I've been reading it really slowly, but I really like what I've read so far!

On the bright side, it might be a helpful lesson for some if they get fooled by something fairly innocent and find out almost immediately. Instead of seeing false information and continuing to believe it, they might realize they can be fooled and become more cautious

The cover of Thyme Travellers: an Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, showing a pair of hands with stripes of color holding out a plant

The cover of Girl Unmasked by Emily Katy, showing stripes of purple, red, orange, yellow, pink, and blue like a multicolored diagonal brush stroke across a white background

The cover of Slipping by Mohamed Kheir, showing a somewhat abstract illustration of a person surrounded by splashes of bright colors that form the background as well as partially concealing the figure

It's not an April Fool's joke. This is my TBR for the month (once I finish the two books I'm currently reading 😅)

A cover collage of books read, including Wanderers by Kerri Andrews, The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells, Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, and If the River is Hidden by Cherry Smyth and Craig Jordan-Baker

I didn't do as much reading as I thought I would this month because I did a lot of writing. Which really is the best reason 🙂

Personal favorite of this bunch was Wanderers

The cover of Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, featuring the spines of various books with the painted faces of two women peeking out from book-sized gaps

"the critics who shaped our modern idea of the novel in English so frequently dismissed women writers that the systematic excising has a name. It's called The Great Forgetting."
- Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney

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I've always read older as well as newer books, but I have to admit older books have been more appealing lately for exactly that reason. Also they remind me of a time before LLMs existed...

Pretty cool! I like the click and drag circles, although it didn't give that option on my phone, so I had to redo it on my laptop. That changed my score significantly, probably because I have two disparate sets of identity groupings rather than a bunch that all overlap with each other

Yes to both. Although I'm only going off of authors I follow/have followed for the second one. Indie authors seem to do a lot of research relating to any platform that might affect sales, and I assume that traditionally published authors will have been told as much by their publishing team

The cover of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews, featuring a landscape of evergreen trees and mountains in sunset colors

"... assumptions about what women could and could not do have sometimes been used to justify a continued failure among those who have written about the significance of walking to even /look/ for women's accounts."

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Definitely seconding that more people should read it! It's a great book

Sci-Fi and Fantasy by Female Authors Because women write great speculative books, too

Although they may not be on sale, I also have a list full of SFF novels by female authors that I can personally recommend. You can also use this affiliate link to browse and head to your local library if you don't want to buy 🥰

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- Kindred
- The Measure
- Beloved
- Parable of the Sower
- and many more!

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Jane Austen's Bookshelf is another book about a female author, but it's also about a rare book dealer who went in search of the books Jane Austen loved, many of which have since been forgotten, as far as the literary canon is concerned. I've heard great things, and it plays right into my interests!

Wanderers: A History of Women Walking tells the history of ten women writers who loved walking and found it to be an essential part of their lives. I expect this to be exactly the sort of calm nonfiction I enjoy, especially with its focus being on female authors!

If the River is Hidden is a short book from an Irish small press. Combining prose and poetry, it follows the journey of two writers along North Ireland's longest river, reflecting on history, the landscape and divisions along the way. I've really enjoyed another by this publisher and have high hopes

Only the Stones Survive is a fantasy novel by an Irish author, featuring the Túatha Dé Danann of Irish mythology. I've read some of these myths previously (in Marie Heaney's collection Over Nine Waves), and I'm looking forward to seeing a modern interpretation of them

The cover of Only the Stones Survive, featuring a rock formation covered in swirling designs, set against a cloudy sky, with a small stream running towards it in the foreground

The cover of If the River is Hidden, featuring an illustration of a winding river separating two banks of green land

The cover of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking, featuring an illustration of pine trees and mountains in beautiful sunset colors

The cover of Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, featuring the spines of various books with the painted faces of two women peeking out from book-sized gaps

Women's History and Irish-American Heritage (in the US) Month tbr:

- Only the Stones Survive by Morgan Llywelyn
- If the River is Hidden by Cherry Smyth
- Wanderers by Kerri Andrews
- Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney

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Guess what?
My new book is officially on sale!

It's about a young woman named Rissa who has to fight in the Coliseum to earn her freedom. Luckily she is a damn good fighter.

It's got a romance subplot, a bit of magic, and an empire teetering on the edge of imploding. You know, the good stuff.

A graphic of ten book covers, including Around the World in 80 Days, The Black God's Drums, A Drop of Corruption, The War of the Worlds, The Dark Child, Treasure Island, Automatic Noodle, Japanese Fairy Tales, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

I ended up reading a lot of classics this month! James Baldwin had some powerful words, The Dark Child was an excellent memoir, I read the source material behind familiar-to-me tales like Treasure Island and Alice in Wonderland, and I enjoyed Japanese fairy tales I'd never been told

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The first one in that collection is so powerful!

Seven weeks? They didn't mention that in my AP English literature class, although we certainly enjoyed the book!

Here's a few I haven't seen recommended by others 😁

- The Cloak and its Wizard by R. Z. Nicolet
- The Librarian and the Ghost by Elaine Allen
- The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
- The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
- Anything Discworld by Terry Pratchett

I did a beta read for this upcoming fantasy novel a year ago, and it already had great character interactions, bits of humor, and an ending that made me not want to put the book down for the last 200 pages. I'm sure it's even better now, and I'm excited to see it's being published at last!

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Should You Read The Dark Child by Camara Laye? “I was a little boy playing around my father’s hut. How old would I have been at that time? I can not remember exactly. I must have been very young: five, maybe six years old. My mother…

The Dark Child: an autobiography depicting the author's childhood in what was then French Guinea. Well written, with powerful themes. An underpublicized classic.

Read my full review below!

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Opening Day at the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone The MCOE opened its doors to the very first patients for inpatient maternal and neonatal care. The day marked a profound transition following years of planning, collaboration, and construction with th...

This article made me cry. This is the sort of change we can make in the world if we all work together

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Great choices!

A page of text detailing women panning for gold, arranging the services of a praise-singer, and traveling to the smith's workshop with that musician ready to play and sing so the request to make a trinket in time for an upcoming festival might be granted

Imagine if whenever we wanted a pretty trinket we gathered the materials in a sustainable way and hired a musician to sing the praises of the craftsperson we'd like to make it for us. Today I learned that's how they did it in French Guinea in the early 1900s

(Excerpt: The Dark Child by Camara Laye)

The cover of Notes of a Native Son, with a photo of a Black man, only his face shown, as a cutout on a yellow-orange background

"It is the peculiar triumph of society--and its loss--that it is able to convince those people to whom it has given inferior status of the reality of this decree; it has the force and the weapons to translate this dictum into fact"

- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

#SundaySentence

It's for charity! You can donate and vote on which charities deserve a portion of the money AND get perks like personalized book recommendations from John Green himself (assuming it's not sold out by the time I post this)!

I didn't write a review of Wuthering Heights because I thought anyone looking for a text-based review could find far better ones than any I would have written. But if you like video reviews, I highly recommend this one by Elaine! She did a fantastic job

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