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weeping over this inscription i found in my secondhand copy of Maurice:

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our recommendation post for next month’s theme! Here are twenty-four books that we think also fit the August theme of Sun & Moon! These are a mix of Adult and Young Adult titles. 

What other book would you add to our Sun & Moon theme?

First Row: Kestrel by Adrienne Lothy, Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, A Circle of Stars by Craig Montgomery, Galaxy: The Prettiest Star by Jazdia Axelrod, The Sun-Blessed Prince by Lindsey Byrd, Fragments of a Fallen Star by Viano Oniomoh.

Second Row: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan, The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas, Faebound by Saara El-Arifi, The Prince’s Poisoned Vow by Hailey Turner.

Third Row: Lunar Boy by Cin & Jes Wibowo, Tethered by TJ Williams, The Sun & the Star by Mark Oshiro & Rick Riordan, The Stars too Fondly by Emily Hamilton.

Fourth Row: On Wings of Fallen Stars by Khalida Başar, Alpha of Mortal Flesh by Ben Alderson, Of Tides & Snow by Darva Green, Song of a Starlit Sea by S.R. Garcia.

Fifth Row: Mercy by Ian Haramaki, A Maroon Star & a Silver Thread by Caroline Sophia Hamel, On Silver Shores by V. T. Hoàng, As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel, Under the Dragon Moon by Mawce Hanlin, Junker Seven by Olive J. Kelley.

What if she was right? What if I was someone else? Someone beautiful and powerful? Buried alive and suffocating to death on the other side of a television screen?

Imagine describing a dog to someone who's never seen one before and then asking them to draw it. It will look similar but the devil is in the details.

The swingin’ cats of Boise don’t just come to the Gator Club for jazz and gin, but for what Emery Wilson offers in the back room. They deal in contramods—nanobot software and devices unobtainable through legal means. Though many dealers make their living from sex mods and dope injections, Em—who has hemiplegia and knows how it feels to have a disability—gives away innovative medical aids and prosthetics for cheap. But altruism is hurting their wallet. If they can’t come up with rent for the club by the fifth, the jive joint will close and Em will be out on the street. Enter Joe: a square with an urgent need to cure his addiction to a powerful new drug, and a wad of dough if Em can help. But commissioning a cure means Em will have to venture into the foul domain of a shady programmer, risking reputation and appetite. When commissioning the cure becomes more complicated—and dangerous—than first expected, Em will need to use wits, grit, and their own contramod to keep the club, and themselves, alive. This is a short story prequel to Mazarin Blues, the first book in the queer and cozy decopunk series, Hep Cats of Boise.

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2026 COLOR CHALLENGE: July & Green

litwick stimboard for anon! :)

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