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adriellee.bsky.social
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Trans rights are human rights, and human rights are fresh.

"His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies."
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Finished in July: 📕 Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology by Kathleen V. Kudlinski. I found this in a #littlefreelibrary. I didn't really know anything about her and this was a great overview. Well researched and well written. #Nonfiction books written for tweens are often solid intros to a subject.
Book cover. Text reads: Women of Our Time, Rachel Carson: Pioneer of Ecology, Kathleen V. Kudlinski. The image is a painted portrait of an older women with short wavy hair, wearing a red jacket, with binoculars hanging around her neck. She is leaning against a tree. There is a small puffin logo in the bottom right hand corner of the cover.
August 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Finished in July: 🎧 Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky, read by the author. Finally, I've read one of Tchaikovsky's books! He's a brilliant writer and very good narrator! Hey, I like spiders. If you don't, heed the title, heavy spider content. #Fantasy
Audiobook cover. Text reads: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Spiderlight. A metal shield with a spider etched into its face is surrounded by hot red and yellow fire.
July 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Finished in July: 🎧 Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz, read by Em Grosland. Cozy, post-apocalyptic, novella about robots running a restaurant. Some peril. Inherently queer. If you Becky Chambers' books, you will like this. Stand out narration on the audiobook too!
Book cover. Text reads: Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz, "A story I didn't know I needed right now. So much fun!" -Martha Wells, bestselling author of The Murderbot Diaries. The illustration on the cover shows a giant robot hand holding chopsticks that are pulling thick noodles out of a rectangular food holding box. Another robot sits on the edge of the box. In front of the box starting at the sitting robots feet is a cityscape with the Golden Gate Bridge. In the right-hand corner is a robot with three jointed, insectile metal legs and long hair. On the left hand-side toward bottom two arms with two-pronged claws reaches inward. One claw holds a whisk.
July 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Finished in July: 🎧 Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch, read by Giordan Diaz. Murder, magic, queer teens, and the Quabbin Reservoir. Set in 1999. If you like light horror and ya, highly recommend. ##QueerBooks
Book cover. Text reads: Now, Conjurers, Freddie Kölsch. A young man stares out at the viewer. He has a star shaped patch of vitiligo over his left eye. He has dark brown wavy hair, his skin is a light to medium tan, his eyes are a bright, light brown. He is holding a skeleton style key on a chain in his left hand. His hand with the key is resting on his chin. He is wearing black silky cloth with stars sprinkled across it. The cloth draped over him visually connects to the same cloth above and behind him. Reaching out from the cloth behind him are two red hands. The hands are gripping his shoulders in an aggressive way.
July 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Finished in July: 🎧 The Phoenix Keeper by S. A. Maclean, read by Stephanie Bentley. Cozy novel about an anxious, queer zookeeper, who wants to restore the endangered phoenix population. Enemies to lovers. This was cute but the main character annoyed me quite a bit. #QueerBooks #AudioBooks
Bpol cover. Orange phoenixes gather around the edges of the image. They are on top mostly blue foliage with some green leaves in it. Text reads: The Phoenix Keeper | Falling in love never burned so bright.... | S. A. Maclean
July 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Finished in July: 📚 Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austen; poetry. Austen reinterprets bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities. My favorites are the Matthew 25 series. #QueerBooks #Poetry
Book cover. Yellow text reads: Emily Austin, Gay Girl Prayers, Poems. The word Prayers in the title is broken out into four lines, Gay | Girl | Pray | Ers. Which gives it a cool double meaning. The text covers a drawn black and gray image of a young nun gazing upwards. She faces to the right.
July 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Finished in June: 🎧 The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang read by Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao, Telly Leung. A multiple lifetime spanning queer romantasy. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of "on screen" sex, definitely a book for adults. I wanted more from the ending. #QueerBooks
Audiobook cover. Text reads: The Emperor and the Endless Palace, Justinian Huang. The background image is of a person's arm and part of their side in a brightly colored and pattern silk robe. A hand comes up from the bottom of the image holding a bitten peach, a river flows from beneath the peach. There's a peach tree, a black cat, part of a dragons tail, and a three tailed white fox.
July 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Finished in June: 🎧 The Last Gifts of the Universe: A Novel by Riley August read by Robyn Holdaway, Ayesha Antoine, Chris Thompson. This book has some interesting an important things to say, though the plot didn't stick with me at all. However, there is a space cat. #QueerBooks
Audiobook cover. A brightly colored picture of a dead planet with a spired building in the background. The ground and the building are shades of pink. The sky is blue with multicolored dots for stars. Also in the sky is another pink planet, some space junk, a teal planet with a ring that a space ship flies in front of, and a teal planet with two intersecting pink rings and a thin blue ring. An orange and white cat in a space suit hovers in the sky. There's a publisher's logo on the upper left hand corner. It's a line drawing of a squirrel with text reading Hanover Square Press underneath it. Text on the cover reads: Riley August, The Last Gifts of the Universe.
