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Pride Month: Day Twenty Six! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

This book is so beautiful yet heartbreaking! It's the story of a teen girl in the 80's who, after experiencing the death of her parents, gets caught kissing another girl and is sent to a religious reform 'camp' by her religious aunt.

#pridemonth #queerbooks #lgbtq

I loved The Miseducation Of Cameron Post – it‘s a difficult read at times, but an immersive and impressive one, a must for fans of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower. While it‘s billed as a young adult novel, I think it will actually resonate most for adult-adults, the ones who actually grew up during or before Cameron‘s adolescence. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-miseducation-of-cameron-post-emily-m-da...

hey! i‘m sorry for not being on here for so long but i‘m back and planning on reading a lot more now ☺️
i‘ll be starting off with The Miseducation of Cameron Post. it was given it for christmas and i‘m really excited to read it because of the main idea of the book. then The Mistress of all Evil, Heartless, Twilight, Legend & Insurgent.

This book is so heartbreakingly beautiful in so many ways. The depth of Cameron‘s story demonstrates the real inner struggles of finally accepting who you are. Every character in this story is special in some way. No filler here- every single small detail matters to some degree in some way to some person. I think I may have found my favorite book. Cannot recommend it enough

#bannedbooksweek #bannedbooks

Day Three:

According to the ALA, last year 7 out of 10 of the most frequently banned books were because of LGBTQ content. This is infuriating! People need books (like the tagged one which has been banned often) so that they can see others like themselves and know they are not alone! 💖🏳️‍🌈 We all deserve to read the books we want without some other person censoring us!

🏳️‍🌈HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!🏳️‍🌈
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I am endlessly and eternally grateful for all the LGBTQ books out there that comfort, reassure, and inspire the community! Representation is SO important! 🏳️‍🌈

Fantastic content and fantastic characters but a bit too long for my taste. I had the feeling that, as a teen, I would have struggled with the length and complexity of the text. It is an accurate and well-developed Bildungsroman but I found myself wishing, during the last 200 pages, for it to just be over already...
I might check the movie out now, though. I read that they changed the plot. Is it worth it??

I‘m not done reading today, but I am done with social media for the night, so here‘s today‘s #24b4monday summary for day 1:

•2 chapters: When We Were Vikings
•Ms. Marvel 8 & 9
•Started the tagged book (#NewYearWhoDis💗), currently on p169
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•the dozen or so children‘s books read to my toddler throughout the day (not pictured).

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#Readathon

Picked up this #libraryhaul yesterday & (not surprisingly) strained my bad ankle by walking there w/o a brace so now I‘m extra glad to have this stack to keep me busy while I keep my ankle iced.

Tagged book is a #NewYearWhoDis addition I‘ll be starting as soon as I catch up with Kamala Khan in Ms Marvel!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It‘s a horror novel about a cursed girls boarding school in coastal New England, and a horror film being made about the curse. Plus Mary MacLane. I can‘t wait to read it this weekend. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

One downside of reading on my Kindle is missing out on gorgeous physical editions like the beauty above ?????

Really enjoyed Cameron's story. Yeah, the pace is a little off but it's easy to overlook. Evocation of time & place is very good. The issues raised are done with sensitivity & sass and Cam is relatable & believable. The "pray away the gay" section is thought provoking and infuriating. Cont. in comments ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Happy National Coming Out Day, litsy family!
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I came out as bisexual when I was 16, and at the time the only place I felt safe enough to explore this new discovery was the library! 📚💕 Reading about characters who were the same as me was such a positive and empowering experience! I'm so grateful for the LGBTQ books (then and now) that help so many people realize they are not alone!

#nationalcomingoutday #librarylove

I really expected to enjoy this book and I honestly found it to be a bit slow and repetitive. I really liked the idea behind this book, but it just didn‘t grab my interest past the beginning. Good premise, but the writing was a bit off for me.

To call this book lovely, might be a bit of a stretch, but it is still the words that pops into my head upon finishing it. Cameron Post goes through all kinds of hardships, but I could have read 500 pages more, just to get to “be” with her a bit longer. A great example of the coming of age novel done well! 👌

Beach day 🌞📖

#currentlyreading

I started the #readathon already halfway through this one, and just finished it. So good! I‘ll have to write a real review once I‘ve had time to process it, but I know the characters will stay with me for a very long time.

Next up for #24in48: An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten!

Made some pancakes while listening to The Trial of Lizzie Borden on audio; now back to reading in print.

#24in48 #readathon #breakfast #eatingandreading

Just started this one. It‘s a million degrees outside so I‘m going to hole up in our one air-conditioned room and read all day. 🙌

#summerreads #youngadult #ya #librarybook

Thought it important to fit in at least one LGBTQ+ book in for #PrideMonth. With a nod to some of my favourites. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

Happy Pride Month! 💖💛💚💙💜 Here is a sample of some of my favorite LGBTQ+ books! I'm going to reread the tagged book again within the next few weeks! 📚💕

HELLO! It‘s me, I haven‘t disappeared. I‘ve just been dealing with some super crazy, painful, crappy, emotional stuff for the past bit. Finally finished this book after at least a month of trying to get some reading in here and there. It‘s a good‘un ♥️😂
Comment and tell me something good, friends!

