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Book Club Giveaway for Black History Month, February 2021

February 2, 2021 By TLC Booktours Leave a Comment

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We have gathered up some wonderful Black-authored titles for this special BLACK HISTORY MONTH book club giveaway!

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For fans of Luster and I May Destroy You, a disarmingly honest,  unapologetically Black, and undeniably witty debut novel that will speak to those who have gone looking for love and found something very different in its place.

QUEENIE

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth.

As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?”–all of the questions today’s woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.

With “fresh and honest” (Jojo Moyes) prose, Queenie is a remarkably relatable exploration of what it means to be a modern woman searching for meaning in today’s world.

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Purchase Links

Simon & Schuster | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

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NFL linebacker, speaker, podcaster, and humanitarian Sam Acho gives a blueprint for taking off our masks and living lives of genuine authenticity.

LET THE WORLD SEE YOU

Let the World See You: How to Be Real in a World Full of Fakes by Sam Acho

Most of us hide. We play small and don’t live up to our full potential. Sam Acho was one of those people. As an NFL linebacker, for example, he earned his MBA but told no one because he was afraid of what people might think if they found out that he cared about things that weren’t “normal” for his profession. After many years of hiding himself, the person he had become had no connection to the real Sam. Only when he lost a friend and a mentor did he realize he was doing it all wrong–just like many us do, when we try to become someone we’re not. All the while, we ignore the unique gifts and talents and personality we truly possess.

But there is another way of living: Let the world see you. Your quirks, your passions, and your inner desires were not given to you by accident. And the world needs your gifts.

In Let the World See You, Sam Acho shares lessons from his own life as well as stories from others to reveal how you can overcome your fears and discover your true selves. Being the real you pays big. No one else has what you have. No one else can share what you share. Let the World See You helps crack the shell of people who are in hiding and reveals the benefits of a lifestyle lived on purpose.

Purchase Links

Target | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

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In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents BIG ideas for turning your “one day” into today, including the generational transfer of a dream and a powerful blueprint for a masterpiece life—from the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and major motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness.

PERMISSION TO DREAM

Permission to Dream by Chris Gardner and Mim Eichler Rivas

On a winter’s day, Chris Gardner set off with his nine-year-old granddaughter Brooke to find the harmonica of her dreams. The search sends them North “beyond the wall” into a foreboding Chicago neighborhood and, soon, on a harrowing adventure that will change both of their lives—and ours.

Chris is still mourning the loss of his girlfriend to brain cancer. Her question haunts him: “Now that we know how short life can be, what will you do with the time you have left?” After five years, he feels an urgency—what he calls, “Atomic Time” in which every second counts—to find an answer, but is stuck. Even while giving Brooke permission to aspire to one day become President of the United States, he knows it’s time to reclaim his own permission to dream.

Lost, Chris and his granddaughter board a bus, reminding him of earlier rides through dark times when dreams of a better life kept him alive. As the two wind through a changing cityscape, Chris reflects on past lessons that offer powerful guidance for dreaming your way to monumental success.

At its heart, this book lays out a blueprint for building a dream-come-true life—even during uncertainty. Gardner delivers the secrets to achieving a prosperous career—from a method for identifying your ultimate dream to a playbook for becoming world class at it.  His tools include the “new 3 R’s”—or the Rep, the Rap and the Rolodex—which reveal how to earn a stellar reputation, develop a rap for marketing yourself, and amass a Rolodex of rewarding relationships. No matter how much wealth you achieve, Chris notes, true success comes from enriching the lives of others—so all can still have access to the American Dream.

Toward the end, Brooke observes that in Atomic Time it’s never too late for anyone to reinvent themselves and change their fortune. Chris, hearing her, realizes what his next pursuit will be—to go back to high school and give permission to dream to the next generation of problem solvers and change makers.

A true fable, Permission to Dream is a timeless and timely manifesto for turning dreams into action—beginning right now.

Purchase Links

HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

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Miss Maryann Fitzwilliam is too witty and bookish for her own good.

HER WICKED MARQUESS

Her Wicked Marquess (The Sinful Wallflowers, Book 2) by  Stacy Reid

Miss Maryann Fitzwilliam is too witty and bookish for her own good. No gentleman of the ton will marry her, so her parents arrange for her to wed a man old enough to be her father. But Maryann is ready to use those wits to turn herself into a sinful wallflower.

When the scandal sheet reports a sighting of Nicolas St. Ives, the Marquess of Rothbury, climbing out the chamber windows of a house party, Maryann does the unthinkable. She anonymously claims that the bedchamber belonged to none other than Miss Fitzwilliam, tarnishing her own reputation?and chances of the dastardly union her family secured for her. Now she just needs to convince the marquess to keep his silence.

