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A beautiful emotional coming-of-age story set during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. My last book of the year. #WinterReadathon #Booked2022 @Andrew65 @GHABI4ROSES @DieAReader @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @alisiakae

This is one of my all time favorites and I don‘t think it gets enough love!!

14 year old June loses her beloved uncle to AIDS in the 1980‘s. He‘s the only person who has ever truly understood her. She then develops a friendship with his boyfriend. Love, loss, grief, acceptance… All the feels!! 💚💚

#TBT

Great idea Shawna!!

This was an absolutey beautiful story.
A ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️pick for me.
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#trappedonanisland
@aperfectmjk @Littlewolf1

Started the second book from this month's batch for #trappedonanisland and it is SO good. TGIF because I can't wait to spend the day reading it tomorrow. 🤗
@aperfectmjk @Littlewolf1

I picked this up at my used book store for like $3 and it was worth so much more than that. Such a unique, important, beautifully written story that made me tear up at the end. One my favorites that I‘ve read this year.

More summer reading and wine 😎

OBX vacay

While this is a story of the relationship between a 14 year old girl and her uncle who is a famous artist, it is also the story of the country‘s reaction to the AIDS epidemic in 1987. And then again, it is a story of love and acceptance, and the sacrifices that are made in the name of love. Characters that will touch your heart. Heartbreaking yet hopeful. #pridemonth #booked2022 #mclivingwithaids

Great read for #PrideMonth! It‘s a beautiful book set in the ‘80s about a teenage girl trying to navigate through difficult family dynamics after the loss of her beloved artist uncle to AIDS.

“I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying.”

My current strategy to attack the ridiculous #MtTBR stack is to choose a book that also has an audio available to borrow. I was also looking for a book to celebrate #Pridemonth. This one is my choice.

Picked this up at the used bookstore yesterday. I love summer 😎

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
#Beginswith Home

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#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView
Thank you for the tag, @eggs 🌺 and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🌻
1. I can enjoy either kind of book as long as the writing is good.
2. 🐺

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#GratefulHarvest
Two books with title #Home . Tagged book was a good story about loneliness and friendship. I‘ve enjoyed Tryon‘s ‘The Other‘ and Harvest Home sounds as great.

#LesserKnownBooks
#FallTreasures

LOVE this one!! 💚🖤💚

I've a feeling this book is gonna rip my heart out

#WonderousWednesday @Eggs 🌷
1. I used to read tons of magazines, but I've been focused on books now. I have a huge TBR, and if I don't keep focused I'm never going to get anywhere.
2. Not really, my bestfriend reads but not like me. I'm the book obsessed one.
3. It's a feeling, when a book makes me feel that magic feeling.
4. My doctors. They are amazing.

What a family this is. Narrated by a young girl, we get to know her sister, her mother and her uncle. All well-developed characters and a good story about her navigating all these relationships.

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A little late but finally starting this one for #lmbpc #groupg @shellleigh33 I totally forgot at I hadn‘t read this (this is why I shouldn‘t be in 2 #lmpbc groups lol). Starting it today and will get it in the mail by next week. @staci.reads

I finished Tell the Wolves I‘m Home and just yesterday watched The Normal Heart. One doesn‘t really have anything to do with the other except the time/setting/certain circumstances.

Tell the Wolves I‘m Home is about a 14 year old girl who loses her uncle she loved dearly to AIDS and she ends up developing a relationship with his lover she‘d known nothing about. The Normal Heart is set in NYC in the early 80s at the start of the AIDS crisis.

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I'm so bored, so I'm posting about my favorite fiction - thinking this will be a list of 9 to fit on one post insta. Let's start with Tell the Wolves I'm Home, by Carol Rifka Brunt. It takes place in the eighties and is about June, who is fourteen and ugly and weird, and who just lost her beloved uncle to AIDS. As she is attempting to cope and learn more about him, she meets his long term partner and unravels some family secrets. Wonderful ⬇️

It's a beautiful story, filled with all kinds of complicated relationships. I really enjoyed this one and poured through it quickly. I loved reading your thoughts, Michelle. @shellleigh33 . #lmpbc #groupG @suvata @laurenashley @Jerdencon

Michelle, your book arrived this week! Super excited to read it! And Lauren, Girl, Woman, Other will be going out in the mail tomorrow - hope you enjoy! #LMPBC #groupg @shellleigh33 @laurenashley @Jerdencon

What a lovely, honest novel. I was a few years younger than June in 1986, and my upbringing was quite different, but I relate to her feelings during those pre-AZT, latchkey kid, no cellphone times. And as an adult, I can relate to her parents and their fumbling attempts to do what's right for their children. With its look into relationships, identity, and growing up, this is a book I think my 15yo would appreciate.

