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Simply awful. This is the worst ace rep I've ever had the displeasure of reading, and I'm supposed to be the target audience. The author doesn't seem to understand asexuality at all; aces experience little to no s-xual attraction, but Kann seems obsessed with the MC not experiencing physical s-xual responses until suddenly she does and that supposedly invalidates her orientation. It's about ATTRACTION! Do better, Kann! Okay, rant officially over.

This is a beautiful memoir. It is definitely worth a read. It's only 12 chapters, so it's not a long one.
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#memoir #wehavealwaysbeenhere #ownvoice #ownvoices #ownvoicenovel #ownvoicebook

I have been skimming and flipping through a number of teen #junerso2023 A couple of good ones but I am not finished them. Need to try to find some #middlefiction now. Trying this one. #diversity #inspiring #racism #ukmg #ownvoice

Our latest family read was emotional for all of us. Celebration balanced our anger and reminded us to pause when interacting with people who differ from us and how we can all learn from each other. We are inspired, motivated and suggest this book to everyone who will listen! Peyton/Charity's middle-grade #OwnVoice story is for all readers and worthy of rereads. @goddardpeyton

Real by Carol Cujec & Peyton Goddard

I didn‘t plan on reading this book when I heard about all the controversy around this book. But when I saw the #bbrc yeah baby prompt: fake diversity for adults I knew this was the book I would read. I feel bad even reading it because I know I should be supporting #ownvoices authors instead. With knowing all the controversy I just couldn‘t really get into it!

#bookspinbingo

One of the books I requested on #Netgalley, hadn't realized it was so short and that it wasn't a recent publication 😅 Still, I'm glad I read it. The story follows Sugihara who was born and raised in Japan but is constantly discriminated for having Korean roots. He's what the Japanese call Zainichi. We see how he lives and the struggles he goes through when he falls in love with a Japanese girl. Really heavy and dark, TW for violence #ownvoice

Books with characters who identify as LGBTQIA+: 5
#ownvoice: 2

The tagged is my fav so far this year...and it's Canadian! Happy Canada Day everyone! #ReadTheNorth 🇨🇦

I've picked up Silver in the Wood and Girl Squads this week from the library so I can #integratemyshelf
@chasingom @emilymdxn

March stats: 23 books, 21 by women, 6 by #ownvoice authors. Tagged my favorite, though I liked many of them, 3 other faves in the photo. 😄 Good month for reading!

#weeklyforecast
Perfect time to read Catton's book because part one is titled 27 January 1866.
I also started the next ARC on my TRP. It's a bit controversial because the although the author is trans writing about a trans character the historical/fantasy setting is not her culture. So it's a mixed #ownvoice.
#weeklyforecast