Hey friends. How is your summer going? You may be wondering why I have a post titled ārecent reads,ā so Iāll provide some context. Summer 2025 is the summer I officially signed up for NetGalley. As I mentioned over on my personal blog, when I signed up, I didnāt think Iād actually get approved for anything. After all, my following is virtually nonexistent. So I may have gone overboard with my requests. My rationale? āIām not going to be approved for all of this, so I may as well over request, right?ā Of course, this proved to be poor judgment on my part and Iām now swimming in ARCs that I need to read. Not that Iām complaining, Iām super grateful for everything I was approved for. But it also means I have a lot of reading to do.
All that said, there are some books I read that I didnāt feel like I had enough to say about them in order to warrant writing a full blog post about them. But I still wanted to make sure I mentioned them in some capacity.
So here is a list of recent reads that donāt have dedicated posts about them. I will note the ones that I received from NetGalley.
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My History, My Gender, Me by Cassandra Jules Corrigan
(Childrenās nonfiction)
This is a childrenās picture book that highlights some transgender and nonbinary people throughout history. As this is super short (itās about 40 pages) and meant for children, it obviously doesnāt go into a ton of detail. However, it provides a snapshot into some interesting trans and nonbinary people. While I think this can be a great resource to introduce kids to trans and nonbinary people, I think it can also benefit adults who donāt have kids in their lives. I know I now have a list of people I want to do some more research on.
*Received from NetGalley.*
All The Broken Blades by YM Pang
(Adult fiction)
All The Broken Blades is a collection of short stories by YM Pang. The stories collected here are all fantasy; some are fairy tale retellings. Pang originally published these stories elsewhere and then decided to collect them here.
Some of my favorite stories in this collection are the fairy tale retellings, mostly, I think, because the stories were familiar to me. I liked how Pang took familiar fairy tales, gave them more or less the same ending, but gave the characters different motivations. For example, what if Snow Whiteās stepmother wasnāt the true villain?
All The Broken Blades was my first introduction to Pang and Iām looking forward to reading more of her work.
*Received from NetGalley.*
A Question
What have you been reading?
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