#haven't read

Support these authors, their books, and let’s celebrate them together! This list will feature debuts, new series, standalones, etc. As always my post will feature a mix of contemporary, fantasy, sci-fi, magical realism, historical fiction, and more!

While release dates and covers for some of these have yet to be finalized, I really wanted to get these books on your radar because I definitely think they need more buzz!! Join me in discussing and gushing about these reads from AOC’s we are getting so very soon.

Enjoy today’s list and let me know if your looking forward to these Young Adult releases as well or have more recommendations of your own!

Non-normative Victorians : Ian McGuire's The North Water as a neo-Victorian novel

Let's be honest. There are times, when you just don't feel it. There is something missing. It's the mood, the motivation you need to get things done.

I haven't read a single page today. I had a good time with my brother and watched some anime and movies. And I don't regret it, which surprised me. Normally I feel bad when I didn't read all day, but that's not the case this time. Yeah, life is strange.

But I have a movie recommendation for you. If you ever have the possibility to watch "Weathering With You" do it! I just saw it and I can confidently say it's one of my favorites now.

A powerful, revealing anthology of dark fiction and poetry by Black women writers. The tales of what scares, threatens and shocks them will enlighten and entertain you. Sycorax’s Daughters’ stories and poems delve into demons and shape shifters from Carole McDonnell’s “How to Speak to the Bogeyman” and Sheree Renée Thomas’ “Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight” to far future offerings from Kiini Ibura Salaam’s “The Malady of Need”, Valjeanne Jeffers’ steampunk female detective in “Mona Livelong: Paranormal Detective II” and others.

I stumbled across this anthology, Sycorax's Daughters. I haven’t read it but it’s definitely doggy-eared now! If anyone has read this, please share your thoughts and leave reviews for the authors on goodreads & wherever you bought it from.

- Mod Colette

Abstract: Isoprene is a valuable precursor for synthetic rubber and a signature product of terpenoid pathways. Here, we developed an isoprene biosensor by employing a TbuT transcriptional regulator of Ralstonia pickettii to express a fluorescent reporter gene in response to intracellular isoprene in engineered Escherichia coli. The TbuT regulator recognizes isoprene as its less-preferred effector molecule; thus, we amplified the reporter gene expression using a T7 RNA polymerase-mediated transcriptional cascade and iteratively tuned the promoter transcribing tbuT to improve the sensitivity for detecting isoprene. When the engineered E. coli cells expressed heterologous genes for isoprene biosynthesis, the intracellular isoprene was expelled and the tbuT transcription factor was subsequently activated, leading to gfp expression. The chromosomal isoprene biosensor showed a linear correlation between GFP fluorescence and intracellular isoprene concentration. Using this chromosomal isoprene biosensor, we successfully identified the highest isoprene producer among four different E. coli strains producing different amounts of isoprene. The isoprene biosensor presented here can enable high-throughput screening of isoprene synthases and metabolic pathways for efficient and sustainable production of bioisoprene in engineered microbes.