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This was a gorgeous novel about finding your purpose and following your passions despite external pressures. Grace has always had a life plan, but when the struggle to succeed in her field because of racial and sexist ideals becomes too much, she drunkenly gets married in Vegas and decides to spend the summer with her new wife. A beautiful expression of found family, identity, and dealing with anxiety
#LGBTQ2024 Black rep @Kenyazero

The spin gods are smiling on me this month. Two more romances to read! And they have a matching color palette 💗🧡💗
#bookspin #doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

A poignant, character-driven novel. I enjoyed the way it explored finding your place as an adult (coming-of-age for the late 20s) and that it didn‘t shy away from mental health issues.

#botm #52bookclub24 #acharacterdrivennovel

I‘m decidedly 😭😭😭 over HONEY GIRL, in that way where I want to talk about how EVERY LITTLE PART OF IT hit me but also in that way where I never want to talk about it because WHERE DO I EVEN START.

It‘s about figuring stuff out. Family, when your parents give you what they need instead of what you need. Work, when systemic racism dogs your every step. Friendship, when your friends are just, like, EVERYTHING. Love, on all levels.

5 stars 😭😭😭

Just finished and it was pretty good. I liked the main character and her journey. The love story was ok, but not sure if i entirely buy it.

What I‘m reading

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Such a compelling read! I read it all in one night and loved every second of it 😍

#honeygirl #morganrogers

Wow! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The author has a very poetic prose. The MC and her struggles feel real. I could not put this book down.

I finished Honey Girl about a week ago, and it has become my favorite book. This book was recommended to me as a romance but it is so much more than that. Reading a coming of age book in which the main character has to figure out what to do once the plan is over, and having to separate what she truly wants from what she‘s supposed to want, was something I didn‘t know I needed.

#pridemonthrec
L is for Lesbian
Such a good solid book about a woman trying to find herself after drunkenly marrying a woman she didn't know while celebrating her college graduation. Not too heavy on the romance - an easy, lovely read.

I liked the protagonist, Grace Porter, and her story of discovery, healing, and romance.

But I loved the cast of almost unbearably charming characters that made up her chosen family.

I love Grace and her weird, lonely, ugly, glimmering, love you so much it hurts, found family. Grace and her expectations, familiar and choking. Grace and her wife, hunting monsters. Grace and forgiveness. Grace, favored by the sun and in love with the stars. Grace learning that The Best and happiness are not antonyms. Grace and her loneliness, never alone though. Lonely monsters, finding each other, holding on tight.

I‘m constantly reminded when I venture outside my comfort zone that romance just isn‘t the genre for me. This was a super cute story but I just wasn‘t invested as it‘s kinda slow in parts. For anyone that loves romance especially LGBTQ+, this is definitely a book I‘d recommend. There‘s a lot of great representation here. I just don‘t get why I can‘t get into romance? I try so hard lol

#Pantone2022 - Sudan Brown

Put aside “John Dies at the End”. I‘m not in the right headspace for it. Moving on to this one instead.

Hoping everyone is having a good weekend 🤗

Are y'all interested in any of these books? I have lots more otherwise! #LMPBC #groupE

#14
✅ A romance novel by a BIPOC author
1st & last time author.
2 ⭐️⭐️
I wanted to LOVE it so much. After ch 7 it went downhill.
I enjoyed Yuki's radio show.
It's a contemporary novel. MC finding herself as an adult/mental health/living to father's expectations. Romance only 1 quarter of book.
I didn't feel their relationship at all. WHO calls their gf by their full name ALL the time? No one! You call them babe, bella, their nickname, baby?

I really enjoyed this book, especially because I felt Grace's struggles. I don't face barriers from racism between me and my chosen career, but I am very familiar with reorienting my life after accademia and with feeling lost after school ended. It was also fun seeing how Grace handled accidentally marrying a woman she didn't know in Vegas. Content warnings for racism and panic attacks. #LGBTQ #WarmBooks #College

I was enchanted by Honey Girl when I first started reading it. I love an interracial relationship in books and in movies (it seems abuse is more tolerated sometimes than simply a couple that doesn‘t match 🙄). I loved the LGBTQA+ representation because I feel like there aren‘t many mainstream representations of such relationships either. However, by the end of the novel, the dramatic writing style wore on me a bit. A like not a love.

Grace has just achieved her PhD in astronomy but is flailing, which manifests in her drunkenly marrying a stranger in Vegas. This book is billed as a romance, and while there‘s that element, it‘s really about those moments in life when we are lost and just don‘t know what to do next. I found this extremely relatable. I just loved it!

Continuing my vacation book binge. Next up is my February 2021 BOTM pick, Honey Girl! 🍯

#BOTM #vacation #TBRbuster

Honey Girl and my tired girl. I put three Book of the Month spaces on my August #BookSpinBingo and I'm starting my 2nd one now. #botm

"Grace looks at Ximena. She is Grace‘s steady thing, her roots digging into the earth like an orange grove tree. Grace waits and Ximena‘s fingers tangle in her own. I‘m here, they say. Give me a minute, I‘m here."

"She shoves between the two of them, their solid and steady person. They lean on her, and she lets them."

I honestly don‘t know if I read this book or if this book read me. If someone asked me for an example of how writers can write novels poetically, I would point to this. Every sentence literally *sings*. If the gorgeous writing wasn‘t enough, the romance was sweet, the characters dynamic. & then there‘s the way the author lovingly handled themes of millennial burnout & depression. I cried. A stellar book, through & through. ★★★★★.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas unless you wake up from a dream that you met a girl, partied all night, got married & realize it wasn‘t a dream. Will this one night of drunken fun change everything for Grace Porter or will her life fall back into her old routines? I see why my coworkers love this book & while I didn‘t like it quite as much as they do, it was still an entertaining read & a soft pick for me.

Starting this morning…

Book #17

The #TBR pile on my nightstand is getting slightly out of hand. 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

Y'all spoke and I listened! Picking up Honey Girl tonight as my next #botm read per your recommendation!
😃Thank you all who commented! 😃

“I think the sun saw something in you, something bright all on its own, and it picked you.”
THIS. BOOK. IS. SO. SWEET.
AND. IMPORTANT. I‘m talking REPRESENTATION!!
Absolutely loved this book. The characters are so easy to love, and this book did an incredible job of addressing real struggles that people in their 20s deal with.

An achingly beautiful coming of age story.

Last book of April. Really enjoyed this f/f romance that had a healthy does of self discovery.

It‘s a beautiful evening to sit outside and read. Hoping to finish this one today to have one more book down for April.

I feel like I‘ve been totally MIA, this week has been crazy busy, but I have the weekend to read, relax, and catch up on Litsy. :)

Compulsively readable-I devoured this in four days. I related to Grace and her journey so much. I liked the love story and adored the cast of characters. I'll be thinking about this story for a long time.

Super ready for today's #readathon. I'm usually really bad at actually reading during the 'thon, but this stack is full of good stuff so I'm counting on a good day. Honey Girl on audio when I need to rest my eyes. It's definitely the one I'm the most excited for!

I‘m hoping to finish the tagged book this weekend. I started it yesterday and so far I‘m not feeling it.
I want to start something from my TBR list too. My book club meets tonight and I‘m hoping Libertie is the next pick.
Thanks for the tag @MoonWitch94 #AwesomeAprilReadathon @Andrew65

#ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94
1. All the dogs that have died in any book.
2. The Color Purple
3. Honey Girl

#HoneyGirl It was long but a great story. I loved how it touched on so many aspects of Grace, the main character‘s life. The stress of being the best, platonic and romantic relationships ( and family) and the importance of mental health. 🏳️‍🌈

"Dedication: Dedicated to the girls with claws. Let them fear you."
Loved this dedication. I have been savoring this book in between other books, because I love it. This relatable story about the stories we tell ourselves to keep going. Its also an oops I got married story, a found family story, and a trying to merge the circles of friends, and family, and plans, together into a livable life story.

I liked Grace‘s story - earning her PhD shortly before her 29th birthday and in desperate need for a gap year to discover who she is independent of her status as a student and a daughter who as black, gay, female suffered micro aggressions and questions her well-planned decisions. ...The repetitive use of Grace‘s full name and her father‘s moniker drove seemed unnecessary. Actually, everything about her dad drove me nuts- but great friends!

Excellent #queer read. Recommended.

Excellent in it's own right just not what I had expected. The blurb mentions drunk nuptials in Las Vegas post doctoral graduation but that is such a small part of the larger storyline. It's an adult coming-of-age, inner peace, finding a place and embracing expectations that are both Grace's own and what others place on her- all told in prose.

Part my fault I know I am not keen on romance, but also this doesn't feel like a romance, it is more of a 1/4 life crisis and how a woman finds herself.
What I ❤️ it is a multiracial queer centric life story.
What was fine - the writing.
What 😔 plot holes and lack of research. I know it is weird but I fixated on her getting a PhD in ⭐ in PDX. There are no programs for that here, here where it is cloudy 300 days a year. Also the ☕in Boston? Why?

Grace thinks she has her life completely together and figured out- until she meets her wife. After one night in Las Vegas Grace wakes up to find herself married to a woman who lives on the opposite side of the country.

Grace sets out on an adventure to meet her wife again, and figure out what she wants from life. Heartbreaking, lovely and hopeful, this was a good story.

#selfharm #queerstory #mentalhealth

My first attempt at talking a book and I'm super glad I did this one!

One of my #botm picks