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Aurora Rising|Book Review

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The Guest List|Book Review

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The Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy|Review

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The Right Swipe|Book Review

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Girl Gone Viral|Book Review

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Eighty Days to Elsewhere|Book Review

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The Sun Down Motel|Book Review

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Sharing my May Reading Wrap-Up. I believe reading is one of the best ways to learn empathy, and it’s also one of the best things for my mental health.⁣ ⁣ June’s TBR looks different, as I put some of my romcoms aside to learn more, listen more, and be better. ⁣ ⁣ Here are the 15 books I read in May (full reviews on my blog, link in bio):⁣ ⁣ ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 3.5 star books: Eighty Days to Elsewhere (ARC)⁣ ⁣ ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 books: ⁣ One of Us is Next⁣ Change Up⁣ Balk⁣ Curveball (ARC)⁣ It’s not Summer without You⁣ We’ll Always Have Summer ⁣ Just Saying (ARC)⁣ ⁣ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 4.5 star books: ⁣ The Guest List (early release) ⁣ ⁣ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5 books: ⁣ The Sun Down Motel⁣ Shatter Me Series (though Imagine Me is a 4)⁣ The Right Swipe⁣ Girl Gone Viral⁣ Aurora Rising ⁣ Day One (a QUARANTINE romance!) ⁣ ⁣ #bookcommunity #reviewsneedlovetoo #bookstagram #bookstagramcommunity #igreads #readersofinstagram #monthlywrapup #readingwrapup #booksharks #netgalley #bookofthemonth #homestandseries #shatterme #dayone #sundownmotel #theguestlist #justsaying #eightydaystoelsewhere #thesummeriturnedpretty #aurorarising #therightswipe #girlgoneviral ⁣
“A revolution has many lanes - be kind to yourself and to others who are traveling in the same direction. Just keep your foot on the gas.” ⁣ ⁣ In attempts to keep my foot on the gas, here are a few of my favorite books by black authors or featuring black characters, and a few that have been added to or moved up on my TBR. If you are looking to add to your own reading, these are all great (or have great reviews). I’ve also added 3 links in my profile that include books by black authors releasing soon, antiracist books for teens, and YA books by or about people of color. ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #amplifyblackvoices #amplifymelanatedvoices #blackfictionwriters #blackfiction #blacklivesmatter #blackauthors #blackcharacters #blackwriters #weneeddiversebooks
This is my classroom, not my usual content. Yesterday was a big, heavy, hard day. It was my daughter’s drive-through preschool graduation, it was the day I was assigned to go in (wearing mask and gloves) to clean my classroom that hasn’t seen students since March 13th, and lock it up for the summer. ⁣ ⁣ And it was #blackouttuesday, and #bookstagram exploded with book recs, reading lists, causes to donate to, and countless posts on how we can all help. Because this community is incredible and focused on doing good. ⁣ ⁣ I have a lot of thoughts, but I don’t have the right words. I can’t pretend to always know what to do or to have done enough, but I’m learning. I’m listening. I’m committed. ⁣ ⁣ One thing I do know is that for the past 7 years my teaching partners and I have been obsessed with bringing high-interest, diverse books to our classrooms. And this video shows a glimpse of the work we’ve done (minus the books my students still have at home). Every #donorschoose project we request (and we have made a LOT) has asked for books to help kids learn empathy, tolerance, acceptance, to celebrate diversity, and to change the world through reading. It is so important that students see themselves mirrored in the characters they read, and that they experience characters completely different than them. That’s something, one thing, I know I’ve done right. ⁣ ⁣ My students have looked to the LGBTQ shelves and have found comfort from an Oreo-eating boy named Simon. They’ve been enraged when Starr’s best friend and Rashad are victims of police brutality. They’ve read Kwame Alexander’s novels in verse again and again, because they thought they were getting away with reading a short book, and came back for more because they loved it so much. They’ve wept as Joseph, an eighth grader like them, tries to find his daughter while living in foster care. Ghost, Patina, Sunny and Lu are close friends of theirs. ⁣ ⁣ This year my 115 students read over a thousand books. In my eyes, that’s a thousand steps in the right direction. ⁣ ⁣ That’s what I’ve done. But that’s not all I’ll do. I promise. ⁣ ⁣ #weneeddiversebooks
QOTD: What was the best book you read in May? ⁣ ⁣ #bookstagramcommunity #bookcommunity #igreads #readersofinstagram #booksharks #bookstack #readersofinstagram #reviewsneedlovetoo
🚀 🌙 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Aurora Rising⁣ ⁣ 𝗦𝗬𝗡𝗢𝗣𝗦𝗜𝗦: Set in space hundreds of years in the future, Alpha, Tyler, accidentally rescues a girl who has been frozen for over 200 years, causing him to miss the draft. The much anticipated draft places graduates into squads when all of their training is done. Tyler was first in his class and should have gotten first pick. Instead he got the bottom of the barrel, a group of misfits and an underwhelming first mission. So they think...⁣ ⁣ 𝗠𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗦: I loved this book! I kept seeing it everywhere and honestly thought I owned it. Didn’t it come in an Owlcrate? I guess not. So, when it was a Kindle deal of the day I downloaded it and started it on a whim. So good! I also kept thinking about how I should finish the books in the 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘦 series, come to find out they’re written by the same authors...get it together, Amanda. Anyway, Squad 312 is made up of 6 awesome characters, each telling their point of view in alternating perspectives, and each witty, strange, and amazing. I loved their connections, their banter, their secret love connections, and their adventures. Spoiler alert (sort of): my skin was literally crawling, goosebumps, chills, and itching when I read the part about the flowery succulents that had taken over the ground, buildings, animals and humans. #Trypophobia is real! I get the same feeling when I see the inside of a pomegranate. So, #midnightsun is going to be a good time for me. Other than that, this book is great and I cannot wait for the next one to arrive! ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ 𝘍𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 (𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘰).⁣ ⁣ #bookblogger #bookblog #bookstagram #books #bookstagrammer #blogger #bookstagramfeatures #bibliophile #booknerd #coffeeandbooks #booksandcoffee #bookstagramfeature #igreads #bookstagramcommunity #readersofinstagram #aurorarising #illuminae #auroraburning #reviewsneedlovetoo #bookcommunity #squad312
Happy Friday!⁣ Went on Twitter for like 3 minutes today and immediately regretted it and remembered why I deleted Facebook and haven’t opened Twitter in months. This #bookstagramcommunity is so unique and positive. It’s our own happy little corner of the internet. ⁣ ⁣ Sometimes it’s easy to focus on followers, likes, and finding the perfect lighting. Today I’m reminding myself to enjoy the friends I’ve met through this platform, to take pictures I like of books I love, and to just enjoy reading. ⁣ ⁣ #bookstagram #igreads #booksharks #bookmarkedbylandmark #readersofinstagram #bookcommunity #coffeeandbooks #theselection #theselectionseries⁣

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