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Hello All,
I’ve been working on improving the community experience for everyone (see March’s Book club calendar here) and also to relieve some stress from myself!
I’ve decided to provide weekly calendars (with the exception of travel weeks) so everyone has an idea of what’s coming (including me, lol)
I’ve included the activity (whether a post or group activity) and access level. My goal is to provide at least two $5 and up exclusive posts and two $12 exclusive posts per month! If you are curious about what paid tiers receive, please go check out membership benefits. I just made a few changes!
Monday: I’ll be sharing some What Feeds Below NEWS! And asking everyone to share my post or create posts of their own!
Thursday: We meet on zoom to journal. Whatever that looks like for you: reading journal, writing journal, junk journal, stickers, art, whatever. Camera on or off. Just a way to carve out space for hobbies!
Friday and Sunday: Discord reading sprints! The community grows closer by getting to know one another and participating in our fave pastime. We will read for 50 min and chat for 10 for a couple hours! Great way to help stick to the bookclub schedule!
📖New Release: The Book Club Kit for This Book Made Me Think of You
If you’ve been craving a book club pick that is tender, life-affirming, and just a little bit heartbreaking in the best way, this is your moment. 🕊️📚✨
We’re diving deep into This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page, and this kit is built for the found family lovers, the stationery addicts, and everyone who knows that a good book can be a life raft.
The Vibe: From Ugly Cry to Hopeful Sigh
When Tilly Nightingale receives twelve books from her late fiancé, Joe, it’s more than a gift it’s a roadmap through grief. Whether your group is Team Alfie the bookshop owner of our dreams or you're just here for the global reading adventures, this story reminds us that healing isn't linear, but it is possible.
What’s Inside the Kit?
Tap the link below for instant access to everything you need to host a meeting that feels like a warm hug:
📖The Discussion Guide: Questions covering grief, the power of vlogging your journey, and the would you read it? dilemma.
🍽️A Year of Flavors Menu: From London bookshop sourdough to Ugly Cry chocolate fondue and Earl Grey martinis.
✍️Immersive Activities: Including the Think of You book exchange and a playlist workshop for Month 13.
🎁 Stationery & Self-Care Door Prizes: Gift ideas like scented candles, annotated classics, and of course high-quality tissues.
Are You Ready to Turn the Page?
Whether your group is ready to unpack Tilly’s risky move to share her heart online, or you just want to debate which book you would hope to find in a gift from a loved one, this kit is designed to make your meeting feel immersive and deeply personal.
👉Access the Full Book Club Kit Tap the Link https://tinyurl.com/murxdn2y
Let’s Chat: If someone left you twelve books to help you through your hardest year, what is ONE title you’d hope made the list? Drop your must-have book in the comments! 📖💌
💥 Happy reading, book lovers. Keep the tissues close. 🧺✨
We thought we were picking up a cozy bookish romance. We did NOT expect to ugly cry in a group chat. 📚💔✨
Our book club just finished This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page, and let’s just say we have feelings. All six of us. Loudly.
Here’s the vibe from the group:
👩🏻🦰The Romantic: “Twelve books. Twelve months. A love letter from beyond the grave?? I was emotionally unwell by chapter two.”
👩🏽The Crier: “Joe planning a year of healing for Tilly before he died?? I sobbed. On my commute. In public.”
👩🏼🦱The Skeptic (converted): “I thought this would be too sad, but it’s actually about learning to live again. The reading adventures, the travel, the vlog journey it felt hopeful.”
👩🏾The Bookshop Lover: “Alfie. That’s it. That’s my review. Team Alfie forever.”
👱🏼♀️The Analyzer: “I loved how each book unlocked a new layer of grief. It showed how stories connect us even when someone is gone.”
👩🏻The Chaos Reader: “I came for romance. I stayed for the found family, the bookshop vibes, and the reminder that healing isn’t linear.”
Watching Tilly receive twelve carefully chosen books from her late fiancé one for each month of her first year without him wrecked us but in a gentle, cathartic way. It’s about grief, yes. But it’s also about community, new beginnings, and how stories can carry us when we can’t carry ourselves.
We laughed. We cried. We immediately wanted to give this to someone we love.
