Really enjoyed this one too. Can't wait for the third (well actually I can because I'm choosing to listen to it through our library's downloadable collection and it's a two month wait.) I can do it!

2019 re-read was of the illustrated edition

I think I would have enjoyed this more if I had read all of them in order again before reading this one. Something to remember for next time!

I liked this one. It's a contemporary romance with interesting main characters. One is a Malay Christian born in India, raised in Saudi Arabia going to an all girls boarding school, who then immigrates to Canada with her mother while her father stays behind. The other is Zoroastrian Parsi whose mother died of cancer and has a complicated relationship with his father, a troublemaker trying to reform. I would have liked to learn more about what the Zoroastrian religion is like, but maybe it was fine that there wasn't too much, after all, Christianity doesn't affect my life on the regular. Good.

This book is so good and so hard. Marisol and her sister, Gabi, are on the run from gang violence in El Salvador and have illegally entered the United States. They thought someone would be waiting for them, but there isn't. Marisol agrees to a risky experiment to try to guarantee asylum. Will love happen too?

There's a lot to discuss in this story, and I don't want to share too much because of spoilers. But my heart broke for Marisol over and over again, and yours will too.

I read this for my Smith Book Club, which is doing a talk about Morrison's work in general. I had already read Beloved, so I decided sort of randomly to read this one next (honestly, it was looking at a bunch of those "30 to read by 30" lists and finding a Morrison book listed that wasn't Beloved.) It feels weird to have picked a book about a black man's experience for my women's college alum book group, but I think there is still enough to share and find in common with her other work. I did enjoy it, as Morrison's writing is so beautiful. There were parts that I ended up going to SparkNotes to look at, because I was a bit confused and since I was listening, not looking at the text, I wanted to make sure I was hearing it correctly.

Text is fine, love the color story and most of the illustrations.

A cute story about a worried potato and flamingo.

I read this one almost in one sitting. It's a play on Beauty and the Beast, and it was so fun. Harper has cerebral palsy and her family is struggling in DC, but she's doing the best she can. She gets kidnapped to the world of Emberfell, where she meets Rhen, aka the Beast. He's basically given up on his curse and his people and does the bare minimum of what he can do. Harper comes along and inspires him again. There's an even sorceress, and a trustworthy captain. There's a twist at the end that sets it up nicely for a sequel.

I have not read "A People's History of the United States" by Zinn, but now I want to. This book really opened my eyes to many things I had missed, or had not really thought about, when it came to this history of our country and its indigenous peoples. I follow Dr. Debbie Reese on Twitter and I always think she has interesting and true things to say, and this was just as good. I especially loved the "Consider This" or "Do This" sections to further follow thought trains.