The Girl From Aleppo by Nujeen Mustafa with Christina Lamb
“Your homeland is not a hotel you can check out of if the service is bad” The Girl from Aleppo is a memoir about a teenager with a disability, and…
Fire Within by Ella M. Lee
“Your heartbeat calls to me like lightning calls to distant thunder” Being a skeptic of finding well-written fantasy, I become a complete sucker when I find a good one. I…
Master of Crows by Grace Draven
“A man with clear sight into his own soul will always make a wise decision.” When Martise of Asher is given the opportunity to free herself from slavery in exchange…
June/July Update
Time passes pretty quickly, and I feel like the past 2 months have been especially fast! (see my previous April/May update post to catch up) I’d have thought living in…
Say Hello by Carly Findlay
“Why is it more important to defend yourself from accusations of ableism than to listen to my story of experiencing it?” Say Hello is an important book if you’re going…
The Fire In The Glass by Jacquelyn Benson
“We do it because we’re the only ones who understand what it’s like to know the impossible things” Lily Allbright has been haunted all her life by visions of the…
Disability in Conversation | Awkward Encounters of the Ableist Kind
Having a visible disability means that sometimes when I meet strangers they’re very keen to talk about disability, and something that they know about it. For the most part, I…
By The Light of Embers by Shaylin Gandhi
I always love it when a book surprises me. I picked up By The Light of Embers a bit hesitant about whether or not I’d enjoy it, I left it…
Sissy by Jacob Tobia
“But here’s the remarkable thing about self-love: When you start to love yourself for the first time, when you start to truly embrace who you are—flaws and all—your scars start…
Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
“Loving someone was traumatizing. You never knew what would happen to them out there in the world. Everything precious was also vulnerable.” Penny is awkward, beginning college away from home,…