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the--art--of--reading · 2 years

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book review | A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions

Author: Sheena Boekweg

Cover Art: Sofia Bonati

Cover Design: Trisha Previte

Genre: YA Fiction, Historical Fiction, YA Romance

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐(like a 3.75?)

Behind every powerful man is a trained woman, and behind every trained woman is the Society. It started with tea parties and matchmaking, but is now a countrywide secret. Gossips pass messages in recipes, Spinsters train to fight, and women work together to grant safety to abused women and children. The Society is more than oaths—it is sisterhood and purpose. In 1926, seventeen-year-old Elsie is dropped off in a new city with four other teenage girls. All of them have trained together since childhood to become the Wife of a powerful man. But when they learn that their next target is earmarked to become President, their mission becomes more than just an assignment; this is a chance at the most powerful position in the Society. All they have to do is make one man fall in love with them first.

Goodness, this was an interesting book. I’ve read a couple of ‘girls compete for a powerful man’s heart’ novels, told from the perspective of the ambitious, outlier protagonist, but this was so different and so refreshing. The worldbuilding was well done with the society’s motives and structure developed throughout the book, rather than all at once. I absolutely loved the dynamic between the main 5 characters, with Mira being my favorite (more on that later). There was some drama, which kept it realistic, but not so much that it felt like a reality tv show.

I also adored the ace rep! One of the character’s coming out as (questioning) ace/aro meant a lot -- early on, I could sort of tell that we were going to get some kind of big coming out moment from one of the characters, but seeing it written out on the page was so nice. Platonic and non-physical romantic relationships are just as valid :)

There were things that bothered me, but they don’t break this book. I would’ve liked to see more POC rep instead of just a passing reference. Sometimes, the whole 1927 atmosphere was lost on me -- it could’ve passed for any post-war time period. The ending was satisfying, although I wish this book was a teeny bit longer to help with the pacing -- after the climax everything felt a little rushed and underdeveloped. However, I do think Boekweg did a wonderful job in telling the empowering story she set out to write and readers looking for a women-centered novel with an intriguing twist will appreciate this read...I’m keeping an eye out for her novels in the future!

For the book cover/design, I give this a 5/5. I love the visual contrasts between the main figure and the background and the colors are just as bold as our main character. The interior design was also really fun, I loved the illustrations and the vintage adverts. Definitely one of my favorite covers from this year!

#book review #books & libraries #reading #books and reading #book cover #YA Books #ya fiction #diversity in ya #feminism #acerep #historical fiction #booklr #book lover #goodreads #a sisterhood of secret ambitions #sheena boekweg #sofia bonati #trisha previte

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urmomreadsbooks · 1 year

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books I've read in 2023 so far:

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg: I loved this book. It's very feminist and I liked how Elsie didn't really end up with anyone at the end. Also trans and aspec representation, I will love Mira with all my heart because I feel her-9/10

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo: AGH. I loved this book. It's not only about lesbian awakening but it talks about the red scare and space travel and I loved all of it.-9/10

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham: this one's nonfiction, I enjoyed it but it had a lot of technical terms in it that I didn't really understand. It read like a novel for the most part though, I liked it.-7/10

It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano- I felt obligated to read this one because it's about a flute player in a marching band, and I'm a flute player in a marching band. I wasn't a huge fan at first but I ended up really liking it.-8/10

#book blog #A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions #last night at the telegraph club #Midnight in Chernobyl #It Sounds like this

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the-final-sentence · 2 years

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And I'm enough.

Sheena Boekweg, from “Weightless”

#Sheena Boekweg #Weightless

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2021ya · 4 years

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A SISTERHOOD OF SECRET AMBITIONS

by Sheena Boekweg

(Feiwel & Friends, 6/1/21)

9781250770981

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A teen girl, backed by a secret society of powerful women, competes to make an 18-year-old future President fall in love with her in Sheena Boekweg's compelling new YA novel, A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions. Behind every powerful man is a trained woman, and behind every trained woman is the Society. It started with tea parties and matchmaking, but is now a countrywide secret. Gossips pass messages in recipes, Spinsters train to fight, and women work together to grant safety to abused women and children. The Society is more than oaths—it is sisterhood and purpose. In 1926, seventeen-year-old Elsie is dropped off in a new city with four other teenage girls. All of them have trained together since childhood to become the Wife of a powerful man. But when they learn that their next target is earmarked to become President, their mission becomes more than just an assignment; this is a chance at the most powerful position in the Society. All they have to do is make one man fall in love with them first.

