#authorcrush

So today is April 1… This year is flying by! I’m not sure where March disappeared to… Anyway, March was a spectacular month of reading! I ended up on 15 books which I am super happy about! Such a broad range of reading again, although I didn’t finish all of my personal challenge books. I still have two from Feb and one from March to finish but I’ll aim to get them read later on! That’s the beauty of having my own challenge… I make the rules! . Reviews posted: High Heel, Permission, Show Them A Good Time Reviews to come: Potato, Witch’s Kind, Zero Waste Home, Cygnet Personal Challenge: Hidden Nature, Zero Waste Home, Life in the Garden . ⭐️ @aliceoseman is a star. Her books are absolutely gorgeous. Queer rep, mental health rep, and beautiful, heartfelt writing. Cannot recommend her books enough #authorcrush ❤️ 🧿 City of Brass is just as awesome as fellow bookworms told me it would be! If you haven’t read it, think Aladdin, but WAY cooler! 🎭 The Masked City - a fantasy series about books. Get on it, you know you want to! This is book two and I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book! . I’ll be posting photos of these books in the next few weeks. I’m really going to try and post more! I am so behind on my reviews, even though I’ve read the books AND taken the photos! I really can’t wait to share them all! . What were your favourite reads in March? . #marchwrapup #wrapup #bookstack #shelfie #bookshelfie #bookaddict #booksfordays #bookcommunity #cityofbrass #fantasy #lgbtbooks #bookworm #booknerdigans #bibliophile (at Liverpool) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvukHixnvez/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13s52w6oc5hz8

After listening to my #authorcrush @kieselaymon on episode 118 of @thestackspod talk about #lookbothways by #jasonreynolds I just had to read it. I love #shortstories and these interlocking stories about the different experiences kids have on the way home from the same school were wonderful. It reminds us that everyone experiences the world differently. We lump people together and say things like all middle schoolers experience this, or all Mother’s experience that, or all black experience is the same, but this reminds us that it’s not. We may live in the same neighborhoods, maybe even have similar jobs, go to the same church, go to the same parties, go to the same schools, but so much more affects how we experience and see the world. I think this would be a great book for teachers of middle school + to read, discuss and then write about their own after school or maybe now the experience of distance learning. #bookstagram #bookpodcasts #bookgeek #bookworm #booknerd #bookish #bibliophile #bookaddict #bookaholic #bookaholicsanonymous #bibliotherapy #greatpodcasts #listentoit #bookrecommendations #readersofinstagram #readmorebooks #reading https://www.instagram.com/p/CEpWBttgJwe/?igshid=ao8fib4q7pr3

I feel like something significant happened today. We did our performance and @barnesandnoble book signing at the @hawaiibookmusic festival. It all went very well. I’ll post more pictures about that soon. But during our book signing, our B&N host pointed out Bill Finnegan at the table across from us. There was a constant stream of people wanting to talk to him and buy his book. Emily and I mostly talked to each other. I’m new to surfing so I’d never heard of Bill. Turns out his autobiography won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. - Bill and I chatted and he asked where I surfed. I told him “White Plains”. He said, “Not where you live. Where do you surf?” I explained it’s near Ewa Beach here in Hawaii. He was confused because he thought White Plains in Westchester County (north of Manhattan). Turns out he lives in Manhattan as well. - I bought his book and he signed it. I offered him a copy of our book and asked if I could sign it for him. He graciously accepted my gift. I can’t wait to read his book and he seemed genuinely interested in reading ours. I was flattered. - I hope he and I will have a chance to continue the conversation sometime when we’re both back in Manhattan (or out surfing together somewhere : ) Anyhoo, what an honor to be under the same tent with him. - #authorcrush #authorsofinstagram #surfing #pulitzerprize #babysteps #writing #learning #barnesandnoble #hawaiibookmusic #growing #travel #adventure #fezywig #sevenatsea (at Honolulu, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxEHCFshpQC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1i7xdo2qdsi2x

“Never pass up the chance to be kissing someone. It's the worst.” . @patricknessbooks is THE.BEST.EVER! He just gets it... all of it. His words are magic and his understanding and view of the world is... beautiful. I feel as though he sees beneath the surface, that he understands how people work. Or, how they don’t. Humans are perfectly imperfect... and that’s ok! ❤️ . #authorcrush #patrickness #release #theknifeofneverlettinggo #skyecandles #bookandcandle #yalit #ya #yalover #yabooks #flatlay #flatlaystyle #flatlayoftheday #bookworm #bibliophile #bookish #fullybooked #booklife #booksbooksbooks #booklover #bookgeek #booknerd #lovebooks #instabooks (at Liverpool) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bor81yblzRH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tbc2ztdjk4e1

Oh Dostoevsky, you're so sexy #rexmanningday #authorcrush #bookstagram #readingissexy #russian (at Brown & Dickson)

#igwritersoct #day17 #authorcrush...can't wait to meet @tomfletcher next week!!

Author crushes for #igwritersoct. These people blow me away with the way they give life to characters--they're goddesses basically, using words and pixels and story instead of clay, flesh, and bone. 📖 Also they are extremely talented yet *very cool* humans, so you end up loving them too much to hate them for being way better than you 😉 Their earthly names and my favorite of their works, clockwise from top left: Lora Innes--The Dreamer Taylor Jenkins Reid--One True Loves Shannon Hale--The Goose Girl Noelle Stevenson--Nimona #authorcrush #favoriteauthor #graphicnovelists #novelists #bookrecommendations