✨️Thank you Berkley and Libby Page for sharing This Book Made Me Think of You with us!
❓️If someone left you twelve books to help you through a hard year, what’s ONE title you’d hope made the list? 📖💌
It's time! I am so excited to dive back into the world of Goosebumps.
The first ever Goosebumps book was published in 1992 Welcome To Dead House. Little did he know this would spark a major love for horror in kids everywhere! 62 original books later, Stine still holds the hearts of children and adults alike.
Today marks the kick off of You Can't Scare Me.
Synopsis: Eddie and his friends plan to dress up as the slimy Mud Monsters--legendary spooks who supposedly live in Muddy Creek--but their plans change when they meet the real Mud Monsters.
This one sounds like so much fun! I already have a few book recommendations circulating my mind--Will drop them next Sunday.
The episode can be watched here-- and we will plan to watch it Saturday March 13th! Time TBD.
Was this one you read as a kid? I personally don't remember reading this one myself.
We will finish reading You Can't Scare Me by Sunday, March 14th.
Discussions can be held in the discord group chat! If you've joined discord and have not been added to the Goosebumps chat let me know and I will add you!
I can't wait to read this with you all!
Happy Saturday, mis internet amigxs,
A nationwide book ban has been proposed by the House of Representatives targeting LGBTQ+ books. Action items can be found on Instagram and Tik Tok. Further news and action items coming this week.
The world is feeling HEAVY right now, so I wanted to bask in a moment of Latine bookish joy with you and tell you about upcoming March 3rd Latine releases, plus I wanted to begin with a GIVEAWAY.
Our March book club selection, Now I Surrender by Alvaro Enrigue, releases on Tuesday and I've got ONE MORE HARDCOVER COPY UP FOR GRABS EXCLUSIVELY FOR ANYONE WHO LIKES AND COMMENTS ON THIS POST (US address only). I'll email the winner on Wednesday and you'll have 24 hours to get me your mailing address via reply to my email! You will have a chance at a second copy in a larger poll of entrants on Tuesday's release day blog post.
Also, reminder that our non-fiction sidequest read March through April is Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer (audiobook). Several people who have the paperback have mentioned that the font is VERY small, so if you have vision issues or don't like to read small font, please keep that in mind.
This is a busy week of releases so let's get on with the show...
TRANSLATED LITERARY FICTION & MARCH BOOK CLUB PICK
Now I Surrender by Alvaro Enrigue and translated by Natasha Wimmer (Audiobook) Alt-Western historical fiction taking place in multiple timelines from multiple POV's about how the West was "won" Revolutionary, in only a way Alvaro can write. Can not way to discuss with you on Discord. We start chatting on March4th!
Diorama by Carol Bensimon and translated by Zoe Perry and Julia Sanches (Audiobook) Brazillian translated literary fiction about Cecília reexamines the case of a close family friend killed by a colleague and rival: her father, after many years trying to outrun her past.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Estela, Undrowning by Rene Pena-Govea (audiobook) Estela Morales navigates her struggles with anxiety, eviction, and both external and internalized racism as she attends one of San Francisco’s most exclusive high schools.
If We Never End by Laura Taylor Namey (audiobook) I'll never NOT celebrate an exlusive limited hardcover for a Latine book!!!! Cuban-American Namey brings us a spec romance about a girl who winds an enchanted watch and a boy appears who has no idea who he is or how he died
BILINGUAL PICTURE BOOK
Gooool! A Bilingual Book Of Soccer by Mike Alfaro and illustrated by Gerardo Guillen: Just in time for the World Cup!
NONFICTION
Red Stones: A graphic account of the Salvadoran Civil War by Ernesto Saade: Saade documents how in 1981, the Salvadoran Civil War reached Miriam's village of Santa Marta and what occurred.
El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory by Jazmine Ulloa (Audiobook) From a New York Times reporter, this sweeping human history of El Paso reveals the violence, power, and privilege at play in America’s most famous border town.
AUDIOBOOK RELEASE FOR GRAPHIC NOVEL
How to Say Goodbye in Cuban by Daniel Miyares (audiobook) Audiobook release of the graphic novel detailing the dramatic coming-of-age graphic novel memoir of 12-year-old Carlos (who would grow up to become the author’s father), his life during the Cuban Revolution, and his family’s harrowing escape to America.
xoxo,
Carmen
Bookclub just got an upgrade, and then upgrade is YOU!
