#CONTEMPORARY BOOK

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Book Review: Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O’Connell:

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5 out of 5 stars) Review: Wow, I honestly had no idea what to expect because this was 100% a cover buy… I mean look how gorgeous that cover is. But the inside is just as beautiful. I can’t speak for the disability representation in the book, but considering the author also has cerebral palsy, I assume it’s pretty accurate. However, I can speak for the raw emotions and gay…

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RECENSIONE: The love hypothesis - il teorema dell' amore di Ali Hazelwood

Cari Sognatori, Lily ha letto il romance scritto da Ali Hazelwood e pubblicato dalla Sperling & Kupfer!!! Genere: Romance Data di pubblicazione: 21 Giugno 2022 EBOOK / CARTACEO Affiliati Amazon Trama Dottoranda in Biologia, Olive Smith crede nella scienza, non nell’amore. Non le è mai importato granché di avere una relazione e di sicuro non le importa di Jeremy, un ragazzo con cui è uscita un…

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"Letting Go"

Ink on paper.

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Cannupa Hanska Luger, New Myth, Future Technologies, 2021

Dana Claxton, Headdress-Jeneen, 2018

Teresa Baker, Hidatsa Red, 2022

Raven Chacon, For Zitkala Sa Series, 2019

Caroline Monnet, Echoes from a near future, 2022

Marie Watt, Skywalker/Skyscraper (Calling Sky World), 2021

Anna Tsouhlarakis, The Native Guide Project, 2019

Meryl McMaster, Harbourage for a Song, 2019

Marie Watt, Companion Species (Calling Back, Calling Forward), 2021

Staff Pick of the Week

An Indigenous Present proposes that a book can be a space for community engagement through the transcultural gathering of more than sixty contemporary Indigenous and Native artists. Published by BIG NDN Press and Delmonico Books in 2023, An Indigenous Present was conceived of and edited by Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972) over the course of nearly two decades. 

In Gibson’s own words, “An Indigenous Present celebrates the work of visual artists, musicians, poets, choreographers, designers, filmmakers, performance artists, architects, collectives, and writers whose work offers fresh starting lines for Native and Indigenous art. But the book does not attempt comprehensiveness. Rather, those included here are makers I admire, have collaborated with or been inspired by, and who’ve challenged my thinking. . . . These artists and what they make will guide us to Indigenous futurities authored by us in unabashedly Indigenous ways.”  

An Indigenous Present features over 400 pages of color photographs, poetry, essays, and interviews resulting in a stunning visual experience for readers and a shift towards more inclusive art systems. The front cover art shown here is by Canadian artist Caroline Monnet entitled Indigenous Represent. 

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– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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January WRAP UP

Hello darlings, for this month I am doing a wrap up of the readings I made this month. I read 4 lovely books, and I'm very happy with my January readings, I haven't read a "bad taste" book until now.

First, we started with Love On The Brain by Ali Hazelwood. It's a pretty good romance book with good comedy. I believe that from here we can see that Hazelwood has a formula on how to approach a romance book. Can't say it is a bad thing, since the book entertains, however I did find it very weird the assistant side-story. I will leave it at a 4 stars book and wants to keep reading the author, until further notice. The song that I relate to this book is Paralyzed by Big Time Rush. I have my reasons for this choosing, good reasons? Maybe, but I have them.

Have you read the book? What do you think? Would you be reading books by Ali Hazelwood? And what books do you recommend with similar topics?

Next reading was My Secret Friend by Luisa Josefina Hernández. This was a great discovery, and I need someone to talk about this play with. I find this a very fun play to read, with very interesting characters. If I were to see this on scene, I would like it to be a little modernize, just on the dialogues, but the ending was great. 5 stars for me. The song that I relate to this book is Talk by Khalid. Talk is the song my boy, Sitting Bull, would be streaming 24/7.

Have you seen or read this play? Do you know Luisa Josefina Hernández? What plays do you recommend reading?

Third reading was a surprisingly good book. I am talking about Erebos by Ursula Poznanski, and I am stating right now is a 5 stars book. It's a Science Fiction book set in England about children? Teenagers? I honestly don't know their ages, but let's say they are teenagers, that get addicted to a video game. I don't want to say more, since how it unravels is well-written. Please if you find the sequel in english or spanish share it with me. I want more of this amazing world. The song I relate to this book is Belladona by Ava Max. The song tells everything you need to know about the plot.

Have you read this book? What's a book you thought you wouldn't like that you ended up loving? Do you know of a translation in english or spanish?

Finally, we end with Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake. This is a romance comedy book about a woman who hates everyone on her hometown, but a hot milf changes everything. I adore this book, how complex the characters are and how they acknowledge their internal conflict and how does that affect their lives. Amazing character construction. I am excited to read the sequel, and I have a lot of faith for this sage of sapphic romance books. The song I relate to this book is Boyfriend by Dove Cameron. The selection of this song is more because I want Claire, and I will serenade this song every day to her.

Have you read this book and adore it like me that now wants to find their own Claire? Or do you like it normally? What other sapphic books do you recommend?

This is the wrap up for this month. I can't say I will be reading this fast, but I will attempt to finish 40 books this year. Wish me luck!

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The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

NYT Article.

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Q: How many of the 100 have you read? Q: Which ones did you love/hate? Q: What's missing?

