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book review: breathe and count back from ten by natalia sylvester
“people talk about pain like it’s measurable. they’ll ask me to put it on a scale from one to ten. but I’ve been pushing it away so long it’s like my barometer’s broken.” Breathe and Count Back from Ten by Natalia Sylvester Rating: Genre: young adult fiction Disability Rep: hip dysplasia, chronic pain synopsis. In…
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book review: how to write an autobiographical novel by alexander chee
“there’s a reason that whenever fascists come to power, the writers are among the first to go to jail.” How to Write An Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee Rating: Format: paperback & audiobook Page Count: 277 Genre: nonfiction memoir synopsis. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and…
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book review: yellowface by r.f. kung
Rating: Format: audiobook Length: 8 hours, 39 minutes Genre: adult fiction synopsis. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls,…
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book review: stay true by hua hsu
Rating: Format: ebook & audiobook Page Count: 192 Genre: nonfiction memoir synopsis. In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua,…
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book review: homebody by rupi kaur
Rating: Format: physical book + ebook Page Count: 192 Genre: poetry synopsis. Rupi Kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. home body is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself – reminding readers…
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book review: keya das’s second act by sopan deb
Rating: Format: physical book + audio book Page Count: 268 Genre: literary fiction Thank you Simon & Schuster for sending me a copy of this book! synopsis. A poignant, heartwarming, and charmingly funny debut novel about how a discovered box in the attic leads one Bengali American family down a path toward understanding the importance…
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book review: good talk by mira jacob
Rating: Format: physical book Page Count: 349 Release Date: 03.26.2019 Genre: graphic novel memoir synopsis. Mira Jacob’s touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journey as a first-generation American. At an increasingly fraught time for immigrants and their families, Good Talk delves into the difficult conversations about race, sex, love, and family…
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book review: last night at the telegraph club by malinda lo
Rating: Format: Physical book + eBook Page Count: 416 Release Date: 01.19.2021 Genre: Young Adult Historical Fiction synopsis. A story of love and duty set in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the Red Scare. “That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other.” And then Lily asked the question that…
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book review: all my rage by sabaa tahir
Rating: Format: Physical book + Audio Book Page Count: 384 Release Date: 03.01.2022 Genre: Young Adult Contemporary synopsis. Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Cloud’s Rest Inn Motel,…
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Book Review: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (The Grisha Trilogy, 1)
Rating: Format: Physical book Page Count: 358 Release Date: 06.05.2012 Genre: Young Adult Fantasy synopsis. Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of…
