I was on the storygraph apdating what I am currently reading and noticed that you can browse similar books and that gave me an idea.
That idea is that I will look for similar books of books that I already read. Today recommendations is books similar to “They went left” by Monica Hesse.
Title: They Went Left Author: Monica Hesse Genre: world war 2, historical fiction, fiction, young adult Trigger warnings: war, Holocaust, death of family members, implications of sexual assault against children, mental health, mentions of medical experimentation, grief, antisemitism, assault, PTSD
TW: death, grief, infidelity, abandonment, child death
Evie Thomas doesn’t believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began… and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually. As Evie tries to understand why this is happening, she finds herself at La Brea Dance Studio, learning to waltz, fox-trot, and tango with a boy named X. X is everything that Evie is not: adventurous, passionate, daring. His philosophy is to say yes to everything – including entering a ballroom dance competition with a girl he’s only just met. Falling for X is definitely not what Evie had in mind. If her visions of heartbreak have taught her anything, it’s that no one escapes love unscathed. But as she and X dance around and toward each other, Evie is forced to question all she thought she knew about life and love. In the end, is love worth the risk?
Even through we are already in May I still want to post my review of my favorite books of 2022.
Today review it will be about the book “The Cost of Knowing” by Brittney Morris.
TW: racism, gun violence, hate crime, grief, mental illness, death of a loved one, anxiety, mass shooting
Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus is trying his best. He tries to be the best employee he can be at the local ice cream shop; the best boyfriend he can be to his amazing girlfriend, Talia; the best protector he can be over his little brother, Isaiah. But as much as Alex tries, he often comes up short. It’s hard to for him to be present when every time he touches an object or person, Alex sees into its future. When he touches a scoop, he has a vision of him using it to scoop ice cream. When he touches his car, he sees it years from now, totaled and underwater. When he touches Talia, he sees them at the precipice of breaking up, and that terrifies him. Alex feels these visions are a curse, distracting him, making him anxious and unable to live an ordinary life. And when Alex touches a photo that gives him a vision of his brother’s imminent death, everything changes. With Alex now in a race against time, death, and circumstances, he and Isaiah must grapple with their past, their future, and what it means to be a young Black man in America in the present.
Even through we are already in May I still want to post my review of my favorite books of 2022.
Today review it will be about the book “For All Time” by Shanna Miles.
TW: chronic illness, racism, terminal illness, grief, death
Tamar is a headstrong slave in Mali, a high school junior with a terminal illness on a last-chance trip, a young woman struggling for independence in a segregated train car steaming her toward an arranged marriage. She is a musician, a warrior, a survivor. Fayard is a soldier that must obey all the rules set before him, a charming high school senior who wishes to give his high school sweetheart a promise ring, a lost young man who runs numbers for King Fats in Chicago. He is a con man, a pioneer, a hopeless romantic. Together, Tamar and Fayard have lived a thousand lives, seen the world go through revolutions and civil wars, and have even watched humanity take to the stars. But in each life one thing remains the same: Tamar and Fayard fall in love. Tamar and Fayard fight to be with each other. Tamar and Fayard die. Over and over again until, perhaps at last, they learn what it will take to break the cycle.
Even through we are already in May I still want to post my review of my favorite books of 2022.
Today review it will be about the book “Felix Ever After” by Kacen Callender.
TW: transphobia, deadnaming, bullying, homophobia, outing, hate crime, drug use, racism, emotional abuse, gaslighting, body shaming, mental illness…
Felix Love has never been in love — and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many — Black, queer, and transgender — to ever get his own happily-ever-after. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle… But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.
Today I want to share my favorite quotes of “Girls Burn Brighter” by Shobha Rao. I read this book last year and the story and the characters are still on my mind.
You can find this amazing book on Scribd. If you use my link you will have two free months and I will have one free month for every person.
Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them: they are poor, they are ambitious, and they are girls. After her mother’s death, Poornima has very little kindness in her life. She is left to care for her siblings until her father can find her a suitable match. So when Savitha enters their household, Poornima is intrigued by the joyful, independent-minded girl. Suddenly their Indian village doesn’t feel quite so claustrophobic, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond arranged marriage. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend.
Elisabeth Fritzl was held captive for 24 years, confined to a homemade dungeon and tormented by her own father, Josef Fritzl. A dungeon just 20 feet below their family home.
Today I want to share some documentaries recommendations that you can watch on youtube. In this list I will talk about 9 full length documentaries that you can watch on youtube.
This documentaries have topics that can be triggering for some people and I suggest that you should read the sinopse before watching it.
I AM ANA DUARTE 