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desdasiwrites · 10 months

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– Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper

#sophie gonzales #perfect on paper #bisexual protagonist #anxiety #lgbtqi+ representation #high school ya #diverse side characters #ya #young adult contemporary fiction #romance novels #enemies to lovers #book quote of the day

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queenofasgardreads · 5 months

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“No need to hold back, Mal. He’s a big boy. Whatever you’ll dish out, Nolan can take it.” Her smile is faint. “He probably wants it.”

Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

#check & mate #check and mate #ali hazelwood #chess #young adult #ya #debut #contemporary fiction #contemporary #romance #books #quotes #book quotes #fiction #booklr #nolan sawyer #mallory greenleaf #bi main

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macbethz · 9 days

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I think the whole like only reading specific tenses thing is another side of the same trend in online book review culture that drives books to be marketed by trope rather than by plot. In this framework the novel is often seen in terms of what it can do for the reader (does it have tropes I like/are popular, is it as easy to read as possible) rather than what best services the kind of story being told

#it may fully b a young adult/new adult book situation tho cause these ppl don’t rlly care abr adult fiction #and tbh I don’t know what’s happening in contemporary literary fiction I mostly read older stuff #warlock wartalks

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haveyoureadthispoll · 3 months

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Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.

#book: the secret life of bees #author: sue monk kidd #genre: historical fiction #genre: contemporary #genre: classics #genre: young adult #year: 2000s

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halogen2 · 9 months

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It's been a while since I've posted about this (and I have a few new followers, hi!) so here's a reminder that I wrote IF I CAN GIVE YOU THAT - a queer, trans, coming-of-age YA novel that released 2/28 of this year! The audiobook was narrated by the very talented Avi Roque. :)

Goodreads / Amazon / Bookshop / Barnes & Noble

#if i can give you that #young adult novel #young adult fiction #lgbt ya #yalit #yalitedit #trans books #ya fiction #ya contemporary #lgbt fiction #queer fiction #coming of age #my writing #iicgyt #harpercollins #quill tree

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dramaticmonologue · 1 year

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Reading Coco Mellor's Cleopatra and Frankenstein feels like one of those "the highlights of the year" instagram reels that a lot of people make at the end of each year, just putting together pictures/videos from each month to describe how the past year was. We, as readers, are only privy to the bits and pieces of information about Cleo and Frank and other characters throughout their time together, but we don't get the details, and especially the hows, like how they fell in love,how their relationship/friendship progressed, how they accommodated their relationship into their life each day, or how coercion and distance seeped in. The narration is coherent enough to keep hold of the readers' attention throughout the story the perspective is often a gaze from outside inwards, so we get to see their story like a montage. The novel tells you what happened, instead of showing you what happened.

#Cleopatra and Frankenstein #coco mellors #contemporary fiction #young adult trope #thoughts to ponder #booklr #literature

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indecentpause · 8 months

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Since Feeling Is First: Chapter One

The sun beats down on the asphalt so hot it could liquefy, but instead just leaves the scrubby plants and too-tall billboards on either side of the car shimmering. Steam slowly lifts in the late twilight because the humidity is so heavy, like Atlas dropped the world and left it sitting on your chest. The AC is busted and all the windows are down and Skylar's arm hangs out the passenger's window as ze lip-syncs along with the music on the stereo. "Pull your arm in," you say. Ze turns toward you with that stupid, infuriating, adorable grin that says, "Audrey, you worry way too much." Ze gestures out at the road with zir thumb. "Nobody's on the highway this time of day. Like, maybe five cars will pass us before we get out to Micah and Vince's." "What?" Micah glances up from his sketchbook, where he's crammed tight in the backseat between Vincent and Kelly. You'll never know how he learned to steady his hands enough to make sketching in the car worth the trouble. You glance over your shoulder for a split-second. "Skylar's just being –” "Audrey!" Skylar shrieks, simultaneously high pitched and guttural and the truck just nicks you but it must be going at least twenty over the speed limit because it's enough to spin you twice and topple you over. The airbags go off and smoke pours into the cabin and you can't see and you can't breathe and all you can hear is Skylar screaming, "Audrey! Audrey!"