July 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Finished in June: 🎧 Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. Started in 2021, finally finished. It’s very good, I just got distracted. The interrelation of fungi with, well, everything is so incredibly cool (and also critical to life existing on earth). #Nonfiction
An audiobook cover. Various fungi surround text reading, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures, Merlin Sheldrake.
July 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Finished in June: 🎧 How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler, read by the author. Essays about sea creatures, being queer, and race. This conservation journalist is an effecting writer, and a great narrator. I cried multiple times as I listened #QueerBooks #Nonfiction
Audiobook cover. Swirly multicolored background. A blue fish curves across the bottom of the image. Text on the cover reads, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures; Sabrina Imler; "Miraculous, transcendental."--Ed Yong
July 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Finished in June: 🎧 Hi Honey, I’m Homo! by Matt Baume read by the author. An entertaining examination of the relationship between queerness and the American sitcom. Baume's writing is snappy and interesting. He's also a great narrator. Highly recommend to sitcom fans. #QueerBooks #Nonfiction
Audiobook cover. It features a stylized old fashioned tv with a dial, a built in speaker, and a switch, sitting on a stylized table. The television screen says: sitcoms, specials, and the queering of American culture. The table says: Matt Baume. Text above the television reads, Hi Honey, I'm Homo!
July 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Finished in June: 🎧 Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood read by Saffron Coomber, Ioanna Kimbook, Sebastian Humphreys. A Greek tragedy about girls who’ve been sacrificed to Poseidon resurrected as mermaids tasked with killing the Prince of Ithaca. Bi love triangle. #QueerBooks
A book cover. A line drawing in gold of a woman's face in profile. Her long hair becomes ocean waves on which sails a silver boat. The text on the cover reads, Lies We Sing to the Sea Sarah Underwood. Their end was the beginning.
July 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Finished in June: 🎧 The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan read by Ayoola Smart and Bert Seymour. An intimate comedic exploration of the wedding plot. Dolan uses a likeable ensemble to explore queerness, infidelity, and traditional marriage expectations. #QueerBooks
An audiobook cover. Text reads, the happy couple a novel, naoise dolan, author of exciting times. An image of two crystal swans face away from one another.
July 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Finished in May: 🎧 The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars read by Christian Banas. Cute gay boy romance with a trans lead. Very light reading. #QueerBooks
Book cover. Text reads: "A joyous story of trans happiness that the world desperately needs." -Mason Deaver, bestselling author of Okay, Cupid and I Wish You All the Best. The Borrow a Boyfriend Club, Page Powars. The illustration is of two boys walking through a carnival. One boy holds a big stuffed t-rex. The other boy is wearing a beanie and holding a cup of hot chocolate.
July 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Finished in May: 🎧 Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson read by Julie Lumsden, Aaliya Warbus, Kimberly Woods, Shaun Taylor-Corbett. One weekend in the life of three teens working at a local pizza shop. Poignant, evocative, and satisfying. #QueerBooks
Book cover featuring three teenagers standing in front of a neon sign. The neon sign reads "Those Pink Mountain Nights". The teenagers, from left to right are a tall boy wearing a vest and a baseball cap; the girl in the middle has on a winter coat, red glasses, and big fluffy ear muffs; the girl on the right has wild, curly hair, and is wearing an athletic zip top. The rest of the text on the book reads: Jen Ferguson author of the The Summer of Bitter and Sweet.
July 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Finished in May: 🎧 The Mars House by Natasha Pulley read by Daniel de Bourg. The romance was fine, but the politics and science fiction goodness were great. #QueerBooks
A book cover. The text reads The Mars House, a novel, by Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. The cover has a dark blue and black background and features a person made of gold sparkles and a moon.
July 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Finished in May: 🎧 Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley read by Isabella Star LaBlanc. This summer, instead of fishing, laidback troublemaker Perry Firekeeper-Birch faces rising numbers of missing Indigenous women, murder, and greedy grave robbers seeking to profit off her Anishinaabe tribe. ❤️
Book cover. An Anishinaabe girl faces outward. Behind her are two profiles. Fish swim out from her braided hair. A bear and a mustelid (I am not sure if it's an otter or a fisher cat) rise from the mix of hair, fish, and water swirls. The background of the image has the phases of the moon, leaves, flowers, and a hand print. The text on the cover reads, Warrior Girl Unearthed, and from the #1 New York Times - bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley.
