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…
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.…
Hollywood Endings by Liza Malloy (Format used for this read: Print–paperback) This book is NOT one I would generally pick to read on my own. BUT I was invited to join a group of ladies to read this book and discuss together PLUS do a Q&A with the author by Zoom! Unfortunately, I realized the…
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin This right here yall is Sci Fi/Fantasy at it’s ABSOLUTE FRIGGIN’ BEST. DAMN. Everything about this book was creative, different, interesting, entertaining and tremendous. Straight up literary 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Let me tell yall the official summary before I get carried away: “In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off…
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame Smith (Format used for this read: Print–paperback) I told yall in a previous review that I am slowwwwwwllllyyyyy working my way thru all the TBR piles on my bedroom bookshelf. This guy has been sitting there since we lived in Virginia (see that McKay Used Books sticker? OHHHHHH…