"And when I told her what the bill did, she was amazed that it wasn't already the law." McBride and I have a lot in common. We grew up in Delaware, went to the same college, and are both part of the greater LGBTQ+ community and I couldn't have been more excited to read her story. Tomorrow Will Be Different exceeded my expectations. McBride shares her long journey starting with finishing her student body president term at AU and describing endless efforts to create a better, safe world for LGBTQ+ people, specifically trans youth. In describing the details and difficulties of politics, while providing a heartfelt personal narrative about love and community and loss, this book transcends party lines. At the heart of it, this is a story about her and Andy and the love they found for each other through and because of their trans identities. It's beautiful, humanizing, and inspiring.

"They didn’t have very far to fall—I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself." The Girls catches you in the beginning, lulls in the middle, but if you stick with it to the end, it will be worth it. It's deep. Much deeper than I was expecting going in and forced me to grapple with my gender, sexuality, and feelings about my identities as a 21 year old woman. Evie is another character you love to hate, but mostly because she probably reminds you of herself.

"Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight." The pinnacle of a YA romance novel, this book was warm and kind and fun. McQuiston provided an escape from the horrors of reality and created two characters who I could fall in love with as they fell in love with each other. Enemies to lovers is a familiar trope, but McQuiston doesn't overdue it, and the way they tell it what makes you invest in Alex and Henry. I hope they're still writing emails to each other when they're physically apart and I hope they live happily ever after.

“All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”

I started this book because of the “This American Life” episode about libraries and become obsessed with Brautigan’s concept of the library right away. But this book surprised me, and I actually fell in love with Vida and the librarian’s love story. I’m surprised by Brautigan’s progressive mind, beyond the fact that the only descriptor of Vida was that she was draw-droppingly gorgeous. Brautigan’s writing style and tone is also my new favorite. An easy, one sitting read if you want it to be. And of course, a book about books is the best type of book out there.