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#booked2018 October-December

#FlowerOnCover: Ask Me About My Uterus
#RefugeeMC: The Girl Who Smiled Beads
#Steampunk: Perdido Street Station
#DiverseNonfiction: Born a Crime
#MCOver70: Our Souls at Night

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This is a truly heart-wrenching and eye-opening book. Not an easy read, but a necessary one. I would recommend it.

#booked2018 #RefugeeMC #catsoflitsy #Phoenix

This book...it grabbed me from page one. The lyrical prose, the heartbreaking choices Nadia and Saaed face as they find a way to escape war was engaging. It‘s a look at refugees, but also a look at racism and prejudice. So engrossing!

Book Three of #MakeMeReadIt and the #RefugeeMC prompt for #Booked2018

I loved this short novel about an Ethiopian refugee living in dc in the early 2000s. It tells his story intermixed with the gentrification of Logan circle. Having lived in dc and close to this neighborhood in 2007 the sense of place really resonated with me. Timely and moving. Captures the feeling of living in a place while still being apart from it. #booked2018 #refugeemc

This book fulfilled my last prompt for season 2 of #Booked2018 . I finished it at the library last night and cried. I recommend everyone read it. #RefugeeMC

#AboutEnvironmentorSetOutdoors :The Lost City of the Monkey God
#Steampunk :Steamed
#FlowerorSwordonthecover :Riptide
#ChildhoodFavorite :From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
#Friendship :The Godfather

About to start this book for #refugeemc #booked2018. About an Ethiopian refugee running a convenience store in an African-American section of dc.

Roundup of my second quarter of #Booked2018. I'm having so much fun with these prompts - I'd never have found the steampunk-title if it wasn't for this, and it's /so good!/
#Setoutdoors: Wicked Bugs
#Steampunk: Castle in the Stars
#Friendship: You're Welcome, Universe
#Floweroncover: The Belles
#RefugeeMC: Exit West
#Childhoodfavourite: Cykelmyggen Egon

On to the next one! ♥

Tagged is my current & final read (#Steampunk) for the 2nd season of #Booked2018 ! I really loved each of the other books I read for these prompts 🤗

#ChildhoodFavorite: Speak
#AboutEnvironment: Lab Girl
#RefugeeMC: Map of Salt and Stars
#Friendship: Simon vs. the Homo Sapeins Agenda
#SwordOnCover: Children of Blood and Bone

Short stories featuring several refugee main characters and families. Each story highlights various facets of refugee experience. Well- written and interesting.

And with that I completed all #booked2018 prompts for this season! #refugeemc

Finally completed this 1/4‘s #booked2018 with this YA with a #refugeeMC
Tiny is a great character -brave and resilient. She escapes to Kenya as a child, from the DRC and survives as a street thief after her mother is brutally murdered. What starts as a heist/revenge story, becomes a dangerous journey of discovery back to her birth place. It tackles tough themes for YA-rape, violence, war and corruption, but the story of friendship shines through.