ashleyholstrom's Reviews (1.38k)

Roxane Gay, as always, took my breath away with this collection about Haiti.

✨ From Cozy Weather Time at Crooked Reads.

Nothing I could possibly say could do this book justice. Please listen to it, if you do choose to add it to your list. It’s perfect on audio.

✨ From Cozy Weather Time at Crooked Reads.

Give this book to every menstruator in the world! Nadya opens with her own story of her first period, because the goal of the book is to dispel all discomfort surrounding menstruation, and she CRUSHES it. She also is intentional about removing gender from menstruation: let’s say people who menstruate, not women. Menstrual products, not “feminine hygiene products.” This is a perfect book for young people who menstruate, and really, also young people who don’t menstruate. Period Power is an accessible book chock full o’ information about the culture, history, and privilege that goes along with this most basic of bodily functions.

✨ From Get Your Bleed on: 5 Important Books about Periods and the Best Books We Read in August 2018 at Book Riot. Also Erase This Month, Please at Crooked Reads.

A lovely book about slowing down and enjoying life for what it is and not for what you hope it can be tomorrow, next year, whenever.

✨ From Erase This Month, Please at Crooked Reads.

Alexa and Drew are trapped in an elevator together, they make some witty banter, and then Drew asks her to be his fake girlfriend at a wedding the next day. They have a blast and then things get real steamy. And then things get real real. They can’t stop thinking about each other and are doing the whole long-term relationship thing. I am new to romance, and oh my gosh, this was the best on audio. I was finding ways to sneak more of this book into my life—like taking the long way home or going for walks with my headphones.

✨ From the Best Audiobooks of 2018 at Book Riot and Erase This Month, Please at Crooked Reads.

Perfect. Unputdownable. This felt like my soul in book form, and I am so grateful for that.

✨ From Erase This Month, Please at Crooked Reads.

An epistolary novel told through emails and texts from two best friends on different coasts during their first semester of college? Could this BE any more up my alley? It is perfect and flawed and happy and sad and I ate it up.

✨ From Droopy Days at Crooked Reads.