Watching the #film based on the book. Heartbreaking story. The #psychologist in this film is a true #villain

Great book! I didn‘t read it in one sitting, but it felt pretty close!

📣📣 Another good #kindledeal today. #kindle #kindledeals

Who‘s still awake? Where are my international ‘thon-ers holding the fort down? We‘re more than halfway there and you guys are chugging right along. We pulled more door prize winners for this check-in (along with lots of unclaimed prizes from previous posts). Don‘t forget to scroll through and check to see if you won. Okay, back to the books! You‘re doing great! #24in48

I loved this book! It took me forever to read but I think that's because it took me on such an emotional rollercoaster of "what ifs" about my own life. I thought the writing was excellent. I do think that the Conversion Therapy center was a little mild from other stories I've read. I don't think the full horror of what goes on there was captured in this particular book. That's my only complaint.
#LitsyAtoZ #letterM

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In all the holiday hub bub, I did manage to finish a few books. I wanted to share how much I really loved this one. In high school I became a very strident fundamental evangelical Christian and in the last 6 years I've been dismantling that harmful theology. This book made me ache over the things I used to believe.
It was intensely engaging prose all the way through. Cameron's story is raw and honest. Well written young adult fiction.

You guys! I bought it! Isn‘t it wonderful? 🌈

I am SO in love with the painted edges of this book! 😍💖❤💙💚💛💜 I hope the book is as gorgeous inside as it is outside! 😁

Generally I‘m the kind of pretentious that prefers not to read books with film covers but it really pleases me that I checked out a brand new book from the library. #currentlyreading #booktofilm

This was a great YA LGBTQ story, even though I did get grouchy about the pray-the-gay-away camp part. I read it on my kindle, but wow look at this gorgeous edition with rainbow sprayed edges 🌈 At some point I‘m going to have to order this amazingness.

Boxes, boxes everywhere!

I‘m having a hard time with the second half of this book. I have a huge aversion to people shoving religion at me. Who says it‘s sinful to have same sex attractions? The idea that anyone believes this really pisses me off. Pray the gay away camps are the biggest crock, as are any families who can‘t accept their kids for who they are. 🤬🤬🤬

Poor Cam. I want to break in and rescue the whole band of kids. 🏳️‍🌈proud.

A Little morning reading with the snooze crew. This is typical, they get up to have breakfast and are comfy and crashed again by the time I leave for work. 😊🐶🐱💜
#Sietje #Froedrick

I have to say, I‘m loving this one. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Found this beauty at work 💜

It's Cardiff Pride next weekend so August has been LGBT+ reading month for me. I'm absolutely loving the rainbow page edging on Cameron Post!

#BookMail Pt3 from today was this Special Pride Edition Of this classic #queerbook by Emily.M.Danforth. Cameron Post is a normal American small town girl until her mother dies and all she can think about is that she now doesn‘t have to tell her that she likes to kiss girls. Sent to live with her ultra conservative aunt, she falls for a cute girl in town and gets sent to one of those “re education” camps to Pray the gay away. Coz that works.🤨

Listened to this book today while looking out at this. #lakevacation ##readingatthebeach #nofilter #lakemichigan

The ending. So good. I had tears!!

This is such a great book, y‘all!
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/the-miseducation-of-ca...

Up next for fiction!!

After seeing the trailer for the movie, I really wanted to read the book. Such a great piece of contemporary literary fiction with a great LQBTQ+ character. I love that it's about a girl. I feel when it comes to LQBTQ books the main characters are guys - which I could possibly be wrong about - and it's rare to read a story where the main character is a girl struggling with her sexual orientation. #lqtbqplus #youngadult #readya #summerreads

I‘m late to the party on this, but omg!

So, look. I really liked this book. Like, wanted to start it over immediately after finishing it—- that type of like. And it‘s been a while since I‘ve felt that way about a book. The end was a little abrupt and not what i was expecting, but overall a very good book. Will be reading again.
(It even added Montana to my travel wish-list!)

“Why couldn‘t a moment just happen, and both of us be aware of it, without having to comment on it forever and ever?”

SO relatable to me

Decided to go to the park next to my house today to do some outdoor reading in their gazebo. It's a beautiful summer day here in Jersey so I couldn't help myself. Brought a stack since I plan to stay a while. Tagged book is the one I'm reading on my #kindle. #summerreading #saturdaysareforreading #newjerseylittens

“Irene took in a breath. I heard it. Just a little. ‘But do you think we can do it again, though, Cam?‘”