LAST. NOW. NEXT.
NUMBER THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX
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 from your tbr pile, and why. I am curious why people read what they read, so tell me!
2022 A YEAR OF BLACK AND NATIVE AMERICAN AUTHORS
★★★
(2.5)
ADULT LIT
STANDALONE
REALISTIC CONTEMPORARY
RELATIONSHIPS
THE HUMAN CONDITION
"LGBTQ"
Published 2020 - Own Ebook
Remember how I said I was loving this book on my last TMT, well that changed. All the wonderful descriptions of the MC's surroundings faded away and it basically turned into an S&M story. It also included several derogatory gay stereotypes. I will be removing it from my LGBTQ Goodreads shelf for the negative representations.
★★★★★
(4.5)
MIDDLE GRADE
DUOLOGY BOOK TWO
REALISTIC CONTEMPORARY
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Published March 15th 2022 - Edelweiss ARC
Stacey from Eleven Thirteen PM once covered a book event with a panel of YA writers and one of the authors had recently published a Middle Grade book. She was asked, and I wish I could remember the author's name, if there was much of a difference in writing MG versus Young Adult. She said the difference was in MG the main characters are trying to find their place among family and friends/acquaintances, and in YA they are trying to find their place in the world. To me this is the perfect explanation of Middle Grade, and this book was a perfect example. It was all about friends, family, and school acquaintances. The MC's good intentions were being misunderstood on a few occasions and the story focused on talking things out, and taking into consideration others' feelings. Something many grown people on Twitter could use a few lessons in, too! It had two of my favorite types of relationships in children's stories: friendships with senior citizens, and mixed gender groups of best friends.
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This book was one of the exceptions to my Black and Native American authors challenge rule because it was an ARC from a favorite author.
★★★★
(3.5)
ADULT LIT
ANTHOLOGY
CONTEMPORARY FICTION
HAWAII
LGBTQ
Published 2013 - Own Ebook
The last story in this collection was amazing. It saved the book from being a three star (2.5).
NONFICTION
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
NATIVE HAWAIIAN POLYNESIAN HISTORY
Published 1898 - Hoopla Borrow
This was the first book I started for Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders Heritage Month. It's boring, that's why I'm still reading it; I can only read it in small doses. It's a lot of listing similar names, and confusing who married whom talk. When she travels there are no descriptions of her surroundings, only accounts of whom she went with and why, and what type of transportation they took. One thing that frustrates me is when people die she never gives the reason; especially when they are young.
ADULT LIT
DUOLOGY BOOK ONE
HISTORICAL FICTION
HAWAII
Published 2003 - Hoopla Borrow
This novel isn't by a native author, but it is highly regarded by native Hawaiians. Seeing that I am finding it difficult to find titles that interest me, I'm breaking my Own Voices rule for the sake of Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders Heritage Month. I am excited to read this book because I was obsessed with leprosy and Kalaupapa, the quarantined leprosy settlement on the island of Moloka'i, in fifth and sixth grade; infact... I think my obsession started the summer before fifth grade, so that would be 9-11 years old. I had thought it was a weird obsession for a child all these years, but when someone on Twitter asked about childhood obsessions there were quite a few of us!
Win a stack of Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders Heritage Month reads!
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