Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story
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Sweet, funny, and quietly poignant, Debbie Tung’s comics reveal the ups and downs of coming of age...
Introvert INFJ
Waking Up Lost (Adirondack Spirit Series #4)
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Traveling without warning. Nights lost to supernatural journeys. Is one young man fated to wander...
Historical Fiction Fantasy
Dani Capello Shadows of Men
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"An endearing queer couple uplifts this romantic, unique, and occasionally violent tale." - Kirkus...
LGBTQ+ Coming of age literary
The Art of Joy
Anne Milano Appel and Goliarda Sapienza
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Goliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time...
Debbiereadsbook (1197 KP) rated Room For Recovery (Hearts and Health #4) in Books
Mar 22, 2018
This is book 4 in the Hearts and Health series, but you don't need to have read the others first, they are all stand alones.
I don't usually much care for younger main characters; end of high school, beginning of college age; probably because I'm far older than that, but while I KNEW Beau and Wade were that age, it never really sunk in, you know?? I KNEW they were 18 and 19, but they did not SEEM that age.
Wade and Beau have crushed on each other for as long as they can remember, but Wade's coming out led to disastrous consequences, and he doesn't want to admit that he's gay, not to himself, nor to anyone else. Beau, while not fully OUT, certainly aware of what and who he wants. When Beau is attacked, Wade goes all protective and the two get to really know each other.
I can't quite file this book on the warm and fuzzies shelf, like Bedside Manner, because Wade carries a lot of guilt about one thing and another BUT it is a fantastic read. Watching Wade and Beau getting to know each other properly, after being around each other for years, watching Wade deal with his demons, and watching them both fall, and fall far is excellent reading.
Wade pops up in Urgent Care, he is Trent's nephew and Wade is ANGRY at everything and everyone. We get just WHY he is so angry here and its painful reading, listening to Wade deal internally with everything, it really is.
An excellent addition to this series, and it introduces us to Dr Casper Rollins, who has his story next. I look forward to reading it.
5 not quite warm and fuzzie stars, but very nearly.
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The Oberon Book of Comic Monologues for Women
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The Oxford Handbook of Professional Service Firms
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Over the past three decades the Professional Service Firm (PSF) sector has emerged as one of the...
Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir
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A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted land of Kashmir, through a young...
Breath
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Breath is an extraordinary evocation of an adolescence spent resisting complacency, testing one’s...