#orange covers #illustrated covers #sheena boekweg #boekweg #feiwel & friends #macmillan #june #jun 1 #historical #1920s #romance #floral covers #fat mc

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2020ya · 5 years

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GLITCH KINGDOM

by Sheena Boekweg

(Feiwel & Friends, 2/18/20)

9781250209795

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The teenage daughter of an executioner and the traitorous prince she can't kill must reluctantly join forces to dethrone a paranoid queen after discovering they are trapped in a video game in Sheena Boekweg's fast-paced YA debut, Glitch Kingdom...

Ryo was the golden boy, the prankster prince, but with one stroke of a pen he has lost everything. Dagney and Grigfen were happy as minor members of the court, but when their father, the king's executioner, is branded a traitor, they each must deal in death in order to survive.. McKenna, queen of the enemy realm, has inherited a mission of conquest by assassination, but worries she's not up to the role.

But behind the crowns and masks hides a secret... All of these teens are actually players in the newest, shiniest, most immersive virtual reality video game, competing against each other for a highly coveted internship with a prestigious game developer.

But now this life-changing opportunity has suddenly become a deadly trap. A glitch in the software has locked the players inside the game, and they'll need to escape before the fantasy world corrupts around them. The only way out is to win.

#sheena boekweg #macmillan #feiwel and friends #february 2020 #feb 18 2020 #science fiction #stem #royalty #vr #gaming #boekweg #purple covers #glitch kingdom

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bookaddict24-7 · 3 years

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New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (June 1st, 2021)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon

An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi

The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

Speak for Yourself by Lana Wood Johnson

The Coming Storm by Regina M. Hansen

The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver

Simone Breaks All the Rules by Debbie Rigaud

Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June

The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon

The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

The In Between by Marc Klein

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

One Great Lie by Deb Caletti

The Pack by Lisi Harrison

The Love Song of Ivy K. Harlowe by Hannah Moskowitz

We Are Inevitable by Gayle Forman

The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin

The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

Strange Creatures by Phoebe North

Gamora & Nebula: Sisters in Arm by Mackenzi Lee & Jenny Frison

Curse of the Specter Queen by Jenny Elder Moke

The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott

Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous by Suzanne Park

For the Wolf by Hannah F. Whitten

14 Ways to Die by Vincent Ralph

Never Kiss Your Roommate by Philline Harms

The (Un)Popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez

Better Together by Christine Riccio

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

A Night Twice As Long by Andrew Simonet

Trouble Girls by Julia Lynn Rubin

New Sequels:

A Chorus Rises (A Song Below Water #2) by Bethany C. Morrow

Grace & Glory (The Harbinger #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

The City of Zirdai (Archives of the Invisible Sword #2) by Maria V. Snyder

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Happy reading!

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2021 Anthologies

YA short story and non-fiction anthologies are being published more and more and as I teacher I am here for it. With the call for more diverse texts in classrooms, anthologies provide a perfect bite sized work of literature that can be digested in one class setting. Here are but a few of the anthologies that came out in 2021.

Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon

Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark. A summer heatwave blankets New York City in darkness. But as the city is thrown into confusion, a different kind of electricity sparks… A first meeting. Long-time friends. Bitter exes. And maybe the beginning of something new. When the lights go out, people reveal hidden truths. Love blossoms, friendship transforms, and new possibilities take flight.

Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed by Saracia Fennell (editor)

In Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, writers from across the Latinx diaspora interrogate the different myths and stereotypes about this rich and diverse community. From immigration to sexuality, music to language, and more, these personal essays and poems are essential additions to the cultural conversation, sure to inspire hope and spark dialogue. Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed features bestselling and award-winning authors as well as new, up-and-coming voices, including: Elizabeth Acevedo Cristina Arreola Ingrid Rojas Contreras Naima Coster Natasha Diaz Kahlil Haywood Zakiya Jamal Janel Martinez Jasminne Mendez Meg Medina Mark Oshiro Julian Randall Lilliam Rivera Ibi Zoboi

Every Body Shines: Sixteen Stories About Living Fabulously Fat by Cassandra Newbould (Editor)

An intersectional, feminist YA anthology from some of today's most exciting voices across a span of genres, all celebrating body diversity and fat acceptance through short stories.

Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space, and bodies looking and feeling beautiful. They express themselves through fashion, sports and other physical pursuits, through food, and music, and art. They are flirting and falling in love. They are loving to themselves and one another. With stories that feature fat main characters starring in a multitude of stories and genres, and written by authors who live these lives too, this is truly a unique collection that shows fat young people the representation they deserve.

With a foreword by Aubry Gordon, creator of Your Fat Friend, and with stories by:

Nafiza Azad, Chris Baron, Sheena Boekweg, Linda Camacho, Kelly deVos, Alex Gino, Claire Kann, amanda lovelace, Hillary Monahan, Cassandra Newbould, Francina Simone, Rebecca Sky, Monique Gray Smith, Renée Watson, Catherine Adel West, Jennifer Yen

Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in American by Margarita Longoria (Editor)

Twenty stand-alone short stories, essays, poems, and more from celebrated and award-winning authors make up this YA anthology that explores the Mexican American experience. With works by Francisco X. Stork, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, David Bowles, Rubén Degollado, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, Diana López, Xavier Garza, Trinidad Gonzales, Alex Temblador, Aida Salazar, Lupe Ruiz-Flores, Sylvia Sanchez Garza, Dominic Carrillo, Angela Cervantes, Carolyn Dee Flores, René Saldaña Jr., Laura Perez, Justine Narro, Daniel García Ordáz, and Anna Meriano.

In this mixed-media collection of short stories, personal essays, poetry, and comics, this celebrated group of authors share the borders they have crossed, the struggles they have pushed through, and the two cultures they continue to navigate as Mexican American.

Living Beyond Borders is at once an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and hopeful love letter from the Mexican American community to today’s young readers.

#weneeddiversebooks #Anthologies

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Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)

Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs

The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz

Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella

Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull

A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero

Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall

Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald

Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)

Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood

Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore

Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

The White Mouse by Nancy Wake

Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden

Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles

The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle

Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova

The Women of WWII (Fiction)

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky

Night Witches by Mirren Hogan

Night Witch by S.J. McCormack

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein

Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

All-Girl Teams (Fiction)

The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley

Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones

Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti

Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

Feminist Retellings

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Doomed by Laura Pohl

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke

The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs

Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Women and Girls in Comedy

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot

Bossypants by Tina Fey

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen

The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields

Trans Women

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Nemesis series by April Daniels

American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

George by Alex Gino

The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña

Wandering Son by Takako Shimura

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Feminist Poetry

Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill

The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

Feminist Philosophy and Facts

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen

The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey

#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)

Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)

You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand

Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness

The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis

Pulp by Robin Talley

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

American Girls by Alison Umminger

Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Sula by Toni Morrison

Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis

The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel

Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza

Puddin' by Julie Murphy

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

The Prettiest by Brigit Young

Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder

The Roommate by Rosie Danan

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan

Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin

Please feel free to reblog with more!

#book list #feminism #girl power

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quietya · 3 years

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31 Days of quietYA: YA Sci-Fi

Sci-Fi is one of my favorite genres and it never gets enough love or support. Sci-fi is such a broad genre and there’s really something for everyone within it - aliens, space, romance, parallel universes, cloning, murder mysteries, dystopian, plagues, robots, zombies. Whatever your favorite thing is, 2020′s YA sci-fi has a book for you.

