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Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· 26d

My cats don’t like each other so I got very excited when I got out of the shower last night and saw this

Two cats curled up in donut shapes on a bed, their hind quarters just barely touching. One is white and gray in a cap and saddle pattern, the other is a fluffy gray tabby longhair.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· 26d

CR: 📚: BODIES OF MAGIC. Taking a break from my physical ARCs to read a digital ARC. My BFF said this is her favorite Marske book yet, so I’m ready for graveyards & dark academia 🎧: THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT. It’s a Korean cult classic. It’s sapphic. It has vampires. Of course I’m reading it. 💙📚🌈📚🪐📚🩸📚

Cover of BODIES OF MAGIC by Freya Marske. A gothic style academic building against the background of arteries or something

Cover of THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png. Bloody lips against a hot pink background.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· 26d

I’m kind of mad on the author’s behalf that this didn’t get better editing. The story bones were there, the setting and characters were so interesting. At times it was repetitive or incoherent, especially in the MC’s interiority and the dialogue. Still enjoyed it, though. 💙📚🩸📚

My Storygraph review for: It Looks Like You in the Dark by Mathilda Zeller
3.5 stars
Kind of clunky in execution but the last couple chapters made up for it.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· 26d

I said I was tired of feminist rage dystopia books that are just women being abused but I don’t think I could ever be tired of the feminist rage of mushroom women 💙📚🩸📚🌈📚

My Storygraph review for: Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill
4.5 stars
This one’s for the girlies who want to burn down the government and then disappear into the forest to become one with the mycelium.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jul 10

CR: 📚: IT LOOKS LIKE YOU IN THE DARK: making my way through more of the ARCs i got at ALA. This is a debut horror written by an Inuit woman from Alaska 🎧: WIFE SHAPED BODIES: dystopian feminist horror that is also sapphic. 💙📚🌈📚🩸📚

Me holding a paperback copy of IT LOOKS LIKE YOU IN THE DARK by Mathilda Zeller next to a gray and white cat curled up on a bed

Cover of WIFE SHAPED BODIES by Laura Cranehill. Bunch of weird fungus growing out of a woman against a black background that looks cool as hell.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jul 8

She looks like this. You try being mad at this tiny fluffball.

A fluffy gray tabby cat sitting on the dip of a large pillow with her back legs outstretched in a funny position

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jul 8

Finished HIT LIST. I think this wasn’t quite as intense or suspenseful as I wanted it to be, but if you like your mysteries on the quirky, fun, and very very queer side, I would recommend! 💙📚🌈📚

My Storygraph review for: Robbie McNeil's Hit List by Brianna Heath
4.25 stars
I support women’s wrongs.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jul 6

Ok now felicity is interested and she’s the destructive one so uhhhh lemme find a toy to distract her 😂

A gray and white cat is stretched out in the same TV stand to stare at two sheep on the screen

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jul 5

Evangeline is riveted by the sheep in the sheep detectives

A gray fluffy tabby cat is stretched out to get her face closer to a TV displaying the a orange sheep Lily from the sheep detectives movie

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jul 5

I finished GODBURNED. The romance is so slow a slow burn apparently I have to wait for the next book for it to happen, but I’m not mad about it lol. Come for the traumatized queer men learning to deal with their trauma, stay for the takedown of a corrupt magical crime ring 💙📚🌈📚🪐📚

My Storygraph review for:
Godburned by Foz Meadows
5.0 stars
Everyone is so traumatized in this book. 5 stars.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jul 4

Ready to cause problems at the cookout

Me wearing a t shirt that says “burn the fascists, keep the books” with a little red flame

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jul 1

I just really love space lesbians Also 8/9 of these were queer, two of them just didn’t have the tag for some reason. I did my pride month duty 😂🫡 💙📚

Storygraph June wrap up graphic. I read 9 books and over 3k pages, with an average rating of 4.36. Love Galaxy was my highest rated book with 5 stars.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jul 1

CR: 📚: GODBURNED. This ARC is so new and shiny it doesn’t even have a final cover yet. 🎧: ROBBIE MCNEIL’S HIT LIST: a lesbian hitman/owner of a queer bar does a job to make money for producing a musical. I don’t often read mystery/thrillers but this premise was too good to pass up 💙📚🌈📚🪐📚

Me holding a paperback ARC copy of Foz Meadows’s Godburned above the head of a gray fluffy tabby cat. She’s turned her head around to sniff the book suspiciously.

Cover of Robbie McNeil’s Hit List ny Brianna Heath, narrated by Mara Wilson. Cover is a dark blue with a neon sign of an arm holding a knife.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jul 1

Ok it took me forever but I finally finished SLOW GODS yesterday (not because I didn’t enjoy it, just because I was on vacation and doing stuff all day and then couldn’t stay awake at night lol) If you’re an Ann Leckie fan, you should def give this a read! 💙📚🪐📚

My Storygraph review for: Slow Gods by Claire North
4.25 stars
Does it make me a bad person that I wanted Maw to kill more people than he did

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 28

My terrible photographer of a cat sitter strikes again

A gray tabby cat perched on a man’s lap, her face a little blurry and too close to the camera and her ears slightly back. Looks like she’s scowling

A white and gray cat loafing on the arm of a yellow car, looking away from the camera. She looks a little grungy tbh

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 28

Day three book haul, someone needs to come and physically prevent me from picking up more books

Stack of seven books, mostly ARCs, five of them signed

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 27

love a free book haul

Two stacks of mostly ARCs and some signed copies of recent books

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 20

This book is really cute even if Cubby kind of got on my nerves and omg just TALK to this girl who obviously returns your feelings!!!

