The Peculiar Bookshelf
Emily L. PateA celebration of words and weird facts.
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Favorite Books Read in 2025
Yes, I know it’s almost February! But here they are, my favorite books that I read for the first time this past year. If you’ve been reading my periodic updates, some parts of these descriptions will be familiar to you, but not everything!...
Manga Monday: Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
No other manga series has made me laugh so often as Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Gekkan Shōjo Nozaki-kun) by Izumi Tsubaki.
Where to read: Yen Press/Square Enix
The story follows the titular Umetarou Nozaki, a high school boy who is secret...
What I Read This Month
It’s been a hectic couple of months, so here is a list of all my summer reads! And by summer reads, I mean whatever I happened to read during the summer. AKA, some great graphic novels and historical true crime.
A Song for You & I by...
Manga Monday: Sketchy
Sometimes you read something and it punches you right in the heart, but in like, a good way. I never thought a manga about skateboarding would have that effect, but that’s the power of Josei for you.
Where to read: Kodansha (Like a lot of...
What I Read This Month
In the Pacific Northwest, Spring means tulips and cherry blossoms, in colors so bright they look unreal.
It’s the perfect time for some hopeful, refreshing books, so of course I’m instead reading intense sci-fi crime thrillers, non-fictio...
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Emily L. Pate (she/her) is a writer, reader, teacher, and collector/over-sharer of bizarre facts—the weirder the better. With an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, she focuses on speculative fiction but dabbles in every genre she can get her hands on.
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