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Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo

Time to get to the good books! #MastersResearch

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Carve the Mark | Veronica Roth

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Y‘all, I really wanted this book to be good. I wanted it to be good representation of chronic pain. And there were occasionally good moments. But most of the disability rep, in the form of Cyra, was dreck and ableist. It makes me sad more than angry; it makes me tired. #MastersResearch

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Carve the Mark | Veronica Roth

I just wish I lived in a world where this book wasn‘t filled with really harmful ideas about disabled people. #MastersResearch

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Girls Like Us | Gail Giles

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This book is peak “I work with people with disabilities [folks who think like this love people first language] so I can definitely write a book about them!” Throw in some casual racism and fat misia, and you get this mess. #MastersResearch

britt_brooke Ugh! I‘ll definitely be skipping this one. 6y

Joriebooks What‘s wrong with person first language? (Btw not only do I have a disability, but I‘m also a special education teacher) 6y

Reviewsbylola 😬😬😬 after all the research I‘ve done, I definitely prefer identity first language but I will be curious to see how my ASD daughter feels about it once she‘s older. It‘s too bad this one missed the mark. 6y

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ness @Joriebooks Nothing, necessarily. Plenty of disabled people prefer it, and I always, always stick to what they prefer for themselves. For me and many other disabled people, our disabilities are part of our identities in the same way sexuality, race, and lots of other stuff can be. I get soured on people first because so many ableds tell me how to refer to myself—and they don‘t have any right to do that. 6y

ness @Joriebooks Oh! Also no disrespect meant to special education teachers. So many are amazing. But this author is (seems to be) one of the types that thinks her proximity to actual disabled people gives her the right to speak for them. Which, ugh. 6y

Joriebooks @ness I get that. We had that as a discussion in class on how to refer to a person with a disability. The consent seems to be to default to person first unless otherwise told their preference. 6y

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Girls Like Us | Gail Giles

Next up, a book whose metadata made me involuntarily whisper, “Oh, no” aloud when I read it. #MastersResearch

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Pinned | Sharon Flake

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This book‘s biggest failing from a disability standpoint was the supercrip trope; Adonis, who was born without legs, is better than everyone at his school at everything. Adonis also experiences off-the-page violence. Autumn, who struggles with math and reading, calls herself disabled even though the reason she struggles is not LD. Another dud from a disability rep perspective. #MastersResearch

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Pinned | Sharon Flake

I had tentative hopes this book to be good, but I‘m halfway through, and it‘s just a damm mess. The pink ones are tropey rep, and the blue are ableist slurs. Dang it. #MastersResearch

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Kindle Unlimited: The Ultimate Guide That Will Answer All of Your Questions Before You Buy a Kindle Unlimited Subscription | Robert Smith

1. Yep!
2. A Paperwhite, but I‘m looking at the Oasis pretty hard, too. 👀👀👀
3. Daily. Half of my #mastersresearch books are on it. Plus, it‘s a lot easier to carry one Kindle than 20
books.
4. A bunch. (Very precise, I know.)
5. All the time! I‘d rather read ebooks on my Kindle than my phone—though I do both.
6. n/a
7. Yes! It‘s space themed. 🚀 🌟 🌚

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Carve the Mark | Veronica Roth