Turns out Nicolas allows for the scandal to perpetuate for his own reasons… But when Maryann’s parents hold fast to their arranged marriage plan, it’ll take a scandal of epic proportions for these two to get out of this together.

Each book in the Sinful Wallflowers series is STANDALONE:
* My Darling Duke
* Her Wicked Marquess

Purchase Links

Entangled Publishing | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

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A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy

MEMORIAL DRIVE

Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey

An Instant New York Times Bestseller 

A New York Times Notable Book 

One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2020

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyle

At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became.

With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother’s life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985.

Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet’s attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers.

Purchase Links

HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

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From The Guardian’s Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed—through the author’s own journey grappling with secrets and stereotypes, having been raised by white parents with no explanation as to why she looked black.

RACELESS

Raceless by Georgina Lawton

A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the Year

Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina’s insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black culture, she lacked the coordinates to make sense of who she was.

It was only after her father’s death that Georgina began to unravel the truth about her parentage—and the racial identity that she had been denied. She fled from England and the turmoil of her home-life to live in black communities around the globe—the US, the UK, Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and Morocco—and to explore her identity and what it meant to live in and navigate the world as a black woman. She spoke with psychologists, sociologists, experts in genetic testing, and other individuals whose experiences of racial identity have been fraught or questioned in the hopes of understanding how, exactly, we identify ourselves.

Raceless is an exploration of a fundamental question: what constitutes our sense of self? Drawing on her personal experiences and the stories of others, Lawton grapples with difficult questions about love, shame, grief, and prejudice, and reveals the nuanced and emotional journey of forming one’s identity.

Purchase Links

HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

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A masterful, eye-opening novel about the profound racial injustices and class inequalities roiling American society, for fans of Tayari Jones and Jacqueline Woodson.

THE KINDEST LIE

The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson

Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Elle * Marie Claire * Good Housekeeping * Chicago Tribune * Woman’s Day, * Refinery 29 * Bustle * The Millions * New York Post * Parade * Hello! Magazine * PopSugar * Black Business Guide * and more!

“The Kindest Lie is a deep dive into how we define family, what it means to be a mother, what secrets we owe to those we love, and what it means to grow up Black. This beautifully crafted debut will keep you asking these questions and more.” —JODI PICOULT

A promise could betray you.

It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to—and was forced to leave behind—when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she’d never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past.

Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. As she begins digging into the past, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. Just as Ruth is about to uncover a burning secret her family desperately wants to keep hidden, a traumatic incident strains the town’s already searing racial tensions, sending Ruth and Midnight on a collision course that could upend both their lives.

Powerful and revealing, The Kindest Lie captures the heartbreaking divide between Black and white communities and offers both an unflinching view of motherhood in contemporary America and the never-ending quest to achieve the American Dream.

Purchase Links

HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

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Award-winning author Lola Shoneyin delivers an irresistible and entertaining story of marriage, family, power, and heartache set in modern-day Nigeria in her debut novel.

THE SECRET LIVES OF BABA SEGI’S WIVES

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES!

When Baba Segi woke up with a bellyache for the sixth day in a row, he knew it was time to do something drastic about his fourth wife’s childlessness.

For Baba Segi, his collection of wives and gaggle of children are a symbol of prosperity, success, and a validation of his manhood. All is well in this patriarchal home, until Baba arrives with wife number four, a quiet, college-educated, young woman named Bolanle. Jealous and resentful of this interloper who is stealing their husband’s attention, Baba’s three wives, begin to plan her downfall. How dare she not know her place, they whisper. How dare she offer to teach them to read. They will teach her instead, they vow, and open their husbands eyes to this wicked wind who has upturned the tranquility of their home.

Bolanle’s mother worked hard to educate her daughter and save her from a life of polygamy and dependence. She cannot understand why her daughter has chosen such a fate. But Bolanle hides a terrible secret—a secret that will unwittingly exposes the deception and lies, secrets and shame upon which Baba Segi’s household rests.

A stirring rale of men and women, mothers and children, servitude and independence, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives illuminates the common threads that connect the experiences of all women: the hardships they bear, their struggle to define themselves, and their fierce desire to protect those they love.

Purchase Links

HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

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One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.

MAKE ME RAIN

Make Me Rain by Nikki Giovanni

For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has dazzled and inspired readers. As sharp and outspoken as ever, she returns with this profound book of poetry in which she continues to call attention to injustice and racism, celebrate Black culture and Black lives, and and give readers an unfiltered look into her own experiences.

In Make Me Rain, she celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage, while exploring the enduring impact of the twin sins of racism and white nationalism. Giovanni reaffirms her place as a uniquely vibrant and relevant American voice with poems such as “I Come from Athletes” and “Rainy Days”—calling out segregation and Donald Trump; as well as “Unloved (for Aunt Cleota)” and “”When I Could No Longer”—her personal elegy for the relatives who saved her from an abusive home life.

