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Adult book April

I know this may shock you about Dad Rock Dragon Quest but the prose isn’t amazing me

For a huge hot dark queer scifi novel of last year this writing style sure reminds me of 18 y/o me (my library loan is due in 3 hours so I'm cramming lol)

"She's eighteen at most, though he'd guess lower if he had the capacity to mentally withstand the implications of it. Her belly shows through her dress, barely. Certainly not big enough for this to be anything but a tragedy." <- exact cadence 18 y/o Maya loved

This is the third book I’ve started reading this year without realizing it’s about autism

Utterly charmless.

Treadmill audiobook - writing is just as obnoxious as I remember and knowing that the girl narrator dies at the end to deepen the male narrator’s perspective on life, and that it will definitely be revealed that his mean childhood prank where he stood her up for the dance was actually orchestrated by her mean girl friends, the internalized misogyny is running rampant. Men can do no wrong!

Gang I've had this checked out from the library for over two months and this is as far as I've been able to get. Sonora please pull through

It is such a breath of fresh air to read such nice prose

Someday I’ll return to a physical copy of this but the audiobook is not working for me :/ apologies to the author but she should’ve had someone else narrate

Put this on hold 1 year+ ago but going to pick up again ahead of this year’s trans day of visibility

Confused if I'm just really out of it or if this is truly just one of the most disjointed books I've ever read

My favvvvvv favorite as a kid. It’s still super overwritten but the jump in quality and richness of story is ridiculous

Again this series covered much darker topics than I remembered (I remembered that this book was about a hateful plantation daughter who died in the uprising but the first book's ghost was a mother wrongfully executed for her sons' murders and the male lead's biggest regret is not being able to help a classmate who was facing bullying that drove her to suicide)

Read an adult book challenge fail. Burn through my kidlit TBRs at unprecedented rates going swimmingly!

Spontaneous audiobook for walking on this beautiful spring day :) the 4th book in this series was my favorite so I never reread the others much

Can my uber come pick me up please there must be a road blocked or something

Really interesting take on the nature of memory (compared to other body-swap stories A is able to access a lot of memories of the people they inhabit) and a really beautifully empathetic text. I understand Rhiannon but am not the biggest fan of her as a love interest, but I'm willing to be proven wrong

I didn't realize this was a series!!! After Airhead I'm doing a little journey thru YA lit about the separation of mind and body

Straight ahead to number two baby

Edit: FOUR love interests. Meg Cabot you beast

In kidlit crit last semester we talked about "ideology" as the values an author believes to be unspoken, universal truths that shine through in their work. Given how Em constantly references magazines she was "totally just skimming through" and had 3 love interests, the ideology here is that all girls secretly want to be pretty girly girls loved by boys. Which isn't framed as a bad thing, but a doozy so far

The datedness is charming bc it really makes you feel how similar girlhood has been across time. Margaret has this thing where she’s really proud of how well she can raise her right eyebrow so she’s constantly doing it in conversation and noting how people react

Crying this is the most adorably YA book ever. There are so many references to the kids' parents checking their grades online

Another book I loved in middle school. Aw cute throwback. Not feeling a lot of nuance in the world around them but the protagonists are cute.

"Usually I'm entertained by stories about Mr. Owens —and Lydia has a lot of them-but Cole is now laughing at something Trista said. I wish Trista wasn't so pretty. I wish somebody would go over there and remind Cole that prettiness isn't everything, and that girls who are quirky and smart and appreciate good music are ultimately far more appealing." What did we call this kind of behavior before "pick me"?

Already tearing up LMAO. Every time I think about all the lesbians who came before me I unravel so quickly

Read probably about 5 times in elementary + middle school so revisiting. I'm shocked at how tight and punchy this character writing is. さすが人気の作家。

This is sooooo fun because I don't know all the bands that well. A new name will appear in the narration talking about how they always wanted to form a band and I'll be like omg who's it gonna be