pickThis book was so hard to put down. A truly beautiful story about family, friendship, and relationships. 📻
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pickThis book was so hard to put down. A truly beautiful story about family, friendship, and relationships. 📻
As always, starts out like it could be light hearted and fun but ends up with heavy topics. Teens dealing with their future and what they want, mental health, parental abuse and demisexual rep. This is Aled‘s story, the quiet friend from heartstopper. Very brutal portrayal of true friendship. I‘m
“I‘m sure you think Aled and I will fall in love because he‘s a boy and I‘m a girl but we won‘t. That‘s not what this story is about”
bailedI have a standard 50pages in for my bailing on a physical book. I haven't figured out how long to give a audio yet. But 48 minutes in and I just find the main character and the writing style annoying. I loved Heartstopper and devoured the series (book and TV) but this is my second non graphic novel by Oseman and I have bailed on both, I don't think she is for me, and her GN was a fluke love.
pickBetter than #Solitaire, not as good as #Loveless and miles away from #Heartstopper. It‘s good to know that #AliceOseman improves with every work.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️,5/5
pickI love the way this starts out like a romcom with Frances meeting the maker of the podcast she‘s obsessed with quite by accident. It then becomes a book about friendship, mental health, child abuse, and toxic fandom culture. It was a fun ride. I especially enjoyed having demisexual rep. The fandom references seemed a little dated for teens the year this came out, but that might have been on purpose (or they were popular then in the UK). #LGBTQ
pickParts of this book just FEEL like they were written by someone young, but I'm obsessed with Alice Oseman for writing a book that explicitly says college isn't for everyone and that includes a supportive mom in Mrs. Janvier. So necessary! And I was so engrossed! #yalit
pickThis book made my heart ache in the best way possible. Frances gets good grades, is head girl, and plans to go to Cambridge. She also draws fanart for her favorite podcast Universe City. But no one knows about this secret, quirky side of her. Until she befriends Aled, the quiet shy boy who lives across the street. Who suddenly, accidentally, drunkenly confesses to being the Creator of the podcast, which also needs to remain a secret. ⤵️
Oh my god, this book is such a surprise I had no expectations while I started but as I started reading I was immersed I can't stop reading because it was such a fun ride.
pickPicked this up to try at the library, as I‘d heard great things and am very interested in the author‘s latest novel Loveless—and I loved this. The characters felt so real, and I cared so much about them by the end!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
panThis was one of those books where you wanted to jump up and celebrate when the it was finally over. I felt like there was no plot and hardly anything happen. This book was specified as a mystery on Goodreads, so I was excited for it. But, the mystery aspect doesn‘t come in until you‘re 80% done with reading it. And, I figured out the mystery before they started questioning it. ⬇️
pickI recently read this book online. It was just awesome. It has great mystery, which kept me going. I really liked the bond between the two friends. The book is mostly based on the friendship of Frances Javier and Aled Last. It also portraits the relation between Frances and her mom which I loved very much. This book helped me to slow down and get back to the things going on my life and relationships.
pickI loved this book! It was the perfect way to unwind in the evenings this week. Alice Oseman writes authentically of relationships and representation.
This is the first time I'm reading one of Alice Oseman's books and I can definitely understand the love for her writing now! 👍 I'm also saying goodbye to Mr. Rudolph as I will be putting away the Christmas decorations tomorrow... 🦌
Some popular choices on here coming in quite low 👀 #TheOutsider at no.58 #RadioSilence at no.55 #AristotleandDante at no.51 and a lot of the paranormal/magical books seem to either be down this end of my list or right at the other! 📖 4 ⭐️⭐️‘s and 6 ⭐️⭐️⭐️‘s.
pickSpent my “morning” finishing this (it‘s already half past one, whoops). I really enjoyed the mystery element of the book! The characters were all very vivid and I liked the fact that it focused more on platonic relationships instead of romantic ones. A very nice read!
bailedBailing as it contains animal abuse/death of a pet according to reviews on GR. I‘m not reading that.
Book #8: Finally made use of audiobook lending from the library to listen to on my long quarantine walks! It was cool to read a YA book by an author my age, making this book about teenagers in the early 2010s feel extra nostalgic.
pickCan definitely see why this is such a fave of the bookish Internet! I really appreciated everything this took on, how well done the serious topics were, also how they were balanced w/humor. Friendships felt very real, prob helps that Oseman was so young when she wrote it. Characters were allowed to fuck up w/o BEING fuck-ups, & I sympathized w/all of them. Couple small criticisms, one regarding Carys‘ storyline, but overall really loved it. 4/5 ⭐️
“I think everyone‘s a bit bored with boy-girl romances, anyway,” he said. “I think the world‘s had enough of those, to be honest.”
