So, how do you decide what biographies you should pick and choose when it comes to wanting to learn more about women in politics? I’d suggest you start by finding women politicians who align closely with your own morals and personal politics and go from there. While there aren’t a lot of women in politics and we absolutely need more, the few who have made a name for themselves can easily be anyone’s personal hero....
Baseball season is officially underway, so I thought I would round up some baseball related books! I’m really hoping this will be a good season, with players and staff and spectators staying safe during the pandemic. I’m exciting to share these baseball-themed books with you!
All of these queer romance series celebrate queer family in different ways. Some focus on a small group of friends turned family. Some focus on larger queer communities. The characters are as different from each other as the families they build. What these books have in common is their portrayal of queer family as something vital and precious. These novels remind me that our ability to create family on our own terms is one of the great joys of being queer....
What is neurodiversity? According to the National Symposium on Neurodiversity at Syracuse, it is “a concept where neurological differences are to be recognized and respected as any other human variation.” This can include ASD, dyslexia, ADHD, dyscalculia, Tourette syndrome, dyspraxia, and others. This is reflected in my book selection. This list includes a variety of books about neurodiversity: fiction, nonfiction, memoir, parenting, and more. It contains books for adults, teens, and children....
A lot more is written about female friendships than male ones. YA and children’s books are fertile ground for tales of friendship, both when it feels like the greatest thing ever and when it feels like the worst thing ever. But as Shannon Hale writes encouragingly in the author’s note to Real Friends, “Friendship in younger years can be especially hard because our worlds are small…If you haven’t found your ‘group’ yet, hang in there....
1. Castle in the Stars: The Space Race of 1869 by Alex Alice “In search of the mysterious element known as aether, Claire Dulac flew her hot air balloon toward the edge of our stratosphere—and never returned. Her husband, genius engineer Archibald Dulac, is certain that she is forever lost. Her son, Seraphin, still holds out hope. One year after her disappearance, Seraphin and his father are delivered a tantalizing clue: a letter from an unknown sender who claims to have Claire’s lost logbook....
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Collected below are some of the poetry books for kids I’m filling her bookshelves with. I wanted to group these by exact grade like I did with my kid’s fantasy post, but I find poetry’s age groupings to be much more flexible. Instead, I grouped by broad age categories, and even then, it’s easy to cross borders. For parents and teachers, you’re likely to find as much joy in these books as your children and students....
There’s no shortage of more comprehensive lists of comics that explore mental illness. But below are some of the graphic novels and memoirs giving accounts of how it feels to live with a mental illness. Most of these comics about mental illness are at least partly autobiographical, giving the stories a sense of authenticity. Depresso, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Being Bonkers! by Brick This semi-autobiographical account about living with depression is a surprisingly entertaining read....
I’m Not a Plastic Bag by Rachel Hope Allison This short comic starts with the journey of a plastic bag and other plastic items to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. However, the comic manages to bring together humanity’s excess use of plastic, and our desire for connection. An imaginative and magical read. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki While many may know this title from the animated movie, this manga tells the story of a war that subsumed the earth in an environmental disaster....
Thinking about Keanu Reeves, his career, and his self-identification, I couldn’t help but put together a list of “essential reading” for the star. It’s perfect timing for the final days of AAPI month and great if you’re also new to reading Asian authors. So without further ado, here’s five essential reads reflecting Keanu Reeves’s career: Battle Royale by Koushun Takami To reflect all the action/adventure movies Keanu Reeves ever played in (like now-playing John Wick 3), Battle Royale is an essential and amazing action novel....
Nonfiction Books About Revolutions and Uprisings Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Judy Richardson, Betty Garman Robinson, Jean Smith Young, and Dorothy M. Zellner If you ever worry that you don’t know enough about what it was like to work on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement, this book offers 52 perspectives of smart, talented women on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)....
And if you’re looking for great audiobooks to help you celebrate, here are some of my favorite audiobooks by Caribbean women! Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta, Narrated by Ordena Stephens-Thompson In this collection of interconnected short stories, Zalika Reid-Benta features a Jamaican Canadian family struggling to make their way in the world. Through the different stories, we learn more about each of the family members, giving us a beautiful portrait of their experiences....
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New York Times bestselling authors Barry Lyga and Morgan Baden have teamed up for the first time to create a novel that’s gripping, terrifying and more relevant every day. The Hive follows seventeen-year-old Cassie, who, after being “condemned” on social media, is on the run from a deadly state-sanctioned mob seeking to exact IRL punishment. Aided by a shadowy underground network, Cassie becomes an unlikely heroine, as her search for the truth makes her a threat to the entire unjust system....
I found my comfort in books. In the classics, in contemporary releases, in fantasy. But now, as an adult, I have started finding new YA releases, books that came out in just the last few years, that have hit me hard. Books that I needed as a young, anxious, queer teen: books that reflected on my own experiences, and that made me feel seen even now. I recognized myself in those young, anxious, often queer girls, and I wished fervently that I could send a care package of these books back to myself at age 15....
Though CNN started off with classics such as Where The Wild Things Are, The Lorax, and The Giving Tree, here are a few more options. Something Happened In Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, PhD, ABPP; Marietta Collins, PhD; Ann Hazzard, PhD, ABPP; and illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin As two children of different races each question what happened to a Black man shot by police and what follows after, their parents teach them about police brutality and how racism intersects with state violence....
Talking to My Country by Stan Grant (memoir) Stan Grant is an Aboriginal Australian journalist. His memoir reveals what it’s like to be Aboriginal in Australia, a country with racism problems that it prefers to not acknowledge. The Happiest Refugee by Ahn Do (memoir) Given the controversial and somewhat horrific asylum seeker policy adopted by Australia in recent years, I thought it was a good idea to include a book that tells the story of a refugee ‘boat person’....
My nightstand will always have a Very Serious book on it – about refugees or religion or mass incarceration or justice – but I’ve been reminded again lately that I need to counter-balance that intensity with some lighter fare. I’ve written before about how the Shopaholic series taught me to lighten up, but it’s a lesson I need reminding of on a regular basis. Sometimes I need to remember that I’m not Superman or the Savior of the world, and somehow reading lighter books helps me to do that....
Late September 1957. Henry and Effie, young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the town is deserted. Feeling shy of each other and isolated, they decide to cut the trip short. But before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama. The empty beach town becomes their playground, and as they sneak into abandoned summer homes, go sailing, walk naked under the stars, make love, and drink a great deal of gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal, with irrevocable consequences....
