Literature
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Announcement: Disability Book Week and Review of Louie and the Dictator
Disability Book Week begins tomorrow! If you’ve been following my blog, you may have noticed that I have posted several book reviews in advance for Disability Book Week. This is because I was selected to be a panelist for the event and to review books that are good examples of disability representation! Please check out…
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Review: What I Mean When I Say I’m Autistic
In the memoir What I Mean When I Say I’m Autistic, author Annie Kotowicz lays out an incredibly well written description of every aspect of her own life with autism that other people might be interested in knowing about. Kotowicz never claims to speak for all autistic people, but rather states in her introduction that…
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Review: The Truth About Stacey
I started reading The Babysitter’s Club When I was about 6 or 7 years old and it quickly became my favorite series. Many other elder millennials like me have written articles about the impact these books had on their childhoods, and my experience was similarly positive. While Asian-American children had representation in Claudia Kishi and…
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Review: One For All by Lillie Lainoff
I was eager to read One For All as soon as I could because I had heard that it was an #OwnVoices book about a fictional character who has POTS, a heart condition that I also have, and I had not previously heard of any fiction books that featured this disability. As I am also…
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Book Review: Fierce and Delicate
I’ll start by saying that the moment I heard Fierce and Delicate was coming out, I knew I had to read it. I, myself, was a ballet student when I was young, and the experience shaped my whole life, even though I had to quit at a young age. I still have pretty much the…
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Review: Daisy Jones & The Six
In reading others’ reviews of Daisy Jones & The Six, I can’t help but notice that this book is extremely polarizing. You either love it or you hate it. Well, I have a theory about that: I think most of the people who loved it read the audiobook, and those who didn’t love it read…
My Forest Library 