Stirring, provocative, and resonant, the poems in Make Me Rain pierce the heart and nourish the soul.

Purchase Links

HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble

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Please fill out our super short registration form (click the “Enter Now” button above) by February 28th for a chance to win a set of up to ten copies of one of these great books for your book club! We will randomly choose a winner at the end of the month. This giveaway is open to clubs in the US only (our apologies to friends in other countries). 

Best of luck!

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I love it when a review starts with “Holy. Smoke I love it when a review starts with “Holy. Smokes. 🔥 “ 😜
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Highland Justice by @heatherdmccollum ~ Review 
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Holy. Smokes. 🔥 As soon as I finished this one, I downloaded the preceding two books in the Sons of Sinclair series. That’s how much I didn’t want to leave the world @heatherdmccollum built! 
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Sons of Sinclair were raised to be the four horsemen of the apocalypse, with Gideon as the Horseman of Justice. 
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Naturally, our heroine is a thief. Cait runs a home for orphans, and she would do anything to keep them safe and fed…including steal from Gideon. 
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I couldn’t put this book down, especially from seeing their relationship develop- Gideon shows Cait that she isn’t too cold for love, and Cait teaches Gideon how to relate to his people, and more importantly, that final judgement may be too much for just one man. 
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This book has it all: spicy scenes so hot that beds are broken 🥵, treason against the crown, an epic love story, and scenes that brought me to tears. 
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I give this one ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. This is the third in the Sons of Sinclair series, but you don’t have to read in order to easily follow along.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I am waiting with bated breath for Bas’s story, the Horseman of Death! 💀 Seriously, it’s going to be incredible. 
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The greatest of thanks to @entangled_publishing and @tlcbooktours for bringing this series into my life ♥️
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 QOTD: What’s the last book you read that you liked so much you picked up everything else in the series? (My tbr is crying right now 😂 BUT SO WORTH IT)
California is home to all kinds of people and ever California is home to all kinds of people and every kind of story. I didn’t grow up here, but I’ve lived here my entire adult life, and have started collecting books with California settings. This short story collection fits right in. It’s out now - I hope you’ll check it out ☀️ 
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In present-day Southern California, a diverse group of characters seeks the fulfillment and connection this sunny state has always promised. They come with hopes for a better lifestyle, for a change of perspective, or for the dry, mild West Coast weather. A couple moves to Palm Desert from New York for the arid, warm climate a doctor prescribes and they manage both illness and homesickness. The woman makes an unlikely friend in a young albino boy who teaches her a harsh lesson about the margin for cruelty that resides in us all. A young Mexican woman migrates to California and marries an American man—only to be deserted. A young man is disqualified from the Naval Aeronautical program and returns to his sister’s home, where he struggles with his identity and sexuality. After years of estrangement, a teenage girl travels to California from New York to spend the summer with her father. Between each of the thirteen stories in this collection are interspersed several “snapshot” stories—poetic pauses—that blend a set of images into an artistic visual unit, much like a brief cinematic experience. Every character in this collection is distinct from the next, but all of their stories unfold under the glare of the same Southern California sun—a western desert light so clear and unfiltered that it reveals everything. #allsfairandothercaliforniastories #californiabooks #lindafeyder #storycollection
We hope all the mamas out there had a happy Mother We hope all the mamas out there had a happy Mother’s Day and a great week! 💕 Repost from @bookscallmyheart
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Thank You, Mama is a fun new children’s book that I guarantee will make you and your child hungry! I am so excited to add this new book to our shelves. My almost 3 year old is a very picky eater (and her “safe” foods are also limited due to food allergies) so it is hard to get her to try new foods and expand her palate. I’m hoping this book will help! I also love that the book focuses on gratitude, Vietnamese cuisine, and that mealtime is a special time to be together as a family!
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Synopsis:
“TikTok and viral video star Grey (@greyandmama, 6M followers) says “Thank you, Mama!” to healthy foods in this picture book that teaches gratitude, manners, and the joy of sharing meals with those we love.
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We all want to raise happy eaters who enjoy eating new foods, mealtimes with family, and being thankful. That’s why so many parents love Linda Meeker’s charming videos of her son Grey saying “Thank you, Mama!” With colorful illustrations that capture a child’s daily snacks and mealtimes, Thank You, Mama will delight parents and kids alike.
This playful picture book for 3 to 7-year-olds
* follows a little boy as he explores different foods–from vegetables to sushi–and tries to pick his favorite
* encourages children to try new foods and become happy, healthy eaters
* honors the bond between parent and child
* models respect, manners, and thankfulness
* builds vocabulary and prereading skills with colorful food illustrations paired with words for each item”
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Thank you so much @tlcbooktours, @tlcdiversity, @tommynelsonbooks, and @greyandmama for our gifted copy! We also appreciate the extra gifted copy to share in a local LFL!
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Would you consider yourself a foodie, a picky eater, or somewhere in between?
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#childrensbooks #newrelease #littlereaders #toddlerbooks #booksaremagic #booksforkids #readingislearning #preschoolhomeschool #booksaremagic #diversebooksforkids #illustratedbooks #readaloudfamily #readwithyourkids #foodandbooks #trynewfoods #LittleFreeLibrary #TLCBookTours #tommynelson #GreyandMama #ThankYouMamabook #ThankYouMama
This book club won THE MONTH OF BORROWED DREAMS by This book club won THE MONTH OF BORROWED DREAMS by @felicityhayesmccoy, courtesy of @harperperennial! They said they really enjoyed the book and are going to seek out more books by this author. Isn't this a cool way to get a book for your book club?? Link in bio if you want to sign up!
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“ 𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓳𝓾𝓭𝓰𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓼, 𝓲𝓽 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓮𝓵𝓼 𝓹𝓮𝓸𝓹𝓵𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓻𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾.” ᴛᴀᴡɴᴀ ꜰᴇɴꜱᴋᴇ - ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ꜰʟɪɴɢ
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Qᴜᴇꜱᴛɪᴏɴ: ᴀɴʏ ɴᴇᴡ ʀᴇᴀᴅꜱ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴛᴏᴏᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ʙʏ ꜱᴜʀᴘʀɪꜱᴇ?
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Happy Wednesday said no one in the history of adulting; prove me wrong I dare you… but since we are here, let’s share a mini review with no spoilers below ↴

