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#ReadAway2024

Finished this for my #QUABC 40-Book Challenge prompt: “A National Book Award winner.” It was the 2023 Winner for Young People & it was delightful. I think everyone can relate to the trauma/drama of middle school & Sanat captures it in all its glory in his illustrations & text. Set mainly on a life-changing school trip to Europe, I enjoyed reading it while listening to the Spotify “mix tape” playlist he includes the QR code for.💙

#ReadAway2024 #MarvelousMarch2024

Reread of this graphic novel (I posted my review 7 years ago on Litsy) for my virtual blogger foodie book club Feb/March selection. It stayed charming & fun, both the illustrations & the author‘s take on the pleasures of eating. I made her Mom‘s Pesto recipe because I was craving pesto & turned some of it into a cream sauce for cheese tortellini, cherry tomatoes & Boursin “bites” which are pretty delightful. ⬇️

#ItTakesAllKinds

I have this #GraphicNovel checked out from the library to fill a “National Book Award Winner” prompt for my #OUABC 40 Book Challenge. It won the 2023 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. 🥇📚

#ItTakesAllKinds Day 31: Reviewed this #GraphicNovel memoir for my guest curation over this March at Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (GLLI). It has elucidated with such compassion and thoughtfulness what intersectionality means; the fluidity of our cultural influences and resulting identities; and the many ways through which our multi-layered identities are challenged by the larger society. My review: https://wp.me/p7Q7pO-cc2

Sweet and charming middle grade graphic memoir. Santat writes about a life-changing trip to Europe in 1989, just before starting high school. He really manages to capture what being thirteen was like in all its awkward glory.

Sadly, the most banned book of 2021 and 2022.

#ittakesallkinds #controversial #bookbansaretheworst

This book detailed the story of a girl from China and her adventures and ups and downs of family and finding herself and Covid at home and in America. I felt sorry the discrimination she faced and the limitations her family wanted to put on her. I liked it. It wasn‘t as heavy as the last one which was good. I would highly recommend it 😉😊🫶🏽🩷😎

I really liked this book. We all have health issues- some more than others, but I really could relate and identify with most of the book. I would give it alllll the stars because it is so well illustrated and the story is well told. There are a few parts where she is extremely depressed and really unsure about life itself and how much she is going to have left. (TW) Overall I have been through a lot of the same stuff, it brought back memories 👇🏽

Read the tagged book and Messy Roots last night. Hopefully finish We All Are All So Good At Smiling today. Reviews later. It‘s 7:30am and I am watching Joyce Meyer, lol. 🩷🩷🩷 You All!! 🙏🏽🤗🫶🏽😊🩷😎😉🤓

My February Graphic Novel #WrapUp
#NotAnotherGraphicMonday