About: My May TBR includes 18 books that I want to read in May, including four books by AAPI authors to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month!
(more…)18 Books on My May TBR
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17 Books on My March TBR
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About: My March TBR includes 17 books that I want to read in March. I will finally read Babel by R.F. Kuang and get started on my Diverse Reading Challenge.
(more…)14 New Books: My Hiemal Book Haul
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14 new books make up my Hiemal Book Haul and includes books I’ve purchased from August to November. The most prevalent themes are fantasy and (as always) romance.
(more…)12 New Books: Maytime Book Haul
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12 new books comprise my Maytime book haul! I’m so excited that so many of these books have feminist themes.
(more…)Powerful and Motivational: The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
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The Gist: A powerful book that delves into the oppressive history of modern beauty standards, transforming the meaning of self-love.
Series: Standalone
Release Date: February 9, 2021 (2nd Edition)
Synopsis
A global movement guided by love.
Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.
The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength. As we awaken to our own indoctrinated body shame, we feel inspired to awaken others and to interrupt the systems that perpetuate body shame and oppression against all bodies. When we act from this truth on a global scale, we usher in the transformative opportunity of radical self-love, which is the opportunity for a more just, equitable, and compassionate world–for us all.
Ending
Powerful & Motivational
Representation
• Fat Black queer author
Possible Triggers: No
• No abuse
• No overly sad parts
**Note: the book does talk about racism, fatphobia, homophobia, ableism and eating disorders. I don’t think any were talked about in a triggering way; if I’m wrong please let me know through the comment section or send me an email via my contact page.
• No overly sad parts
**Note: the book does talk about racism, fatphobia, homophobia, ableism and eating disorders. I don’t think any were talked about in a triggering way; if I’m wrong please let me know through the comment section or send me an email via my contact page.
Mature Themes
• Talks about safe-sex
Format: eARC
Rating: 3.75-stars
Note: I received The Body Is Not an Apology through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. My thanks to FSB Association for the opportunity.
(more…)24 New Books: My Primaveral Book Haul
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24 new books comprise my primaveral book haul! I’ve divided the haul into ebooks and physical books, with gems from my favourite genres.
(more…)Book Haul: Nine New Books for December
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My December Book Haul includes both my hardcopy and ebook purchases made since the start of December. The haul totals 9 books (including ebooks). This haul has a mix-mash of books ranging from medical memoirs to feminist nonfiction and romantic comedies.
(more…)The Weekly Wrap: November 16th to November 22nd
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A detailed look at last week’s reading habits: four new books read (one from my Up Next shelf), three new books I want to read centring strong women and explore women’s roles in systems of oppression, a change in my Up Next Shelf progress report and my 2020 reading goal and two new books I can’t wait to start reading!
(more…)Vulnerable and Cathartic: Untamed by Glennon Doyle
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The Gist: An unabashedly honest memoir, comprised of short essays, Glennon draws on her experiences with consciously uncoupling from her husband, parenting her children in a blended-family, marrying her wife, Abby and reconciling her God with religion as an institution, to unpack the varying ways our current societies cage us. The pacing takes a while to find its rhythm; however, the immersive and thought-provoking prose makes the memoir an exceptional and cathartic read.
Series: Standalone
Release Date: March 10, 2020
Synopsis
There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn’t it all supposed to be more beautiful than this?
Four years ago, Glennon Doyle, author, activist and humanitarian, wife and mother of three—was speaking at a conference when a woman entered the room. Glennon looked at her and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. Soon she realized that they came to her from within.
Glennon was finally hearing her own voice—the voice that had been silenced by decades of cultural conditioning, numbing addictions, and institutional allegiances. She vowed to never again abandon herself. She decided to build a life of her own—one based on her individual desire, intuition, and imagination. She would reclaim her true, untamed self.
Ending
HEA
Representation
• F/F main couple
• Author identities as queer
• Author identities as queer
Possible Triggers: Yes
• Bulimia (started at 10 years old)
• Discussion of people (including children) dying of cancer
• Discussion of drug and alcohol addiction
• Discussion of people (including children) dying of cancer
• Discussion of drug and alcohol addiction
Mature Themes
• Discussion of anxiety and depression
• Discussion of infidelity
• Discussion of abortion
• See Possible Triggers for Abuse and OTT sad parts.
• Discussion of infidelity
• Discussion of abortion
• See Possible Triggers for Abuse and OTT sad parts.
Format: Hardcover
Rating: 4.25-stars
(more…)Liberating and Thought-Provoking: How To Get Over A Boy by Chidera Eggerue
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Series: Standalone
Release Date: February 4, 2020
<strong>Synopsis:</strong>
Are you fed up with thinking about that guy every minute of every waking hour, when he doesn’t even reply to your texts?
Are you reeling from the pain of a break-up, unsure of where to turn?
Are you single and looking to be happy with your choices in the face of society’s constant questioning?
In How to Get Over a Boy, bestselling author Chidera Eggerue will show you, once and for all, how to reframe the stale goal of finding a man. She will equip you with tangible and applicable solutions for every part of your dating life, helping you recognize that men hold as much power in our romantic lives as we grant them.
In the past, dating books tend to lean more into the territory of ‘how to make him find you hot!’, ‘how to make him jealous!’, ‘how to get him to propose!’. But these how-tos are placing men on a pedestal of being ‘the prize’. Men are NEVER the prize. You are. Let The Slumflower show you why.
<strong>Ending</strong>
Informative and helpful: provides accessible tools to implement in real-life.
<strong>Representation</strong>
• Black Author
<strong>Possible Triggers:</strong> Yes
Discussion of:
• Physically, emotionally and psychologically abusive relationships
• Gaslighting
• Parental neglect and abandonment
• Physically, emotionally and psychologically abusive relationships
• Gaslighting
• Parental neglect and abandonment
<strong>Mature Themes</strong>
None of Note
• See Possible Triggers for Abuse and OTT sad parts.
• See Possible Triggers for Abuse and OTT sad parts.
Format: Hardcover
Rating: 3.75/5 stars
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