⭐Hello⭐

I'm Tarmia (waves). I've been a quiet Bookcrossing member since 2023 - but a voracious reader since I can remember! Recently, I've really loved becoming more involved with the games and the community here on the webpage and hoping to join some meet ups going forward!

When I'm not reading I'm either working towards completing my PhD in Gender Studies and Cultural Anthropology or working in retail (🙃).

I love to read widely and eclectically, but especially enjoy memoirs and autobiographies, nonfiction (especially written by women), books about gender, race and class, feminist fiction and nonfiction, science fiction and almost any literary fiction. I'm always up for suggestions and surprises!

I make it a personal point to read widely and diversely and try to explore perspectives and opinions that I do not know much about. Therefore, I love anything translated or written by people from uncommon countries/cultures. Not all the books I register are my taste - I will sometimes register and release books from friends and siblings.

Please feel free to message me about any books, even if they are in my 'permanent collection,' as I very well may just send it on to you 😉

See you around ❤️

Books read 2025 (so far):

January
⭐ Shark Heart by Emily Habeck - 5 stars (Kindle)
⭐ XX by Angela Chadwick
⭐ The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
⭐ The Passage by Justin Cronin (audiobook)
⭐ The Bone Woman by Clea Koff
⭐ Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
⭐ The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
⭐ The Everlasting Rose by Dhonielle Clayton (Kindle)
⭐ Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune - 5 stars
⭐ Women of a Certain Rage - ed. Luz Bryski
February
⭐ Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
⭐ Swimming in the Dark by Tomas Jedrowski
⭐️ Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
⭐ The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
⭐️ The Desolations of Devil’s Acre (Miss Peregrine Home #6) by Ransom Riggs (audiobook)
⭐️ Persuasion by Jane Austen
⭐ Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
⭐ All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
⭐️ The Round House by Louise Erdrich
⭐ We Wsh to Inform you that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with our Families by Phillip Gourevitch (audiobook)
March
⭐️ Orbital by Samantha Harvey
⭐️ I’d Rather Not by Robert Skinner
⭐ Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
⭐️ The Power by Naomi Alderman
⭐️ Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
⭐️ Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young (kindle)
⭐️ The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert

Currently Reading
⭐ No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
⭐The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Garrett M. Graf (audio)
⭐ Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
⭐Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Books I DNF’ed:
⭐ About Grace by Anthony Doerr
⭐ All The Little Raindrops by Mia Sheridan (Kindle)