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Name: JR the Pin Witch

Team: TBR Travellers

Reading Goal: 15 books

TBR Plans

• Host Book: The Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers and sequel
• This post by marycatelli lead me to this series called Monster Punk Horizon which seems to be light-hearted gamelit that's novella length.
• Book Color Cover Prompt: Orange
• Book Polled Choice: TBD

May 2022 Readathon - Results

Mastodon SFF Reading Club

• May - Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki

Translateathon Round 6

Completed

• Oksi by Mari Ahokoivu; translator Silja-Maaria Aronpuro

Graphic Novel | A gorgeous and thematically complicated story about family, conflicting motives and Finnish mythology.

• Goblin Girl by Moa Romanova, translated from Swedish by Melissa Bowers

Graphic Novel | A surreal autobiographical story about dealing with anxiety and unhealthy relationships.

Completed (Not for Readathons)

•  Beyond: the Queer Sci-Fi & Fantasy Comic Anthology

Comics Anthology | Pretty solid.

•  Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh

Graphic Novel | A masterpiece. Its hard to describe other than the artwork is cutouts, so well done and gorgeous. So are all the stories in this.

•  Huda F Are You by Huda Fahmy

Graphic Novel | A cute, light hearted graphic novel about a hijabi high school's coming of age. About finding herself beyond the hijab.

•  Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories

Short Story Collection | Amazing. Some of my new favorite short stories come from this collection.

•  Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

Novel | High Fantasy, Short stakes. A cozy story about and orc and succubus running a fantasy coffee shop. Well paced and feels like a perfect latte.

• In the Vanishers' Palace by Aliette de Bodard

Novella | A sapphic Vietnamese inspired fantasy with a cosmic horror setting. Strange but comes together surprisingly nicely.

•  Sprite and the Gardener by Joe Whitt with Rii Abrego (Illustrator)

Graphic Novel | A short and sweet comic about coming together and gardening.

•  Happily Ever After & Everything In Between by Debbie Tung

Comic Collection | A cute collection about a laid back couple that have a strong relationship.

Did Not Finish

•  Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki - is a translation so it also works for this too

Short Story Collection | These stories were written from the 50s to the 80s and you felt it. No thanks.

Still on the TBR

• Virus Tropical by powerpaola
• Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna, translated from French by Helge Dascher
• Freedom Hospital: A Syrian Story by Hamid Sulaiman, translated from French by Francesca Barrie
• Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. The Patriarchy by Liv Strömquist, translated from the Swedish by Melissa Bowers
• Poppies in Iraq by Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim, translated from French by Helge Dascher
• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata, translated from Japanese by Jocelyn Allen
• The Winter of the Cartoonist by Paco Roca, translated from Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg
• Perramus by Alberto Breccia and Juan Sasturain, translated from Spanish by Erica Mena

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