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Thank you @dabbe for the #TLT tag! 🤗

Hard to narrow it to three, but…

1️⃣ The tagged book-love & grief in the life of a teenage girl in 1987. If you haven‘t read it, you must. 💙

2️⃣ Little Women -it‘s a classic & my first bildungsroman love. 💚

3️⃣ Never Let Me Go-I find people either love or really dislike this one, but it‘s love for me. Bleak, dystopian coming of age.🩶

Who else wants to share their three? Consider yourself tagged! 🤗

This was at time difficult but very powerful story of a teenage girl coming to grips with the loss of her favourite uncle to AIDS and her general feelings of loneliness and lack of connection from her family. There‘s too much in here for the length of the novel - a storyline with her sister that is rushingly resolved, a parental backstory or two and the main storyline where she befriends her uncles boyfriend but for all that a good read

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A horrifying telling of the how gay men and others with HIV/Aids were treated throughout the 80s and 90s. There is controversy around the exageration of how many men Coker supported and buried but even if she reached half the men she says she did, that is a feat that not many people can say they did. In her writing, I was fanscinated by the theme of power and contacts and how often these cropped up when trying to support dying people.

A behemoth of fine journalistic writing. Shilts was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle when AIDS first began to ravage the city. The disease soon shone a spotlight on the stunning health disparities in the US as the federal government, scientific and public health institutions as well as blood banks refused to initially take seriously what they condescended as “the gay virus.” Shilts later succumbed to AIDS, seven years after publishing.

Beautiful, sad coming of age story set in late 1980s NYC. It explores different kinds of love and how emotions and experiences are magnified and distorted through the childhood lens, yet continue to influence our decisions and behavior as adults without our even consciously realizing it. This was tough to read at times, because the characters were often so frustrating, but overall well written, painfully honest, and full of heart.

It's s strange book.... but I love every kind of description of New York. Maybe one day I.....

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400 out of 119,700 stitches 🪡
38 out of 90 colors 🎨
10.5 hours of work out of -
who knows how many total hours/years it will be 😂

Really good audiobook accompaniment! (Tagged)

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30 Book Recommendations in 30 Days — Day 15 “The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket,” by John Weir

I read this book when it first came out. A friend of mine who is Black sent me his copy. He said that he thought the author was racist against Black people and wanted my opinion. I‘m not exactly the best person to ask about that since I‘m white, but he trusted my judgment. I remember thinking that Verghese seemed to dislike his own brown skin. At the time he wrote this book he was living in the same town in which I now live. (cont)⬇️