Three incredible things happened this month: Disability Pride Month, my birthday, and I got my dream job working for my favorite book store Powells!!!
Total Number of Books: 14
Total Number of Pages: 4,768
Physical: 7
eBooks: 5
Audiobooks: 3
Favorite (New) Reads of the Month: Joined at the Joints by Marissa Eller AND Echoes Between Us by Katie McGarry
Physical:
You, Me, and Our Heartstrings by Melissa See – ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Conditions of a Heart by Bethany Mangle – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Echoes Between Us by Katie McGarry – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The First Move by Jenny Ireland – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Joined at the Joints by Marissa Eller – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
All of these books were pretty fantastic. This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan was a campion novel to Before I Let Go, and was even better than the first. Though I’m not out here, hanging out with ghosts, I really connected with our main character Veronica in Echoes Between Us by Katie McGarry. She also suffers from a brain tumor and blinding headaches—I feel ya, girl. There’s nothing better than finding someone that shares the same diagnosis as you, which was all too true for our couple in debut Joined at the Joints by Marissa Eller
eBooks:
On the Bright Side by Anna Sortino – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks – ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
In Your Eyes by Molly McCarthy – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
If Only You by Chloe Liese – ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Sing If You Can’t Dance by Alexia Casale – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I love the Bergman Brother’s series so much, but If Only You fell a little flat for me—however, I’m still looking forward to the final book in the series, Only and Forever. On the Bright Side by Anna Sortino was a big standout especially in terms of following along with a character as they are getting diagnosed for the first time and how they are coping in the immediate aftermath.
Audiobooks:
I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I’m Going to Anyway] by Chelsea Devantez – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Disability Intimacy edited by Alice Wong – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Consent by Vanessa Springora – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Memoirs and essays—all fantastic and heartbreaking.
Lindsay Glenne 