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Lindy
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My latest Friday Reads is up: Friday Reads April 22: What do we expect from endings?
https://youtu.be/h3zFr7--Df8

#DisabilityReadathon; Essays; Poetry;
Queer PoC nonfiction; Canadian literature; Audiobooks; Indigenous theatre; #PictureThis2022 readathon; and Mermaids!

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One for All: A Novel | Lillie Lainoff
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For a few reasons, including that I‘m not at all hip to current YA, it‘s hard for me to judge this book. But I don‘t think I need to: if this story sounds up your alley, I‘d bet it is! One for All is a gender-bent retelling of The Three Musketeers, with not only dueling but dancing; equal parts sword fights and seduction. The central characters are four girls who all have boundless courage, tremendous loyalty, and weapons under their skirts. ⤵️

tenar It‘s also the first novel about a character with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), a common, difficult, and often misdiagnosed illness that affects me, the author, (the audiobook narrator!) and millions worldwide. As the author writes, the teenage protagonist having POTS is the least fantastical element of the story. But never having seen this part of myself on the page, it did feel more than a little magical. #DisabilityReadathon 2y
Kimberlone Fantastic cover! 2y
Christine Sounds great, and thanks for sharing what it means to you. Stacking! :) 2y
tenar @Kimberlone I thought so, too! @Christine Thanks for being interested in what it means to me! I hope you enjoy your time with it! ❤️ 2y
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ncsufoxes
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April #bookspin list, April is also #AutismAcceptance month (this is a shift from Autism Awareness because the majority of people in the Autism community are trying to move away from Autism being seen as a deficit or something that needs to be changed). A friend recommended the tagged book, which I‘m really hoping to read next month. I‘d love to participate in #DisabilityReadathon but not sure how much time I‘ll have.

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
tenar What a great list, I‘m screenshotting it. I‘d like especially to read From the Periphery soon. And one of the prompts for the #DisabilityReadathon is to read a book by an autistic author, so you‘ll get two-for-one! 2y
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Today I have 4 recommendations from my favorite books that fulfill quite a few challenges in April‘s #DisabilityReadathon!

•The group read is Disability Visibility, which contains some of the best disability writing I‘ve ever read.

•A poetry collection, from a deaf author: The Perseverance by Ray Antrobus. Explores biracial identity, a difficult father relationship, & deaf experiences. The most memorable contemporary poetry I‘ve read in a while.

tenar •By an autistic author, middle grade, and from the reading list: A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll. An autistic girl fights for a memorial commemorating women tried as witches in her town. Loved it.

•A book centered on invisible disability: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey, on fatigue, snails, and meaning-making. A post-viral memoir, which I believe is an experience we should all take the time to understand these days.
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Seven Days In June | Tia Williams
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The April #DisabilityReadathon is coming, and I can‘t wait! Link to the official site and unofficial StoryGraph challenge in the comments. The goal is to connect with the voices of disabled creators, however that works for you. #OwnVoices!

The prompts I chose:
•A poetry collection, Beauty Is a Verb.
•About invisible disability, The Invisible Kingdom.
•Written by an autistic author, Diary of a Young Naturalist.
•And a romance, Seven Days in June!

Christine This sounds great - going to check it out! 2y
tenar @Christine Wonderful, I hope you find a fabulous read! P.S. I would‘ve stacked The End of Bias on your recent post, but when I pushed the icon I found I already had it stacked 😅 That shows you had a great review and my TBR is out of control! 2y
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Christine LOL - that so often happens to me, too! My TBR is ridiculous, but I still love adding to it. 2y
ncsufoxes Oh, I would love to do this but my April is looking a little too busy. I‘m going to try because my stack of books related to disability history/justice/stories has continued to grow. 2y
tenar @ncsufoxes I get you; I think my TBR here is more aspirational than I‘d like to admit. I hope you can join the fun, though, and there are prompts on the official site that take less time than reading a complete book, if that helps. But any month is a great month to read on disability! ☺️ 2y
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Allylu
Future Girl | Asphyxia
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This book just feels physically good in my hands. It enlightened me so about what it means to be Deaf and the challenges navigating the hearing world. It was painful to read what she heard and what was actually spoken and what she had to do ALL THE TIME to figure it out. There was also lots of hope. All good things. Everyone should read this! #110 #BookSpinBingo #4 #BFC21 #2 #DisabilityReadathon #SuperSeptember #FallIntoReading

wanderinglynn Sounds like a great read! 3y
EadieB @Allylu Interesting book 📚 I‘m glad I still have good hearing as it must be frustrating trying to figure out what people are saying! 3y
Allylu @EadieB I‘m Deaf in one ear and I sometimes lose conversations, so I kind of get it. I‘m very afraid of losing my hearing in my other ear. BTW the author is also Deaf and didn‘t learn to sign until she was a teenager like the MC. She offers ways to help Deaf people when you encounter them. It‘s very good. 3y
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TheAromaofBooks Great review!! 3y
EadieB @Allylu My husband has bad hearing and I thought he was just tuning me out until he finally got hearing aids. 3y
Allylu @EadieB My husband just got hearing aids, too! Now he has no excuse not to hear me! 3y
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About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times | Peter Catapano, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
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A range of disabled writers share the variety of emotions, from fear to joy, humor to frustration, sparked by their circumstances.

An essay on living with Tourette‘s had me questioning medications not to improve health, but to make a patient palatable to society. ‘Intimacy Without Touch‘ had me in tears at the beauty in being disabled.

When disabled people express themselves, society often covers its ears. This collection is a chance to listen.

tenar Hi Litsy, I‘ve missed you! I‘m back from some of my own challenges with disability and am belatedly reviewing what I read for the #DisabilityReadathon in April. I hope you all have been as well as possible lately 🌼 3y
LeahBergen So nice to see you again! 3y
Amiable Welcome back! 3y
KVanRead Welcome back!! 🤗 Great review! 3y
tenar @LeahBergen @Amiable @KVanRead Thank y‘all! So nice to see all of you (and your books)! 3y
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Allylu
Early Morning Riser | Katherine Heiny
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Read 15 books in April! Still way ahead of where I used to be. Not as much fun as #MiddleGradeMarch, but a successful #YApril in my opinion. I read 9 YA books, finished 5 of the 6 prompts for Spring #BOOKED2021, 3 books for the #DisabilityReadathon and decided to continue reading books with disabled authors or MC each month, read 6 of the 7 prompts for #ThankfulAthon. Also added 15 books to my quest of reading 100 books this year! A good month!

kspenmoll 🙌🏻🙌🏻 3y
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Allylu
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Isn‘t that cover gorgeous? So, this is volume 2 in the Cursebreakers series by Brigid Kemmerer and returning to Emberfall seems like coming home. This one is focused on Gray and he has a problem with an unlikely set of companions to aid him. Lots of adventure, magic, treachery and romance. #100YEARS100BOOKS #56 #BookSpinBingo #23 #BFC21 #SERIES2021 #YApril #5 #DisabilityReadathon #ThankfulAthon #AwesomeApril

TheSpineView Great job! 👍📖 3y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
Andrew65 Wonderful cover. Well done 👏👏👏🙌 3y
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