As you know, I run two bookclubs for this community: Good Day To Read Indigenous and Women in Horror. I love the idea of us coming together every month, and not only reading the same book, but supporting the authors! and championing these books. I'm excited that this year, we've chosen both new releases and backlist titles to read together! Imagine, what we as a community (and there are well over 2,000 of you here now!) could do for a backlist titles (AND NEW RELEASES!) if we all purchased the books and reviewed them around the same time (convincing those that follow our reviews to go out and get the books, rinse and repeat!)
I believe that my chronic mood reading (my ADHD) has negatively impacted book club and so to counter that, I'm going to be making reading schedules moving forward for each club (See Below!)
There will be four blocks (weeks typically) with Chapter (page) designations. There will be a Discord channel for each session. Please note: THIS MEANS SPOILERS FOR THAT SECTION. My hope is that we can all be reading at the same time (I know in reality, this won't be possible for everyone all the time, so if there are times you get behind or don't feel like keeping up, you can visit the channels whenever you'd like).
I imagine our reader community discord as a space to come together to build connection, to share conversations and to share perspectives. Our community is a strong source of support for Indigenous authors and women writing horror, the voices that haunt and heal us. We are choosing to be intentional about our reading choices. These conversations matter. I'd love everyone to join in this month, in any way that makes sense for you, whether that's coming with a question, sharing a quote or passage that moved you, something that deeply unsettled you or gave you a different perspective. This year I'd like to focus on moving beyond consuming stories and toward honoring them. You all shape and strengthen this space and it's a privilege to share it with you.
Beyond The Page
This month, Boozhoo Books will be supporting Black Walnut Books. That means that every book purchased by clicking a book below through Bookshop (or on any post) is purchasing a book from Black Walnut Books, an Indigenous, Queer, Woman owned independent bookstore. In fact, even if you don't buy the book from the post, but click through, ANY and EVERY book that you purchase, supports this bookstore. Choosing to purchase from Indigenous owned bookstores is a way for us to support Indigenous communities beyond amplifying author's voices. I also see a small percentage from your book purchases, so not only will you receive a book (or 7, no judgment) you will be supporting an Indigenous creator and publisher, authors, bookseller, bookstore all at once. Hillary, the owner, is Southern Pomo and Coastal Miwok and a member of the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians. She focuses on sharing and amplifying Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Queer communities, voices and authors. If you are able to spend money on books this month, please consider purchasing books through my bookshop link below, supporting both this imprint and Black Walnut Books. Where you choose to spend your money could make a real difference, going beyond values and into action.
Book reviews help authors. I encourage you to share your reviews beyond our Discord, whether that's on social media or a site like Goodreads. If you don't feel like posting a review, post a picture and of the book and tag the author (do not tag the author in reviews!). You can also tag me, so I can repost! If you end up buying your books through Black Walnut Books, tag them as well!
THIS MONTH'S BOOKS
Good Day to Read Indigenous
Each year, this club will read a book by Louise Erdrich. This month we will be reading The Night Watchman, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize. Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.
Women in Horror
This month we will be reading The Year of Witching by Alexis Henderson.
In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law, Immanuelle Moore's very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into disgrace, so Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead a life of submission, devotion, and absolute conformity, like all the other women in the settlement.
But a mishap lures her into the forbidden Darkwood surrounding Bethel, where the first prophet once chased and killed four powerful witches. Their spirits are still lurking there, and they bestow a gift on Immanuelle: the journal of her dead mother, who Immanuelle is shocked to learn once sought sanctuary in the wood.
Fascinated by the secrets in the diary, Immanuelle finds herself struggling to understand how her mother could have consorted with the witches. But when she begins to learn grim truths about the Church and its history, she realizes the true threat to Bethel is its own darkness. And she starts to understand that if Bethel is to change, it must begin with her.
I can't wait for us to read March's selection together! Let me know down below what you're most looking forward to about bookclub in March!
Sometimes a book finds a way to slip past your defenses and crawl under your skin. The below books are all ones that have made me question... wtf am I reading?
