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Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us | CN Lester

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When it comes to statistics, this book doesn‘t bring anything new to the table. But CN Lester is telling their stories, and everyone story is different.

I think what I‘ll remember from this is the importance of her brother and revisiting one of her schools to give a speech. I‘ll also remember the doctor who wanted to ban horse riding because of the potential dangers, but at the same time society is against people changing their sex.

AnneCecilie #SheSaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa The first half was my #BookSpin for September @TheAromaofBooks 3d

TheAromaofBooks Great progress! 3d

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Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us | C. N. Lester

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A good memoir that blends in a look at history, thoughtful commentary, and personal lived experiences. This book does all of that and while it emphasizes that not all trans stories or non-binary stories are the same, these were the lived experiences of this author. Very thoughtful & honest, willing to take on the Hollywood version & stereotypes out there, plus a big dose of history we have whitewashed from our collective history.

#SheSaid

AllDebooks This was such an informative, compassionate read. I loved it and so glad we swapped. 3d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @AllDebooks Yes, me too. For a last minute switch, it was the perfect one. 3d

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DebinHawaii

Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us | C. N. Lester

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#ReadAway2024

Our September pick for #SheSaid this memoir by a trans artist, musician & activist was interesting & illuminating. C. N. Lester was able to weave in history, science, politics & their own experiences in an engaging way that made me think. I like non-fiction that gives me a different perspective & this one did. Thanks to @Riveted_Reader_Melissa for hosting.

DieAReader, Andrew65, GHABI4ROSES

DieAReader ❤️‍🔥Wonderful!! 4d

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vlwelser

Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us | C. N. Lester

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This was interesting and I appreciate the perspective. Seems like I forgot to take a pic.... Whatever. Please feel free to enjoy this very riveting screenshot I boosted off Goodreads.

#SheSaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

Riveted_Reader_Melissa 😂 the screenshot totally works! 5d

TheAromaofBooks Great progress! 4d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial | Mona CHOLLET

Up Next in for #SheSaid! Put in your library holds, and it is available on Kindle Unlimited if you use that!

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @tenar @vlwelser @KVanRead @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @Chab256 @Scochrane26 @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @Jgotham @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @MilesnMelodies @psalva @Amor4Libros @Deblovestoread @DGRachel @willaful ⤵️ 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @christine 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ @Smrloomis @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @bibliobliss @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @rjsthumbelina @Tera66 @Megabooks @BookBosomed1 @MoonWitch94 @sabyym @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @wanderinglynn @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know 5d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ @Smrloomis @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @bibliobliss @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @rjsthumbelina @Tera66 @Megabooks @BookBosomed1 @MoonWitch94 @sabyym @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @wanderinglynn @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know 😉 5d

Megabooks I‘d like to be removed please. 5d

Bookwormjillk My hold just came through for this one! 5d

MallenNC I‘m planning to read along this month. 4d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Megabooks ok, I will take care of it. 3d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement | Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

4 Years Ago!!! Happy Milestone!

Any thoughts or suggestions for the future?

Let me know what you think #SheSaid!

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @tenar @vlwelser @KVanRead @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @Chab256 @Scochrane26 @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @Jgotham @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @MilesnMelodies @psalva @Amor4Libros @Deblovestoread @DGRachel @willaful ⤵️ 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @christine 5d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Smrloomis @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @bibliobliss @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @rjsthumbelina @Tera66 @Megabooks @BookBosomed1 @MoonWitch94 @sabyym @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @wanderinglynn @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know 😉 5d

vlwelser It's hard to believe it's been 4 years. If you want to keep going, I'm game, but if you're ready to move on, that's ok too. 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser I was planning on continuing, just curious if anyone had any suggestions to keep it fresh going forward. Anything they like/don‘t like/want to try, etc. 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa My only issue lately has been the hour it tags to get the tag list to post 😂 5d

vlwelser I don't always get the notifications but I know what I'm looking for so this might not be a problem from my side but others might struggle. 4d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser honestly, I‘m glad you search for it yet. I wish I knew why tags were so off lately. 4d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser I was also toying with the idea of starting another group read, but I need to do a bit more research first, make sure no one else is doing something similar already. 4d

AnneCecilie I‘m glad that you say that you want to continue. I try to participate whenever my library has the books, and I always enjoy them, several have made it to my best reads of the years list. I like the diversity. 4d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @AnneCecilie I‘m glad you are enjoying them still. But I thought it was a good time to check in, see if people were still into the books, or if they were starting to feel repetitive….and if so what could we do to keep it exciting. I personally have been behind reading the last few books, by that‘s a personal busy period for me, even when I finish the books later, I‘m still finding them very interesting and insightful. 4d

