✨ Happy Monday, book lovers! ✨

I know we’re halfway through May already, but it’s better late than never to share one of my favourite posts that I make at the end of every month: the community posts! This is a collection of some of the posts that I read from bloggers across the book community over the past month. I know my community posts tend to be quite long, but I hope you’ll take the time to visit some of these pages and show them the love they deserve! ✨📖 Happy reading, friends! 📖✨

Discussions/Wrap-Ups/Celebrations:

• Book Blogging Struggles ⇉ Magic & Maybes
• What makes a “Young Adult” Book YA & Why are Fantasy Books Often Mislabeled? {Blog Discussion} ⇉ 24hryabookblog
• Books I Changed My Mind About ⇉ Read You Leyre
• I DNFed My First Book ⇉ Sophie Counts Clouds
• Are Contemporary YA Novels Actually Realistic Fiction? ⇉ Pages Unbound
• Let’s Talk Bookish | Reading Relatability? ⇉ Hardcover Haven
• Discussion: My pet peeves in fiction. ⇉ Inkspun Tales
• AI, Piracy, and the Fight for Authors’ Rights: This Isn’t Okay and What We Can Do ⇉ Maria’s Bookish Corner
• Let’s Talk Bookish: Impulse Buying Books ⇉ Alli the Book Giraffe
• Let’s Talk Bookish: Blog Tour Community! ⇉ Books Are the New Black

Reviews:

• The Silence of Bones by June Hur ⇉ 24hryabookblog
• 10 Things I Love About Witch Hat Atelier ⇉ Dark Shelf of Wonders
• The Knight and the Butcherbird by Alix E. Harrow — Mini Review! ⇉ Becky’s Book Blog
• Book Review: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson ⇉ Bewitching Books, Ravenous Reads
• Book Review: The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang ⇉ GoodeyReads
• Nonfiction Reviews ⇉ Carla Loves to Read
• ARC Review: A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim ⇉ Down the Rabbit Hole
• Review: Black Salt Queen is a Filipino epic fantasy full of politics, love, and tragedy ⇉ Enthralled Bookworm

Tags/Awards/Challenges:

• Spring Equinox Celebrations Book Tag ⇉ Pages of Emma

Listicles (Favourites, Recommendations, Ideas, Memes, etc.):

• TTT: Favorite Poetry Books I’ve Reviewed In the Past Two Years ⇉ My Head is Full of Books
• I’m already sat and seated for these Book-to-Screen Adaptations ⇉ AceReader
• Author Spotlight ~ Stephanic Burgis ⇉ BookWyrm Knits
• Books About Books: A List ⇉ Witty and Sarcastic Bookclub
• may 2025 releases: asian authors, love stories, and fantastical worlds ⇉ this belle reads too

That’s a wrap on April’s community posts! What were some of your favourite posts you read or blogs that you discovered this month?

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