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All the way on her walk to the tram stop, then on the tram, then all the way home, she whispered her own name to herself in Bengali, lest she forget it.
SJ Sindu, from “I Like to Imagine Daisy from Mrs. Dalloway as an Indian Woman”
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Happy Friday the 13th!
Yes, I made up an excuse to post about a whole bunch of Spooky Season-appropriate books at once. Sue me.
Middle Grade
Gallowgate by K.R. Alexander
Sebastian Wight is cursed. As a boy with the forbidden ability to traverse the lands of the dead, he must not only harness his newfound powers to fight the monster that stalks him, but also to navigate a creepy world of hunting ghosts and ghouls with…
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#Ghost Stories#Graveyard of Lost Children#Horror#Julia Armfield#Kalynn Bayron#Katharine Beutner#Katrina Monroe#Killingly#Kit Mayquist#Lina Rather#Manhunt#Paranormal Thriller#Psychological Thriller#Rebecca McKanna#SJ Sindu#T. Kingfisher#The Goth House Experiment#They Drown Our Daughters#Tripping Arcadia#What Moves the Dead#You&039;re Not Supposed to Die Tonight
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True @sjsindu
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I just read this piece for a class and it quite literally took my breath away. Wanted to share it with as many people as I could.
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I’m reading the Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu
Apparently the lesbian masterdoc is a real thing??
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Middle School Monday: Shakti by SJ Sindu and Nabi H. Ali
Shakti, a 12-year-old Indian American girl with two moms, is having more trouble than usual as she starts 7th grade at her new school. Shakti is used to moving from place to place and always being the new girl, where sometimes she makes friends and then has to say goodbye, and sometimes she never gets to make friends at all. At every school there are mean kids, but what’s different now is that the meanest girls (Harini, Emily, and Kelly, or HEK for short) seem to have a strange power over everything and everyone, including the teachers. Shakti starts to make new friends, which means she has allies, and kids who can all share the same table in the cafeteria. When Shakti and her friend Xi discover that HEK are casting spells in the woods, they realize that the teachers must be behaving so strangely because these girls are using magic to control them.
Shakti knows that her own family has magical powers, although she hasn’t been allowed to use any magic since the time she accidentally set a fire when she was little. But with the HEK girls getting increasingly dangerous and powerful, maybe Shakti can convince her moms that she needs to learn magic spells of her own. Will she be able to defend herself, her friends, and everyone else in town from HEK … before it’s too late?
This graphic novel features bright colors, plenty of action, diverse characters, and an exciting exploration into Indian culture and religion. It’s also a celebration of girl power, as all of the major characters (both human and OTHERWISE) are female!
Give this book to older kids and younger teens who are ready for a fun and fast-paced book about magic, family, school, bullying, friendship, and learning about who you really are.
#Middle School Monday#Shakti#SJ Sindu#Nabi H Ali#Kid Lit#graphic novels#weneeddiversebooks#LGBT#LGBTQ#Kingsbridge Library#NYPL
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For the reading ask: what were your top five books of this year?
listen there's no way I'm going to be able to narrow it down to just five that are uniquely Better than the others, so here are just. five I really really liked lmao
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) was ruinously tender and made me cry on an airplane (my favorite kind of book to bring along on an airplane)
Blue-Skinned Gods (SJ Sindu) is just a bangin' novel, the kind that's endlessly readable and hard to put down. I'm ashamed that I still haven't made time to check out Sindu's other books, something I'm hoping to fix as soon as possible.
Mongrels (Stephen Graham Jones) is a gut-punch of a werewolf story, grimy and frantic all the way through. cannot recommend it enough.
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Sabrina Imbler) is a meditative and moving collection of personal essays swirled with deep sea documentary. it really does feel like an invigorating dip into cold saltwater
Lone Women (Victor LaValle) was a shamelessly fun and surprisingly hopeful historical horror, definitely check it out!!
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🌈 Good morning and happy Wednesday, my bookish bats! You didn't think that tiny "queer books coming out this fall" guide was ALL there was, did you? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR this month. Happy reading!
