June was my best reading month of 2020 and I have quarantine and the end of the school year to thank for that. My intention for the month of June was to only read books that featured queer characters or were written by queer authors, but there were a few books in there that […]
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An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Listen to this podcast using the player above! Mentioned in this episode: Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West Genres: Contemporary fiction Read if you like: multigenerational family sagas, complicated Black father-daughter relationships, unconditional female friendships Also of note: Tune into our interview with
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“But above all else, I hope Felix can do for even just one reader what Adam did for me: that a reader picks up Felix Ever After and learns more about themselves and their identity, and that becoming who they truly are is a possibility” -Kacen Callender When I am writing this review it is early
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An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Listen to this podcast using the player above! Mentioned in this episode: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Genres: Non-fiction, personal development Read if you like: your therapist and want to know
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An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Listen to this podcast using the player above! Mentioned in this episode: BookRiot reading log This is how I track all my reading! Rules For Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell and Katie Cotugno Genres: Young adult, fiction Read if you like: Gossip
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An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Listen to this podcast using the player above! Mentioned in this episode: BookRiot reading log This is how I track all my reading! We Were Feminists Once: From RiotGrrrls to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler Genres:
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An informal new solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Listen to this podcast using the player above! Mentioned in this episode: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Genres: Historical fiction, Romance, Queer lit Read if you like: to believe that Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss were once in
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An informal new solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Listen to this podcast using the player above! Mentioned in this episode: Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes Genres: Science Fiction, Humor, Space Opera Read if you like: Firefly (TV), Becky Chambers (author), Gods of Jade and Shadow but want more inter-species
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Renee’s top books of 2019 KNOW MY NAME by Chanel Miller I AM YOURS: A SHARED MEMOIR by Reema Zaman (interview) THE STATIONERY SHOP by Marjan Kamali THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO by Christy Lefteri THINGS WE DIDN’T TALK ABOUT WHEN I WAS A GIRL by Jeannie Vanasco A WOMAN IS KNOW MAN by Etaf Rum
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