mxbookworm
Char * they/he* 27yo * 🏳️🌈🌶️🧠 Fantasy is a fav but I read most genres. I look for books with lgbtq and disabled characters and am always looking to diversify and expand my reading.
5071 points
October 2026
4.43 average · 747 reviews
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This was a fascinating deep dive (pun intended) into the ocean depths. The author did a truly thorough investigation, traveling to indigenous communities up in northern Canada to learn about crowdsourcing mapping initiatives, traveling on research ships, some funded by universities and some by rich billionaires, as well as individual scientists and their work. She also looked into attempts to begin deep sea mining and the development potential devastating impacts on the ocean and environment. She explains the benefits of mapping the ocean, the myths surrounding it, and the downsides of technologies potential impact on marine life. Would definitely recommend this to anyone who loved marine biology as a kid.
This book is an extremely thorough, compassionate, and inquisitive look at how teenagers use their phones, the potential longer term implications, and what the adults in their lives think they need to hear versus when where and how certain guidance may help. As others have said in their reviews, I highly recommend this read to parents, educators, librarians, and anyone else who works regularly with teenagers or tweens.
This was a beautiful and thoughtful memoir that wove the authors personal story coming to understand her queerness and her interpretations of the Quran stories that she related to her life. Thank you so much Lamya for sharing this story, your writing is mesmerizing and I learned so much- about different ways to be queer (vs the mythical “authentic queerness” that she talks about) and the Quran in the process of reading this.
At the end of the book, Pelly brings up the ways public libraries have been working to compensate artists. They’ve built collections around local artists where they pay them a licensing fee ($200 was the example) for their album. Then that album is available through a website to their patrons and they’re supporting local community artists. Here’s a link to the website I found 🔗Music Cat. This is really cool and I wish my library was able to do this!
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
T. Kingfisher
Love that Mona introduces the costumers with their regular orders!
I’ve been reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer and it’s a beautiful book but I feel the need to read it slowly. I think it’s the meditative and contemplative nature of the book itself, and essay collections especially lend themselves well to a slower speed. Now I want to read this more consistently but slowly. One chapter a day, maybe two today, finishing it at the very end of this month (I have 21 chapters left). Have you ever set yourself some sort of limit with a book? I want time to chew on the information. I’ve felt this before- when I read Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown on Audiobook. I own the hardcover and want to reread it at some point at a similarly slow speed to take it in with more detail. I find myself leaning away more recently from the fast paced thrillers (I think the one for the spring reading challenge, Razorblade Tears by SA Crosby is the only high stakes thriller I’ve read in a while.) I’ve also read Ray Bradbury’s books, Dandelion Wine and others at purposely slow speed in the past. What are your favorite books to read slowly?
mxbookworm commented...
Oh I love this idea! I was putting all new vocabulary words I came across into a Quizlet set for a while. That helped as I would remember them. But writing it out seems like it could be super helpful. I'll have to grab one of my (many) blank notebooks for next time I read. I just came across a new word this morning: garrulous (gair-e-les) meaning 1. fond of talking or conversation 2. using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea (Source: Merriam-Webster)
I’ve been toying with the idea of keeping a “Word Journal” for awhile now, as a way to improve my personal vocabulary and get in the habit of learning what something means instead of just glossing past it. But after reading an article and bumping into multiple words I either didn’t know or wasn’t totally certain on the meaning/usage of, I decided to finally go through with my plan.
My goal now is to bring a little journal around with me as much as possible and any time I come across a word I’m not confident about, I take a moment to learn what it means, how to pronounce it, and how it’s used in a sentence, and I’ll write that all down in the journal. Hopefully, with each entry my vocab will grow bit by bit, and I’ll foster a greater curiosity in myself.
So, my point now in posting about this is to ask if anyone here has or is doing something similar? Or, in general, what your relationship is with language vs what it used to be or what you wish it was?
Bonus Q: Have you recently come across a word that perplexed or beguiled you?
Perplexed [per-plekst] an adjective meaning to be filled with uncertainty; puzzled
Beguiled [buh-giled] transitive verb meaning to engage the interest of or to lead by deception; hoodwinked
mxbookworm commented...
Same! And I work there 😂🤦🏼
Hello everybody! Does anyone have any library books they’re currently reading, have borrowed or is in line for?? I just came home from the library where I borrowed Good girl, bad blood and placed an order on Gideon the ninth and bury our bones in the midnight soul. I’m super excited for both! BOUBITMS will come quickly, as there wasn’t any list on that one, but unfortunately Gideon the ninth has quite a long list and won’t be able available before at least a month… 🤧 but good thing I have so much else to read!
Happy reading and I hope yall don’t run out of renewals 🎉
mxbookworm commented...
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
"...and once again I suffered the intolerable discomfort that floods one after lack of tact."
is so...... real lmao