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝙺𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝 ➟ ᴍʏ ʀᴀᴛɪɴɢ: ★ ★ ★ ★

What’s this? Me reading a best friends to lovers trope… no… but yes, yes I did. I devoured the 𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎’𝚜 𝚂𝚖𝚘𝚔𝚎 series & I thoroughly enjoyed it all; 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝙺𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚝 was entertaining, charming, witty and gritty all at the same time. I laughed, cringed and swooned.

The characters were absolutely likable and though not my favorite type of trope it definitely had an easy flow and evolution that felt natural when the romance grew. And the drama, it was a train wreck that I could not look away from, and there was a ton of drama that added to plot.

This was definitely enjoyable; if you are looking for a standalone series that is cute and fun, easy to connect and laugh, this is right up your alley!

Full review posted on blog, link in bio! & thank you to @tlcbooktours for providing a copy for a review!

♥ Stay safe, stay fresh my comrades!
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#superthankful🙏🏻 for @tlcbooktours and @tlcdiversity for selecting me as a #booktourhost for #amillionquietrevolutions by @rockin_robin_1
This is a bright stunning debut for readers like me who loved The Poet X, #felixeverafter and #aristotleanddantediscoverthesecretsoftheuniverse. Plus@orangeskyaudio
produced the audiobook and the narration was excellent. 

Robin Gow’s A Million Quiet Revolutions is a modern love story, told in verse, about two teenaged trans boys who name themselves after two Revolutionary War soldiers. 
For as long as they can remember, Aaron and Oliver have only ever had each other. In a small town with few queer teenagers, let alone young trans men, they’ve shared milestones like coming out as trans, buying the right binders – and falling for each other.
But just as their relationship has started to blossom, Aaron moves away. Feeling adrift, separated from the one person who understands them, they seek solace in digging deep into the annals of America’s past. When they discover the story of two Revolutionary War soldiers who they believe to have been trans man in love, they’re inspired to pay tribute to these soldiers by adopting their names – Aaron and Oliver. As they learn, they delve further into unwritten queer stories, and they discover the transformative power of reclaiming one’s place in history.

Robin Gow is a trans and queer poet, editor, and educator from rural Pennsylvania. They are the director and founder of Transcendent Connections, an organization that provides trans education resources to support trans youth. Gow also founded the New York City trans and queer reading series Gender Reveal Party. They live in Pennsylvania with their pugs, Gertrude and Eddie.

QOTD: Does your area have resources for LGTBQ youth who need them? 
Call 1-866-488-7386 or go to thetrevorproject.org for info!