It was a summer day like any other when Skylar lost zir arm to the accident. It was a summer day like any other when Audrey developed PTSD. And every day after that of the autumn, winter, and spring was a day like any other, too: except to two teenagers, whose lives would never be the same.

cw: car accident, loss of limb/amputation, physical and mental trauma, blood, bullying, misgendering (accidental and intentional), ptsd, ableism, transphobia, internalized acephobia, ptsd

Read it on wattpad here

or on Ao3 here!

General taglist: @abalonetea @only-book-lovers-left-alive @poore-choice-of-words @leadhelmetcosmonaut @jasperygrace @drippingmoon @thelaughingstag @athenswrites @kaiusvnoir @magic-is-something-we-create @idreamonpaper @wip-nook @papercutsunset @winterandwords

#my writing #writeblr #ao3 #wattpad #moodboard #queer character #nonbinary character #transgender character #asexual character #queer fiction #lgbt fiction #contemporary fiction #young adult fiction #young adult #ya #since feeling is first #skylar jyun #audrey byrne

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battyaboutbooksreviews · 17 days

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🦇 The Last Love Song Book Review 🦇

❓ #QOTD What's your favorite love song?❓ 🦇 After graduating, Mia Peters is given a letter from her late mother, country music star Tori Rose — the woman who left the small town of Sunset Cove to pursue her dream. That first letter sends her on a scavenger hunt across town to find more, each one like a puzzle piece, adding to the hazy image Mia has of the woman behind hit albums and fame. Each letter brings Mia closer to her mother, but further away from her best friend and sort-of-girlfriend Britt, who is leaving in a few days to pursue the same dream. Can Mia unravel her mother's past, face her present, and decide on a future outside of Sunset Cove? Or will the truth leave her disappointed and trapped in the small town her mother left behind?

💜 Kalie Holford does a stunning job at sparking vivacious life into Tori Rose through letters and journal entries. You experience the magnetism everyone in Sunset Cove once did, and understand why the entire town reveres her. Readers are bound to connect and empathize with both Tori and her daughter Mia in this dual POV/dual timeline story. Reading it, I was instantly tugged back to 2005, at the memory of reading Maureen Johnson's 13 Little Blue Envelopes. There's such exquisite balance between the past and present in this story, Tori's puzzle-pieced past simultaneously soothing Mia's concerns about leaving Sunset Cove while adding to them — a reminder that your choices and mistakes MUST be your own.

💜 That beautiful balance creates parallels between Mia's story and her mother's. We even see parallels between Mia and her unknown father. Both run away, fear being brave or taking a risk, and it holds them back from their true potential. Mia is so eager NOT to repeat her mother's history that she second-guesses herself constantly, afraid to make her own mistakes. Mia not only learns from her mother's journal entries, but also the lives she touched — proving the domino effect we can have on another person's lives. At the end, though...it's also a story about regret. We aren't our mistakes, but what we learn from them. It's a story about growth after the fact.

💜 "I will never regret chasing my dream. I regret the people I hurt. I regret the bridges I burned. I regret losing who I was in an attempt to find someone else in everyone else and within me."

💜 The lyrics from Mia's music AND her mothers add an extra layer to this story. For the record, I did cry (reading the story's literal Last Long Song), so if you're sappy like me, have tissues at the ready.

💙 Holford beautifully encapsulates that pivitol "coming-of-age" moment that empowers any YA story. The best friends to lovers aspect is messy, realistic, and pure; a series of stolen, secret kisses, failed relationships with others in between, the fear of either ruining or losing an unspoken love story. You'll root for Mia and Britt, cry at Mia's side, and feel full of hope by the end of it all. Also, Mia's grandmothers? They are everything.

🦇 This is a powerful, atmospheric debut that's bursting with heart and soul. Recommended for fans of Sadie, 13 Little Blue Envelopes, and Mama Mia. And, beyond a doubt, all you Swifties.

✨ The Vibes ✨ 🎵 Bisexual FMC 🎶 Sapphic Romance / Best Friends to Lovers 🎵 Lyrics 🎶 Mother/Daughter 🎵 Dual POV 🎶 Dual Timeline 🎵 Grief & Self-Discovery 🎶 Contemporary YA 🎵 Debut

🦇 Major thanks to the author @kalieholford and publisher @blackstonepublishing for providing an ARC of this book via Netgalley. 🥰 This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.

