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Jul 06, 2026

A Thousand Monstrous Forms: A Novel

2.0

Enjoyment: Quality: 3.0Characters: 2.0Plot: 3.5

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A Thousand Monstrous Forms: A Novel

Saratoga Schaefer

Bluebeard gets a gothic horror and sapphic romance twist in this fairytale retelling from the author of Serial Killer Support Group and Trad Wife. A young ceramic artist moves into her new wife’s isolated manor and gets drawn into dark discoveries that stain her marriage—and her very soul.Artist Poppy Reed doesn’t care if others think her marriage to Celia Marie Fox, a wealthy art dealer, is impulsive. Sure, they’ve only known each other for six months, and Celia has an infamous romantic reputation, but Poppy is brimming with excitement when she moves across the country to Celia’s a formidable, isolated, and art-filled manor called Busirane.As Poppy tries to celebrate her first weeks of marriage and enjoy her new home, Busirane seems intent on rebuffing her every attempt to settle in. Strange noises and confounding occurrences lead Poppy to believe the house is haunted, a suspicion worsened by Celia’s insistence that Poppy avoid the locked basement.When Celia leaves for a work trip, Poppy is left alone in the house, then finds herself snowed in. Surrounded by secrets, stalked by faceless statues, and beset by bodiless whispers, she struggles to trust her wife—and her own mind. When Poppy is eventually drawn to the forbidden basement, dark truths shatter everything she thought she knew, throwing her into a desperate bid for survival.Drenched in dread, this contemporary gothic folktale retelling will have you checking all the locks. Twice.

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Mid Vacation Reading 🤧

Bro, I will tolerate so much more crap in a book I’m reading on vacation than a book I’m reading at other times. I’m giving 4 stars to books I would normally give like a two. Like if it’s vacation then it’s my time to waste so I can read mid books but if it’s like I only have a couple of hours to read for myself I’m like NO YOU TRASHY MALE LEAD I DONT HAVE TIME FOR THIS GIVE ME PLOT.

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chanberryjuice

Jun 29, 2026

The Art of Charming a Changeling (Pigments and Paramours)

4.5

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

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🧵 Absolutely Charmed 🧺

-> LOVE the museum setting & the magic system -> MMC is an absolute gentleman (if youre tired of toxic masculinity cliches) -> Respect-maxxing -> 0.25 Spice level, a whiff of a pepper -> A daylight-breezy-cozy read -> Characters are charming & pleasant -> Fidgeting/Neurodivergence/Sensory sensitivity representation -> Immersive, delightful descriptions of textiles -> Easy to feel attached to Florrie -> Gorgeous cover -> The language in this book is so beautiful and soothing I wish I had an audiobook to switch to -> Very calm overall, a great read if you want to baby your nervous system but experience a new world -> 🌈 rep but main couple is M+F

-> The author, who I want to follow now, is openly anti-ai. Thank you to NetGalley for the introduction, and to the author for this enchanting tale.

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Shout to the void (pt13)🪐

It’s been a minute… but I know yall know the drill. What’s a complaint (no matter how big, small, silly, serious, dramatic, ridiculous, etc) that you need to SHOUT TO THE VOID 🗣️

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Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats

Courtney Gustafson

An intimate memoir about the importance of community and care in a world that can feel impossibly broken—and a story about accidentally going viral while tending to a colony of feral cats.When Courtney Gustafson moved into a rental house in the Poets Square neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, she didn’t know that the property came with thirty feral cats. Focused only on her own survival—in a new relationship, during a pandemic, with poor mental health and a job that didn’t pay enough—Courtney was reluctant to spend any of her own time or money caring for the wayward animals.But the cats—their pleading eyes, their ribs showing, the new kittens born in the driveway—didn’t give her a choice.She had no idea about the grief and hardship of animal rescue, the staggering size of the problem in neighborhoods across the country. And she couldn’t have imagined how that struggle—toward an ethics of care, of individuals trying their best amid spectacularly failing systems—would help pierce a personal darkness she’d wrestled with for much of her life. She also didn’t expect that the TikTok and Instagram accounts she created to share the quirky personalities of the wild but lovable cats, like Monkey, Goldie, Francois, and Sad Boy, would end up saving her home.Courtney writes toward a vision of connectedness, showing how taking care of the cats reshaped her understanding of empathy, resilience, and the healing power of wholly showing up for something outside yourself. She takes us from the dark alleys where she feeds feral cats to inside the tragically neglected homes where she climbs over piles of trash, and occasionally animals, and then into her own driveway with the cats she loves and must sometimes let go. Compelling and tender, Poets Square is as much about cats as it is about the urgency of care, community, and a little bit of dumb hope.

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On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Elise Loehnen

A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considered "good," revealing how the Seven Deadly Sins still control and distort their lives and illuminating a path toward a more balanced, spiritually complete way to live Women congratulate themselves when they resist the doughnut in the office break-room. They celebrate their restraint when they hold back from sending an e-mail in anger. They feel virtuous when they wake up at dawn to get a jump on the day. They put others' needs ahead of their own and believe this makes them exemplary. In On Our Best Behavior, journalist Elise Loehnen explains that these impulses--often lauded as unselfish, distinctly feminine instincts--are actually ingrained in women by a culture that reaps the benefits, via an extraordinarily effective collection of mores known as the Seven Deadly Sins. Since being codified by the Christian church in the fourth century, the Seven Deadly Sins--pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth--have exerted insidious power. Even today, in our largely secular, patriarchal society, they continue to circumscribe women's behavior. For example, seeing sloth as sinful leads women to deny themselves rest; a fear of gluttony drives them to ignore their appetites; and an aversion to greed prevents them from negotiating for themselves and contributes to the 55 percent gender wealth gap. Loehnen reveals how women have been programmed to obey the rules represented by these sins and how doing so qualifies them as "good." This probing analysis of contemporary culture and thoroughly researched history explains how women have internalized the patriarchy, and how they unwittingly reinforce it. By sharing her own story and the spiritual wisdom of other traditions, Loehnen shows how women can break free and discover the integrity and wholeness they seek.

