL: PRIDE EDITION 🏳️‍🌈

HAPPY PRIDE!! Hope this month brings some amazing books for everyone😍

I would love some recs for some supernatural and/or paranormal reads for this month. I WILL be making my way through lists and quests, however, I’d really love some specific recs from people, especially if they’re from smaller/indie authors or books not on here often but that YOU love.

What I’m looking for:

✨ shorter books (max 200ish pages)

✨ any and all queer characters (a lot of my TBR is MM so if I could get recs from other spaces within the community that would be amazing)

✨ as wacky and wonderful as you like as long as there are some supernatural (ie vampires, werewolves, ghouls etc) and/or paranormal (ie ghosts, cryptids, aliens etc) characters/elements

Thanks so much! 👽🧛‍♀️🐺

Edit: have added some recs that fit MM below for anyone interested in these types of books!!

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Question of the Day!

Hola Bookaholics!!

Here is my question to you:

What matters most: great writing or a great idea? 🤔

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Stuff your eReader Events in June 💐☀️

Another month has gone and so it is time for another announcement post about all the free books you can get and support indie authors along the way!

During Stuff Your E-Reader events, indie authors make the download of their book free or reduce the price to 0.99

(Some of the books are only available on amazon, but a lot of authors also offer the same in other online stores, so you don’t have to necessarily use Amazon!)

🗓️ June Events:

6th-7th: Possessively Paranormal Romance 🌙
10th-13th: Indie Author‘s Collective Fantastical Escape 🧚
15th-16th: The Indie Author Hive‘s Fantasy SYKD 🐉
16th-18th: Black Love Reigns‘ Boombox Event 🎶
20th-21st: Indie Stuffed 📚
26th: Knot Your Love Language 🪢

Please always consider leaving a review for the books since most of these indie authors are giving you their work for free and doing the events with the purpose of getting some publicity!

Happy reading!

(Disclaimer: The website BookBelow has several SYK events every month but because of their tendency to include a lot of books with apparent AI covers & because they have several tools for AI in writing (such as character generators), I will no longer include their events in these monthly posts)

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Stuff your eReader Events in June 💐☀️

Another month has gone and so it is time for another announcement post about all the free books you can get and support indie authors along the way!

During Stuff Your E-Reader events, indie authors make the download of their book free or reduce the price to 0.99

(Some of the books are only available on amazon, but a lot of authors also offer the same in other online stores, so you don’t have to necessarily use Amazon!)

🗓️ June Events:

6th-7th: Possessively Paranormal Romance 🌙
10th-13th: Indie Author‘s Collective Fantastical Escape 🧚
15th-16th: The Indie Author Hive‘s Fantasy SYKD 🐉
16th-18th: Black Love Reigns‘ Boombox Event 🎶
20th-21st: Indie Stuffed 📚
26th: Knot Your Love Language 🪢

Please always consider leaving a review for the books since most of these indie authors are giving you their work for free and doing the events with the purpose of getting some publicity!

Happy reading!

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Ace of Spades

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Gossip Girl meets Get Out in Ace of Spades, a YA contemporary thriller by debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and their struggles against an anonymous bully. When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian, too.Shortly after the announcement is made, though, someone who goes by Aces begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down and threaten every aspect of their carefully planned futures.As Aces shows no sign of stopping, what seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game, with all the cards stacked against them. Can Devon and Chiamaka stop Aces before things become incredibly deadly?With heart-pounding suspense and relevant social commentary comes a high-octane thriller from debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé.

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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

Bob the Drag Queen

From RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and host of HBO’s We’re Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and music. In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet Tubman is back, and she has a lot to say. Harriet Tubman and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom want to tell their story in a unique way—by following in the footsteps of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. Harriet wants to put on a show about her life, and she needs a songwriter to help her. She calls upon Darnell Williams, a once successful hip-hop producer who was topping the charts before being outed by a rival at the BET Awards. Darnell has no idea what to expect when he steps into the studio with Harriet, only that they have one week to write a Broadway caliber musical she can take on the road. Over the course of their time together, they not only mount a show that will take the country by storm, but confront the horrors of both their pasts, and learn to find a way to a better future. Original, evocative, and historic, Harriet Live in Concert is a landmark achievement that will burrow deep into our hearts (and ears).

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Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus

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May 30, 2026

4.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.0

Surprisingly not as cracky as I expected. Like… at all. Loved the humor and the fourth wall breaks in particular. Also, the commentary on art and the creative process was great, loved it

I do think it went on for a tad too long and at the ~50% mark i was left wondering what else could possibly still happen, and I wasn’t too invested in what followed

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Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus

Chuck Tingle

Trans wizard Harriet Porber is a master spellsmith who's found herself in a bit of a pickle. After finishing wizard college, Harriet made a name for herself by creating a hit viral spell, but has since failed to craft a follow up. Now Harriet’s agent, Minerma, is breathing down her neck, suggesting that Harriet take a trip to an island off the coast of England for inspiration. Hoping for some peace and quiet to clear her head, Harriet Porber arrives to find that her new neighbor, an angsty bard named Snabe from the band Seven Inch Nails, is already there making a racket. This parasaurolophus spellcaster is a bad boy through and through, and with his incredible powers of metamagic, Snabe reveals that this layer of reality is much more than it seems. Could Harriet and Snabe really be characters in a parody romance novel? Soon enough, these two are discovering they have more similarities than differences: both trans, both strong, and both hoping to create a new spell that will change the world. But with the addition of two devious sentient motorcycles to the mix, Dellatrix and Braco, things start to get complicated. Now trans wizard Harriet Porber is caught up in a tale of magic and mystery where nothing is as it seems, except for one universal truth: love is real.

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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

Ian Watt

The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era. In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the increasing interest in the English novel, including the contributions that Ian Watt's study made to literary his introduction of sociology and philosophy to traditional criticism.

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