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What You Are Looking For is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

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lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 This was a good book. A light-hearted book of interconnecting stories where each character meets the large librarian and her felting ways to get books that change them. It is cute and relaxing to go through this audiobook. I liked how it made me feel happy while reading and interested in each character. Each of them had a narrator for their passage. A downside of the book is the shock of a fat librarian. 
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

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mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

This was not a real fan of.  It is a story within a story.  We have a writer writing about Freddie. a writer who happens to be in the library when someone is murdered.  At eth same time she meets with three others, Cain,  Whits, and Marigold.  Their dynamics throughout the book are nothing to really write home about and the two pairs of insta love just seemed out of place. But the storyline did keep me entertained.  What really happened to me was the interlude with the author of Freddie's story line messaging a guy from Bosten who added nothing to the story.  He comments on each chapter she provides him but it is not like she and he ever meet up, ever takes his suggestion.  Maybe if there was something that connected those segments with the story within a story I could have been more down with it but instead, I am just left disappointed.
Cat + Gamer, Volume 1 by Wataru Nadatani

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lighthearted relaxing
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

 Cat Games

In this cute Manga have our heroine, an obsessive gamer, and her new cat. As she learns to take care of the cat like a character in her game halirity ensues.

I absolutely love the cat and the way it is drawn. The story idea is nice-what happens when a gamer gets a cat. It is a light hearted read that good for a non complex read. 
The Every Body Book: The Lgbtq+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families by Rachel E. Simon

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informative medium-paced

3.0

 
This is a quickie of a read about all the stuff a puberty bound tween. From learning about your body to all inclusive aspects of different families, this guide highlights topics. And I d mean highlights topics.



It's Totally Normal! An LGBTQIA+ Guide to Puberty, Sex, and Gender by Ash Mehta, Monica Gupta Mehta

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informative

3.25

This is a well-thought-out educational material on puberty, sex, and gender.  While the cover says for the queers. In reality, this is a book that anyone who wants to look into the topics can read.  Centered for teens the text breaks down the basics of concepts around a topic that usually gets a general boy/girl-only dynamic.  Being inclusive in the text, having questions from teens answered at the end of each chapter, and drawings to show anatomy, it a well-thought-out book.
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris

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informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

this is a good book for the child to learn about his/her/their body and how it develops.  Informative, in simple means, and easy for middle grade.
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw

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challenging informative reflective

3.0

 
It was just an okay read. Nothing to be stood out as groundbreaking. Be yourself is a major theme but then it is like the last chapter says look like this. Some studies on bi for the stay seem not bi realted but more of that culture of the group. eh, it was written nicely.

 
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor

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slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

Ravensong by TJ Klune

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adventurous emotional funny slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

 This is an excellent follow-up to the first in the series, We folow the witch Gordo of the Bennit pack. And the alphas and Joe and Ox must lead their pack against a new threat.

The audiobook is a long one, about twenty hours and it's a good one. The detail and care Klune takes to show the tethers through the Bennet pack are great. I enjoyed the beginning where we alternate between the 3 years the pack was separated and Gordo's upbringing. It melde nicely and I can see many points that carry through this chunky book.

And my impression of the middle and end carries just like the beginning. A well-fleshed out fantasy world including more elements of Gordo's vision but also not losing how Bennet pack has their individuality. I was laughing at the funny moments. Rooting for the werewolves during the middle and end,

I absolutely enjoyed this novel 
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by A. Scott Duane, Micah Rajunov

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emotional informative medium-paced

3.0

This is a collection of essays written by nonbinary across all gender expressions letting the reader know what it means to be nonbinary, which is different and unique to each individual.  Overall I enjoyed the essays but found some repetitive and unsure how the theme of each section played out in each grouped essay.