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The Lilac People

Milo Todd

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

On Muscle

Bonnie Tsui

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

The In-Between Bookstore

Edward Underhill

4.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Peggy Orenstein

5.0

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Now I really want to learn how to knit or crochet!

Thanks Peggy for inspiring all of us to be crafty, and conscious of the environmental and human cost of the textile industry.

Awakened

A.E. Osworth

DID NOT FINISH: 37%

I was enjoying the characters & the premise of the story…
But too slow for me & the narration was too confusing.

Marble Hall Murders

Anthony Horowitz

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ander & Santi Were Here

Jonny Garza Villa

5.0

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Ander & Santi’s love story filled me with hope and compassion. Thank you, JGV for another vision of love, justice, and humanity for all BIPOC queer people!

Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights

Ashley Hope Pérez

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

A Shore Thing

Joanna Lowell

4.5

adventurous emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Sweet, uplifting, and nostalgic slow burn Victorian romance between botanist Muriel and trans love interest Kit in 1888 Cornwall, UK.

When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

Alice Hoffman

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

An exquisitely written historical fiction account of Anne Frank (and her family's) life before the diary. Hoffman reminds us to Remember them (all those who perished in the Holocaust) and Remember me (Anne Frank).

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