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If you want the video version of this post (CLICK HERE) In a shock twist, The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons is part of that list I’ve mentioned in my last two posts where I said that June and July are stacked with things I want to read. And, Mary, let me tell you, everything that I’ve been reading recently has been over three hundred pages, with tiny-ass font, so when I saw that this book came in at just under three hundred pages, and had a normal, human-sized font, I was living . Also, my copy of the book had that good book smell, that I’m not sure how to describe. But it has that smell that books have sometimes. Still, Mr. Blurb Ertlinger on the back of the book says that, “Fifteen-year-old Spencer is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother and a Messi-in-training. He’s also transgender.” I immediately thought, “Okay, wig”, because, if I’m not mistaken, this might be only the second book I’ve read with a transgender protagonist (the other being Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas), an...

  In my last post, I mentioned that June and July were stacked. Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa is another book that was in that line-up, and it’s actually a book that has been on my radar (The Saturdays tease) for quite a long while. I think I initially found out about it on Twitter, because of Julian Winters, another author I follow – whose books you should check out, by the way. So, I’ve been excited to get this for a good long while. Also, if you want the video version of this post (CLICK HERE) My copy of the book didn’t have a blurb on it, so I’ve used the Amazon listing’s description for this section. The listing says this book is a book about coming out, first love, and being your one and only best and true self. We love to see that for one. It then goes on to mention that Juli á n Luna has a plan for his life, which includes graduating, getting into UCLA, and moving away from Corpus Christi, Texas, and the suffocating expectations of others that hav...

I ’m going to start by saying this: June and July are stacked with new books I want to read, so there will be no shortage of stuff coming. It’s just a matter of when I can get through all the books I want to read. Still, the first one on that list is Fin & Rye & Fireflies by Harry Cook which, before I bought it, I didn’t actually realise had a little praise quote on the cover from Abdi Nazemian – which is pretty nifty, considering Nazemian’s book was the last one I read. (Also, do I know why this first paragraph has formatted itself differently to the others? No, and we're not going to question it :)) If you want the video version of this post (CLICK HERE) So, to start, like every other post at this point, the blurb mentions that one minute, Fin is kissing Jesse, and the next he’s being outed. Then his parents do what they think is the right thing, which is move him to a new town. But apparently that didn’t stop him from being who he is, and if he won’t stop, they’ll forc...