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Dear Monica Lewinsky

Julia Langbein

From the acclaimed author of American Mermaid (“I loved it…and have never read anything like it”—Elizabeth Gilbert) comes a wise, funny, and wildly original examination of female desire and the price women pay for giving in to their appetites—starring an apparition of Monica Lewinsky Forty-five-year old Jean Dornan cannot escape the shadow of something she did several decades ago. On a study abroad program to France in the summer of 1998, she embarked on a deeply inappropriate relationship with her professor. When the professor contacts her out of the blue to invite her to his retirement ceremony, she is jolted out of her malaise and filled with the need to understand why the affair derailed her life. Rereading her old diaries, she is shocked to realize her relationship with the professor occurred during the summer of the Lewinsky scandal, yet she never saw the parallels. In a frenzy of guilt and regret, she finds herself praying to Monica Lewinsky—as if she were some kind of secular saint, the patron of persecuted and demonized women, perhaps?—and begging Monica’s forgiveness for not understanding everything they had in common. To her shock, Saint Monica appears to her—like a saucy Ghost of Christmas Past—and leads her back in time to reassess what happened. Had Jean merely been weak, stupid, blind, as she has told herself for years? What was it about her that led her into the affair? What did she really do that summer? Told in flashbacks of those sun-lit six weeks that changed Jean's life, interspersed with irreverent accounts of real female martyrs and visitations from Saint Monica offering insight about Jean’s younger self, Dear Monica Lewinsky is a tender, hilarious, and thought-provoking examination of desire and how it shapes us. It is also a timely examination of what grace and forgiveness look like, in our lives and throughout history.

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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Anne de Marcken

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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Anne de Marcken

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it ― how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens? This third perspective on myself is disconcerting. The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known―where she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another. A bracing writer of great nerve and verve, Anne de Marcken bends reality (and the reader’s mind) with throwaway assurance. It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love. Delivering a near-Beckettian whopping to the reader’s imagination, this is one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, a tale for our dispossessed times.

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Lol, she's trolling around while talking about her own pain. I love her haha she's iconic.

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Hunchback

Saou Ichikawa

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Hunchback

Saou Ichikawa

A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a provocative, defiant debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibilities of her life. Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka spends her days in her room in a care home outside Tokyo, relying on an electric wheelchair to get around and a ventilator to breathe. But if Shaka's physical life is limited, her quick, mischievous mind has no she takes e-learning courses on her iPad, publishes explicit fantasies on websites, and anonymously troll-tweets to see if anyone is paying attention (“If I were to live again, I’d want to be a highclass prostitute”). One day, she tweets into the void an offer of an enormous sum of money for a sperm donor. To her surprise—and ours—her new nurse accepts the dare, unleashing a series of events that will forever change Shaka's sense of herself as a woman in the world. Hunchback has shaken Japanese literary culture with its skillful depiction of the physical body and unrepentant humor. Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, it's a feminist story about the dignity of an individual who insist on her right to make choices for herself, no matter the consequences. Formally creative and refreshingly unsentimental, Hunchback depicts the joy, anger, and desires of a woman demanding autonomy in a world that doesn't aways always grant it to people like her. Full of wit, bite, and heart, this unforgettable novel reminds us all of the full potential of our lives, no matter the limitations we experience.

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Feb 18, 2026

Holy Wrath

3.0

Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 2.5Plot: 2.5

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ok so. it was kind of difficult to review this. i both hated and enjoyed this book? i really think the biggest reason for my annoyance is the fucking. audiobook. i think if i was reading it instead i would have been so much more generous… alas only the audiobook was available to me and it was. HORRENDOUS. never in my life have i heard something this bad. and the worst part is that the VA can sound normal!!!! she does the “this was an audiobook of blah blah blah” part so normally!!! so then why did i get bombarded by her weird heavy breathing, whiny voice? i played some part of it to my friend and she said the VA sounded literally like this:

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only you know, not as funny, and for SEVENTEEN HOURS

anyway. besides the horrible audiobook that completely ruined the book itself, well i found the MC, Ophelia, to be the kind of protagonist i dont really like— passive, self-hating etc etc i do understand why she’s that way, but i just dont personally enjoy characters like that. nyatrix is… better. i like her confidence a lot more, but she felt a bit too one dimensional, especially at the start. and the plot was just very confusing towards the end especially

and the writing style… honestly too purple prosey for me. listen a scene does Not need this many descriptors. not ever sentence has to be profound ok? relax a little. and the repetition!! i was just exhausted by the constant use of “her blackberry mouth” “her storm eyes” and asphodels too. also. my GOD how many times can she mention her throbbing vagina. at every single scene. YOU JUST ALMOST DIED AND THEN BOOM “the space between my legs was throbbing” I GET IT YOURE HORNY

also I appreciate a religion criticism but could this be any MORE on the nose? i cant even get into the whole first son/twelve siblings/last supper thing again.

anyways. good concept, not so great execution— at least not for me. again i do admit a lot of my annoyance may have been exacerbated by the audiobook 🫡🫡

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Red, White & Royal Blue

Casey McQuiston

First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?

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