#RobinGowAuthor #AMillionQuietRevolutions #LGBTQbooks#audiobookstagram #yabooks #orangeskyaudio
#bookstagramgoals #bookstagramcommunity #bookinfluencer #bookobsessedgirl #bookaesthetic #bookwormproblems #ireadeverywhere #readingislife #readersofinstagram #jamestrevinorepost
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𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘀 𝗨𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗱⁣
By Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir⁣
Translated by: Philip Roughton⁣
Publisher: Amazon Crossing⁣
Pub Date: 3/1/2022⁣
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Have you ever read a book where the prose is so beautifully descriptive and atmospheric that you feel you could walk right into the book? That’s how I felt about this lovely one.⁣
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The plot's pace is measured, as life in Iceland in the early 1900s was about hard, physical work and family. This story combines a young woman breaking stereotypical roles with Icelandic folklore, customs, and the beauty of a rugged country. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶.⁣
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📖 Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Ólafsdóttir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has a powerful calling and is determined to never let go of her true being, one unsuited for the conventional. But she is powerless against the fateful turns of real life and all its expectations of women. Pulled back time and again by design and by chance to the Icelandic countryside–as dutiful daughter, loving mother, and fisherman’s wife–she struggles to thrive, to be what she was meant to be.⁣
Spanning decades and set against a breathtaking historical canvas, Karitas Untitled, an award-winning classic of Icelandic literature, is a complex and immersive portrait of an artist’s conflict with love, family, nature, and a country unaccustomed to an untraditional woman–but most of all, with herself and the creative instincts she has no choice but to follow.⁣
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Thank you @tlcbooktours and @amazonpublishing for a spot on tour and a gifted copy.⁣
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🕯 Use my Code: 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐚𝐤𝐤𝐚𝟏𝟎 and get your personalized @birthdateco candle today! (you may use code unlimited times).⁣
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🌎 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧? 𝐈’𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝.⁣
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#bookishfeature #bookphotos #KaritasUnlimited #bookrecs @tlcdiversity #womensfiction #Iceland #bookinfluencer #books #bookaddiction #AmazonCrossing #translated #historicalfiction #art @forlagidRights #feminism ⁣
Hello, Gorgeous 🥰 Repost from @shook_sbooks • Hello, Gorgeous 🥰 Repost from @shook_sbooks
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✨𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑭𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆✨ 
𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝗯𝘆 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿

Thank you to @authorvanessamiller and @tlcbooktours  for my #gifted copy.
Do  you believe that something good can come out of tragedy? Are you a glass half full or a glass half empty person? Miller’s book sounds like an uplifting read that so many people could use right now!  Looking forward to this one.
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸:

Alexis Marshall never meant to cause the accident that left Jon-Jon Robinson paralyzed—but though guilt plagues her, her husband hopes to put the past behind them. After all, he’s in the middle of selling a tech business—and if Alexis admits to texting while driving, the deal could collapse and cost them millions. Meanwhile, Alexis’s life is not as shiny and perfect as it may seem from the outside. She has secrets of her own. As she becomes consumed with thoughts of the young man she hit, can she reconcile her mistake with her husband’s expectations?

Trish Robinson is just trying to hold it together after the accident that left Jon-Jon dependent and depressed. As the bills pile up, Trish and her husband, Dwayne, find themselves at odds. Trish wants to forgive and move on, but Dwayne is filled with rage toward the entitled woman who altered their lives forever. Trish can’t see how anything good can come from so much hate and strife, so she determines to pray until God intervenes. Then one afternoon Marquita Lewis rings their doorbell with a baby in her arms and changes everything.

Vanessa Miller’s latest inspirational novel reminds readers that differences may separate us, but if we cling to each other, God can bring something good out of our very worst moments.

𝗤-𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤.  𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞  𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤!  𝐈’𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤.

#multiculturalfiction #multicultural #somethinggood #christanfiction #bookfeature
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Hi beauties! Today I have a @TLCBookTours feature, Love Decoded by @JenYenWrites (published by @PenguinTeen). This book sounds so cute and I always love seeing Asian American representation! 
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High school junior Gigi Wong strives to be the best: the top student, the perfect friend, and the ideal daughter. But it's tough when there's always someone who is just a little bit better. With college applications looming, she can't help but worry that she won't make the cut. Thankfully, her best friend Kyle never fails to find the right words--and the perfect bowl of ramen--to cheer her up.

After her teacher, Ms. Harris, announces she'll be nominating students for an app writing contest, Gigi is determined to be picked. After all, first prize is an exclusive tech internship, sure to make her application stand out. There's only one problem: she doesn't have a winning program. It isn't until transfer student Etta admits she's struggling to fit in at Superbia that Gigi stumbles on an idea. She'll use her coding skills--and the matchmaking experience she's gotten from weekends with Auntie Rose--to create a friend matching app! Etta will meet new people, and Gigi will guarantee her acceptance into college. It's foolproof.

What Gigi doesn't expect is for her app to go viral around school. Soon, she finds herself at the center of a scandal--and at odds with both Etta and Kyle. Can Gigi fix what went wrong, or will her desire to be perfect cost her the people she cares about most?
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Thinking of displaced people everywhere this morni Thinking of displaced people everywhere this morning 🌏 Repost from @bookishcatsavant
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📚𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐫 & 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞📚
𝙱𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚃𝚒𝚝𝚕𝚎 & 𝙰𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚛: 𝙽𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚑 𝚃𝚘 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝚋𝚢 @ousmanumar @nasco_ict 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 @kevingerrydunn 
𝙿𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚛: #amazoncrossing @amazonpublishing 
𝙿𝚞𝚋 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚎: 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 1, 2022
𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚎: #memoir #africanliterature 
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Thank you @tlcbooktours {partner} @tlcdiversity and publisher for including me in this tour! 
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📖𝙾𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚂𝚢𝚗𝚘𝚙𝚜𝚒𝚜📖

The inspiring true story of one man’s treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona–and the path that led him home.