❤️ A Vision of Air by Nicole Silver
🧡 Eli Over Easy by Phil Stamper
💛 How to Get Over the End of the World by Hal Schrieve
💚 Kween by Vichet Chum
💙 The Forest Demands its Due by Kosoko Jackson
💜 The B-Side of Daniel Garneau by David Kingston Yeh
❤️ Midnight Companion by Kit Barrie
🧡 Let the Waters Roars by Geonn Cannon
💛 Into the Glittering Dark by Kelley York
💙 When the Rain Begins to Burn by A.L. Davidson
💜 Been Outside by Amber Wendler & Shaz Zamore
🌈 The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson
❤️ A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert
🧡 The Spells We Cast by Jason June
💛 Pluralities by Avi Silver
💚 Salt the Water by Candice Iloh
💙 Beholder by Ryan La Sala
💜 This Pact is Not Ours by Zachary Sergi
❤️ Dragging Mason County by Curtis Campbell
🧡 Menewood by Nicola Griffith
💛 Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout
💚 The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey
💙 Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson
💜 Let Me Out by Emmett Nahil and George Williams
🌈 In the Form of a Question: the Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life by Amy Schneider
❤️ Songs of Irie by Asha Ashanti Bromfield
🧡 A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
💛 Being Ace by Madeline Dyer
💚 Charming Young Man by Eliot Schrefer
💙 The Glass Scientists by S.H. Cotugno
💜 The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado
❤️ By Any Other Name by Erin Cotter
🧡 Brooms by Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall
💛 Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender
💚 Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsen
💙 The Bell in the Fog by Lev A.C. Rosen
🌈 Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt
❤️ Family Meal by Bryan Washington
🧡 A Murder of Crows by Dharma Kelleher
💛 A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper
💚 Love at 350° by Lisa Peers
💙 Greasepaint by Hannah Levene
💜 The Christmas Swap by Talia Samuels
❤️ Mate of Her Own by Elena Abbott
🧡 Mistletoe and Mishigas by M.A. Wardell
💛 Elle Campbell Wins Their Weekend by Ben Kahn
💚 All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters
💙 If You’ll Have Me by Eunnie
❤️ Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Lillah Lawson and Lauren Emily Whalen
🧡 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall
💛 It’s a Fabulous Life by Kelly Farmer
💚 Let the Dead Bury the Dead by Allison Epstein
💙 These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
💜 The Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu
❤️ Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin
🧡 Mudflowers by Aley Waterman
💛 Here Lies Olive by Kate Anderson
💚 Fire From the Sky by Moa Backe Åstot, trans. by Eva Apelqvist
💙 Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake
💜 On the Same Page by Haley Cass
❤️ A Dish Best Served Hot by Natalie Caña
🧡 Art of the Chase by Jennifer Giacalone
💛 The Haunting of Adrian Yates by Markus Harwood-Jones
💚 The Sword: Xcian by Elle Arroyo
💙 The Complete Carlisle Series by Roslyn Sinclair
💜 300,000 Kisses by Sean Hewitt and Luke Edward Hall
❤️ Just a Pinch of Magic by Alechia Dow
🧡 Blackouts by Justin Torres
💛 Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros
💚 Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies by E.M. Roy
💙 Everything Under the Moon: Fairy Tales in a Queerer Light edited by Michael Earp
❤️ Frost Bite by Angela Sylvaine
🧡 We Met in a Bar by Claire Forsythe
💛 Sweat Equity Aurora Rey
💚 Pumpkin Spice by Tagan Shepard
💙 The Misfit Mage & His Dashing Devil by M.N. Bennet
💜 Love and Other Risky Business by Sarah Brenton
❤️ Enough by Kimia Eslah
🧡 A Fire Born of Exile by Aliette de Bodard
💛 Twelve Bones by Rosie Talbot
💚 Wild Wishes and Windswept Kisses by Maya Prasad
💙 Dragged to the Wedding by Andrew Grey
💜 Fox Snare by Yoon Ha Lee
❤️ Murder and Manon by Mia P. Manansala
#queer book recs#queer fiction#queer books#queer#books#book list#books to read#lgbt writers#batty about books#battyaboutbooks
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Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Marigold by Andrew Sullivan
Leech by Hiron Ennes
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
omfg this is such a thematically diverse list! nice
recs:
Sequoia Nagamatsu, Where We Go When All We Were is Gone
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
SJ Sindu, Marriage of a Thousand Lies
Samantha Hunt, The Seas
Katie Hale, My Name is Monster
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hellooo top ten reads of 2022 in no particular order (+ not including rereads of old favourites):
Our Wives Under The Sea, Julia Armfield
Luckenbooth, Jenni Fagan
Cantoras, Carolina De Robertis
A Tiny Upward Shove, Melissa Chadburn
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel
Time Is A Mother, Ocean Vuong
Light from Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki
Marriage of a Thousand Lies, Sj Sindu
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Lorrie Moore
Less Is Lost, Andrew Sean Greer
special mentions:
Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart
In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado
A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers
Briefly, A Delicious Life, Nell Stevens
The Mercies, Kiran Millwood Hargrave
and some quotes from my top ten under the cut if you are looking for a little flavour. what did you guys read this year i am always looking for recommendations :~)
It’s not grief, [...] it’s more like a haunting. Our Wives Under The Sea
“Is it crazy to love someone you’ve only spent seven days with in person?” / “No, it’s crazy to love someone when you’ve known them for years.” Luckenbooth
It seemed, at times, that this was the only way the world would be remade as the heroes had dreamed: one woman holds another woman, and she in turn lifts the world. Cantoras
By then, Lola concluded that love was mostly wanting something you supposedly already had. A Tiny Upward Shove