My StoryGraph review for:
You Won't Forget Me by Mazey Eddings
4.25 stars
Cubby has to be one of the most oblivious people ever, and I say that as someone who didn’t realize she was gay until she was 28.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 20

Been too long since I got to use toxic lesbian tag. I make fun of the straight girlies into shadow daddies but apparently I’m fine if the morally dubious hot duke is a woman, no surprise there 💙📚🌈📚🌶️📚

My Storygraph review for:
The Duke by Anna Cowan
4.75 stats
Everyone in this book is insane and kind of toxic. I loved it.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 17

Pausing my read of Slow Gods because I’m too anxious to focus on cerebral sci fi Instead: CR: a regency sapphic romance about an English female duke who did something very bad when she was 12 and this hot French courtesan she slept with in chapter 2 found out and is now blackmailing her lol

Paperback copy of THE DUKE by Anna Cowan, which I’m holding up next to a fluffy gray tabby cat who is sniffing it suspiciously

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 16

CR: 📚: SLOW GODS. It is time for a cerebral and weird space opera. 🎧: YOU WON’T FORGET ME, sapphic romance about band mates with Fleetwood Mac-inspired drama, lfg 💙📚🌈📚🌶️📚🪐📚

Cover of You Won’t Forget Me by Mazey Eddings.

Paperback copy of Slow Gods by Claire North, propped up in a couch next to a gray and white cat who refuses to look at the camera and is very grumpy

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 15

Not my favorite kingfisher horror but still very creepy and as usual, love the “woman in her 30s who is just trying to live her life but HORRORS” vibe most of her works have lol 💙📚🩸📚

My Storygraph review for:
Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher
4.25 stars
Do not recommend reading this while you have an active insect infestation in your house.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 14

Read Naomi Novik’s fae novella THE SUMMER WAR this weekend. 💙📚🌈📚🪐📚

A hardcover copy of THE SUMMER WAR by Naomi Novik, propped up on a small stack of books on a coffee table. There’s a fluffy gray tabby cat (Evangeline) standing on the coffee table by the books, and another gray and white cat (Felicity) sitting Egyptian style in the background

My Storygraph review for:
The Summer War by Naomi Novik
4.5 stars
Most fairy tales are warnings about not messing with the fae but Naomi Novik is like, nah, they’re mean but they’re kind of stupid.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 10

Got a gay little haircut

Me in my car with wavy hair down to my waist

Me in my car two hours later with a choppy French bob with bangs

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 10

did I like this book or was i just emotionally held hostage by a hot lesbian and a recalcitrant bisexual for 400 pages? Impossible to tell. 5 stars. I’ll be stalking netgalley for the sequel and requesting that the SECOND it drops 📚💙 🌈📚 🪐📚

My Storygraph review for:
Love Galaxy by Sierra Branham
5.0 stars
This book starts off as a charming reality show romance with a little murder and political intrigue on the side, and then you get 3/4ths of the way through and Sierra Branham breaks down the door like the Kool-Aid man to ruin your life (emotionally).

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 9

CR: 📚 LOVE GALAXY, space opera dating show/arranged marriage sapphic romance. I may have inhaled most of this last night instead of going to bed at a reasonable hour 🎧 WOLF WORM, I am always up for a new Kingfisher horror! 💙📚 🌈📚 🪐📚 🩸📚

A paperback copy of LOVE GALAXY by Sierra Branham, standing on top of a small stack of books. A fluffy gray tabby cat is standing next to the books looking mildly disapproving.

Cover of WOLF WORM by T. Kingfisher. Black cover with some slightly ominous flowers, vines, and roots tangled in the title lettering

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 9

She did finally stop being obtuse. Also I’m banning myself from 15+ hour audiobooks for at least six months, I’m too slow getting through them and my memory is too bad to keep stretching complex fantasy books out over two weeks 💙📚 🪐📚 🌈📚

My Storygraph review for:
The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
4.25 stars
I feel like everyone in this world should have taken a note from His Dark Materials and just killed god(s).

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 7

I did really like this both as a Hamlet retelling and as its own thing, even though I occasionally wanted to push odette out a window 💙📚🌈📚

My Storygraph review for:
Rottenheart by Kat Dunn
4.5 stars
This one’s for the girlies who have a weird, intense relationship with their moms, which is probably why I liked HUNGERSTONE more.

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 4

Oh it’s so pretty??

SAGITTARIUS SUN
PANTONE®
18-2120 TCX
Honeysuckle
Pantone Color of the Year
sRGB
217 79 112
HEX
D94F70

CAPRICORN MOON
PANTONE
16-1522 TCX
Rose Dawn
FHI Cotton TCX
Lab sRGB
HEX
62,44 23,18 16,67
194
135 123
C2877B

GEMINI RISING
PANTONE'
16-2107 TCX
Orchid Haze
FHI Cotton TCX
Lab
sRGB
HEX
61,11 18,88
176 135
155
B0879B

SAGITTARIUS VENUS
PANTONE
18-1633 TCX
Garnet Rose
FHI Cotton TCX
Lab
sRGB
HEX
45,96 42,47
172 75
85
AC4B55
16,42

Cat Lady🌈📚@librarycrone· Jun 3

CR: Another netgalley ARC, this one a sapphic Hamlet-inspired gothic brought to you by the author of “Carmilla, but if it wasn’t lesbophobic sexist racist garbage,” Kat Dunn: ROTTENHEART 💙📚🌈📚