We have a Discord community, Baby Got Books, which houses several different book clubs, including Diverse Historical Romance (@lostinabookbrb.bsky.social), Backlog Bookshelf (@thelefthandedkat.bsky.social), and No More Dead White Dudes (@joas-mon.bsky.social).
November 2025 Reads. Features covers for the following books: Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto A Christmas to Remember by Beverly Jenkins A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee Sunshine and Spice by Aurora Palit The Governess Game by Tessa Dare Thankful for the Maverick by Rochelle Alers News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My November Wrapup
I am finally watching The Pitt. Episode 2 and it is so good.
Just in case anyone makes the same mistake I did: Any Man by Amber Tamblyn is not a quick read even with its many pages of just one or two lines or poetry and prose. I have had to put this book down to really think about what I read. I'm not even to 100 pages yet.
Cover of Ana Maria and the Fox by Liana De La Rosa. Illustrated cover of a Black man in a period suit (1800s England) holding close a Mexican woman in a dress.
April pick for Diverse Historical Romance bookclub is Ana Maria and the Fox by Liana De La Rosa!
For the Trans Rights Readathon, I picked Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico to donate to. I really gotta ramp up my reading. I will pledge $5 per books read between now and the 31st regardless if it is a Trans book or not. I will prioritize Trans books for this week.
tgrcnm.org
Read chapter 1 last night and enjoying the narrative voice!
Picture of the book The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy on a gray blanket with stars.
Starting The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy for the Trans Rights Readathon.
I think I'm just not going to read books published by Bloom Books.
I currently have 6 bookclub books to get through this month.
As well as the 20+ library books I checked out.
Also the books on my physical TBR.
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AND the ebooks I bought from last year and the year before that.
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The Diverse Historical Romance bookclub is reading A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur this month. :) It is the first YA we have chosen for the club. If you wish to join us in discussing the book, you can here:
discord.gg/nuZyQAt6
I think of them as guides....that I often ignore.
Books featured: The Duke's Sister and I by Emma-Claire Sunday All Boys Aren't Blue by George M Johnson On the Corner of Hope and Main by Beverly Jenkins My Brother's Husband by Gengoroh Tagame Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki The Unfinished by Cheryl Isaacs
Shows an image generated by storygraph. Books read 7. Pages read 2,173. Average book length 312 pages. Average time to finish 11 days. 71% fictions. 29% nonfiction. 5 books LGBTQIA+, 2 books memoir, 2 books romance, 2 books YA, 1 contemporary
February wrap up!
🤣🤣 I need to get my kid a library card!
😬 Also buying a bunch of books.
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YESSSSS. The only ones who care are the books on my physical TBR
Very much so!
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I keep checking out more books from the library than I can actually read in the given time frame.
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And no one can stop me.
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Finished Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki. I looked up Bartók's Sonata for solo violin and...I understand the pacing of the book a lot better. Impactful read.
