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Pride Month...has been quite a chaotic month. So lets see if I can get 30 books within 24 hours posted. Clearly being stuck in the garden of Eden..takes a lot of my time away from my professor duties. Day #2, The Difference Between You and Me byMadeleine George. This novel tells the story of two girls Jesse and Emily. Both characters do rely heavily on stereotypical lesbian and bisexual molds. The book does linger on the line of whether or not to be open and truthful about attractions to others. THe book also ultimately speaks to the point of letting someone go that isn’t good for you. Overall, I enjoyed this book while reading it, looking back it was a bit of an angsty book. On the side of safetly I would recommend this book for teens as the characters are in high school and there is a little bit of lip locking.

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Kanhoji Angre is born to Tukoji Sankhpal, keeper of the Suvarnadurg Fort for Shivaji, emperor of the Marathas. A child of the seas, Kanhoji is as much at home in the turbulent waters of Konkan as in the forts and forests of the Desha mainland.

Becoming Goan is a heartfelt and charming story of Michelle’s love for this land that her grandparents left her. She cares deeply about Goa’s biodiversity and is distraught about the environmental impact of tourism, construction and mining. Her devotion to Mother Earth deepens as she learns more about her roots, steeped as they are in syncretic traditions.

I don’t know wtf @penguinrandomhouse thinks it’s doing with this but they just lost a reader for life. Whether or not they are legally correct, this is deplorable and unacceptable. They claim “The company’s intention with the “No-No Boy” publication “was to increase awareness of John Okada’s remarkable literary legacy.” Bullshit. Where was @penguinrandomhouselibrary when he originally wanted to publish his book? Oh that’s right. Nowhere. Because no one wanted to print this story that needed to be told because the the super white publishing industry was and still is racist as all get. They just care about profiting now that diversity is “trendy” and also because white people have decided that East Asians are white enough for them. Fuck your white supremacy profiteering, @penguinrandomhouse

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