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About Thistle

Queer, neurospicy, chronically longwinded oversharer. 40s; they/them. ✍️📷🐈📚🥾🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈😇💖🐍

Magonia, by Maria Dahvana Headley

Posted on June 25, 2015 by Thistle

Aza Ray is one of a kind. Literally. She’s the only person in the world with a disease so rare that it is named after her. She can barely breathe, drowning in air, and no one expects her to live … Continue reading →

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Top Five Top-Ten Posts

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Thistle

Top Ten Tuesday, as a book-meme, started five years ago. Today’s topic is in honor of that fifth anniversary, and asks us what are our favorites Top Ten Tuesday posts of the last five years. For my part, I have … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Seeking Comfort

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Thistle

Moving across the country without any outside help from family/friends = stressful. Last year, this was slightly easier. We stayed at my dad’s house while we packed the last of our old house into a storage shed. We had beds … Continue reading →

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Wildalone, by Krassi Zourkova (audio)

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Thistle

Thea leaves her parents and home in Bulgaria to attend Princeton. In a new world that is both foreign and exciting, she uncovers family secrets, crazy-wild-legends, brothers-of-love (*coughlustcough*), and a whole pile of creepy. Sooooo…I think this is my first … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Books On My 2015 Summer TBR

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Thistle

Just like I said with my 2015 Spring TBR Possibilities List, I would rather not be too heavy-handed in my choices for summer. I never really know what I’ll read in advance, as my mood will change as the months pass. … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – The Whirlwind Begins

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Thistle

Actually probably technically, the whirlwind began some time ago. However, it’s beginning in earnest this week. Tomorrow, we close on our new house. Two weeks after that, we begin our cross-country move. Yesterday, we gave away our couch. The apartment … Continue reading →

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Alif the Unseen, by G. Willow Wilson

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Thistle

Hiding under the handle of Alif, a young man fights back against the government censorship and violence via computer in an unnamed Middle Eastern city. When his lover leaves him to enter into the marriage her family has arranged for … Continue reading →

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Top Seven Rest-of-2015 Releases

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Thistle

Well…I’ll be honest. I barely had ten releases I was looking forward to for all of 2015, much less the second half. And my most anticipated 2015 release (The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater) has been pushed back until February … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Wrapping up May

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Thistle

May was an interesting month, both in life (very fun last-northern-vacation!) and in books. Because in books, the month was anything but typical for me. I finished six books in May, two on audio and four in print. None of … Continue reading →

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Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman (audio)

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Thistle

Subtitled: My Year in a Women’s Prison I’m sure most people have heard of the TV show version of this, at least, so I won’t spend a lot of time recapping. Piper Kerman spent roughly a year in a federal … Continue reading →

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