April Lashbrook

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Why are there two black helicopters buzzing around downtown Indy for the last 30 minutes?

West With Giraffes West With Giraffes (2021) by Lynda Rutledge was a book club pick, and I’m so glad that it was. It’s based on the true story of two giraffes that arrived in New York City in 1939 after a…

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A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke Don’t let the fact that A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke (publication date February 4, 2025) by Adrianna Herrera is the third in a trilogy stop you from reading it! Herrera has written a nearly…

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Phones are how kids organize. Ban phones, they are alone.

I didn’t get a photo, but I’ve watched Canada geese munching dandelion seed heads also!

We Could Be Rats We Could Be Rats (publication date January 28, 2025) by Emily R. Austin (Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead) is a uniquely-told literary novel about two sisters, Sigrid and Margit, who stil…

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I Think They Love You I Think They Love You (pub. date January 28, 2025) is Julian Winters’ adult rom-com debut, and it’s lovely. Winters has written many YA novels, including Right Where I Left You, which I…

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Call Her Freedom Call Her Freedom (publication day January 21, 2025) by Tara Dorabji is an intense and powerful multi-generational story of a family in the village of Poshkarbal in Kashmir, starting when Aisha is s…

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My Broken Language My Broken Language (2021) by Quiara Alegría Hudes had been on my list for a while, and I’m so glad that I finally listened to this memoir. Hudes, a Pulitzer award-winning playwright, co-autho…

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The Last Bookstore on Earth In The Last Bookstore on Earth (pub. date January 7, 2024), by Lily Braun-Arnold, the immaturity and poor choices made by the narrator indicated that it was clearly for a young adult audience. Neve…

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All the Water in the World I absolutely loved All the Water in the World (pub. date January 7, 2024) by Eiren Caffall! This literary climate story is told from the perspective of Nonie, a 13-year old girl who has lived on th…

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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (2023) by Timothy Egan is described as a “historical thriller” and that is t…

Have you read A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan? Nonfiction that reads like a novel—I reviewed it here. readingwhilefat.com/2024/05/26/a...

The Great Transition The Great Transition (2023) by Nick Fuller Googins is a completely engaging, hopeful climate fiction novel told from the perspective of Emi, a 15-year old living in Nuuk, a city in Greenland, and h…

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Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation (publication day January 1, 2025) edited by Nancy Ellis-Ordway and Tigress Osborn, foreword by Caleb Luna, is the essay coll…

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The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School (2022) by Sonora Reyes is a deserving award-winning (Lambda, National Book Award finalist, Goodreads Choice, among others) young adult book centering o…

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Forgot the alt text: A wall of bookshelves filled with books, some shelved to see the spine and some shelved to see the front; all in brownish earth tones.

Everything I read in 2024 Here is what I read in 2024, so far, in order. If the title has a link, it’s to a review if I wrote one. This will be cross-posted on both Reading While Fat and bbwesquire. I will also do a m…

I read more in 2024 than I have since I’ve been keeping track!
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The Fox Wife The Fox Wife (2024) by Yangsze Choo (The Ghost Bride, The Night Tiger) completely charmed me from the second page with these lines: I exist as either a small canid with thick fur, pointed ears, nea…

I loved it too! It helped me figure out how much I love historical fantasy! readingwhilefat.com/2024/06/09/t...

Death in the Spires Death in the Spires (2024) by K.J. Charles is the third book of hers that I’ve read, and the first mystery. I really enjoyed it! Set primarily at Oxford in 1895/ 1905, the lead character is J…

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“This needs a sticker” said my wife in our house with a library room and stacks of books everywhere!

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store I was thrilled to finally get to read The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (2023) by James McBride, as I’ve loved his writing since reading his memoir The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tr…

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The Jasper-Pulaski refuge in northwest Indiana is a good spot, too. The DNR publishes a count weekly during fall migration.

How to Get a Life in 10 Dates In How to Get a Life in Ten Dates (publication date December 10, 2024), I loved meeting Jenny L. Howe’s newest characters–Haleigh and Jack–who live in the same world with some of …

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The Shutouts The Shutouts (publication date December 3, 2024) is Gabrielle Korn’s second novel and a sequel to Yours For the Taking. I loved it, possibly even more than Yours For the Taking! Give me all o…

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Apartment Women I requested Apartment Women (U.S. publication day December 3, 2024) by Gu Byeong-Mo, translated by Chi-Young Kim, from NetGalley because I really enjoyed her The Old Woman With the Knife, about an …

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Private Rites This is a big publication day–I have three books to review! I’ll spread them out through the day, this is the first one.

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The Fox Wife The Fox Wife (2024) by Yangsze Choo (The Ghost Bride, The Night Tiger) completely charmed me from the second page with these lines: I exist as either a small canid with thick fur, pointed ears, nea…

The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo—my review is here: readingwhilefat.com/2024/06/09/t...