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Jun 19, 2020Jun 20, 2020 NeriSiren

Imagine Better: an Optimistic Black Lives Matter Summer Reading List

Cover of Calling on Dragons. A giant blue donkey with enormous white wings grins as he flies a sword-wielding hero with streaming dark hair and a flapping pink cape (I'm guessing that's Cimorene?) to the top window of a grey stone tower. Inside the window are two figures: a woman with long, dark red hair and a balding man with lighter red hair. Both are staring out at the donkey, whose back legs are straddling a manila banner that says "Patricia C. Wrede."
May 18, 2020May 28, 2020 NeriSiren

Would the OG Dragon Queen please stand up?

Buttery yellow cover of SVH book 62, "Who's Who?" The red, letter-jacket-style series title curves around a circle in the center of the cover. Inside the circle, Elizabeth and Jessica stand against a pinkish-brown background. Elizabeth, on the left, is wearing a grey dinner jacket on top of a black top or dress that cuts straight across the chest. She's wearing a black beret over curly, pale blond hair. Her left arm is folded across her middle, supporting her right elbow. Her right hand is shading her right eye, like she's exasperated or embarrassed, and she's looking over her shoulder at Jessica, with an amusedly embarrassed smile. Jessica, meanwhile, is grinning confidently to the lower-left corner of the book, her arms crossed to show a series of multicolored bangles. She's wearing a simple, three-quarter-sleeved black dress punctuated by a wild statement necklace made up of multicolored fish. She has a pale blue streak in her curly, pale-blond hair. The tag-line under the circle reads: "Will the real Jessica please stand up?" and the book title is in large purple letters at the bottom of the cover.
May 6, 2020May 11, 2020 NeriSiren

Social distancing in Sweet Valley

Apr 22, 2020Apr 23, 2020 NeriSiren

An ode to Indigiqueer poets and subversive librarians

Mar 28, 2020May 11, 2020 NeriSiren

Netflix Book Tag

Cover of the Binti audiobook. A dark background, in front of which you see a woman's face, with two hands spread open at either side of her face. She has dark skin, with streaks of red clay on both her face and her hands.
Mar 26, 2020 NeriSiren

The whale is judging you, and the space jellies want their tentacles back.

Mar 25, 2020Mar 25, 2020 NeriSiren

Rainbows of Hope: a very timely poetry collection

Mar 18, 2020May 6, 2020 NeriSiren

Belle & Sebastian get my inner YA angst

Cover of Beneath the Sugar Sky. A bright, blue sky covers the top left corner of the cover. Indigo clouds, with bright white lining, cover the top right. The bottom is occupied by magenta ocean waves crashing onto a magenta beach. In the middle of the sky is a semi-translucent door opening into nothingness.
Mar 5, 2020May 17, 2020 NeriSiren

Sugar and spice, and let’s not get sliced

Feb 24, 2020Mar 28, 2020 NeriSiren

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