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What book would you say is THE summer read of 2020

What book would you say is THE summer read of 2020? I need recommendations!📚⁠
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Brain candy & eye candy 🤤🍬🍭

Brain candy & eye candy 🤤🍬🍭

You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here is a nos

You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here is a nostalgic coming of age story told through the eyes of Katie, a girl who grew up in a rural Irish town with her small group of friends. ⁠
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Throughout the book, we see Katie turn into a witty protagonist as her voice changes from primary school through high school until college, and how her relationship with her friends - especially bitchy Evelyn and clumsy Maeve - transforms as the years pass. We read about the jealousy, the loyalty, the competition and the love between young girls who don't quite know who they are yet but feel, nonetheless, the need to stick together.⁠
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⁠When Katie finally leaves her hometown and her friends to go to Dublin to study cinema, things don't work out as she hoped they would, and it's the first time we see her struggle after choosing a path of her own, instead of following her friends' footsteps.⁠
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This is a character-driven book about the complex dynamics of friendship, finding one's identity and going after your dreams. It’s a book about growing up and growing out, of both people and places.⁠
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Overall, it was a lovely coming of age story, and I could see a lot of myself in Katie. I loved the evolution of the characters from children to young adults, and the beautiful portrait of rural Ireland. It also gave me some much-appreciated Derry Girls vibes - the quirky conversations, the way they thought about boys, and the whole process of figuring themselves out.⁠
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If you love nostalgic summer reads, then this one is definitely for you 🌸 What's your favorite coming of age book? 📚⁠
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I read this book in two seatings and fell immediat

I read this book in two seatings and fell immediately in love with James Baldwin's writing. If Beale Street Could Talk is a beautiful, heart-wrenching love story about two young black people from the Bronx in the 70s. Soon after Fonny goes to jail for a crime he didn't commit, his girlfriend Tish discovers she's pregnant, and that's when the race to prove his innocence truly begins.⁠
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This book is not only about young love, though: it's also about racism and injustice, and it was revolting to read it at times. It sparked many conversations between me and my boyfriend, who is reading The Nickel Boys right now. It was too easy to find similarities in the stories we were reading, where black young men are unjustly locked up because of the color of their skin.⁠
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But even though it made me feel uncomfortable and heartbroken at times, I loved everything, everything about this book; my favorite books are, after all, the ones that make me feel something. Baldwin's incredible descriptions of people, places and feelings made me feel like I was there, by Tish's side, living and seeing everything as she did. ⁠
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If you're still wondering, I hiighly recommend reading If Beale Street Could Talk, even (especially!) if you're not into "difficult" stories - sometimes we need to read them, and now, more than ever, these voices have to be heard.⁠
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What's one love story you loved to read recently?💕⁠
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What does your perfect Sunday look like, in emojis

What does your perfect Sunday look like, in emojis?🦋⁠
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My perfect Sunday must include brunch 🥞, books 📚, movies or TV shows 📺 (I'm currently watching season 2 of The Politician!) and some kind of outdoor activity, like a walk in the park or going to the beach 🏖.⁠
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Yesterday I started reading Humankind (there will be a review of If Beale Street Could Talk coming soon!), and even though I still have high hopes for it, I can't say those first 4 pages really grabbed my attention 😂 I'm already finding work and random stuff to do so I can avoid the book (but I'll give it a fair chance before even considering DNFing).⁠
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I hope you're having a lovely weekend!💕⁠
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I went to the bookstore for the first time in mont

I went to the bookstore for the first time in months yesterday, and even though I had no plans to buy any books, this is what I brought home with me 🤪 Children of Blood and Bone and The Nickel Boys have both been on my wishlist for a long time, so I had to pick them up!⁠
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I get extremely excited just by looking at the Children of Blood and Bone cover because I miss reading fantasy SO MUCH! I can't remember the last fantasy book I read this year, which means it couldn't have been very good anyway 😂 I can't wait to start this one.⁠
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What was the last fantasy book you read, and was it any good? I'm always looking for recommendations 📚⁠
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I finally finished The Help last night, after week

I finally finished The Help last night, after weeks of being in a reading slump. I bought my copy a few months ago, before George Floyd's death and the most recent BLM protests. For some reason I didn't read this book before that, but I know that if I had, it wouldn't even have crossed my mind that maybe having a white woman write about the lives of black maids in the 50s wasn't ideal. ⁠
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Looking at it from a slightly more enlightened perspective now, it's evident that this was something I should read with a (giant) grain of salt, which is what I did. As much as it was a work of fiction, this book was, like all fiction is, inspired by the writer's real life - and this writer happens to be a white privileged woman from the south, with her own individual experiences that have very little in common with most of the characters she portrays.⁠
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I think it's hard to come to a conclusion about whether this book actually had a positive impact or not - did the writer, being a white woman, actually bring some light to the injustices so many black people experienced? Or did she end up overshadowing melanated voices at the time and promoting the white savior complex?⁠
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Either way, I believe Kathryn Stockett wrote this book with good intentions, as a homage to the maid who was like a mother to her. But do I think you should read it? I don't think you SHOULD read it - I think you could, as long as you keep in mind that this is not, by any means, a book that should go into your anti-racism TBR or teach you anything about what it means to be born black.⁠
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At the end of the day, this is a fictional, heartwarming story about friendship, and I'll take it for what it is. 📚 Have you read The Help? What did you think? ✨⁠
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Things I'm excited about this week:⁠ ⁠ 🍨 ea

Things I'm excited about this week:⁠
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🍨 eating copious amounts of icecream (duh!)⁠
📷 coming back to bookstagram⁠
📚 my copy of Humankind (which was #gifted by @bloomsburypublishing, so thank you!💕).⁠
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Humankind introduces the idea that maybe - just maybe - human beings have been wired, since the beginning of our species, to be cooperative, kind, and to trust each other (a theory that goes against the entrenched idea that we are selfish and self-interested by nature).⁠
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I don't know about you, but this is the kind of positive, hopeful non-fiction I need right now. I tend to always expect the worst from people (just to be safe 😅), and I can't wait to be proven wrong this time!⁠
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Have you read Humankind? What are you looking forward to this week(end)?
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Happy Sunday! I don't have any new pictures to pos

Happy Sunday! I don't have any new pictures to post, but still wanted to update you on a few things 💕
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🌸 I'm still reading The Help (but we're making progress! I'll probably finish it this week after a little reading slump);
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🌸 I've been absent but it's for a good reason: I'm busy working on a bunch of new beautiful things for my business, and I'm verrrry excited about them;
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🌸 I'm going to see my family for the first time this YEAR next week. We don't usually see each other very often but with me going to France for months and then the epidemic, we probably broke a new record this time.
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All this to say I'll probably stay absent for another week, but only time and my creative mood swings will tell 😂 I'd love to know something great that's happened to you recently! 💖

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