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It’s March already and this month’s theme is genderqueer women in honour of Women’s History Month.
Orlando by Virginia Wolf
Orlando has been called ‘The longest and most charming love letter in literature’ and it lives up to the name, spanning over three hundred years of immense political and social changes. During a political uprising Orlando, a young man living in the Elizabethan Era, turns into a woman and sees the world change and evolve over the years. The use of irony and farce in Virginia Wolf’s Orlando highlights many of the issues women faced for several centuries leading up to the early 20th century.
We’ll be reading this throughout March, make sure to tag your posts with the hashtag #aborlando
Wandering Son, Vol. 1 by Takako Shimura
This beautiful Japanese Manga follows fifth graders, Shuichi and Yoshion. Shuichi is new at school and befriends Yoshion, but both have a secret. Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino is a girl who wants to be a boy. We follow them as they both question their identities and learn how to be comfortable with their true selves. It is a sweet and loving story about friendship and identity.
Still unsure? Why not try out the first chapter here! Discuss with us and post on social media with the tag #abwandering
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Adultbooklr collectively hit a lot of milestones and discussed some great topics last year - from read alongs to discussions about classics to chats about cats and more, we are so grateful for another year with you. (Although, this “new year’s” post is pretty late, my apologies.)
But beyond Adultbooklr, we wanted input from the readers that make up this group about how they felt 2016 went in the book world. And there were a lot of feelings! JUST AS I LIKE IT. Here are the recommendations (and non-recommendations) that we got in response!
Favorite books published in 2016:
- Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin
- The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
- Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- The Vegetarian by Han Kang
- A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
- A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab
- Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
- Buffering by Hannah Hart
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanathi
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
- What is Not Yours is not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
- Certainly, Possibly, Youby@lissareedbooks
- The Crown by Kiera Cass
- Frogs and Kisses by Shanna Swendson
- The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
- The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
Favorite books read in 2016:
- Possession by A.S. Byatt
- The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
- The Vegetarian by Han Kang
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
- Landline by Rainbow Rowell
- This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
- A Darker Shade of Magicby V.E. Schwab
- Buffering by Hannah Hart
- Every Heart is a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
- Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzenhitsyn
- The NeapolitanSeries by Elena Ferrante
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
- Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of The Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe
Least favorite books read in 2016:
- Into the Dim by Janet B. Taylor
- The Crown by Kiera Cass
- The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
- Rusteloosheidby Ignaas Devisch
- Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan
- TheHush, Hush Series by Becca Fitzpatrick
- A Shadow Bright and Burning by Jessica Cluess
- Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
- The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson
- A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Most anticipated releases of 2017:
- A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab
- Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
- Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han
- If We Were Villainsby@m-l-rio
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
- A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
- Untitled (The Illuminae Files #3) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden
- 27 Hours by Tristina Wright
- The Winds of Winter by George R. R. Martin (hahahahah)
- Untitled (Throne of Glass #6) by Sarah J. Maas
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Look at how many different books made people feel last year! Thank you to everyone who participated. @anassarhenisch,@maegan1116,@monsieurbookshire,@linebetween,@lilathepirate,@leothil,@analyzemyfandom,@mockingjaynfinch,@i-lay-reading,@marielreads,@literatureandotherdemons,@lilyvandersteen,@juan-nieves,@schoolenthusiast,@trelaney, and @slugsgrossmeout!
If you’re interested in any of the books listed above or want to hear more, contact these lovely blogs (all of whom have feelings about some or all of the books listed above) and yell about books together! Community is what we’re all about!
We would love to continue hearing from you guys throughout this year as well! Let us know what you’re gushing over!
How are you enjoying the read along so far? I wanted to start a chain of discussion so we can keep interacting, which is the most fun part of adultbooklr! So I’m going to throw a question out here, and feel free to throw out some questions of your own as well!
To start, in what ways does the race for space parallel the civil rights movement? What kinds of freedoms are being explored in each?
It’s a new month, so we have new read alongs right around the corner!
February is Black History Month, so we are once again celebrating by reading books by authors of color and about people of color.
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson - brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. These women were real, genius, inspirational, and not found in any history books. (Shocker.) It also became a well-received movie just this year. It’s still in theaters so go check it out!
We’ll be reading this one throughout the entire month of February, chatting using #abHiddenFigures across all social media platforms.
Elements: Fire edited by Taneka Stotts
is a comics anthology of 23 stories by creators of color from around the globe. You may remember Stotts from when we celebrated Pride Month by reading her LGBTQ Fantasy comics anthology, Beyond. Back in action, Taneka and her incredible network of artists return with Elements: Fire, stories featuring peaceful warriors, blossoming brujas, godly hackers, and a fire-breathing dragon boy. She says this about her motivation for the project: “We are the main characters of our own stories, not the sidekicks or token characters. This is an anthology that is full of our passions, magic, and inner fire because our diversity is not just a buzzword: it’s our reality!”
You can download the PDF here, and chat with the adultbooklr community about it February 10th-24th (and after, let’s be realistic) on your social media of preference using #abElements
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