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Mags🌈📚 (queer reads for speculative fiends)
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I'm Mags, queer autistic book reviewer + publishing intern

Pagebound: https://pagebound.co/users/MagPiper
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/175291023
First finished read of #pride month!

A high-powered publicist being mysteriously sabotaged teams up with a queer psychic shopkeeper in an illicit affair with a ghost. Together, they have to save NYC from a spirit world invasion.

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#booksky #queerbooks #diversebooks 💙📚 🩸📚
June 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A witch, a lake creature, a hobgoblin, and a fae dog team up to save Britain from an ancient evil.

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This was a fun romp through British folklore, even if the writing style wasn’t quite for me. Review on Pagebound, GR, etc.

#booksky 💙📚🪐 #bookrecommendation #bookreview
May 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
absolutely obsessed with the quality of writing in Silvia Park’s debut novel Luminous

#currentread #booksky #queerbooks 💙📚🪐 #sciencefiction #sff
May 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
of the e-ARCs I’ve read so far this year, these are the two I’ve pre-ordered (and you should too!) because they are fantastic and I want them on my shelf where I can re-read them anytime

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#booksky 💙📚🪐 #fantasybooks #queerbooks 🌈📚 #sapphicbooks #bookrecommendation #bookreview
April 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It actually is but it’s not really “reversible” in the sense that it’s just art and not really a cover

Tried to take a pic:
April 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
My first and last Owlcrate monthly edition😭😭😭 can any artist out there explain to me what is happening with the blonde girl’s ass??? Looking at this is SO uncomfortable.

Also is this eco-fantasy? Title seems like a Rachel Carson ref?

#booksky 💙📚 #yafantasy #queerbooks 🌈📚 #fablefortheendoftheworld
April 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I had no idea what this was about when I started listening.

The audiobook narration was godawful but the story itself was a delight. Made eyeballs sound real delicious.

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#booksky 💙📚 #bookrecommendation #bookreview #thesaltgrowsheavy #horrorbooks 🩸📚 #queerbooks 🌈🚀💫
April 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I finally got through this absolute tome. While it was definitely too long and a few plot points were rather silly, overall I quite enjoyed this read. The scene where the chef in Suus makes him the fancy meal?? Beautiful.

Full review on Goodreads etc.

#bookreview #bookrecommendation 💙📚🪐 #booksky
April 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Dancing After TEN by Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber

A collaborative memoir about Chong’s experience of unexpectedly losing her eyesight.
April 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Incognegro by Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece

A white-passing black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings, and this time, his own brother is in trouble.
April 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco

Journalism meets comix as Joe Sacco interviews and recounts the stories of the Dene people whose lives have been shattered by colonialism.
April 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Boundless by Jillian Tamaki

An anthology of weird short stories that humorously critique contemporary culture.
April 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris

A monster-loving girl tries to solve the murder of the Holocaust-survivor upstairs neighbor.
April 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Stitches by David Small

A memoir of Small’s childhood, his dysfunctional family, and his experience with throat cancer.
April 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui.

A memoir documenting Bui’s family’s escape from Vietnam and the haunting relationships between parents and children.
April 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
a thread of at least the ones I physically own. I really should read more comix. this is a whole mix of genres but somehow I read more
memoir in this form than in prose

#graphicnovels #fiction #nonfiction #memoir #booksky 📚💙
April 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In my GR review I comped this to The Spear Cuts Through Water and that’s about the highest compliment I can give a book.

Add this to your TBR!!

#booksky #bookreview 📚🪐 📚💙 #fantasybooks #queerbooks 🌈📚 #themercymakers #orbitbooks 🌈🚀💫
April 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This was so weird. I loved it.

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#booksky 💙📚🪐 #bookreview #bookrecommendation 🌈📚 #queerbooks #theseep 🌈🚀💫
April 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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in no particular order:
April 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
April 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
It’s that time of month! Graphics in 🧵 with titles, ratings, and one-word descriptions✨✨

#booksky 💙📚🪐 #queerbooks 🩸📚 #bookreviews #bookrecommendations #readingwrapup 🩸📚 🌈🚀💫
April 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
That’s a wrap on the #transrightsreadathon!

Lessons in Magic and Disaster is an ambitious display of insight into family, change, grief, and perspective.

Full review on Goodreads, StoryGraph, and Pagebound.

#booksky #queerbooks 💙📚🪐 🌈📚 #bookreview #bookrecommendations
March 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I guess I’ll read them in the order they are published?

Some of these are already out. Have you read any? Lmk what you thought!!

#booksky #bookcommunity 💙📚🪐 🌈📚 🩸📚 #bookshelf #booklist #newrelease #bookrecommendations
March 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM