Tag: IreadYA

Depression in Who Put This Song On?

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Books featuring teenage characters with depression are nothing new. A lot of us have read Ellen Hopkins’ Impulse or Patricia McCormick’s Cut. There are of course more recent young adult

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Who Put This Song On? | Morgan Parker

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Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker Delacorte Press, 2019, 336 pages Trigger warnings: Sex, drug use, alcohol, racism, homophobia, mental illness (anxiety and depression), mention of suicidal ideation

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“The Beauty of Introspection”|A Poem

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This poem was inspired by something I feel most teenagers and young adults deal with at some point in their lives. It’s a complex feeling of wanting to be so

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Little Free Libraries

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Walking through Tucson is like starting a new book; you get to have a brand-new adventure and experience each time you walk the streets, unsure of what treasures are to

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Pet | Awaeke Emezi

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Pet by Awaeke Emezi Make Me a World (Penguin Random House), 2019, 208 pages Trigger Warnings: Blood, implied child abuse About the Author: Akwaeke Emezi makes their young adult debut

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BookCon and Book People

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As a book-lover, story-connoisseur, novel-pusher… as a book person, I’ve wanted to attend BookCon for years. Since first hearing about it on BookTube, I’ve daydreamed about the panels, the signings,

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