The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Format used for this read: Print–paperback) Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired…
Memoirs of an Ex Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman (Format used for this read: Print–paperback) Sasha Davis has everything a girl in 1950s suburbia could want: beauty, wit, and a steady boyfriend on the basketball team. All she needs to succeed is to keep her skin clear and her intelligence hidden under her prom…
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (Format used for this read: Print–paperback) Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will…
Out Of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez (Format used for this read: Print–paperback) “This is East Texas, and there’s lines. Lines you cross, lines you don’t cross. That clear?” New London, TX. 1937. Naomi Vargas is Mexican American. Wash Fuller is Black. These teens know the town’s divisive racism better than anyone. But sometimes the attraction…
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of May Dodd―a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation. One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd’s journey…
Fitness for Every Body by Meg Boggs From body-positive Instagram influencer and content creator Meg Boggs, an inclusive and empowering fitness and lifestyle guide to inspire readers of every shape and size. For years, Meg Boggs believed the narrative told to her by society: she thought that as a plus-sized woman, she could never be fit; she…
Health At Every Size by Linda Bacon PhD Fat isn’t the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn’t match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates “thin” with “healthy” is the problem.The solution? Health at Every Size. Tune in to your body’s…
The Circus Infinite by Khan Wong (Format used for this read: Paperback–Library copy) Roll up! Roll up! The Space Circus is about to begin….. Persephone-9 is the galaxy’s most infamous pleasure moon, and it is here that Jes, a mixed-race asexual empath with gravity manipulation abilities, is hoping to hide in plain sight from the…
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar This was another treasure of a book I found on the shelves of a local Goodwill. This author has been recommended to me many times over—and I can not remember who it was who did so 🤦♀️. Whoever you were out there, let me just say THANK YOU.…
Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D. Real talk: I have been trying to get myself to write this review for about an hour now. As you can tell by the title, this book was quite an intimate and personal read for me….and I seriously was debating even writing a review for it AT…