Read Like Sasha

 Hello there! Happy Trans Visibility Day! After the recent events in Arkansas, I wanted to make a post making it clear: this blog is a safe place for trans folx. Trans rights are human rights, full stop. If you are trans and reading this, you are loved. I love you and I want you to be happy! Whatever that means, I hope it comes to you. I got the idea for this blog post from Theresa of Sappho's Library (go watch her video recommending books by trans authors!). I thought I'd take the time on this day to make a post about all the trans authors I would like to try. While I have read books by trans authors, I think I need to make it more of a priority to read trans authors. Here are the authors I'd like to try sometime soon. Aiden Thomas I have a copy of Cemetery Boys sitting on my bedside table and I still haven't read it yet! He also just came out with Lost in the Never Woods which sounds interesting although I've never been one for Peter Pan retellings. Except for ...

  Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers Goodreads Description: "With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is  not  the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her father’s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. In New York, she’s able to ignore all the annoying questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife, Yuki Yamamoto. But when reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been ru...

 Hello there! If you read fantasy, you've probably heard of Brandon Sanderson. And there is, of course, a readathon all for him! Now I am just beginning my Sanderson journey so I'm not super knowledgeable about the Cosmere but I know it has something to do with shards scattered around a bunch of planets which is probably where the name of the readathon came from? I'm assuming here. Angela (aka Literature Science Alliance ) posted a video about it and that's how I found out about the readathon. The book that Round 3 is basing its prompts on is Warbreaker ! Haven't read it but I plan to read it after I read Mistborn era 1. There are 4 teams, based off of characters from the book. I chose Team Lightsong! There are some nice graphics to go along for the prompts so I'll show them off here, all credit to the maker Sophia's Thoughts over on booktube! Pretty sure they're also the creator of the readathon so major shoutout to them! Since I'm joining Team Lig...

 Hello! One of my favorite things about the bookish community is the myriad readathons that are created. They are so diverse and fun and I love thinking up the books I'm going to read that match the prompts. One readathon that I've been meaning to participate in but haven't before it Filmathon! This round of Filmathon is about Women in Film! I think this is a fantastic theme as it was announced that a record two women we nominated in one year in the Best Director category at the Oscars. Women in film are underappreciated and underrepresented at awards shows so I think this is a great, topical pick for the readathon. This readathon is run by Shak, also know as storieswithshak on booktube. They have thankfully made some graphics for people making their TBRs! Katherine Bigelow - Read a book that features war Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames Goodreads Description: "Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best -- the meanest, dirtiest, most feared crew of me...

  Welcome, Spring! Although I live in Florida where the only seasons are Summer and Summer-Adjacent, I love when Spring arrives. The cherry and plum blossoms are out in many places in the world, snow is melting and flowers are on their way to blooming. People with Seasonal Affective Disorder are hopefully getting a break. It's just a fun time. When I think of Spring, I think of love and rebirth. Because of Easter, I also think of candy and pastel colors and flowers. I think my choices reflect this (I think). What do you think of when you think of Spring? Snapdragon by Kat Leyh   Goodreads Description: "Snap's town had a witch. At least, that's how the rumor goes. But in reality, Jacks is just a Crocs-wearing, internet-savvy old lady who sells roadkill skeletons online. It's creepy,  sure , but Snap thinks it's kind of cool, too. Snap needs a favor from this old woman, though, so she begins helping Jacks with her strange work. Snap gets to know her and realizes...