BOOKS

Sonia Sanchez, ‘Haiku (for you)’, Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Poems

Loveless by Alice Oseman

Sounds Fake But Okay by Sarah Costello and Kayla Kaszyca

Is Love The Answer? by Uta Isaki

City Of Strife by Claudie Arseneault

This Doesn't Mean Anything by Sarah Whaler

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning Of Sex by Angela Chen

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Vanilla by Billy Merrell

Paper Planes by Jennie Wood

Being Ace: An Anthology Of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection by Various Authors

Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann

Rick by Alex Gino

When Martin Ruins It All by Amanda DeWitt

Love, Ace & Monsters: An Ace Anthology by Various Authors

Ya like weird fiction? Ya like it when there’s little gay people and eldritch horrors in the same story? I’m a queer indie writer and I wrote a collection of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror short fiction called The Strange Garden and Other Weird Tales.

The ebook is only $2.99 and you can buy it here. Or you can get a shiny print copy, or even buy the audiobook!

OR you can get it for FREE if you want to review it! Just send my a message and I’ll send you the ebook.

Please rate and review, and please rb!

I am here to start a book blog! For the summer? For the year?? For the ever?! Yes. I’m so excited.

Here are some books I’ll be reading in the next few weeks

Dark Rise- I have started this book first and im so excited to get into it. I heard from reviews that it has a cliffhanger. So I figured that I would read it right away, mourn the cliffhanger, and then jump into more books as I wait for the sequel to come out. Good plan?

The Charm Offensive- I have heard many nice things about this book! The thing that caught my attention was talk about how the characters have good development with their emotions and handling traumas? I really enjoy character development like that. (I just finished reading the Simon Snow Trilogy and also Boyfriend Material. All of these books had pretty emotionally vulnerable characters which is awesome to see!)

The Cruel Prince- This is me falling to my knees for the hype. (I would say booktok but I don’t have one of those) I’m excited for this one because of the quotes and fan art I’ve seen from the fandom. I’m always down for some fae fantasy and a badass female lead. I hope that’s what I’m getting from it.

The Priory of the Orange Tree- This book was recommended to me by a friend and I can’t wait to start it! (700+ pages? Yes please) I know the least about this book out of this list but am excited to jump into the world. I hear that it’s sapphic and a wonderful story, we love that!

I’ll be posting updates and reviews as I make my way through this list. Feel free to tag along or to leave some recommendations. :)

Author: Marianne Williamson

I’ve read hundreds of books on self love and relationships and this has to be one of my top favorites.

You are either living in fear or living in love. There’s no in between. The book focuses on your relationship with yourself and how it affects your romantic relationships as well. It is a very raw and soft perspective on finding inner peace with love, with so many relatable examples.

This book does use Christian theology as the way to explain this process. So it is based a lot on faith and prayer.

One of the most popular quotes from the book:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

"You love me?"

"I'd be insane not to."

★★★★☆ - 4 stars

"Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important."

Georgia Warr has never liked anyone - no boys, no girls. She's obsessed with romance and reads more fanfiction than the average reader, yet at any near-romantic encounter that comes her way, she feels an undeniable surge of disgust. Maybe she just hasn't met the right person yet? That's what everyone says, after all, that we will all find the person someday. However, when Georgia enters her first year at Durham University and discovers new terms like asexual and aromantic, she finds herself more confused than ever. In desperate attempts to find the love she thinks she is supposed to have, she finds herself tearing apart the friendships in her life that have always remained a constant. Will she ever find her grand romance or is it her destiny to forever remain loveless?

The rarity of aroace representation is an absolute atrocity. As books about queer rep and LGBTQ+ romance become more frequent members of shop shelves, a standstill on asexual and aromantic representation still remains. This is why Loveless is so amazing - that representation is the core focus and subject matter, yet it still has other forms of representation. It's got a diverse cast of interesting and relatable characters, which is a prominent feature of all of Alice Oseman's work, creating a sense of realism that exceeds expectations.

Pacing was quite genuinely a very interesting aspect of Loveless. The first half of the book is slow and at times even boring. However, the strange thing is that it's a purposeful depiction of Georgia's emotions about her own life and actually makes the book as a whole even more compelling. Georgia Warr feels that her life is a bore and that nothing is happening to her in the way it is for everyone else, so the book mirrors this. Later on, once her life starts getting more dramatic and she starts to figure herself out, it becomes fast-paced and addictive in an "I don't want to put this down" kind of way.

(I’m just a boy.)

Moi tu mathu eta lora,

Tumi muk jani ki koriba?

Mur kotha beleg,

Moi xoijyo kori lom.

Tumi aru tumar jibon,

Eku nohoi jate tumar.

Tumi aru tumar xopun,

Eku nohoi jate tumar.

Tumi uri gusi juwa jun tu le,

Tumi mur sinta nokoriba.

Muk janibo khuji,

Mur logot thaki najaba.

Moi tu mathu eta lora,

Tumi muk jani ki koriba?

Translation:

I’m just a boy,

What will you get by knowing me?

My situation is different.

I’ll embrace the suffering.

You and your life,

it shouldn’t go in vain.

You and your dreams,

chase them, make them come true.

You go, escape — fly to the moon.

Don’t you worry about me.

And don’t you try to stay back

by trying to know me.

I’m just a boy,

What will you get by knowing me?

Avis

May be my first ever Assamese scribble. It came to me in like seconds and I penned it down.

Mon gol kiba eti likhibole. :))