“But does a file count as fact? Or isn’t every rendering a lie?” – Sheila O’Connor This novel by Sheila O’Connor, Evidence of V, tells a story of intergenerational trauma driven by the unknown. Growing up, O’Connor came to understand that her mother has trouble connecting emotionally to her children and with time she begins […]
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On November 12, 2001 – 61 days after 9/11 – American Airlines flight 587 going from New York City to Las Americas Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic crashed in Queens. 251 passengers and nine crew members died along with five people on the ground. Because of when it happened people thought it was a
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The Imperfects by Amy Meyerson is a multi-generational novel that features the dysfunctional family of the Millers and a 137-carat diamond. The matriarch of the family, Helen Miller, leaves the Florentine Diamond, an actual lost diamond, to her youngest granddaughter, Beck. Beck, who is closer to Helen, than her mother, Deborah, decides to split
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I’ve spent the past 20 years writing about female sexual health. For the majority of that time, I suspected that I was suffering from some form of female sexual dysfunction, both because of “low” libido levels and because of painful intercourse. The male-dominated medical establishment wasn’t providing any answers. The desire to fix myself drove
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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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Our fiction book of the month is GODS OF JADE AND SHADOW by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and our non-fiction book of the month is FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
If you've already read these picks, have no fear! We have brought in other suggested titles including Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel, Thistlefoot by Gennarose Nethercott, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikkita Gill, and Ask Baba Yaga: Otherwordly Advice for Everyday Troubles by Taisia Kitaiskaia.
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