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One seasonal + one that has been on the list for a while 🙂❄️🎄 #bookspin #doublespin.

I love, LOVE, LOVED this book. It‘s poignant, it‘s real, it‘s beautiful; NGL, I cried more than a few times.

I can‘t wait to pass it on.💫

#Pantone2023 #BeetrootPurple #Tangelo

This was a 5 star read for me! A sweet, moving YA book with neurodiverse representation.

A young adult book about the joy of finding unlikely connections. Two teens, one nuerotypical and the other not, forge a friendship surrounding the accidental death of one‘s parent. Love Buxbaum‘s timely narratives. @Eggs @TheAromaofBooks

Media Specialist asked me to read this with her... took me a while to start it. WOW I couldn‘t put it down!!! I highly recommend. Definitely not appropriate for my middle schoolers - it‘s deeper than they could comprehend at this point in their lives.

“... language seems inherently and irrationally optimistic; we just assume other people understand what we are talking about. That we are, as the idiom goes, on the same wavelength. In my experience, we are not.”

Has anyone heard of this author before? I haven‘t.

This book was a very sweet love story.

Dnf at page 112. Not enjoying this nearly enough, definitely not as good as Tell Me Three Things. This is just a little too over the top and predictable with the drama. Too many books around here waiting to be read... so moving on.

A sweet, purposeful, and complex picture of grief, friendship, and neuro-atypical teens. I liked this book, though not quite as much as Tell Me Three Things by the same author. I will say that Buxbaum writes grief in an authentic but accessible way.

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

I really loved this book. (I love anything by Julie Buxbaum) It‘s not often you find a YA book with an autistic character playing a main role. It‘s relatable. It‘s funny. It‘s not trying too hard to be different or to blend in. It‘s 100% entirely it‘s own.

They seem to understand that the world is a big, diverse place, & that different is not the same thing as scary. It‘s amazing to me how many people mistake the two.

“Any port in a storm, my love. Any port in a storm.”

This book was full of wonderful words and meaningful text that all find a way to stick in your head. It draws you in, like a moth to a flame, and holds you close, keeping you warm through the night. The 1st chapter gives away the gist and lets the reader in easy. It's nice to know most of what's happening when you start reading and just let yourself slide into the rest of the book once you know the characters well. The impact is a crater in you.

I don't read a whole lot of YA, but I love anything that gives me any insight into the world as people on the spectrum experience it. Most of the people I work for experience the world this way. But as always, if you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.

My favorite Sunday activity... reading a whole YA novel in one day! This was a well-written story with two great lead characters. It reminded me a lot of the Netflix show Atypical. Thanks for lending it to me @Heystad ☺️

Ah, young love 😭💘

This book turned out to be super cute! Kit and David‘s friendship is one of my favorites in the history of book friendships! Though David‘s different from the social norm, kit sees something in him that no one else does and decides to take a chance on him! Im so glad she did because this lead to one of the more adorable friendships ever! They are actual friendship goals ❤️

So far I‘m 3 chapters in to this book and I‘m loving it! This book is part of my post surgery reading list and it‘s a great read. Can‘t wait to see where the story takes Kit and David.

First read of #buzzwordathon complete.. 3.5 ⭐️.. I really liked the characters in this story and the way their relationship evolves through the book. It is my first book by this author and I look forward to reading other works from her 😊

I didn‘t like this nearly as much as Tell Me Three Things but it‘s still a good book and worth a read. I may have liked it more if I hadn‘t read it right after TMTY.

Currently listening to What to Say Next. Although I‘ll probably be sleeping in ten minutes. 💤 💤💤

I was that person reading in their car before work this morning because I only had a couple of pages left and I didn't want to wait until my lunch break to finish it. This book was so cute and I didn't want it to end. David is a high schooler who has autism and just doesn't know how to interact with people. Kit just lost her father. One day she sits at Davids table for lunch and they find out that they like each other.

David is not the cool kid. He has trouble with social cues and is just trying to survive high school, that is until his crush Kit sits at his lunch table. Kit's father has just recently died and shes having trouble adjusting to life without him. Something draws her to David. The only issue is each doesn't know what to say next! Love meets grief and how to overcome it all. Loving this cute story about two quirky people coming together.

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So-so YA ... I was too old to appreciate this one.

I have to read this quickly before it‘s due back at the library!!!!!!!!

GUYS.
Love, love, love.
I finished this whole book in one night. Like I started it at 10 PM, and just kept going until 2 AM. So so good.

Thanks @Kaciecalderon !!

When David is anxious he says the entire Pi sequence to himself.

I loved this book! It was sweet, and kind of gave me Eleanor and Park vibes. This was my first book by this author, and I‘ve heard great things about Tell Me Three Things, so I‘m going to have to read that one next.

Another heart warming book from Julie Buxbaum. I really enjoyed it. Also loving some Trixie snuggles.

This cover reminds me of ice cream so I had to run and get some! 🍨

I realized I am only reading non fiction books right now so time for a soak in the tub and a YA novel by an author I love. #saturdayisthebest

I loved this book. Julie Buxbaum knows how to write grief in such a real way. And I absolutely loved the characters. 😍💖

Does it make me nerdy that this makes me “swoon” 😂😂😂💖💖😍😍😍

Such a great book with heart! Enjoyed it from cover to cover. My second Julie Buxbaum book and I loved it as much as the first book I read from this author. I recommend!

Just realised this is from the same author as Tell Me Three Things, which I was not a fan of 😥

My latest #audiobook listen. It's pretty good so far. It's mentioned that Kit has an affinity for John Hughes movies, which I happen to share, so what's not to like about her? 😊

I especially like the performance of the male narrator. I've heard him before in Brigid Kemmerer's Letters to the Lost. The character in this story is vastly different, and yet he plays the part really well here, too.

#ya #yalit

Finished my #hpreread I still cry at the same places I cried when I first read each of these books(and all the other times as well.) My love for them strengthens with every reread.

Anyway! Finally time to tackle a bunch of my #tbr starting with this one that came home with me from @Samwise_Gamgee in December.

A cute ya story about not being neurotypical and falling in love. Also about family tragedy and dealing with it.

So so SO GOOD. I didn‘t realize one of the characters had what he had and I‘m glad I didn‘t know going in. I truly loved this book, it hit really close to home for me. It also made me remember how truly awful kids can be to another one. I never had kids but I know my life‘s work would have been to not raise that kind of person. Anyway. Highly recommend.

Don‘t have anything “bookish” to post so thought you‘d enjoy some beautiful fall colors at Lake Tahoe.
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I read Julie Buxbaum's Tell Me Three Things earlier this year and liked it. So far, this is good, but a little YA generic.

Buxbaum has said this is her favorite of the four books she‘s written. I‘ve only read 2 & really liked the first but I absolutely love this one. It‘s the story of Kit, who recently lost her father in an accident, & David, who has never had a real friend, who forge an unlikely friendship. It‘s impossible not to root for David as he tries to navigate friendship and... A fun, heartfelt read about a pair of great characters.