Ousman Umar is a shaman’s son born in a small village in Ghana. Though his mother died giving birth, he spent a contented childhood working the fields, setting traps in the jungle, and living off the land. Still, as strange and wondrous flying machines crisscrossed the skies overhead, Ousman dreamed of a different life. And so, when he was only twelve years old, he left his village and began what would be a five-year journey to Europe.

Every step of the way, as he traveled across the Sahara desert, through the daunting metropolises of Accra, Tripoli, Benghazi, and Casablanca, and over the Mediterranean Sea aboard a packed migrant dinghy, Ousman was handed off like merchandise by a loose network of smugglers and in the constant, foreboding company of “sinkers”: other migrants who found themselves penniless and alone on their way north, unable to continue onward or return home.

But on a path rife with violence, exploitation, and racism, Ousman also encountered friendship, generosity, and hope. North to Paradise is a visceral true story about the stark realities of life along the most dangerous migrant route across Africa; it is also a portrait of extraordinary resilience in the face of unimaginable challenges, the beauty of kindness in strangers, and the power of giving back.
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𝐐𝐎𝐓𝐃: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮‘𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮? 
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No matter your religious affiliation, I think most of us are yearning for peace right now. Unclutter Your Soul is a perfect remedy 🤗 

Synopsis ⤵️

A unique biblical and practical approach to uncluttering our internal thoughts and feelings.

We all want our lives to change for the better–to become the healthiest versions of ourselves in spirit, soul, and body. Yet we still struggle. Author Trina McNeilly, looking for order in her own life, embarked on an inward journey to the home of her heart and soul to find healing and health from the inside out.

Unclutter Your Soul is for all of us who are cluttered and overwhelmed with loss, fear, chronic stress, unhealthy coping mechanisms, crippling depression, or anxiety. With the Holy Spirit as our guide, Trina says we can learn to

✔️ observe: acknowledge the clutter,
✔️own: make space for a healthy internal environment, and
✔️overcome: take action with tools for living clutter-free from the inside out.

Each chapter in these three sections is written as an essay and concludes with practical and soulful tips as well as prompts to put them into action. With discussion questions and a prayer guide, Unclutter Your Soul is the ultimate resource for finding freedom in our everyday lives by releasing limited mindsets and creating more space for peace and joy.

Thank you @tlcbooktours @thomasnelson and @trina_mcneilly for my #gifted copy 

QOTD: What helps you find peace? 

#UnclutterYourSoul #christiannonfiction #nonfiction #personalgrowth #nonfictionbook  #selfimprovement #selfhelp #selfhelpbook #selfimprovementbook #beingmybestself #ownyourmood #booktour #newpost #newreads
Poetry, anyone? Repost from @hoardingbooks.herding Poetry, anyone? Repost from @hoardingbooks.herdingcats
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“𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝚖𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎
𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝
𝚊 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛 
𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜.”
— 𝙲𝚊𝚒𝚝𝚕𝚒𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚘𝚗
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#QOTD What kind of poetry, if any, do you like to read?

Like most bibliophiles who were once angsty teenagers, or like most readers who once felt love’s cruel sting, I have often solace in poetry. In both reading and writing them. Very few of my own poems made it out of my diary, of course, but during most of middle school and high school days, and even through my first semester in college, I kept a habit of handwriting and memorizing my favorite poems. The poets I loved back then were Christina Rossetti, Emily Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Mew, W.H. Auden, and naturally, the Romantics. And to this day, they remain my favorites. But that doesn’t mean I don’t read anything new! 

Currently, for instance, I am indulging in myself with three beautiful poetry collections from @centavepub, each unique but as piercing and heartfelt as the others. 

In 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐫, @ari.b.cofer takes us on journey to live life fully, through its highs and lows, while struggling with mental health. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 by @cgcpoems is an ode to love, loss, heartbreak, and grief —a path to peace and closure. And @hinnah.xo’s 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐞𝐚: 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 addresses bodily trauma and the process of working through it, highlighting trauma that comes not just from another person, but also from a nation and from within.

Many thanks to @centavepub and @tlcbooktours for my gifted copies! I shall cherish them forever! 📚 

#amreading #bibliophile #book #bookaddict #booklover #books #bookstagram #bookstagramfeature #bookstagrammer #centavepublishing #centavepubpoetry #currentlyreading #diversebooks #diversereads #favoritebooks #hoardingbooksherdingcats #poem #poems #poetry #poetrylovers #reading #readersofinstagram #tlcbooktours #tlcdiversity #whattoreadnext
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Edward and Annie
By: Caryn Rivadeneira
Illustrated by: Katy Tanis 
 
When your book matches the @littlefreelibrary perfectly, you know it’s gonna be a good day!!
 
