I picked up three books this week; two to review for Pride in June, and one is Elizabeth Acavedo’s newest, With The Fire On High. I recently reviewed her fantastic The Poet X, so I’m really looking forward to this one. (And that cover is spectacular!) The two I requested for Pride month are House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row and Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity, both nonfiction. I’ve already started Unbound, and it’s looking to be quite good. The author is lesbian, so not only is it LGBT-themed, but LGBT-written as well, even though it isn’t #ownvoices. She’s a sociologist, though, so she brings that academic background to the table, too.

Edit: Unbound is NOT recommended, I will be publishing a review in July detailing my issues with it.

Picked up three books this week. If I’m Being Honest, a YA take on The Taming of the Shrew; The Tiger At Midnight, a fantasy for YARC, and Storm of Locusts, the sequel to Trail of Lightning.

I only picked up one book this week, The Way You Make Me Feel. It looks like a cute YA romance centered on a summer spent working at a food truck.

I only picked up two books this week; The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds, a reference book on seed saving and plant propagation, and We Set The Dark On Fire, a young adult romance/dystopia. I think. It looks pretty interesting, anyway, and the author had stories in both All Out and Toil & Trouble, both of which I enjoyed.

So. I…may have gone overboard this week. I may have checked out seven books without turning anything in. Whoops!

So these two are because I checked out Greywalker last week – Poltergeist is book 2, and Mean Streets has a short story that lands between books 3 and 4. Book 3 is only available as an ebook, so I’ll check that out when I finish Poltergeist.

I checked out two nonfiction books this week, both about climate change. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore.

The last three books are a little more random – I finally got my hands on And I Darken. It made a huge splash on the internet, and one of my personal friends highly recommended it. The other two were spotlighted on Book Riot somewhere – Frankenstein in Baghdad, in which someone accidentally puts together a Frankenstein monster in, well, Baghdad, during the war, and The Geek’s Guide to Unrequited Love, which should be a little lighter fare.

Just two books this week – I finally got my hands on The Poet X by Elizabeth Acavedo, which has gotten lots of amazing reviews, and we checked out the first book in an urban fantasy series, Greywalker, after reading a related short story in an anthology. There’s nine books total in the series, plus a few short stories, so if the first one is good, I’ll be in that world for a while!