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Okay I already liked Frances and then I see Kristen Stewart and more to the point NATALIE FUCKIN DORMER on this list and hell yeah. I may be gray-ro/ace but that doesn‘t stop me from having a massive crush on her because Natalie Dormer transcends everything #wifemeup #platonicallyspeaking
Fiiiiiiiinally getting to this one!! I‘ve read 50 pages and am already hooked. That bodes well 😊 #nowreading
so-soI didn't love this one and I really don't understand the hype. I think I am the only one.🤷🏻♀️
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When I was out shopping today, I went to checkout and saw that the young woman at the counter was reading a book. I asked what she was reading, and took a photo to remember it! Sorry, it‘s a poor photo. Checked Goodreads, and very high ratings. Does anyone else ask strangers what they are reading?
pickIts nice to pick up a book and find the meaning so deep. I loved the friendship, mother daughter relationship, trying to find yourself. I loved that it had topics on depression, mental abuse, LGBT representation. I enjoyed this read.
5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
pickEver felt like your lost and wondering even though you had planned out a whole life and executed the perfect things to make that life happen but, now maybe you don't want that life? It's not so easy to adjust especially if your parents push you to do what was the original plan. This book is about the turmoil of adjusting and when maybe your parents can't or won't adjust to whom you really are. It's about unlikely, but perfectly timed friendships.
pickI don't read a lot of contemporary novels anymore, but I have heard good things about this author and decided to check her out. And, it was just the right YA for me. The characters were mature without going out of the realm of believable. They had their stuff to figure out, but it wasn't like a dramatic coming of age book. It was just them figuring life out. Plus, I loved the idea of the podcast. I listed to the audio for this. Recommended!
pickCrying a bit about how absolutely perfect this book was, to be quite honest. A character driven novel about a life changing platonic relationship? Literally the pinnacle of achievement. Just so amazingly good.
My winter wrap up for #booked2019:
1-Little Comfort
2-Strands of Bronze and Gold
3-The Truth About Forever
4-Radio Silence
5-Reluctantly Charmed
6-City of Ghosts
Another good reading month--made some progress with my Goodreads TBR! (Only 2000-some more to get through… 😅
Favorites this month: Radio Silence and The Cruel Prince.
4 Goodreads TBR
3 ebooks
3 library books
2 booked2019
1 physical TBR (owned)
One Dark Throne- 4 ⭐
Strands of Bronze and Gold- 3 ⭐
Radio Silence-5 ⭐
The Cruel Prince- 4 ⭐
#monthlywrapup #februarywrapup #2019reading
pickI really enjoyed this book! Very easy to get into, refreshing, and emotionally hard-hitting. Can't wait to read more by the author.
What I loved:
* The diversity of the characters and how real they were
* Themes about academic pressure, depression, and mental illness that felt genuine and not preachy/cliched
* Frances' relationship with her mom
* The relationships between all the characters
#booked2019 #relatedtoapodcast
Until the Litsy app works on my home WiFi I won‘t be posting. The frustration of having a “working” app suddenly stop working just as you try to post a well thought out post or when you try to tag people is too much.
Since it works on the WiFi at work I‘ll keep checking in to see what you Littens are all up to.
Hoping the bugs are worked out soon because I‘m really missing interacting with you all💔
Yay, March is over. I‘m not sure how I managed these stats, (though possibly 1.8 speed audio definitely helped) pretty happy with them though.
pickAlthough I initially picked up this book because of the fictional podcast that plays an important role in the plot, I kept reading to watch a platonic relationship have an importance and emotional arc that I've only ever seen in romances.
So many long YA books this year outside of spec fic. Going in to another.
pickOh so painfully good. Similar themes to Eliza and her Monsters, in that it involves creating and fandom. But I can‘t even explain it, this is so beautiful. So many dimensions of friendship and school and sexuality and life. Read it. A great #queerbook that deals with more than just gay.
Hey Littens!! The blog has returned after a month long hiatus! Check out what I've been up to at
www.reademandeatblog.wordpress.com
pickBased on the cover, I thought this book was going to be very different than what it was. Regardless, it was an excellent coming of age book about friendship and controlling your own life. I thought the bad mom was a little one dimensional, but I really loved Frances and Raine. Raine is the friend everyone needs. And a YA book where a cheesy love story was not the center of all things made it even better. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My evening read. Cool fall night at last! #nightreads #ya #library #autumnreads
I'm currently listening to Radio Silence on audiobook and I'm loving it a lot more than I thought I was going to! The story is really great and involves a lot of Fandom things, which I obviously love, and I really enjoy the characters. This book definitely has a trigger warning for parental abuse, though.
#radiosilence #aliceoseman #currentlyreading #audiobook
so-soThe stakes in this book seemed a little confusing to me. But the characters were interesting and I followed them to see what would happen next.