What has been a good thing about today for you?
 
The book Edward and Annie is based off the account of what happened at the Shedd Aquarium during the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic when the aquarium was shut down. We watch as the penguin friends get to explore the whole aquarium and meet lots of new pals. Such a fun book to read!
 
I want to thank you with @tommynelsonbooks @carynrivadeneira @shedd_aquarium and @tlcbooktours for not only gofting me a review copy but also a copy for my local Free Little Library to share with others!! Check this book out on its Pub Date on March 8th!! 
 
#EdwardandAnnie #TommyNelson #TommyNelsonBooks #SheddAquarium #childrensbooks #picturebooks #penguinsofinstagram #sponsored #picturebookstagram #littlebookworms #childrensbook #childrensbookillustration #childrensbookstagram #kidsbooks #kidsbook #kidsbookstagram #kidsbookswelove #aquariums #aquarium #animalstories #penguin #penguins #comingsoon #getready #animalfanatics #animalfun #marinelife #animalbooks #penguinlover #🐧
Book clubs! There are still a few more days to ent Book clubs! There are still a few more days to enter our special Black History Month giveaway to win a set of up to ten copies of an amazing Black-authored title for your book club! Go to our bio to find the entry form in our Campsite link. Good luck! #bookclubs #giveaways #bookgiveaway #BlackHistoryMonth #diversifyyourshelves #readdiversebooks
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Where my YA fans? I have a phenomenal book to recommend: WE WERE KINGS by Court Stevens. It’s a coming of age story with some mystery, and throw in some contentious subject matter. It’s available now to order or grab.

s y n o p s i s:

Twenty years ago, eighteen-year-old Francis Quick was convicted of murdering her best friend, Cora King, and sentenced to death. Now the highly debated Accelerated Death Penalty Act has passed giving Frankie thirty final days to live. Surprising everyone, one of the King family members sets out to challenge the woefully inadequate evidence and potential innocence of Frankie Quick.

The at-first reluctant but soon-fiery Nyla and her unexpected ally—handsome country island boy Sam Stack—bring Frankie’s case to the international stage through her YouTube channel, Death Daze. They step into fame and a hometown battle that someone’s still willing to kill over. But who? The senator? The philanthropist? The pawn shop owner? Nyla’s own mother?

Best advice: Don’t go to family dinner at the Kings’ estate. More people will leave in body bags than on their own two feet. And as for Frankie Quick, she’s a gem . . . even if she’s guilty.
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I started this today when we got home from the hospital, let me tell you, it’s easy to fall into. Thank you to @tnzfiction for my copy. 
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Thanks to @tlcbooktours @entangled_publishing and  @mirandaliasson for my gifted copy of  The Sweetheart Deal by Miranda Liasson. This is the first in the new Blossom Glen series - a small town romance and the main character is a pastry chef. I am always up for a great foodie romance!⁣
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𝘚𝘺𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘴: Pastry chef Tessa Montgomery knows what everyone in the teeny town of Blossom Glen says about her. Spinster. Ice Queen. Such a shame. It’s enough to make a woman bake her troubles away, dreaming of Parisian delicacies while she makes bread at her mother’s struggling boulangerie. That is until Tessa’s mortal enemy―deliciously handsome (if arrogant) chef Leo Castorini, who owns the restaurant next door―proposes a business plan…to get married.⁣
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Leo knows that the Castorinis and the Montgomerys hate each other, but a marriage might just force these stubborn families to work together and blend their businesses for success. The deal is simple: Tessa and Leo marry, live together for six months, and then go their separate ways. Easy peasy. ⁣
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It’s a sweetheart deal where everyone gets what they want―until feelings between the faux newlyweds start seriously complicating the mix. Have they discovered the perfect recipe for success…or is disaster on the way?⁣
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💬 I decided this new foodie romance should be paired with some delicious baklava. What is your favorite pastry or dessert?⁣
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Good morning my little pudding cups! 
 
💭 Do you have a favorite classic novel? 
 
As a big (big) fan of Wuthering Heights, the premise behind Twilight at Moorington Cross by Abigail Wilson jumped right out at me. While not really similar at all, you know I’m all about ✨vibes✨ and this book definitely screams “creepy gothic romance with some weird shit going down” and I am here for it. 
 