It probably doesn't quite count as the cat sitting with me since he didn't choose to join me, just chose not to get up when I joined him, but after almost six weeks with us and no lap sits, I'm taking what I can get.

And I'm really enjoying this book.

Okay #groupG #LMBPC this is the book I have chosen for this round. I am going to go with a green pen for my mark-up color. I hope everyone enjoys it.

@Texreader Thank you so much for everything! I love the book and the cute bookmark you clipped on as well as the magnetic shopping list. And the candy! You ran with the peppermint theme and gave me some new chocolates to try. I‘ve never had them and it‘s so cool they came from Scotland/the UK.

Thank you again so much! You‘re so sweet! Hope you have a wonderful holiday! 😀🎄

#jolabokaflodswap @MaleficentBookDragon

If y‘all aren‘t swapping books on Facebook, you‘re doing it wrong. 🤩

Oh man was this a wonderful book! Captures different types of relationships so well. The writing was great and the story was so heartbreakingly beautiful. A must read! Thank you @DimeryRene for recommending this book to me four years ago 😂

Ok, be warned the #catchup posts are coming! It‘s October 1st, and I just felt super compelled when I woke up to complete my remaining #3books challenge posts (I think this is especially since I was so close to being done). So here are 3 that gave me serious book hangovers! After I finished each of these, I was just like ‘what even is life‘. These #3books really got in my bones!

A little late posting my #3books #setinnewyork but I had to do a little digging and I really enjoyed all of these.

This is my first book on the topic of AIDS/HIV. The uncertainty and the stigma around this disease were both at their peak in the 80s. This book covers multiple sides of what that looked like then.

This book is really a coming of age story for a young girl dealing with grief, loneliness and guilt. Struggling to find common ground with family and understand her adored uncle.

A gorgeous, albeit sad, YA novel.

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1) Tell the Wolves I‘m Home 💚
2) Angie Thomas
3) Taken
4) Taylor Swift 🎼
5) Teardrops on my guitar 🎸

#ManicMonday
#LetterT

Here are my books for #BookSpinBingo in August! I‘m going to use the other five spots as “free” spots, so I can read whatever I feel like. I couldn‘t resist reading a few library books in July, so this month, I‘m going to have those count towards a potential bingo! Can‘t wait for another great month of reading!

Thanks for hosting @TheAromaofBooks!

It‘s 1986 and June is an awkward 14 year old. Her best friend-her uncle Finn-has just died of AIDS. Her older sister seems to be going through a breakdown. And her uncle‘s final wish to her is that she take care of Toby. This is a touching story about love, jealousy and family.

It also gives me my 2nd bingo for #bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

My sister, Greta, and I were having our portrait painted by our uncle Finn that afternoon because he knew he was dying.

#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl

Whooo, sentences like this are why I LOVE being a reader. 😍

So I got off on a rocky start with this one. The beginning started a bit slow before the story started really developing and conflict started happening. The ending tied everything together. It was a tear-jerker, so grab the 🧻

Just a “few” #unforgettable books from my collection ❤️

#BoundTogetherJune

Oh wow... this book is infuriating and heartbreaking and beautiful.

This book was recommended to me by Lynn over @brownbagbooks and her insistence that I was going to love it made me buy it right then and there, but as usual, I was in the middle of other reads and held off on reading it, but it was worth me waiting for the right moment!

It's a coming of age story; it's one of family dynamics, one of first love, young love, self-doubt, rivalry, and once I started to get into it, hard a hard time putting it down!

Today‘s #bookhaul 😁 📚

🎧 well that will teach me that I REALLY need to read summaries ... someone recommended it & I put it on my Libby waitlist. So NOT what I was expecting. I was expecting horror. Nope!! I cried. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️3/4

Love, loss, art, friendship, teenage insecurity: there's lots to like. Still, I think the best thing is the title. Finn is just too good to be true. I get that everyone adores him but the odd minor flaw would make him a more convincing, therefore more interesting, character. I wish CRB had let Danni speak for herself more, rather than relying on characters explaining her to one another. I did like it, but didn't love it as everyone else seems to.

1. Vermont, USA where the temperature went from 90 degrees to 45 degrees in the space of 3 days.
2. Tell the Wolves I‘m Home. A close tie would be Death Comes to the Archbishop. Coincidentally both buddy reads.
3. I‘m not particular but I do hesitate when it‘s over 700 pages.
4. To my tagged friends, care to join?
@veritysalter #lockdownlowdown