MallenNC I really enjoy the group, even though I haven‘t been able to keep up with some of our picks lately. I really like the focus on women authors still, and that we mix in a few fiction picks each year. One thought I have is for some of the denser picks, maybe we could stretch beyond one month for those. Sometimes it‘s hard for me to read the full section each week bc I‘m always reading something else along with it. 3d

MallenNC I am not getting notifications for the tags, but I know to look at your page on Sundays so that‘s actually fine. If you can‘t tag, I think most of the regulars would be able to just come looking for the discussion post each week. 3d

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DebinHawaii

Spooky Season | Jessie Haas

And finally, just under the wire for my #HauntedShelf #LetsGo points, my October TBR.👻

I love the spooky season so that‘s mostly what‘s on my shelf for this month with a few exceptions for readalongs & because my library hold came in (Looking at you Somewhere Beyond the Sea). Also, being a moody reader, some titles may pop on or off this list. Included are books for #SundayBuddyRead #SheSaid #ChildrensClassicRead2024 etc… 🎃

Team #Flerken 🐈‍⬛

PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper Looks great! 5d

Cupcake12 Some great books there 👍🏻 5d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us | C. N. Lester

Hello #SheSaid!

How is everyone this weekend? I‘m a bit behind this week, kindle issues… but I spent some time with customer service today and I‘m up and running again and hope to catch up soon.

Please start without me, and I‘ll jump in when I finish.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @tenar @vlwelser @KVanRead @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @Chab256 @Scochrane26 @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @Jgotham @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @MilesnMelodies @psalva @Amor4Libros @Deblovestoread @DGRachel @willaful ⤵️ 6d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa If anyone would like added or removed to the tag list, please let me know 6d

willaful I thought the points in the last chapters were very valuable, especially about the danger of attributing too much meaning to celebrity progress, and to seeing progress as inevitably. That\'s show itself very true since the book was written.

I was a little puzzled by the author\'s insistence on using the word feminism. It\'s a word so specifically associated with a gendered idea, it doesn\'t seem right for what they\'re trying to express. 6d

willaful On the other hand, their anger at being always shown as *opposed* to feminism is very understandable. It\'s a common problem with marginalized groups, as shown in the saying \“all the blacks are men, all the women are white\“ -- but especially in this instance, when a subset of feminists are making life so hard for trans people. 6d

vlwelser @willaful I think their point was the exclusion. The either/or of it. Like there's some feminist/non feminist binary. Maybe it isn't articulated that way. But that's how I read it. 6d

vlwelser I love the references to the Roxane Gay book which is something everyone should read. 6d

willaful @vlwelser I wasn\'t very interested in it when I first tried it but now I want to have another go. 6d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Smrloomis @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @bibliobliss @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @rjsthumbelina @Tera66 @Megabooks @BookBosomed1 @MoonWitch94 @sabyym @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @wanderinglynn @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 So sorry, I just realized the second half of the tag list did not post. Again, so sorry 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @willaful I took the intersectionality discussion of feminism very much to be the point. Feminism should not be Female first, or a female power movement. But an anti- gender stereotypes holding everyone down and dictating their worth, abilities, etc, etc. and that very much intersects with racism but also ANY group the current societal gender ideas discriminated against. And the fact that some feminists have taken a hard line with “real ⤵️ 3d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ women” versus everyone else and are forcing an us vs them is wrong. Anyone society looks at as women and discriminates or treats differently because of that, because women-like anything is viewed as less than…that‘s the real fight. And that includes a large section of all kinds of people...really all of society. 3d

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AnneCecilie

The Pumpkin Spice Caf� (Dream Harbor, Book 1) | Laurie Gilmore

#BookReport

I have finished Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR, and I‘m almost finished with Trans Like Me #SheSaid

I finished You Are Here and read The Pumpkin Spice Cafe, I even managed to squeeze in another short read Two Stories #VirginiaBloomsberries

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Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us | C. N. Lester

Hello #SheSaid!

Sorry for the very late post today, just enjoying the fall weather here this weekend!

How is the book going for you? Thoughts on this week‘s section?

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @tenar @vlwelser @KVanRead @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @Chab256 @Scochrane26 @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @Jgotham @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @MilesnMelodies @psalva @Amor4Libros @Deblovestoread @DGRachel @willaful ⤵️ 2w

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vlwelser I appreciate the author's opinions more and more as I read further. There's nothing especially earth shattering about this but it's well written and I appreciate the perspective. 2w

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willaful I like how clearly this book explains things. I\'d heard before that bathroom laws were designed to remove trans people from public life but I don\'t think I really grasped what it meant before. 2w

DebinHawaii I like how they are laying out the book and the mix of their own stories with the science and history. I am learning a lot and enjoying their perspective.
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AnneCecilie Chapter 8 really had an impact on me, left me tears, both when she was talking about the importance of her brother and when she was returning to one of her previous schools to give a speech 2w

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