Amelia, a patient at Moorington Cross at the behest of her late husband, suddenly becomes heiress to the estate after a shady death, but first she has to pick between two suitors and marry one of them in order to cash in on that inheritance. The biggest problem? She already had a husband that thought she was nuts and locked her up at Moorington Cross, so what’s to stop one of these men from taking everything away from her again? Oh, and she’s also kind of sort of definitely intrigued by (and very into) the solicitor who drafted the will and is trying to help her pick between the two do-do birds she’s got in front of her. And don’t forget she’s trying to solve a murder at the same time, with the solicitor she’s crushing hard on.
 
This book is creepy and funny and witty, while still somehow elegant and proper, and it has been an absolute joy navigating this batshit situation with Amelia. I’m only a few chapters from the end and I am chomping at the bit to get back to it but, you know, work and life and adult responsibilities say otherwise which is rude, but here we are. I cannot wait to see how it ends, and I am absolutely delighted this book crossed my path so I could go on this gothic nightmare of an adventure. 
 
Once I’m done you’ll find me pacing the moors at dusk with a shawl around my shoulders praying for my lover to return. 
 
Okay not really, but that’s how this book makes me feel and I think it’d be fun. 
 
Thank you, thank you, to #tlcbooktours and #thomasnelson for giving me a chance to read Twilight at Moorington Cross. It always makes me so happy when new novels cross my radar and this one has been a treat ♥️
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“𝙰𝚒𝚛𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍. 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚢. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚎, 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎. 𝙰𝚗𝚢 𝚟𝚘𝚢𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎.”
— 𝙴𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚝𝚎
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𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒇𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐? 

Originally published in French as 𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴, 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 is an exceptional lyrical novel written by Emelie Prophéte and translated by Tina Kover. It is a novel about airports and coffee, solitude and grief, freedom and history. It is a book small in stature but gigantic, if you consider its beauty and profundity. It is a work of art that you, my friend, must read. 

Don’t ask me if 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 is poetry or prose or fiction or memoir, especially if you’re looking for a straightforward answer. I won’t be able to give you one, because to me, it is all of these and more. I could give you a general summary of the book, maybe, but that wouldn’t be enough to show you how the palimpsest of memories and meditations that permeate its pages conjures up image after vivid image, evoking emotions so piercing that the rest of the world simply falls away. I won’t be able to describe the heady stupor, the blissful melancholy that grips your chest the entire time you’re reading 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞, and long after it. So instead, here is a jumble of words and phrases that might tell you a little about this book: Haiti, Caribbean, passports, the U.S., migration, family, home, a funeral, three lives, one narrator, many dreams, stream of consciousness. Here are a few more: womanhood, desire, desperation, time, liminality, life. “A thread on the water. A fragile cord.” 

Many thanks to @tlcbooktours and @amazonpublishing for my #ARC, to @tinakover444 for reminding me why I love translations, and to @emmelieprophete for giving me the most compelling reason to pick up French again. 📚

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If you asked me last year what is a genre I don't really read, I would have told you sci fi. I've always loved to watch sci fi movies or shows but when it comes to reading sci fi books, I always felt it was too confusing and complicated. This year one of my goals is to read more of my least read  genres, which are fantasy and scifi. I want to take myself out of my comfort zone and recapture my love for these genres I once couldn't get enough of.

QOTD: What's your least read genre and why?

Light Years From Home by Mike Chen out 1/25 was a surprise hit for me. At first, I thought it was going to be too much for me to understand because it started off in outer space but Chen's storytelling quickly captured my attention. The story took on a life of its own & the characters introduced  piqued my interest. I found myself captivated by the backstory of this family & I became invested right away.

What I really appreciated was Chen's ability to give just enough scifi elements without it getting too confusing. The story was well developed & once the climax was reached it kicked into high gear. The mind games had me second guessing what I thought was true. Chen's writing really blurred the lines of reality and mental health when the ending began to unfold. Chen also displayed strong writing skills in the ways that he shaped each character and their inner dialogues/dilemmas.

Family dramas are my jam and the added space theme was the cherry on top. This story really makes me think about how I would react if a family member disappeared and then returned years later claiming they were taken by aliens and they had a mission to complete. Would I even believe them, even though as an Aquarian I'm not from this planet anyway?  I could totally relate to the sibling who had to take on the caregiver responsibilities without support. I am so glad I took a chance on this one because it was so good overall. It had the perfect balance between scifi and plot that I needed to get back into the genre. 

Thanks to @_mira_books_ and @tlcdiversity for the gifted copy. 

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Are you a budgeter? Are you a “make a general plan and hope for the best” or a “cash envelope, know where it’s all going” kind of person?
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For most of my grown up life I was winging it, but the last 3-4 months we moved to the envelope system and honestly? We don’t hate it. 
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If you’re in the “I do nothing and play the lottery hoping for a miracle”, this is the book for you. Maybe you’ve started, or you want to and are overwhelmed, this book is for you. 
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I’m going to share our journey soon, but you can get a sneak peek on my blog AND read my full review of this book (thank you @tlcbooktours and @thomasnelson for the copy)!
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