pickApparently, I‘m going through a contemporary romance phase. I saw a review of this book by @LibrarianRyan the other day, and made a snap decision to see if I could find a copy. It was absolutely a pure fluff read about a football player and a librarian who are long time friends. There‘s low drama and an emphasis on body positivity.
#audiobook
A sweet memoir about immigrants from Vietnam pursuing the American dream, with memories, both good and bad, captured in the tastes of food.
In other words... It's “Dreamy steamy“! #FourFoursin24 perfection! 😁
Also book #4 in the #BookChain : title has few words than the last book. #BookSpinBingo : book stacked on Litsy.
This fits several #URC prompts, so we'll see where it ends up eventually.
#Naturalitsy #Midwintersolace #WinterGames
📖 What books do you enjoy this time of year? December is when I read piles of picture books to catch up on the ##URC.
📖 Do you have a preferred genre? Fantasy, queer romance, non-fiction...
📖 Do you have a traditional read? I used to, but then found the author is a bigot.
📖 What would you recommend? The tagged book is never a bad choice.
@TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit @jenniferw88 @Alldebooks
Picture books, the last refuge of the desperate #URC participant. 😂 I really liked this though. It's imaginative and dryly funny and the author had feet on the ground.
Have read this many times and though I'm not thrilled with some of the directions Bujold later took this couple, I still love it.
#URC I actually think I could finish this bingo board entirely this month, except I'm saving two of the prompts for #wintergames .
“What was happening here? Love felt like a gift but she didn't know if she had room for it, where to put it, did she have to get rid of something to make space for it.“
“For me, hope is not a metaphor; it's a lived practice. I don't have hope, I do hope. Hope for me is grounded in the reality that wondrous things happen alongside and parallel to the terrible. Every single day.“
This book was just what I needed to read right now.
For the #URC prompt “an anti-fascist“ book and also my #DoubleSpin choice.
#URC prompt “blind author.“
I was reading There Plant Eyes for this prompt (I wanted fiction but couldn't find anything easily obtainable) and it gave me a yen to read this, a book which is largely a defense of a deaf-blind person's right to use language and have an imagination. You can feel Keller's frustration, even as she tries to maintain a positive outlook -- no one is interested in what she has to say unless it's about her disability.
A poignant middle-grade story that packs a lot into its short pages: grief, friendship, sexual identity, racism, abuse, toxic masculinity, and just a touch of the mystical. It's all so beautifully layered together that it never feels overwrought or didactic.
My first #BookSpinBingo . This would also work for the #URC prompt “Black LGBTQ+ author.“
Gay writes so beautifully about the ways he's found to appreciate life, despite the many factors that feel crushing. His pieces are often rambling and digressive -- with footnotes that are sometimes longer than the essay! -- but repay attention.
#URC
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(Aside: I run the URC every year, but also the MRC, which is only 12 prompts, and the FRC, which is 25. Check them out sometime for next year maybe 😁) 1w