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i read another book! today's holiday reading was The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris. i had a moment after recording this reaction of, oh god my reactions are getting longer and longer this sucks who will want to listen to this! and then i reminded myself that these are for fun and it's okay if no one listens to them, and i'm making them in large part because i will be having these kind of thoughts anyway and it's fun to record them instead of debating them inside my head, and also i'm interested in being able to come back to these later and remind myself how i thought and felt about these books!

i am up to three books read!!!! the third book i read this year is M Is for Monster, by Talia Dutton. i recorded a response too! short version, it's cute, if you like graphic novels and plays on Frankenstein, it might interest you. the other short version is, i have a lot of feelings about the experience of reading graphic novels for me lol

i was inspired by poppyseedheart to try and do some kind of reading reaction when i finish reading, as possibly a recommendation and a way to get out some of my thoughts and a record of what i've read this year!

so!! the first book i finished this year is A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark! all of my actual ~reaction~ is in the audio linked below (this is entirely unedited so you also get such fun audio as 'me looking up how to pronounce the author's name' and 'weird scratchy noises that are probably from the lap desk my laptop was sitting on').