I'm not an extreme horror reader so keep that in mind. If I was, probably every one of those would be on this list lol.
Orpheus Builds A Girl by Heather Parry
This book follows a man who has a "vision" of his future bride. When he meets her, she's a sick nineteen-year old that comes into his clinic, where he works as a doctor at fifty plus years of age. If that wasn't enough to make you feel uncomfortable, it gets worse when he begins using medicine to manipulate her and her family, and later down the road experiments and even more shocking events. I don't want to give too much away, but the second half of this book made me squirm.
The Troop by Nick Cutter
If you've read this book, you probably already know what I'm talking about. And pretty much any of Nick Cutter's books could end up on this list. But the constant description of the worms (SO GROSS) and the Lord Of The Flies esq themes really got to me. There was one kid who was messed up and his scenes always made me super uncomfortable.
Itch by Gemma Amor
This is another buggy horror that got under my skin. Its beautifully written and I loved the good for her theme! But those ant scenes and the places they were crawling out of. shudders
Uzumaki by Junji Ito
My first ever Junji Ito and it 100% left a lasting impression on me. The body horror in this one unsettled me. I had to take breaks. But I loved it and it will forever be one of my favorites of Ito's Horror Manga!
Last Days by Adam Nevill
This one disturbed me not in the sense of being gross, this book just truly got under my skin. There's a scene in France where the characters hear pig squeals in the basement and then they go back and watch the footage they recorded.... AH. I got goosebumps.
What books disturbed you?
Hello Friends,
If you follow me on Instagram or are in our community reader Discord, you may have seen already, but for those of you who missed it:
The deadline to become a paid member to receive What Feeds Below benefits in March 30!
$5 members will receive E*arc
$12+$25 members will receive physical arcs! (reminder currently US only).
I strongly urging logging in to see what level you are subscribed at also to make sure you update your name and address IN BINDERY.
BOOZHOO BOOKS Quarterly Mail- MARCH
All paid subscribers who opt in using the new form will receive mail from me in March! (Including Canada!). If you received my surprise holiday card, you know what this means! I include bookmarks, or stickers, or bingo cards.
All opted in $5 subscribers will receive a What Feeds Below book mark this march
All opted in $12 and $25 subscribers will receive a WFB book mark and coloring postcard!
Deadline to opt in for this is March 15.
EXCLUSIVE CONTENT
In an effort to continue the growth of this imprint, I will be focusing a lot more on exclusive content moving forward. I have a lot of things that I'm currently working on, but what you can expect to see is
Monthly Reading Updates
More Frequent Publishing Updates
Curated Book Lists
Author Interviews
BOOK CLUB will always be free.
What We're Reading in March!
Greetings friends. After consulting the nominating committee (chaired by me, staffed by the voices in my head), we're moving forward with one novel and one nonfiction read for March. Something for everyone!
A Gentleman in Moscow is one of my all-time favorite books. Few characters in literary history display more joie de vivre and savoir faire than Count Rostov. It's highly readable and exceedingly enjoyable.
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer is a biography of Michel de Montaigne which has been on my TBR for a while. I have a bit of a boy crush on Montaigne and I feel like everybody with better taste than me has read and loved this book.
Reminder—the majority of book discussion will take place over on our Discord on channels unlocked at the Greater Fool tier. See the pinned welcome post for that rationale. Either way, I hope you'll read and enjoy these books with me!
Ronnica Reads
Ronnica fatt
Committed to celebrating books from marginalized authors, with an emphasis on diverse books that lean literary.
Littrilly Reads & Chats Club
Tasj
Hello & welcome to Littrilly Read & Chats Club (LRCC)! <3 I’m Tasj! Here to help you find reads that enlighten, comfort, and excite! Expect: book recs, Book reviews, bookish diaries, reading vlogs, book club, and literary exploration
Reading Fools
Marston Quinn
I’m a fool, and so are you, but maybe we'll be a little less foolish if we read great books together?
Collectible Science Fiction
Adam
Welcome to CSF! Home of the coolest books and covers.
The Threaded Library
Carlos osuna
The Threaded Library isn’t just a book club — it’s a creative, cozy, and wonderfully queer corner of the internet where stories and art intertwine.
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