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The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan: Book Review

3 Stars. I adored Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, the first book in this series. Dash was just enough of a curmudgeon and Lily was a delight. They were quirky together, they had funny friends, and seeing their relationship develop against the backdrop of Christmas in New York was the stuff that holiday rom-coms […]

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Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan: Book Review

4 Stars. I’m not a huge romance reader and even less of a young adult romance reader but I’ve watched my share of rom-coms and this is a rom-com with the cutest of meet cutes. I adored it. And what reader could resist its charms? Dash and Lily’s paths cross when Lily leaves a red notebook with a dare hidden […]

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Check out what I've been reading, reviewing, posti Check out what I've been reading, reviewing, posting, and doing on Introverted Reader in my weekly update for January 19, 2025! Full post at the link in my bio.Book read last week: What You Are Looking For Is In the Library by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison Watts, illustrated by Rohan Eason--4.5 Stars
Run: Book One by John Lewis with Andrew Aydin, ill Run: Book One by John Lewis with Andrew Aydin, illustrated by L. Fury and Nate Powell--Book Review--4 Stars. Full post at the link in my bio.There’s a lot going on here as John Lewis transitions his life story from March to Run. The Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act were finally passed at the end of March: Book Three but that doesn’t mean that the struggle is over.The book feels a little chaotic to me but it’s about a chaotic time and alliances and boundaries are constantly shifting. The Civil Rights Movement has gotten some much-needed laws passed but getting them enforced is proving almost impossible. Some people have moved onto the next logical step–running for office. They encounter variations of the same racist obstacles and road blocks that they’ve been fighting for so long.I keep writing more but this review keeps turning into a summary so I’m going to stop here. Many of us probably believe that once those two acts passed, everything was magically better. I recommend this book to show readers that in some ways, the real fight was just beginning.
Join me on my blog as I analyze my 2024 reading by Join me on my blog as I analyze my 2024 reading by the numbers (with graphs!) and share my favorite books of the year across various genres and target age groups. Find the post at the link in my bio
Read my book review of March: Book Three, a graphi Read my book review of March: Book Three, a graphic novel/memoir by John Lewis with Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell--4.5 Stars. Full review on my blog at the link in my bio.I haven’t yet read Mr. Lewis’s more traditional autobiographies for comparison, but actually seeing the hate and the violence confronting people who just want to be treated like full citizens of their country with equal rights in these graphic memoirs is so powerful.What struck me most as I read this in late 2024 is how a lot of the same racist laws and policies are being enacted again in states across the country, sixty years later (see this article on CNN for an example). The incident that most felt to me like it could be taking place today centered around Black citizens standing in line, trying to register to vote in Selma, on the two days a month that voter registration was allowed.“It was hot, but no one was allowed to leave the line for water or to use the bathroom. Even if they could, the ‘colored’ bathrooms had been locked.”The registrar would take an hours-long lunch and only call in one or two people in the morning and maybe not anyone in the afternoon. But the people kept waiting. The sheriff, Jim Clark, denied the requests of bystanders who asked to provide water to the people in line and threatened to arrest anyone who offered the waiting people assistance, for “molestin’ people trying to register to vote,” the very thing he and his deputies were doing. The hypocrisy would be mind-blowing if it weren’t overshadowed by the murders and the beatings.This volume begins with the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four young Black girls and wraps up around Bloody Sunday, when Mr. Lewis and many others were ruthlessly beaten and tear gassed as they crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma on a peaceful (on their part) march from Selma to Montgomery.It isn’t an easy memoir to read, but it’s a part of our country’s history that needs to be remembered as we honor the sacrifices of so many who fought so hard for their civil rights.
Check out what I've been reading, reviewing, posti Check out what I've been reading, reviewing, posting, and doing on Introverted Reader in my weekly update for January 12, 2025! Full post at the link in my bio.Books read in the past two weeks:Hogfather (Discworld #20) by Terry Pratchett–4 StarsMooncakes by Suzanne Walker, illustrated by Wendy Xu–3.5 StarsWild Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Natural World by Mike Higgins, illustrated by Manuel Bortoletti–4 StarsLumberjanes, Vol. 4: Out of Time by N. D. Stevenson, Grace Ellis, and Shannon Watters, illustrated by Gus A. Allen–4 StarsWe Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults by Susan Kuklin–4 StarsMarch: Book Three by John Lewis with Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell–4.5 StarsSeeing a Large Cat (Amelia Peabody #9) by Elizabeth Peters–4 StarsRun: Book One by John Lewis with Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell and L. Fury–4 Stars
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