Here's the full list.

100. Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson 99. How to Be Both, Ali Smith 98. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett 97. Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward 96. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman 95. Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel 94. On Beauty, Zadie Smith 93. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel 92. The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante 91. The Human Stain, Philip Roth 90. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen 89. The Return, Hisham Matar 88. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 87. Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters 86. Frederick Douglass, David W. Blight 85. Pastoralia, George Saunders 84. The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee 83. When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labutat 82. Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor 81. Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan 80. The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante 79. A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin 78. Septology, Jon Fosse 77. An American Marriage, Tayari Jones 76. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin 75. Exit West, Mohsin Hamid 74. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout 73. The Passage of Power, Robert Caro 72. Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich 71. The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen 70. All Aunt Hagar's Children, Edward P. Jones 69. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander 68. The Friend, Sigrid Nunez 67. Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon 66. We the Animals, Justin Torres 65. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth 64. The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai 63. Veronica, Mary Gaitskill 62. 10:04, Ben Lerner 61. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 60. Heavy, Kiese Laymon 59. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides 58. Stay True, Hua Hsu 57. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich 56. The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner 55. The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright 54. Tenth of December, George Saunders 53. Runaway, Alice Munro 52. Train Dreams, Denis Johnson 51. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson 50. Trust, Hernan Diaz 49. The Vegetarian, Han Kang 48. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi 47. A Mercy, Toni Morrison 46. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt 45. The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson 44. The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin 43. Postwar, Tony Judt 42. A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James 41. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan 40. H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald 39. A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan 38. The Savage Detectives, Roberto Balano 37. The Years, Annie Ernaux 36. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates 35. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel 34. Citizen, Claudia Rankine 33. Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward 32. The Lines of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst 31. White Teeth, Zadie Smith 30. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward 29. The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt 28. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 27. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 26. Atonement, Ian McEwan 25. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 24. The Overstory, Richard Powers 23. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro 22. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo 21. Evicted, Matthew Desmond 20. Erasure, Percival Everett 19. Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe 18. Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders 17. The Sellout, Paul Beatty 16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon 15. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee 14. Outline, Rachel Cusk 13. The Road, Cormac McCarthy 12. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion 11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz 10. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson 9. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro 8. Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald 7. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead 6. 2666, Roberto Bolano 5. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 4. The Known World, Edward P. Jones 3. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel 2. The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson 1. My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante

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Mattias Adolfsson, Black Forest, Book illustration, 2014

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Tropical heat in the north - handmade journal.

Contains 41 pages with my photographs with acrylics, oils and watercolours, some writing and collected ephemera.

Unique piece (only one available)

Dated and signed

If you're interested in purchasing you can drop me a message or email me at janasojkaart@gmail.com

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The stairway doesn't have to be just an unadorned passageway. In this house, it's become a library. While the shelves offer storage, the books become a kind of decoration, visible from upstairs and down.

The Not So Big House - A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live, 1998

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'All for the Game' (Books 1-3) By Nora Sakavic

Rating out of 5: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟(4/5)

Content Warnings: Rape, Torture, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual Content, Drug use, Drug abuse, Violence, Homophobia, Death of parent, Death, Ableism, Murder, Vomit, Car Accident, Child Abuse

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SYNOPSIS:

Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast, he's got a ton of potential—and he's the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butcher.

Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed.

But Neil's not the only one with secrets on the team. One of Neil's new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can't walk away from him a second time. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. Maybe he's finally found someone and something worth fighting for.

PS: I posted only the first books synopsis because the other ones are major spoilers. I used that picture for the covers just because it looks better. But those are books covers available to anyone to purchase here's is their website.

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MY REVIEW:

So, I've recently decided to forgo my current TBR and the ARCs that are desperately waiting for my attention to spend my time reading the "All For The Game" trilogy for the second time so I could brush up on it again before I read The Sunshine Court. All I have to say is that I regret nothing... Okay, maybe I regret some things. But it was totally worth it.

My previous points still stand: Neil is so oblivious, but he's such a prick of a genius, and Andrew deserves the world for everything it took from him. I am so proud of Kevin and the rest of the Foxes for their strength. In a funny way, I sometimes forget they are all fictional. Nora writes characters in such a way that the second read felt like a totally different story and if feels so real. That's an incredibly difficult feat to achieve as a writer. Nora has such a way with words that I can't even put into words—the context, the wordplay, the foreshadowing, and the literary devices used were amazing. I am trying so hard not to spoil anything for other readers, but it's so hard to do. I don't even know how to end this post so I guess I'm leaving it like this. If you want a review with spoilers please check out my website.

PS: I Read the 3rd book in one day both times. I just felt like you needed to know this.

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Santiago Caruso - La condesa sangrienta

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Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao (ARC Review)

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao (ARC Review)

Title: Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor Author: Xiran Jay Zhao Type: Fiction Genre: Middle Grade, Contemporary, LGBTQ Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Date published: May 10, 2022 A complimentary physical copy of this book was kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review. Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was…

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“Beneath the Ocean”

12X20cm, ink and pencil on paper.

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The Pomegranate, Cherry Jeffs 2020

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Illustration from Lady Charlotte Guest's The Mabinogion by Alan Lee (2001)

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my reality: japanese contemporary art (2001)