Skywatchers by Carrie Arcos Glitch Kingdom by Sheena Boekweg Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer Oasis by Katya de Becerra The Stars We Steal by Alexa Donne The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow The Art of Saving the World by Corinne Duyvis Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland Goddess in the Machine by Lara Beth Johnson The Other Side of the Sky by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus Skyhunter by Marie Lu Agnes at the End of the World by Kelly McWilliams Sanctuary by Paola Mendoza and Abby Sher Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy The Loop by Ben Oliver Girls Save the World in This One by Ash Parsons Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds Rebelwing by Andrea Tang All These Monsters by Amy Tintera Hard Wired by Len Vlahos

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Is 6% of the total income gained by a book that is published online a fair deal?

Ashley MacKenzie: Six percent of total income, or of total net profit? Is it an e-book only offer? The lack of details makes this difficult to answer.

Michael Mammay: That's a ridiculously low amount if you wrote the book. If you're a short story in an anthology, that's much more reasonable. E book only rates range from 25% of receipts (big-5) to 50% (some small presses) to 70% (Self-pubbed on Amazon with a price of $1.99 or higher)

Margaret Owen: Yeah, I agree, and the way it’s phrased as “total income gained” is also a red flag to me. That seems to leave room for non-standard parts of the calculation — e.g. refusing to pay royalties until the book’s sales pay for its marketing budget. Royalties should be presented as a percentage of sales, end of story.

Jim O'Donnell: Crazy. Amazon gives 70 or 75% of digital sales and the lowest I’ve seen from publishers on digital sales is 25%, and I want to emphasize that is the low end. This questioner dude (ambiguously-gendered-dude) needs to come up with a creative way to say no (dude is a writer, they should be able to come up with something witty) then report the publisher to Predators and Editors.

Elle Jauffret: 1) “Total income” is too vague to answer that question. Royalties should be calculated on gross/net revenues, price per unit, or fixed amount (there can be variations including minimum sale amount, etc...). 2) Is the writer the book’s originator/creator or the book’s ghost writer?3) Was an advance given?4) Best way to know is to check the standard contracts from recognized publishers (when/if available) and/or to talk to an attorney.

Sheena Boekweg: Scaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam. Run away.

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quietya · 3 years

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31 Days of quietYA: The Books Your Mod Wishes She Got To

I always have big plans for my reading each year. And this year, especially, part of me thought I’d really have a big year what with the being stuck at home thing. But brains aren’t that simple. And some books I just didn’t get my hands on early enough. So here’s a list of all the 2020 releases I really wanted to pick up this year and....didn’t (I’m not gonna include sequels though because....yikes).

All links go to Bookshop.org. If you purchase through those links, I make a small commission at no extra cost to you AND you’re supporting indie bookstores around the US.

Hunted by the Sky by Tanaz Bhathena Glitch Kingdom by Sheena Boekweg We Are Not Free by Traci Chee The Art of Saving the World by Corinne Duyvis Ruinsong by Julia Ember Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong A Love Hate Thing by Whitney D. Grandison My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows The Glare by Margot Harrison The Silence of Bones by June Hur The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska This is My America by Kim Johnson The Other Side of the Sky by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner Thorn by Intisar Khanani Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner The Boy in the Red Dress by Kristin Lambert Anna K by Jenny Lee Skyhunter by Marie Lu Heiress Apparently by Diana Ma Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez This is How We Fly by Anna Meriano A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp The Sullivan Sisters by Kathryn Ormsbee Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston Don’t Call the Wolf by Aleksandra Ross Sisters of Sword and Song by Rebecca Ross Rebelwing by Andrea Tang Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters

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EVERY BODY SHINES

SIXTEEN STORIES ABOUT LIVING FABULOUSLY FAT

edited by Cassandra Newbould

(Bloomsbury, 6/8/21 5/11/21)

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An intersectional, feminist YA anthology from some of today's most exciting voices across a span of genres, all celebrating body diversity and fat acceptance through short stories. Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space, and bodies looking and feeling beautiful. They express themselves through fashion, sports and other physical pursuits, through food, and music, and art. They are flirting and falling in love. They are loving to themselves and one another. With stories that feature fat main characters starring in a multitude of stories and genres, and written by authors who live these lives too, this is truly a unique collection that shows fat young people the representation they deserve. With a foreword by Aubry Gordon, creator of Your Fat Friend, and with stories by: Nafiza Azad, Chris Baron, Sheena Boekweg, Linda Camacho, Kelly deVos, Alex Gino, Claire Kann, amanda lovelace, Hillary Monahan, Cassandra Newbould, Francina Simone, Rebecca Sky, Monique Gray Smith, Renée Watson, Catherine Adel West, Jennifer Yen

