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Bloody Irish
by Bob Curran
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This book was labeled as a non-fiction but it definitely read more like a fiction set of short stories! A quick and easy read with some nice spooky stories perfect for a campfire.

The Indifferent Stars Above Lp
by Daniel James Brown
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This was a very well-written book that managed to be extremely thorough without being excessively dry. Funny enough, I found myself finishing his sentences because I had read a book to the kids I nannied, Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party, that I actually knew a lot of the historical details from family names and fates to the side-adventures of various characters that joined and left the wagon trail along the way. This book was always going to be heavy due to the subject matter, but it never felt sensationalized or drawn out, treating the history as a matter of fact without being too dramatized. A great and quick read!

Ring Shout
by P. Djèlí Clark
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This was a really incredible novel, it built a really amazing universe in such a short time! I thought the monsters were incredible and terrifying, and the final battle was blockbuster worthy. I think this would make an incredible movie or limited series! So glad I bought a digital copy on Libro.FM so I can revisit this again and again!

Managing ADHD Finances: A Digital Guidebook for Adults
by Kyrus Keenan Westcott
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This is an ebook that provides a very simple, straightforward, and positive approach to managing finances when you have ADHD. It's written by Kyrus Keenan Westcott, a content creator on Instagram who also has ADHD. His words and advice made me feel seen and realize that I'm not inherently bad simply because I struggle with money; I just need to utilize methods and tools that work with my neurodivergency, not against it. For anyone struggling with money due to ADHD, I highly recommend this!

Gender Queer
by Maia Kobabe
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The art of this was really beautiful. I think this had a really unique and very unsure message in a completely good way, like so many books on sexuality and gender are so self-confident, either in the science or in the self-understanding, and I really appreciated that this author was even to the very end not very sure of eirself. It's a strong message that you don't ever have to be an expert on the way you feel, because sometimes the words and labels we make don't quite describe the way we feel, and we don't have to put ourselves in a box

Future Home Of The Living God
by Louise Erdrich
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Wow I really wished for a better ending. Not that the ending wasn't completely great and well written, but I was just really hoping that Cedar would make it out! And she was so close too. This was a really beautifully written book about the end of the way we know the world, the meaning of family, and watching it up against my own estranged connection to my Minnesotan Ojibwe grandfather was really poignant. Louise Erdrich really writes such beautiful books.

Strange Houses
by Uketsu
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What a fun quick read!! I loved the repeated prints of the house layouts so you never forgot the images to make the story more intriguing. I wish it was longer!!

The Ballad Of Black Tom
by Victor LaValle
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I had no idea that this was based on an H.P. Lovecraft story but I was totally drawn in, especially by the historic depictions of New York. I both loved that it was short, keeping some mystery and intrigue to the ending, and wished that it was twice as long to learn more about the strange magic!!

World War Z
by Max Brooks
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What a great audiobook cast! I did find myself a little zoned out in the middle of this book based on the short chapters that could range from emotional to gory to highly military technical, but overall the voice acting was really strong and did keep me in a lot of parts. I loved the world building that often gets overlooked in the highly focused apocalypse books like the vernacular and cultural shifts that come during and after big moments in history, it felt like a really interesting sociological study in that way!

Remina
by Junji Ito
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Junji Ito does it again! This is perhaps my first standalone I've read from Ito; I'm more familiar with his short story collections. This is an absolutely horrifying tale of a planet from another dimension that crosses into our realm and makes a devastating approach to Earth, destroying everything in its path. This is a story that goes hard in both its storytelling and its visuals.
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