Currently Reading:
Favorites:
White Nights By Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.75/5 I really liked it BUT GOD THIS GUY IS LONELY
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Just Our Luck by Julia Walton
5/5 It shows anxiety and the feeling of having so much care and love but misplacing it and feeling horrible about it. I really connected with most of the characters. It helped me accept my anxiety and started my love for crochet. A wonderful book.
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A Million Ways Home by Dianna Dorsi Winget
5.5/5 This was the first book I truly fell in love with. I felt so much connection with the character, her resilience and her story. It taught me to care about what happened to me.
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The Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman
6/5 Always my favorite series, I love how they explore death, immortality and humanity
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The Whispers by Greg Howard
5/5 Emotional, shows real trauma and memory repression and explored family death in a very accurate way that I connected with. Also what I felt to be a very realistic gay-youth story, that shows the real trauma and mistakes with trying to be loved when you dont feel worthy
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This Place Is Still Beautiful by XiXi Tian
5/5 Talks about racism and family conflict in a really raw way and is beautifully written
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Suicide Notes by Mucheal Thomas Ford
4.75/5 This book really stuck with me and changed how I viewed mental health and hospitals; it ultimately lead me to get help
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The Land of Forgotten Girls
5/5 It shows childhood abuse, neglect and poverty in a real way. Its full of hope, resilience and grief. I really connected with this book
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Each Little Bird that Sings by Aurora County
5/5 Shows family death and trauma really realistically; nothing goes right for this character and I connected with that.
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Rules By Cynthia Lord
4/5 I connect with both the autistic brother and the older sister set to take care of him; I like the story I connected with the yearning and desperation for connection
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
4.5/5 I really connected with the main character and her hope and resilience. It shows childhood abuse, poverty, food insecurity and neglect very realistically.
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Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
5/5 Adventurous, lighthearted, and shows the humanity in death. Changed how I view animal death forever.
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You Go First By Erin Entrada Kelly
4.5/5 An amazing book showed anxiety and divorce in a realistic way and I felt alot of connection to the characters as they explored their world falling apart around them.
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The War That Saved my Life/The War That I finally won by Kimberly Burbaker Bradely
5/5 Full of hope and resilience. Shows what it's like to grow up in an abusive household with a disability realistically and what it's like when you finally learn you are loveable/get help.
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We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly
5/5 I love the connection and dynamic between all the characters. This book really stuck with me as the family navigates inner conflict and the grief that comes with it.
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Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare
4/5 A classic that started my love for Shakespeare.
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The Twenty–One Balloons by William Pene Du Bois
5/5 A fantastical children's story. It's wonderfully written and engaging. The world is built amazingly.
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The Dragon of Lonely Isle by Rebecca Rupp
5/5 Another fantastical children's story. I love how it's written, the characters and the world they explore
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
3.9/5 It was okay; how the characters acted infuriated me at times but I love the overall symbolism
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
4.75/5 A great classic
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Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
3.25/5 I hated the main character, and I didnt think their explanation/showing of childhood trauma was accurate and it kind of ruined it for me
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Classroom of The Elite (1-4) by Syougo Kinugasa
3/5 I like the outsmarting troupe but it got repetitive
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Percy Jackson (books 1-5) by Rick Riordan
4/5 They really good or I might have just been 13 when I read these
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Heartstopper (1-5) By Alice Oseman
4.5/5 Beautifully written realistic, they just make me unexplainably sad to read, which isnt the author's fault
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
5/5 I love the feeling of hope and strength throughout the book
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