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Let’s just get this out the way first: I’m a big crybaby. My friends and family actually call it when they expect me to cry and I rarely disappoint. I cried at the closing pages of this graphic novel. This two volume series is so sweet and poignant that I know this would be something I can read over and over again to find something new in it. This volume delves in deeper about how homosexuality is viewed in Japan and how many secrets and unexpressed emotions and thoughts separate us from each other. I flew through this one and now wish I had slowed down to savor each page because now the story is over and I’m left to my imagination to fill in the rest. Have you cried over a book or fictional characters recently?

I had an unofficial goal to read at least 12 romances this year. I actually had this on my TBR but I picked it up at the library because I was truly into this cover. Also, a black doctorate who lived through tragic circumstances and has amazing friends??!!? Really enjoying it so far. Do you have any unofficial reading goals you are trying to finish up as we head into the home stretch?

I have this friend is so incredibly smart and funny and a massive reader. Whenever we talk about books I’m left with new thoughts and the feeling I really should have paid attention to Philosophy both when he tried to teach me some in college and in the KBCC Saturday class that I’m pretty sure I slept through everytime. If that friend was a woman born in England maybe that comes to close how I feel about Zadie Smith. She’s just someone I think honestly tries to get close to some ideal inside of herself and trying to make art to chase a thought or feeling. She also has this (seemingly) unshakable sense of self. Also, I just love the way she writes. Also, anyone she says she’s read, I’ll go read because I’m curious what she enjoyed about it. Also, also Mira Jacobs is a great interviewer and I want to hear her speak more - she had some great questions. It felt like a good conversation between two friends and a hilarious one at that. Lastly, I say I would want to take Zadie Smith’s class at NYU but honestly I would fail because I would give up on life if she read something I wrote and hated it. #readwoc2019

I picked my @yasofthemonth for October - Full Disclosure by Camryn Garrett. I picked it for three reasons: @lupita.reads was a selector for yabotm and she picked this one The premise of a romance of a young black girl against the backdrop of a illness that has so much stigma against it (I used to be an AIDS Peer Ed Advocate in college) The cover! Something about the cover just drew me in and made me want to learn about this novel. I’m still really excited for yabotm - although I follow a lot of book bloggers who review and talk YA, I want to make sure I’m opening my eyes to all the different YA out there, the same way I do with all other genres. Are you reading any YA this month? Let me know below and of course, if you are interested in getting a @yasofthemonth membership of your own or you are just curious, check out the link in my bio and remember that for October you can use the code PSL5 at checkout for a sweet discount!

I have book luck! Can you believe this hold already came in??? @bknyfinest1 and I smelled this book on Saturday and here it is in my hands right now! I did a little dance of joy and am hugging this book so tight right now ❤️ What was the last book that made you do a little dance?

Book recommendations are hard! I’ll always take a book recommendations and I always intend to read them but there are a few people who recommend books that I’ll make a super intentional action to get the book. One of those people was super into this one...I’ll give you one guess who it was 😜 Can’t believe this hold came in so fast (thank you @bklynlibrary) and I’m ready to set the spooky moody for October... Who are the people in your life that you run out and actually read what they recommend?? Happy Monday and last day of September! 🍁

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