June wrap up!

“And every day it was difficult, walking around and knowing that people saw me one way, knowing that they were wrong, so completely wrong, that the real me was invisible to them. It didn't even exist to them.
So: If nobody sees you, are you still there?”

The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi

“I will tell you that I worship your goodness. I will tell you that you are a bright light in this world. My world.”

Pray For Him by Tyler Battaglia

“We can choose to consume each other, or we can choose love. Even in the midst of despair, there is always a choice. I hope we choose love.”

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

Of course, 4 of my Libby holds came in on the same day 🤪

“We spend years posing as something we’re not because we don’t know what we are.”

“Sometimes I just want to be a person, not my gender.”

Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov

February wrap up!

“You can’t trust words. They have too many rules, and too many ways to break the rules.”

Homesick by Nino Cipri

“I’m out of practice at controlling my expression. Right now I’m pretty sure it was somewhere in the region of stunned horror, or maybe appalled horror.”

Murderbot - All Systems Red by Martha Wells

“The world in my head has been far more real than the one outside—maybe that’s the exact definition of madness, come to think of it…In many ways, you see, I am not even real.”

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

“People do not know what to make of me, and this pleases me. I don’t want to be scrutable.”

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

January wrap up! Started and ended the month with a book by Viano Oniomoh ☺️

“At this point, I’m pretty sure constantly doubting yourself and your right to belong is almost like a queer rite passage…You’re absolutely valid, and the most important seal of approval you really need is your own.”

Cupid Calling by Viano Oniomoh

In the Dream House by
Carmen Maria Machado

“…Sometimes stories are destroyed, and sometimes they are never uttered in the first place; either way something very large is irrevocably missing from our collective histories…”

“How do you stop love from hurting?” Yours Celestially by Al Hess

“Sometimes, to survive the story you are in, you must change the story. This is not a simple thing to do. Sometimes, if you don’t change the story you’re living in, it will kill you.”

How to Survive This Fairytale by S.M. Hallow

I haven’t figured out what to do with is app yet. So I think I will post book quotes…
“I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.” Murderbot, Network Effect by Martha Wells

Bought some physical copies of books I have recently read and loved! Very cool when you can get them signed by the author (and get an awesome sticker too)💜 Thank you @maybemockingbird.bsky.social

Read some amazing books in 2024!