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catching you up on all the (fiction) books I've read in the last few months!! Including some lesbian classics, fantasies, a romance novel, and feminist historical fiction.

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Timestamps 
0:00 - 01:20 intro
01:20 - 05:10 Royal Assassin, Robin Hobb
05:10 - 06:01 Assassin's Quest Robin Hobb
06:01- 07:53 Rouge, Mona Awad
07:53 - 12:35 Kings of the Wyld (The Band, #1), Nicholas Eames
12:35 - 16:01 star-rating catch up
16:01 - 16:40 Bloody Rose (The Band, #2), Nicholas Eames
16:40 - 17:07 beauty break
17:07 - 20:57 kufiyah 
20:57 - 26:06 The Vaster Wilds, Lauren Groff
26:06 - 30:05 The Unreal and the Real vol 2, Ursula le Guin27:01 The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, Gertrude Stein
30:05 - 30:47 City of Incurable Women, Maud Casey
30:47 - 33:55 Liarmouth, John Waters
33:55 - 34:47 Galatea, Madeline Miller
34:47 - 37:36 Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date, Ashley Herring Blake
37:36 - 38:01 Where the Wild Ladies Are, Aoko Matsuda
38:01 - 39:28 Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
39:28 - 41:42 The Dead Take The A Train, Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey

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Reading wrap up fall-winter: fiction books part 1

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Bindery User

During this phase, we're reviewing manuscripts and deciding which book we want to publish. At the end of this phase, we offer an author a book deal.

Consideration

As the manuscript goes through several phases of editorial work, the cover and interior design takes place, while format decisions about paper stocks and printing treatments are made.

Editorial & Design

While the books are on press, the pre-order links go live and the marketing campaign ramps up with waves of review copy mailings to media and influencers.

Pre-order

The finished copies have released on the book's publication date. Go give it some love!

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Sunny

My name is Sunny (they/she) and I read, recommend, and review books of all genres, with a particular emphasis on lesbian and queer literature, speculative fiction, and women writers. I love sharing my thoughts on books with a community of readers online. I’m a reader and a dedicated drinker of earl gray tea, and I hold the identities of Asian-American femme lesbian very close to my heart— I take that shit very seriously. I am the podcast co-host of The Lavender Menace Podcast, the Writing Director of Beloved: A Butch-Femme Zine, and a writer.  

On previous social media platforms like TikTok and Twitter, I’ve been essentially chased off of these sites for my (well-informed and well-read) beliefs. But I love books and I love sharing my opinions, so I will not stop! On my Bindery, “sunny thoughts” works as both a little play on words, a description of thoughts that are “sunny” and bright, when really, I am a pretty critical reader and consumer of media. But “sunny thoughts” also literally refers to my (Sunny’s) thoughts, in a Substack-like-newsletter for lengthy written book reviews as well as essays on books, media, the Internet, the world, etc. I hope you join me in this community and find as much joy in approaching and critically examining media and discourse as I do!

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