Patricia Elzie-Tuttle is a writer, podcaster, librarian, and information fanatic who appreciates potatoes in every single one of their beautiful iterations. Patricia earned a B.A. in Creative Writing and Musical Theatre from the University of Southern California and an MLIS from San Jose State University. Her weekly newsletter, Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice offers self-improvement and mental health advice, essays, and resources that pull from her experience as a queer, Black, & Filipina person existing in the world. She is also doing the same on the Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice Podcast. More of her written work can also be found in Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen, and, if you’re feeling spicy, in Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 4 edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Patricia has been a Book Riot contributor since 2016 and is currently co-host of the All the Books! podcast and one of the weekly writers of the Read This Book newsletter. She lives in Oakland, CA on unceded Ohlone land with her wife and a positively alarming amount of books. Find her on her Instagram, Bluesky, and LinkTree.
"Today’s pick is a Korean space opera about love, grief, and the struggle to find one's place in the solar system."
"The author writes about basketball in the way that basketball should be written about — the sport itself, especially in the Black community, is itself about love and connection and promise and hope."
If you're in the mood for a raucous graphic novel with perfect summer vibes, we got you.
This retelling of THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN will have you chuckling and devastated in equal measure.
Being named after the goddess of love and beauty *is* a lot to ask of someone.
Y'all, active, informed consent is where it's at. Just saying
If you love grammar and words, this book is super illuminating. Turns out, a lot of grammar rules are because “One guy liked it this particular way and wrote it in a grammar book.”
What comics, graphic novels, and manga have you loved this year?
This is "an absolutely lovely comic that doesn’t shy away from the hard stuff while also highlighting the good stuff."
The satisfaction from reading about freed Black women undermining the Confederacy is *chefs kiss*