I didn’t have a book tag planned for today but after seeing this one on Norrie and Kristin‘s blogs, I really wanted to do it. Sometimes book tags can end up feeling all the same but I liked that these questions were a bit different – so here are my answers!

Sadly I had to put my discussion feature on hiatus for a little bit as I work long hours at the weekends and am usually too tired to post on Sunday evenings (and too disorganized to schedule beforehand!), but it’s back this weekend with something that’s been on my mind a lot over the past month […]

For those who haven’t yet heard or managed to miss any of my previous posts on the topic, May is Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! As part of my ongoing posts throughout the month, I will be recommending some books for AAPI Heritage Month. The first recommendation list focused on Pasifika authors, and this week is focused on […]

Every month I start up with such blogging optimism and planning but it never seems to quite work out how I wanted it to go! I did get 9 books read but 4 of them were graphic novels and only 1 of them was themed around Autism Awareness Month which I didn’t get to review in time […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about hosting this discussion as it’s something that has really, really bothered me over the past few months. As I’m trans I will use specific examples that I’ve seen of reviews by cis reviewers to demonstrate my points! I remember reading a review not long after I started book blogging […]

TITLE: Starfish AUTHOR: Akemi Dawn Bowman SERIES: N/A RELEASED: September 2017; Simon Pulse GENRE: YA Contemporary FORMAT: e-Book KEY INFO: #ownvoice, coming of age, healing, family, romance, artistry REPRESENTATION: bi-racial, female MC, anxiety, survivor CONTENT WARNINGS: anxiety, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, parental racism, suicide attempt amazon // book depository // goodreads

TITLE: Planetfall AUTHOR: Emma Newman SERIES: Planetfall RELEASED: November 2015; Ace/Roc GENRE: Science Fiction FORMAT: e-Book KEY INFO: Founding of a new colony, character-driven, #ownvoice, political secrets, grief REPRESENTATION: bisexual woman MC, anxiety, hoarding disorder, f/f romance, people of colour CONTENT NOTICES: depiction of severe hoarding, forcible public intervention against hoarders will, feelings of shame around hoarding, descriptions of […]

Discussions around #ownvoice authors are not exactly new in the book blogging community. It’s something I’ve seen spoken about quite a lot by other bloggers but is not something that I’d especially given much thought to before. The extent of my thought process around #ownvoice authors had been that I should continue to support them […]