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the moon and more
I read Sarah Dessen’s novels during my adolescence until one day I was fed up. I am really good at quitting things cold turkey. One day when I was young I was reading and then thought, Wow, Nancy Drew...
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out of darkness
You guys. If you want to read an absolutely amazing book, you are mistaken if you think it is anything but Out of Darkness [IndieBound] by Ashley Hope Pérez. I am pretty heartless and so even the...
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white discomfort and seeing no color
and omg I keep looking at this cover only seeing the watermark OR the forefront and it goes back and forth and is just brilliant and omg !!!!!! I have been so excited for Shannon Gibney’s See No Color...
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it turns out fantasy doesn’t suck when it’s not the same old shit all over again
I’m not into high fantasy. Like, at all. Or nearly not at all. My goodreads account has only 20 books marked “high fantasy,” out of a total 1316 “read,” and I guess there’s an additional 54 that I’ve...
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you’re welcome
A thing I’ve done recently is write a guest post for Forever Young Adult. I’ve also been making the behind-the-scenes preparations for this cool new thing (so that I stop annoying my friends on...
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when good books go underrecognized because they have “diversity”: a case study
So, as mentioned, next in my adventure of reading fantasy novels was Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor [IndieBound]. Again, recall that I don’t really like fantasy, but this was recommended to...
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a borrowed identity
Every January, Tucson hosts an International Jewish Film Festival, and I haven’t been for years because I haven’t lived here and I was never visiting in mid-January because of school schedules. So it’s...
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leon’s story
Oh, hi! I’m still here. I’m still reading. I’m still saying fuck and shit a lot on Twitter and talking about social justice. But I also started my PhD in children’s and young adult literature, and one...
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#blackgirlsquibs
I was really excited about a lot of books this spring. You may recall that I wrote a whole post about it. There was a lot of #blackgirlmagic in the works, and nothing could be better or more necessary...
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in the shadow of liberty
I read In the Shadow of Liberty in just under two hours, over the course of two nights of elliptical sessions. It’s a quick read. I made a mistake making it my gym book, because holding a hardcover...
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