💬 Quotes ❝ All my life I’ve collected pieces of Tori Rose like breadcrumbs, lyrics like talismans, stories like safety nets. ❞ ❝ "Really think about it without the fear and the lies and the telling yourself you can’t have it.” ❞ ❝ “You’re going to be a star, you know that, right?” She shakes her head. “Stars burn out. I want to be my own goddamn galaxy.” ❞ ❝ She’s the personification of a love song, and I can’t get her out of my head. ❞ ❝ The world raises girls to be competitors not constellations. ❞ ❝ We burst and we break. We are dichotomies and paradoxes and lies and happily never afters. We are an ending that wants to be a beginning and a beginning that never got to start quite right. We are everything and she is everything and only I know that I truly wish I could go with her. ❞

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andiree · 6 months

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The arcs have arrived 💗😭

#ready or not #ya graphic novel #graphic novel #young adult #my books #ya fiction #contemporary ya

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thedisabilitybookarchive · 4 months

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'The No-Girlfriend Rule'- Randall, Christen

Disability Rep: Anxiety (MC), ADHD (SC)

Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Comedy

Age: Young Adult

Setting: USA

Additional Rep: Queer Fat Female MC x Lesbian POC Female LI, F/F, Transgender SC, POC SCs

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just0nemorepage · 1 month

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The Smell of Other People's Houses || Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock || 240 pages Top 3 Genres: Young Adult / Historical Fiction / Contemporary

Synopsis: Alaska: Growing up here isn’t like growing up anywhere else.

Ruth has a secret that she can’t hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from, even when good luck suddenly comes her way. Alyce is trying to reconcile her desire to dance with the life she’s always known on her family’s fishing boat. Hank and his brothers decide it’s safer to run away than to stay home—until one of them ends up in terrible danger.

Four very different lives are about to become entangled. This is a book about people who try to save each other—and how sometimes, when they least expect it, they succeed.

Publication Date: February 2016. / Average Rating: 3.94. / Number of Ratings: ~15,980.

#tbr tuesday #I haven't read this yet!#the smell of other peoples houses #bonnie sue hitchcock #200-299 pages #young adult #historical fiction #contemporary #jomp original

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moranjpg · 1 year

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the first quarter of the year readings

heres my eight titles that i read thus far! i loved or at least liked every single one of these - not one bad apple among them! im way ahead of my reading schedule as well, so before im starting hell bent im going to check into some books i wanted to reread last year …

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bookaddict24-7 · 8 months

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RECO OF THE WEEK!

Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado

Synopsis:

"Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.

Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat.

People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body, but it's hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesn't help. The world and everyone in it have ideas about what she should look like: thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired. Be smaller. Be whiter. Be quieter.

But there's one person who's always in Charlie's corner: her best friend Amelia. Slim. Popular. Athletic. Totally dope. So when Charlie starts a tentative relationship with cute classmate Brian, the first worthwhile guy to notice her, everything is perfect until she learns one thing--he asked Amelia out first. So is she his second choice or what? Does he even really see her? UGHHH. Everything is now officially a MESS.

A sensitive, funny, and painful coming-of-age story with a wry voice and tons of chisme, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega tackles our relationships to our parents, our bodies, our cultures, and ourselves."

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Check out my review here.

Add this book to your TBR on Goodreads here.

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Happy reading!

#book blog #book blogger #Features #on books #reco of the week #reco #recos #book recommendation #on reading #young adult #Crystal Maldonado #contemporary fiction #read #reader #reading #bookworm #bookaholic #bibliophile

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brightbeautifulthings · 1 year

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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell & Begin Again by Emma Lord

WHY:

First-year college experiences

Complex family & friendships

Friends to lovers romance

#fangirl #rainbow rowell #begin again #emma lord #ya romance #contemporary romance #young adult fiction #readalikes

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parisarose · 1 year

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#32. The Do-Over

By : Lynn Painter

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boosreads · 27 days

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if there was only one book i could recommend it would be all my rage by sabaa tahir. noor and sal are so special to me. I love their characters so much. this book was just everything. GO READ.

I read it back in December and i think about it at least once a week and as time goes on my love for this book continues to grow. It is easily in my top five favorite books ever.

#booksbooksbooks #bookaddict #bookworm #bookaholic #booklover #booktwt #book tumblr #young adult books #all my rage #sabaa tahir #book recs #contemporary romance #contemporary fiction #booklr #book review #book recommendations #booksarelife #book reading

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