When you have 101 things you should be doing but read for an hour instead 🙈
I love this already and have discovered that it is extremely hard to put down!
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When you have 101 things you should be doing but read for an hour instead 🙈
I love this already and have discovered that it is extremely hard to put down!
I bought this book earlier in February and I‘m super excited to read it. It sounds right up my alley, so I have high expectations 🙈
Here‘s to hoping it‘s as good as I expect 🤓
Have you guys read it? 🤔📖
Also can we just appreciate the beautiful cover! 😍
Continuing #24in48 @TheBookmarkPR -- What better place? Coffee prepared by barista extraordinaire Omar, now on Litsy as @bookspresso 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
so-soRead it curled up in my reading chair (pictured). Impressed with the way the author handled the romance and the sex scenes, bit didn't find all the rest of the world/music interests/mission/debate stuff very compelling.
A little bit of reading before being the #saturdaylibrarian
so-soThere was a lot I did like about this, but the characters drove me nuts and the drama was so over the top...
Time to cuddle up with one of my A to Z titles 📚 I've been anticipating this read. Talley's debut was so good - here's to hoping this one won't disappoint 🤞
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panI wanted to love this because this book is so diverse but I just can't. Sure the characters are diverse sexually, and racially but the setting ruined it for me. Writing a sex story in the middle of a church mission trip just blew it for me. I mean where were the adults?!? Also there is extreme pettiness and lying all around. The lgbtq+ rep was done really well, which makes me sad the story didn't add up to it.
#currentlyreading Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley. YA with a bisexual POC main character? Yes, please.
See also: my latest crochet project hot off the hook!
panProbably the only book by Robin Talley I don't recommend. Go read As I Descended and The Lies We Tell Ourselves. Skip this. No plot, a pushy character that pressures another character to come out while that same character pressures the other character back in the closet. Damaging behavior no teen should read and think is okay. Also how to have sex with another girl guide.
panI didn't much care for this book. Half the time I felt like I was listening to a lecture on how to have sex and the rest of the time felt like listening to a bunch of people whining about politics, religion, and family drama, but really young people. It was uninteresting to me, but I imagine there's a better audience for it, as the writing wasn't terrible and it does make a lot of very positive commentary on intense social topics. 2.5 stars.
My first ARC!! I won this in a #HarlequinTeen giveaway and am so excited; although I either filled out the giveaway using my maiden name or they wrote this because of my email address haha! It's only been 3 years... maybe it's time to make a new email?
