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TELL ME TUESDAY is a floating feature, depending on your reading style, where you tell us what you read last, what you are reading now, what you will be reading next, and why.
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I am curious why people read what they read, so tell me!
ONE BOOK A WEEK
In 2025 my goal is to continue to keep my reading down to one book a week.
MONTHLY THEMES
My March reading theme was women authors for Women's History Month.
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My April theme was Celebrate Diversity Month; concentrating on books with characters who have physical disabilities, or intellectual/developmental disabilities other than autism.
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My May theme is Asian American and Pacific Islanders Month.
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This is two and a half months worth of reading. After returning from my hospital stay I have been thoroughly unmotivated. My last blog post was at the end of March.
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MEMOIR
BLACK VOICES
BLACK HISTORY
Published 1942 - Own Ebook
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My second book for Woman's History Month. It was marvelous! I'd say it would be perfect for Black History Month, also.
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LITERARY FICTION
LITERARY FICTION
STANDALONE
IRELAND
HISTORICAL FICTION
IRISH CULTURE
FAMILY
Published 2010 - Libby Borrow
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I try to read one book either about Irish Americans, or set in Ireland in March. This book was an interesting read. It's by the same author who wrote Small Things Like These, which is on my NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century reading list. I guess this also counts for Women's History Month.
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CHICK LIT
STANDALONE
CONTEMPORARY BLACK CULTURE
BLACK HISTORY
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Published January 2025 - Libby Borrow
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My fourth title for Women's History Month. This was not Literary Fiction like the author's previous novel, Black Cake, which was disappointing to me. There was too much standard romance in it. However, I understood what the author was doing. She was swinging back and forth between typical romance fare and what I call "Upper Chick Lit"; writing lightly tickling the depth of Literary Fiction. This way she was reaching more readers with her message of diversity, and Black history lessons than with Literary Fiction. I respected this approach, and loved the Upper Chick Lit with Black history content so much it was still a four star read for me. That being said... I still hope she goes back to full on Literary Fiction for her next book.
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YOUNG ADULT?
WICKED PREQUEL
FANTASY
OZ RETELLING
WITCHES
Published March 2025 - Edelweiss DRC
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Unexpectedly this story was very much a Young Adult coming of age story, after all the other The Wicked Years titles being dark adult fiction (Literary Fiction in my opinion), with graphic sex, violence, and heavy political elements. Which is going to confuse parents and teens even more thinking Wicked with its: beastiality, orgies, and graphic violence is Young Adult. The new Wicked movie tie-in cover has some parents buying it for preteens. Good grief. These books aren't fluffy like the musical and movie adaptations.
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"MIDDLE GRADE"
STANDALONE
CONTEMPORARY
FRIENDS & FAMILY
FILIPINO CULTURE
Published 2015 - Own Ebook
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My first book for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. I had to hop over to Edelweiss to make sure this was published as Middle Grade (ages 7/8-12) and not Young Adult because there is a lot of sexual tension between these twelve year olds and innuendo. I hate the sexualization of preteens in MG. There's no reason for it. I'm reading a similar YA right now, about high school juniors that has way less sexual content than this MG.
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LITERARY FICTION
STANDALONE
CONTEMPORARY
HISTORICAL FICTION
VIETNAMESE CULTURE
IMMIGRATION
LGBTQ
Published 2019 - Own Paperback
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The writing is exquisite! It was for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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YOUNG ADULT
STANDALONE
REALISTIC CONTEMPORARY
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Published 2021 - aOwn Ebook
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This was a HUGE corn and cheese fest. It was supposed to be a title for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, but other than it being mentioned his family was Filipino there was nothing else. The racism element was based on his brown skin, not his ethnicity.
MIDDLE GRADE
CLASSIC
FAIRYTALE
Published 1883 - Own Ebook
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Patti Smith, the Godmother of Punk Rock, was showing her childhood copy of Pinocchio on Substack and I realized I had never read it. Seeing that I started a Patti Smith reads shelf on Goodreads, for titles she mentions reading in her own books and those she has mentions on Instagram and Substack, I decided to read it now. I looked on Libby and my library only has an "updated" edition, whatever that means, so I went to look at Kindle books because many times they have free and ninety-nine cent classics. I saw that this edition is the original version, and it's annotated. Readers were raving about it, so against my personal policy of not paying more than $1.99 for an ebook, I caved and paid $2.99.
YOUNG ADULT
SERIES NUMBER THREE
FANTASY
Publishes July 8th 2025 - Publisher ARC
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Intisar is one of my favorite authors. I was over-the-moon happy to be given a review copy.
MARCH READING WRAP-UP
(I will be posting April's wrap-up next week)
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BOOKS READ
THREE
ARCS
NONE
PHYSICAL BOOKS
NONE
EBOOKS
THREE
AUDIOBOOKS
NONE
MANGA - GRAPHIC NOVELS - COMICS
NONE
MIDDLE GRADE
NONE
YOUNG ADULT
NONE
ADULT FICTION
TWO
NONFICTION
ONE
RE-READS
NONE
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2025
YEAR TO DATE TOTALS
BOOKS READ
14
(not counting April)
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NONFICTION 5/6
MIDDLE GRADE 1/12
NATIVE AMERICAN/FIRST NATIONS AUTHORS 1/4
MUSIC 0/4
PLAYS 0/4
BACKLIST ARCS 0/4
CLASSICS 0/6
RE-READS 0/4
FREEBIES/99¢ KINDLE BOOKS 0/4
NYT 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST 2/4
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MIDDLE GRADE - 1
YOUNG ADULT - 2
ADULT FICTION - 6
NONFICTION - 5
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GRAPHIC NOVELS/MANGA - 0
AUDIOBOOKS - 3
EBOOKS - 11
PHYSICAL COPIES - 0
BORROWED - 8
ARCS - 0
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