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moontea

Jun 11, 2026

3.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5Audiobook: 4.0

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This is a great book to spark more conversation, both about the past and the current as shown in the main character's arc.

I hope this can bring more interest to the historical people mentioned! It helped introduce me to figures I'd never known about, such as William Dorsey Swann and Benjamin Lay. Coincidentally I'd gone down a vogueing video rabbit hole recently, which led me to reading about the ballroom scene, but I hadn't gone back enough to learn about Swann until this book. There are so many fascinating people who we don't learn enough about. I wish I had been introduced to more of these people when I was younger.

The plotting and descriptions could have been stronger in this novel. There were moments I wished the setting could have been more developed, but perhaps the book was intended to be more conversational. I heard this was originally intended to be a stage play/musical, which could explain why it turned out that way.

I'm glad that I went with the audiobook format for the author's narration and hearing the original songs at the end!

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moontea

Jun 11, 2026

3.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5Audiobook: 4.0

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This is a great book to spark more conversation, both about the past and the current as shown in the main character's arc.

I'm glad that I went with the audiobook format for the author's narration and hearing the original songs at the end!

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How much of a yapper are you 🗣️

Now that the monthly wrap-up stats are out, I went back to look at how many comments I made each month and decided to calculate my average # comments / day 🤓 according to this website there are 161 days between January 1 and June 10 2026 (inclusive)! My current average came out to 39.6 comments / day 🙂‍↕️

Would be curious to hear from others if you would like to share! 🫶💗

EDIT: the comment count is only available to Royalty members (totally my bad, I thought everyone could at least see the number!)

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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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The Book of Form and Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being After the tragic death of his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house--a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, Benny discovers a strange new world, where "things happen." He falls in love with a mesmerizing street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many. And he meets his very own Book--a talking thing--who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter. With its blend of sympathetic characters, riveting plot, and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz, to climate change, to our attachment to material possessions, The Book of Form and Emptiness is classic Ruth Ozeki--bold, wise, poignant, playful, humane and heartbreaking.

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Legendary Edition)

Akira Himekawa

Link must defeat evil at every turn in his perilous quest to help Princess Zelda! The Legend of Legendary Edition contains two volumes of the beloved The Legend of Zelda manga series, presented in a deluxe format featuring new covers and color art pieces by Akira Himekawa. The battle for Hyrule and the Sacred Realm has begun! A young boy named Link must defeat evil on his long, perilous quest to find the spiritual stones that hold the key to the Triforce, and deliver them to Zelda, princess of the land of Hyrule. Young Link embarks on a perilous quest to find three spiritual stones that hold the key to the Triforce, the wielder of which will rule the world! Link's plan is to deliver the stones to the Princess of the mystical land of Hyrule, Zelda. But obstacles abound and his long journey has only just begun!

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easy French books 🇫🇷

As I do every year I’ll be summering in France but this is my first year being there after having dropped the subject at school. I wondered if anyone had some recommendations of simple books I can read in a French translation (or French original ofc) to brush up on my understanding again. By simple I don’t mean a children’s book though.

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Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremony that defeats the most virulent of afflictions—despair.

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A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun.""The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic." This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.

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Available Libby Cards

I have been on the hunt for more cards to access via Libby and thought I would share what I know and see if anyone else have found any.

🔗queer liberation library has free accounts and has a good selection of Queer book and 5 loans available per card.

🔗reciprocard.com allows you to see what other libraries are available to you with the library card you already have. As I live in CA there are a lot of counties that as long as you show up in person with ID you can get additional county cards.

What have you found?

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Classics - The Bad, Ugly, and Evil

Got a curious question to everyone who reads classics or studied them for their English literature degree.

Did you ever read a classic that turns out to be "bad" (you can define for yourself what "bad" can mean: outdated commentary, politically incorrect takes, horrible writing, unreadability, dislike, etc.)? Or when do you decide that the classic you are reading is "bad"? (Is it even possible to find a "bad" classic as opinions are subjective?)

I guess to narrow the term "classic" down, I'm figuring that this mainly covers the literary works you're analysing in schools or in the majority of university courses. And they mainly consist of works that are older than those published in the later half of the 20th century (but I also don't mind discussing more "modern classics").

Feel free to rant ahead with the takes you have! There are only three classics (well one of them is a required school reading) which I did not enjoy at all:

A Separate Peace by John Knowles (my class was tricked into believing that it'll be about soldiers surviving World War 2, but the war is just a backdrop for two male students safe in the US)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - the heavy racist language and stereotypical depiction of the native people in Congo turned me off real quick
All My Sons by Arthur Miller - the themes are very surfaced-level and obvious, plus it's super boring and tedious - a complete opposite of The Crucible which I adore

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sick day: easy reads for when you’re sick

by honeydijon

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It’s a cruel irony that taking a sick day means being at home with nothing to do, but very little brain power with which to read.

Enter this list, a collection of books from various genres that don’t require too much brain power but are still GOOD. Accessible prose, storylines that aren’t overly convoluted, and often short chapters or frequent break points. And of course, easy to pick back up after dozing off!

Suggestions welcome!

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Preferred way of annotating?

What’s y’all’s preferred way of annotating, I personally like to just underline specific quotes with black pen but I’ve seen people put tabs and highlight certain passages, I’m always looking for ways to better understand and get all I can out of the text and I think annotating really helps, anyways I would really appreciate y’all’s thoughts!

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