June 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Finished in May: 🎧 Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley read by Isabella Star LaBlanc. YA thriller about a native teen, Daunis Fontaine, who must root out the corruption in her community. How far will she go to protect them, if it means tearing apart the only world she’s ever known? Rating: ❤️‍🔥
The cover features elements of the Woodland School of Anishinaabe art, created by Norval Morrisseau, adapted and re-imagined by Moses Lunham. Lunham's piece is an abstract design, shaped sort of like an hourglass with a butterfly wings shape at the top. In the top half of the hourglass are two faces staring at each other over the top of a sun. They form the butterfly's wings. Between their profiles rests the body of the butterfly. At the waist of the hourglass, along its outline, are two bears in profile facing outwards. Moving down the hourglass from there are two ravens in profile looking up towards the bears. Inside the bottom of the hourglass is a fire. The colors used are black, blue, red, orange, and yellow. There is a sticker on the right hand side of the cover that reads "Reese's YA Book Club". Text reads Fire Keeper's Daughter, Keep the Secret. Live the Lie. Burn Your Truth. Read by Isabella Star LaBlanc.
June 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Finished in April: 🎧 Promises Stronger Than Darkness by Charlie Jane Anders, read by Imani Jade Powers, Sena Bryer, Marcella Lentz-Pope. Fascists trying to ruin regular space communism, but the system needed to be rebuilt anyway because it was kind of fascist in the first place. #QueerBooks
Three girls stare out at the viewer. The girl on the left has purple locs and purple eyes, her skin is a dark rosy brown. The girl on the left has wavy violet hair and violet eyes, her skin is purplish tan. The girl on the bottom has loose wavy pink curls and blue eyes, her skin is a pale pinkish white. Text covers the image; a review quote from Amie Kaufman; the title, Promises Stronger Than Darkness; International Bestselling Author Charlie Jane Anders.
April 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Finished in April: 🎧 Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders, read by Hynden Walch, Imani Jade Powers, Sena Bryer. The drop where our heroes have to learn to be the change they want to see in the space world. Not as rollicking as book 1, but still an extremely good time. #QueerBooks
Two girls with their heads leaning into one another stare out at the viewer. The girl on the left has loose wavy pink curls and blue eyes, her skin is a pale pinkish white. The girl on the right has purple locs and purple eyes, her skin is a dark rosy brown. Text covers the image; a review quote from Brian K. Vaughn; the title, Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak; International Bestselling Author Charlie Jane Anders.
April 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Finished in April: 🎧 Victories Greater than Death by Charlie Jane Anders, read by Hynden Walch. Queernorm YA space opera. Tina’s actually the clone of an epic alien space captain. Things get Star Trek when she (and her best friend Rachael) finally get picked up buy that captain's crew. #QueerBooks
A girl with violet hair, violet eyes, and purplish white skin stares out at the viewer. Text covers the image; a review quote from Holly Black; the title, Victories Greater Than Death; International Bestselling Author Charlie Jane Anders.
April 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Finished in April: 📕Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (now an HBO miniseries). Survivors of a devastating flu attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost. Published in 2014. This book made me feel unsettled and hopeful. Pleasingly layered.
Book cover. Text reads Station Eleven a novel by Emily St. John Mandel. There is an icon of two crossed knives below the text. Text and icon are placed over a photograph of canvas bell tents, pitched in a grassy field, against a cement and rock wall. It is nighttime and the sky is full of stars. A watercolor painting of an ocean with small islands. A person wearing a diving suit stands on a cliff in front of the ocean and islands. The person's helmet shows the same image of an ocean with islands sticking out of it.
April 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Finished in March: 📘 Masters of Death by Olivie Blake. A vampire real estate agent, the ghost who haunts the house she wants to sell, a demon, a love-sick reaper, a sharp-voiced angel, and the godson of Death have to play an immortal game with one rule, don't lose. Good Omens vibes. #QueerBooks
Book cover. A line drawing of skeleton balancing on a pole held by two large hands is intertwined with the title, Masters of Death.
March 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Finished in March: 🎧 Slayer by Kiersten White, read by Emily O'Brien. Nina continues to learn about her slayer powers, while that pesky prophecy comes to haunt her. Both the books in this duology are light reads that Buffy fans will likely enjoy. #QueerBooks
Book Cover. Red headed teen girl faces the reader. Her eyes are in shadow. She carries a crossbow and quiver. Behind her is a blue lit misty forest.
March 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Finished in March: 🎧 Slayer by Kiersten White, read by Madeleine Maby. Set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Twins Nina and Artemis are the twin daughters of Buffy's first Watcher, the one who died saving her. There's a prophecy about these girls too. Straight main character. #QueerBooks
Book Cover. Red headed teen girl holding a stake is seen from behind. She is facing a misty purple lit forest.
March 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM