pickMan, I have some bones to pick with the parents in this book! As it‘s a memoir it certainly adds to the story overall, but I struggled with wanting to ream them out through the pages. Kathy‘s story of wanting to fit in feels universal even though her experience is unique to her. I‘m glad for the message that she‘s able to extend grace to her past self and that acknowledging that ability makes it easier to extend grace to her present self, too.
pickThere wasn‘t anything especially surprising for me in this story of public school girl getting the opportunity to attend an elite private school with a secret society, but it was a fun listen for today.
#MiddleGrade #audiobook #TRS2025
Oh! It‘s time for #TuesdayTunes.
I‘ve been fighting a cold, so I haven‘t felt like listening to anything too energetic. Mellow vibes only. Ella Grace brings them. She lists “Sexuality, Identity, Spirituality and Mental Health” as the pillars of her album. I‘m into it.
Vibes here:
https://spotify.link/L28rDDGWEXb
pickMy third book by this YA author and another 5 ⭐️ read that made me cry. Cash and his best friend Delaney are leaving behind their lives in Sawyer, TN, to attend a private school in CT on full scholarships because of an amazing scientific find. Delaney has nothing to stay in TN for; her mother is a drug addict. Cash lives with his grandparents, because his mother died of an overdose. Friendship, poetry, love, family: it‘s all here. I ❤️ Zentner.
First Bookoutlet haul of the 2025-26 school year. The Good Ones and Our Kind of Game came home with me. #sorrynotsorry
Continental Drifter is an excellent graphic memoir about a childhood spent between Bangkok and Maine, and the search for belonging.
And it has a lighthouse on the cover, so that's July done! #ISpyBingo #ISpy @TheAromaOfBooks
Also. Bangkok is Somewhere Hot @julieclair #FictionalTraveler
so-soI wish there was a word, and there probably is –when you really enjoy a book, it could be five stars and then something happens to bump down your enjoyment. The something happens here is rather spoiler-y and although I guessed it, I didn‘t like how the other characters just… let the heartbreak happen.
There is still something missing from her books that stop me from loving them (ala Sarah Dessen) and I‘m not sure what it is.
“…a tent represented adventures and possibilities, giving you the stars every single night. But a house stayed in one place, safe but always the same.”
MG novel of self-discovery and truth finding mixed with tween awkwardness and a last name that nobody wants. 3.7 🌟
#Read2025
#Bookspinbingo
#LitsyAtoZ
#Pantone2025
@DieAReader @TheAromaofBooks @Texreader @Lauredhel @BarbaraBB
pickMy almost 10 year old really liked the book. She liked learning about Willa‘s struggles with Sensory Processing Disorder (her Autistic brother has SPD & it helped her understand him). The story is told from Willa‘s perspective. I am a little more critical than my daughter, so it‘s a low pick for me. I do feel that representation matters & there needs to be more stories for kids about all kinds of disorders & disabilities. But…
