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justsage

Sage — they/them — certified silly bean ✨ reading books to escape reality 🙂‍↕️ gradually stepping out of my reading comfort zone 👀 fall has come and I don’t want it to leave 🫶🏼🍂🍁

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Tiny but Mighty Nonfiction
Cherry Blossom Festival 2026
LGBTQ+ Middle Grade
My Taste
Invisible Ashes
The Tortoise's Tale: A Novel
Hell Followed With Us
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
Perfect Enough (Good Different #2)
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(Don't) Call Mum
16%
Bone of My Bone
16%
a body more tolerable
47%
The Incandescent
3%

October 2026

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest InfectionThe UnhauntingInvisible AshesThe Nudge: A Psychological ThrillerThe Empress of Salt and FortuneYear of the ReaperDon't Let the Forest In(Don't) Call MumBone of My BoneThe MessageThe Legend of Sleepy HollowMaus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds HistoryThe Incandescent

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  • Oct 03, 2026
    Invisible Ashes
    Invisible AshesAnnalee Jean
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 5.0
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    GORGEOUS. BEAUTIFUL. AMAZING. In the top 5 books I’ve ever loved, this going to be #1. If I could, I’d rate this 100s of stars. And it will forever be #1 and you might be asking how I’m so fucking sure and I will tell you that Iris, the MC, is me. And what I dream for and everything in between. I may not have her same story, but I have her same pain and the wish to be free and be loved so dearly and to find myself.

    Thank you Annalee, my sweet friend, for writing such a beautiful, breathtaking book. And also blessing me with the ARC. I want to give you hugs and I hope and pray that so many people read this and the books you continue to write.

    THIS RELEASES ON THE 15th OF THIS MONTH!! It’s a feminist thriller with a southern gothic atmosphere and so much more. This is dark with death, gore, mentions of self-exit thoughts, attempted self-exit, successful self-exit, murder, physical and mental abuse, etc. So don’t go into this book blindly if those things will bother you 🫶🏼 This book was out of my comfort zone just from what it is and what it includes, but I am so proud of myself for reading it, and I know it won’t be for everyone, but it was for me.

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    justsage commented...

    YAYYYYY I FINALLY GOT SPARKLY BRAIN BOI 🥹🙂‍↕️💖 I would’ve never discovered those books if not for the quest so thank you my dear friend @notbillnye for an amazing quest!!! I found ones I loved, learned more about history, discovered people’s lives and feelings, and even found hate-reading to be a joy when you hate-read with other friends 😂🙂‍↕️🫶🏼