December Wrap Up
✨DECEMBER WRAP UP✨
Well friends, we did it… we reached the end of 2021… I hope you’re all still in one piece (I think I am 😵💫🥴🤷🏼♀️). Here’s hoping 2022 will bring health, happiness and prosperity (and not feel like another continuation of 2020). 🙏🏻🥂
Anyway, it’s time for my final book drawing of the year! So here’s a quick recap of the ten books I read in December…
✨Hunger: A startling memoir by intersectional feminist Roxane Gay about living with trauma and existing as an overweight woman in a world that praises thinness. This was Megan Rapinoe selection for her Literati book club.
✨What Strange Paradise: As bodies are washing up on the shore of a remote island, a boy survives… full disclose I’m still reading this one, but planning to finish before the end of the day 😅.
✨Detransition, Baby: One of the most unique books I’ve ever read starring a trans woman, a cisgender woman and a detransitioned man who make an unconventional arrangement as the result of an unexpected pregnancy.
✨Crying in H Mart: A heartbreaking memoir that details the author’s loss of her mother to cancer and their shared love of Korean food.
✨Seven Days in June: When a romance author unexpectedly encounters a past love from her youth, her regimented life is turned upside down.
✨The World Gives Way: A fantastic sci-fi debut about those who survived the apocalypse by boarding a spaceship en route to another planet… however their world is thrown into chaos when a unrepairable crack is discovered in the ship.
✨The Arsonists’ City: A masterful historical fiction story about love, loss, family and the legacy of war in the Middle East.
✨Unbound: A beautiful memoir about abuse, empowerment and the start of the #metoo movement.
✨The Guncle: A heartfelt and comedic story about a gay uncle and the summer he spends caring for his niece and nephew after the death of their mother.
✨Klara and the Sun: In a world where robots take on the role of Artificial Friends, this story details one family’s journey through sickness and health.
