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TRICK

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if you're doing ask box trick or treating, trick or treat!

If not then ig just have my silly little story

literally tumblr doesn’t like to work for me idk why

AND TRICK

treat!!

5 a song that needs to be played LOUD - VERSE by emily jeffri - it’s sooooo good unrelated to the volume but Suchhhh a corona about judith song

11: What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

time is very relative and i can’t pick favorites so top three!!

i listened to: The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey - published 2010 - a nonfiction book about rogue waves it’s soooooooo interesting it talks a lot about big wave surfing but also how we track freak waves and the history of wave science - it’s literally so good go read it the narrator did a really good job if you like audiobooks

i read: Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness by Bob Kaufman - published 1965 - a poetry collection that’s reallllyyyyy good bob kaufman was a jazz artist and poet throught the mid 19th century and a lot of his work was only ever preformed orally - my favourite of his poems are grandfather was queer too followed by jail poems

i read: Dear America: Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 by Deborah Hopkinson - published 2004 - a middle grade historical fiction about the shirtwaist workers strikes in the late 1900s and early 1910s - the triangle shirtwaist factory fire is a plot point - hadn’t read it since i was little very good held up for the most part younger me was Obsessed with the dear canada and dear america books - 100% what radicalized me at like 8 - just realized this doesn’t really count cus it was a reread shhhhhhh i have negative reading comprehension it’s okay

17: Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

i listened to How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler and was surprised by how much i liked it!!! i’ve been branching out a lot this year with reading more nonfiction and it was the first collection of essays i’ve read and it was super fascinating the author does suchhhhhh a good job marrying the ocean and their life it was sooooo so good like go read it - the author narrated the audiobook which also added another layer of!!!!

i listened to Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger and was surprised by how much the world building sucked me in!!! i had read another of her books a snake falls to earth and was expecting something like that and while it had the same world building aspects it was more of a murder mystery which normally is not my cup of tea but i reallllttttyyyyy enjoyed it - both books are set in the present day in an alternate universe where the legends of indigenous mythology (the author is specifically lipan apache) are very much real and recognized and are a big part of the world and plots

i read The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne Ursu it’s a middle grade fantasy and i wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as i did it had a really cool magic and world building and the intrapersonal relationships genuinely made me cry - no book needs to have a teachable lesson but this one definitely encouraged practicing media literacy and not trusting everything your told just because it comes from an authority figure and did it in a good not heavy handed way which i really enjoyed