She never dwelt on my lapses, and I couldn’t entirely parse why this made me feel so awful. There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones. Sea of Tranquility
Then it came to me, my life. I remembered my life / the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree. / & I was free. Time Is A Mother
“That’s--” / “A violin from China,” she said without looking up. “Yes, I know.” / “No, I mean, it’s all in pieces.” / “Yes. So are we all.” Light from Uncommon Stars
There’s always a way out. You could be a ghost. I could be an empty chair. Marriage of a Thousand Lies
Everything would turn out fine. Or else--hell--it would burn. I only wanted my body to bloom and bleed and be loved. I was raw with want, but in part it was a simple want, one made for easy satisfaction, quick drama, deep life: I wanted to go places and do things with Sils. So what if the house burned down. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
“Thomas, why are you wearing a sweater when it’s so warm out?” / Thomas shrugs slightly and says, “As my grandma Cookie says, we’re all having different experiences.” Less Is Lost
also my bottom five if you care these are bad do not reccommend lol (not including dnfs):
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune
The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
This Is How You Lose the Time War, Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar
A Room Called Earth, Madeleine Ryan
#me reading all the quotes i highlighted: ha ha everything really is about love...#anyway reply or tag me whatever i am interested :-)
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Do you have any gay fantasy or realistic fiction book recommendations?
I’ve read Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, In Deeper Waters by F. T. Lukens, Simon vs The Homosapien Agenda by Becky Albertalli, Boy Meets Boy by David Leviathan, and I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver.
Sorry that it's taken me so long to respond to this, but I had to get my list together!
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories: A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle (graphic novel)
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Ostertag (graphic novel)
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow (I'm reading this one right now)
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Realistic Fiction
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu
The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
One True Way by Shannon Hitchcock
Loveless by Alice Oseman
Pauline and Fran by Rachel B. Glaser
A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian
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The pigeons spiral up, circling around one another, up and up until the night swallows them whole.
SJ Sindu, from “Patriots’ Day”
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❤️💛🦚
❤️ - What are your pronouns?
She/Her
💛 - Who or what made you realize you were queer?
I can’t really pin down something or someone exactly, it was more like a series of events that culminated in me realizing I’m bi
(But I always joke my gay awakening was Gillian Anderson and the main trio of the show Legend of The Seeker)
🦚 - Are there any queer books/shows/etc. that you would suggest?
Yes! A Marriage of A Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu. A very raw and intense exploration of what it means to be queer in South Asia/South Asian diaspora, and how one’s identity fits into the uniquely South Asian notions of family. It’s not an easy read by any chance but it’s a good novel, especially for a debut.
Here’s a summary for ya ⬇️
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#recently read 6/2022
Dead Silence by S. A. Barnes. A salvage team finds a luxury space liner that vanished 20 years ago with something horrible inside. If you want grisly ghost-infested, corpse-strewn space horror, this is for you.
Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu. Lucky married her gay friend to placate her Sri Lankan family after they cut her off for being a lesbian. Her former best friend and lover’s impending marriage forces her to confront whether she can live with that choice.
Last Exit by Max Gladstone. Five friends tried to save the world, and one was lost. Now the lost one is coming back bringing chaos with her, and the gang’s getting back together, but the world may be long past saving. Imagine crossing Alice isn’t Dead with The City We Became.
Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin. Follows the interconnected lives of several people involved with a company that can delete unwanted memories when it’s revealed that the technology can be reversed.
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher. A disgraced knight, a witch with power over the dead, a fairy godmother, and a dog made of bones help a king’s youngest daughter save her sister from her abusive husband.
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li. A crew of young Chinese Americans attempt a daring series of heists to reclaim looted Chinese artifacts on display in Western museums.
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou. A Taiwanese American woman struggling with her dissertation makes a discovery about the Chinese American poet she’s studying that upends her understanding of him, her relationships, and herself. A satire tackling academia, cultural appropriation, and anti-Asian racism.
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from “Test Group 4: Womanhood and Other Failures” by SJ Sindu; Mar 06 2017
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gimme book recs. i just finished blue skinned gods by sj sindu n it was so good i’m nauseous
#aj.txt#i like realistic fantasy especially#as in people living regular lives that just so happen to be in a fantasy world yknow
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