#latinxreadtoo

"Friendship is the sweetest form of love. So when I say, I'll be your friend 'til the end, it's as good as saying I'll keep you in my heart 'til its' very last beat." I participated in @latinxreadtoo #galtinasbookswap and I was so happy to receive this sweet gift from Chantel @chanty224. I have been wanting to read this book for such a long time. You can never have enough bookmarks and sloths are just the cutest. If there is one thing I love about bookstagram is the genuine friendships I have made on this platform. I love and appreciate each and every one of you who has come into my life, entertained my nerdy conversations or just brightened up my day when I needed it the most. I never thought I would connect with such genuine loving, caring human beings. QOTD: What do you love about bookstagram friends? 🏝SYNOPSIS:🏝 Sought-after social media influencer Sara Vance, in recovery from an eating disorder, is coming into her own, with a potential career expansion on the horizon. Despite the good news, her successful siblings (and their perfect spouses) have a way of making her feel like the odd one out. So, when her unreliable boyfriend is a no-show for a Florida family vacation, Sara recruits Luis Navarro—a firefighter paramedic and dive captain willing to play the part of her smitten fiancé . . . Luis’s big Cuban familia has been in Key West for generations, and his quiet strength feeds off the island’s laidback style. Though guarded after a deep betrayal, he’ll always help someone in need—especially a spunky beauty with a surprising knowledge of Spanish curse words. Soon, he and Sara have memorized their “how we met” story and are immersed in family dinners, bike tours, private snorkeling trips . . . sharing secrets, and slow, melting kisses. #Latinxreadtoo #Galtinasbookswap #books #GalentinesDay #bookmark #romancebook #sloths #teainfuser #bookishactivities #bookstagram #bookdragon #LatinxRomance #PriscillaOliveras #IslandAffair #bookdragon #readLatinxbooks #bibliophile #booksaboutlove #bookaddict #ILovebooks #libros #bookswaps #bookish #booklover #BookFeature #LatinxFiction #read #KeyWest #BooksofIG #FloridaBooks (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLSzbD4Awlo/?igshid=5k8guuq5j1k3

Looking forward to this month's selection for @latinxreadtoo book club. SYNOPSIS: First-generation American LatinX Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school. But when family secrets spill out and racism at school ramps up, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand. Fifteen-year-old Liliana is fine, thank you very much. It’s fine that her best friend, Jade, is all caught up in her new boyfriend lately. It’s fine that her inner-city high school is disorganized and underfunded. It’s fine that her father took off again—okay, maybe that isn’t fine, but what is Liliana supposed to do? She’s fifteen! Being left with her increasingly crazy mom? Fine. Her heathen little brothers? Fine, fine, fine. But it turns out Dad did leave one thing behind besides her crazy family. Before he left, he signed Liliana up for a school desegregation program called METCO. And she’s been accepted. Being accepted into METCO, however, isn’t the same as being accepted at her new school. In her old school, Liliana—half-Guatemalan and half-Salvadorian—was part of the majority where almost everyone was a person of color. But now at Westburg, where almost everyone is white, the struggles of being a minority are unavoidable. It becomes clear that the only way to survive is to lighten up—whiten up. And if Dad signed her up for this program, he wouldn’t have just wanted Liliana to survive, he would have wanted her to thrive. So what if Liliana is now going by Lili? So what if she’s acting like she thinks she’s better than her old friends? It’s not a big deal. It’s fine. But then she discovers the gutting truth about her father: He’s not on one of his side trips. And it isn’t that he doesn’t want to come home…he can’t. He’s undocumented and he’s been deported back to Guatemala. Soon, nothing is fine, and Lili has to make a choice: She’s done trying to make her white classmates and teachers feel more comfortable. Done changing who she is, denying her culture and where she came from. They want to know where she’s from, what she’s about? Liliana is ready to tell them. #readlatinxbooks #latinxreadtoo #ownvoices #readersforequality #bookstagram #bookish (at Middle Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEp8r_Tg3Sg/?igshid=t7vvyif98rv2