sara_m_martins's Reviews (334)

Simple illustration style that tells you a bit of the lives of the Brontë sisters during their publishing years. A quick and simple read for anyone to get introduced to the Brontë sisters/Bell brothers. Not sure how much creative liberty was taken with the people and historical moments portrayed, as I am not a connoisseur. 
Good but didn't leave me over the moon

*Thank you Netgalley and Lerner Publishing Group for providing this digital eARC*

I loved this!
Short biographies (1/2 pages) folllowed by a few pages of illustrated novel for a part of each writer's lives, both really well done. I love the head subchapters' illustrations in this! This book serves as a small intro and give ways to further your knowledge! 

The 18 writers chosen are known in classic literature (some more than others), that you'll enjoy reading about even if you (like me) don't know their works. I found their stories really interesting, each with a different and inspiring life story to tell! - also because you have writers with different backgrounds, featuring women of colour and queer women!
Organizing it by theme (3 writers in each) was also a brilliant way to do it; showing how they link to one another (sometimes in their social lives) or what and how much of an impact they had in the world around them/us. 

Thanks to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for the eARC.

TW/ deadname. 
Around page 15 a deadname for a trans character is included... I hope this is removed in the final version. 

Unfortunately this one was not for me.
I was intrigued by the premise, as someone who has never played D&D but has seen a few play-throughs and found those fun, and as someone who is queer.
I really enjoyed the descriptive writing style and also the way the story inside of a story was told. 
I found the tone clashed in the 1st half (sometimes YA sometimes New Adult); the book gets more solid in the 2nd half and i became more invested in the "real-life" plot then.
Other CW: homophobia, religious trauma, mental illness depiction, sexual & violent content.

Thank you to NetGalley and the Iowa University Press for an eARC

This book is not about the AIDS epidemic in the way we are used to. It celebrates as much the lives as it griefs the deaths. As records of personal experience with the AIDS crisis are rare, I find this book would always be important, but it is particularly because “almost exclusively these records have focused on dying rather than surviving”.

While the main event may be the fight of Derek Frost’s partner (Jeremy, called J) with the disease, we are also given the context of their lives around it; another thing that I find sets this book apart. This seemingly off-topic beginning to the book may turn readers away at first, but I encourage you to keep reading. 

We read about the aftermath of this fight: the AidsArk charity (founded by Derek and J); this book was initially a tale about the organization. This book is, I think, the story of AidsArk and the life (of the founders) surrounding it.

There was a bunch of new things I found out still (about AIDS, queer life, and much more), and I find Frost’s takes on queer culture and queer experience important, bringing nuance and alternative.

The chapters at points feel disjointed, but I think it also illustrates what living through that period and experiences was like - after all, think about this: while the first mention of AIDS is at page 60, by page 120 you’ve lost track of the body count. 

This book is a love letter: from Derek to J, to AidsArk, to lost friends, to lost lives, to people still fighting, to Life itself, to Remembrance. 

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.
 

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Algumas partes são mais difíceis de ler, por alguns autores usarem muito mais jargão
Terá interesse tanto para os que estão dentro da investigação científica (algumas coisas marcadas para uso na escrita de projectos no futuro) e construindo ao mesmo tempo bases para pessoas fora da área estarem enquadradas