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New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (February 18th, 2020) ___

Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know! ___

New Standalones/First in a Series:

The Blossom & the Firefly by Sherri L. Smith

Break the Fall by Jennifer Iacopelli

The Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid by Kate Hattemer

Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin

Glitch Kingdom by Sheena Boekweg

Miss You Love You Hate You by Abby Sher

Of Curses & Kisses by Sandhya Menon

Solstice by Lorence Alison

The Upside of Falling by Alex Light

With a Star in My Hand by Margarita Engle

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New Sequels:

The Life Below (The Final Six #2) by Alexandra Monir

An Outcast & An Ally (A Soldier & A Liar #2) by Caitlin Lochner (This is the release date of the Kindle Edition.)

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Happy reading!

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How do you build romantic chemistry between two characters without making their relationship seem choppy?

Kat Hinkel: Banter? (Beatrice and Benedick for lifeeeeee) And then perhaps they each surprise the other by going against an assumption they made about each other

Laura Creedle: Banter with surprising arcane knowledge. When you mention something fairly obscure in conversation, and random other not only knows what you are talking about, but is two steps ahead of you—very sexy. Kind of librarian sexy.

Sheena Boekweg: I think the best way to build romantic tension is to create two characters who are perfect for each other (with similarities that set them apart from the rest of the world, plus differences which make them fill each other's needs) and then add a conflict which keeps them apart. Add banter, proximity, and allow the characters to grow.

Rebecca McLaughlin: This is so important! The best way for romantic tension to actually be real tension is to have it at direct odds with the plot/conflict. Who doesn't love banter during a high action scene at the most inconvenient times?

Tracy Gold: One thing I've been working on is remembering that both characters should show attraction to each other. That's a lot easier to do in dual POV projects, but it was a real struggle for me in a single POV project. I am a fan of a POV character noticing body language or a nickname and totally misinterpreting it, leaving the readers going "that other character totally likes the MC!"

Michael Mammay: I can't write it. But my favorite chemistry moments in TV and movies are where there is banter, and also where it's kind of equal. Like both of them get the upper hand at different times.

Alison Rutter Miller: Wow. Tough question! About the best advice I have to offer is to read a lot. Doesn't have to be specifically romance, but I tend to find that the romance I like to read about is the kind I tend to write.

Kelly Garcia: Lots of questions here... I think the most important moment is the meet-cute. I think the meet-cute is best when there's enough information provided that the reader sees how the hero and heroine would be a good match. Often, this is simply showing these two characters have Xenia (good will) which is more important than six pack abs and a hot, little body. The meet-cute also has to build a set-up (problems, wounds, etc.) that is sufficiently strong and clear to make it seem it is impossible for the couple to get together.

I prefer it when the wall between the couple is so great, the couple doesn't recognize they make a good match. I agree to a degree with some of the comments about banter, but I think for a romance to work, an author needs to use it sparingly, especially at first. If not, it's like hitting the reader over the head the couple is supposed to be together and then there's no tension. It has to be sprinkled in with internal thoughts and chaos from the outside world.

Which authors write the best meet-cutes? There are so many fantastic ones, but I think one of the reasons Jane Austen has persisted for hundreds of years is she was a master of meet-cute and of creating two characters who are 1) meant to be together, but 2) can only be together if they can overcome enormous internal and external impossible odds. I also love almost everything in Susan Elizabeth Phillip's Chicago Stars series, and S.E.P.'s Aint She Sweet.

Lisa Schunemann: I find having equal moments of conflict and understanding is important - I'm likely not to believe a relationship if the characters are falling for each other at first sight. I want to see how, despite their differences and similarities, their feelings evolve and change. So that could mean internal conflict or external conflict in their paths.

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