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The Books I Read and Loved in 2018

by brisaramirezDecember 18, 2018July 28, 2020

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Thank you to @htpbooks for sending me an ARC of Kismat Connection by Ananya Devarajaran is a YA book about an Indian girl whose mother is very into astrology and reads her and her best friend their astrology charts every single year. It’s also known that the women in her family are “cursed” to marry the first guy that they ever date. And in order to outwit the stars, she decides to date her best friend, proposing that they break up at the end of the school year. The only thing is that she doesn’t know that he’s been in love with her for years.

A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée is a middle grade novel about a girl that hates getting into trouble but finds herself in troublesome situations anyway.

Thank you so much to Brazos Press for the gifted copy of My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church by Amy Kenny! This book changed my life, rewired my brain, and was a healing balm for my soul. It was the book I didn’t know I’ve been looking for for literal years.

So, so grateful to now have SUCH a cute cane in my possession for the big pain days. I'm almost ALMOST excited for my next flare-up. (But really if we could avoid that, it would be swell.)

These are just a few of my favorite books with disability representation, but there are so many more incredible ones out there as well! I talked about these and a few more during my conversation on @talesfromabibliophile. Would love it if you check it out! But no pressure!

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett has been on my radar for such a long time. AND it was one of those books that received so much hype from the beginning, so I was almost nervous about the notion of reading it. But I’m so glad I did. This book is such a powerful, emotional journey that truly showcases so many of the different power struggles of that time and how they affected people on an individual and multigenerational level.

I’ve been meaning to post this review for a while now, but I’ve been pretty behind. But that doesn’t take away from how much I’ve been thinking about this book and how much I fell in love with it. So here we go!

Four years ago today, i hit post on a very boring post, a very random bookstack that I'd taken a photo of ages prior and meant absolutely nothing, but would be the start of this page.

Thanks so much to W.W. Norton for sending me a galley of Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity by Leah Myers (May 16, 2023).

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