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There’s nothing ‘just’ about friends. Friends are the best.
Anna Meriano, It Sounds Like This
#razreads#book quote#anna meriano#it sounds like this#friends#friendship#found family#queue have a good day now
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Yasmín Treviño didn’t have much of a freshman year thanks to Hurricane Humphrey, but she’s ready to take sophomore year by storm. That means mastering the marching side of marching band—fast!—so she can outshine her BFF Sofia as top of the flute section, earn first chair, and impress both her future college admission boards and her comfortably unattainable drum major crush Gilberto Reyes.
But Yasmín steps off on the wrong foot when she reports an anonymous gossip Instagram account harassing new band members and accidentally gets the entire low brass section suspended from extracurriculars. With no low brass section, the band is doomed, so Yasmín decides to take things into her own hands, learn to play the tuba, and lead a gaggle of rowdy freshman boys who are just as green to marching and playing as she is. She’ll happily wrestle an ancient school tuba if it means fixing the mess she might have caused.
But when the secret gossip Instagram escalates their campaign of harassment and the end-of-semester band competition grows near, things at school might be too hard to bear. Luckily, the support of Yasmín’s new section—especially new section leader Bloom, a sweet and shy ace boy who might be a better match for her than Gilberto—might just turn things around.
#It Sounds Like This#Anna Meriano#YA books#YA fiction#YA#aromantic awareness week#aro week#fat rep#biracial rep#Lantinx rep#asexual#ace rep#Jewish rep#grayromantic#aro rep#ADHD rep#aromantic#music#daily book#fiction#lgbt fiction#lgbtqia#bookblr
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One more month of Summer! Check out some of these cool August books! 🌞
As always, check under the cut for more on each~
It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano is one of my favorite books of the year, and one I'd recommend to any a-spec person and/or any marching band nerd! This is a marching band centered coming of age with a lot of identity growth and a little romance too.
Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury is the long awaited sequel to the scifi-fantasy, Black-fronted "kill your lover" Blood Like Magic. If you've been looking forward to seeing what Voya does next and how her hard choices play our after the fact, you'll really enjoy this closer to the story!
These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall is another I've already read, and I can vouch for the spooky haunted house meets untrustworthy family swarmy enough to rival the Thrombeys from Knives Out. If you like your horror feminist and a bit gothic, you may really love the atmosphere of this one. This is also sapphic, with a witchy side romance.
The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones is a rag tag crew story, a heist story, and a fantasy about revolution. This story is also in the same universe as Lloyd-Jones' folklore zombie story, The Bones Houses. This also has a main character who seems to be bi.
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala is another horror, this one pastoral, trippy, and through a lens of marginalization. This book has a genderfluid protagonist, who wants nothing but to understand his twin sister's shocking death, but finds himself lured into something as dangerous as it is impossible. This book also has some INTENSE body horror by the end, so take that as a pro or a con!
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez is the only book on this list I haven't read! This is a Godpunk fantasy about two warriors setting out to free a captive god, and depose their tyrant rulers. This book looks so COOL and the cover alone makes me so excited.
#book list#books#august books#queer books#the drowned woods#the spear cuts through water#the honeys#queer horror#it sounds like this#asexual book#aroace#anna meriano#blood like fate#blood like magic#liselle sambury#castorstarr
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I'm CRYING Anna Meriano pls reveal your tumblr url this INSTANT
#anna meriano#it sounds like this#I'm mostly joking but i also genuinely want to be mutuals#and side note ur book hits too gotdam close to home
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It Sounds Like This - Anna Meriano
Yasmín Treviño didn’t have much of a freshman year thanks to Hurricane Humphrey, but she’s ready to take sophomore year by storm. That means mastering the marching side of marching band—fast!—so she can outshine her BFF Sofia as top of the flute section, earn first chair, and impress both her future college admission boards and her comfortably unattainable drum major crush Gilberto Reyes.
But Yasmín steps off on the wrong foot when she reports an anonymous gossip Instagram account harassing new band members and accidentally gets the entire low brass section suspended from extracurriculars. With no low brass section, the band is doomed, so Yasmín decides to take things into her own hands, learn to play the tuba, and lead a gaggle of rowdy freshman boys who are just as green to marching and playing as she is. She’ll happily wrestle an ancient school tuba if it means fixing the mess she might have caused.
But when the secret gossip Instagram escalates their campaign of harassment and the end-of-semester band competition grows near, things at school might be too hard to bear. Luckily, the support of Yasmín’s new section—especially new section leader Bloom, a sweet and shy ace boy who might be a better match for her than Gilberto—might just turn things around.
tw: cyberbullying, emotional abuse, misgendering, sexism, toxic friendships
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Review: Up All Night edited by Laura Silverman
Review: Up All Night edited by Laura Silverman
Up All Night: 13 Stories Between Sunset and SunriseEdited by Laura SilvermanAlgonquin Young ReadersPublished July 13, 2021
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About Up All Night
When everyone else goes to bed, the ones who stay up feel like they’re the only people in the world. As the hours tick by deeper into the night, the familiar drops away and the unfamiliar beckons. Adults are asleep, and a…
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#Amanda Joy#Anna Meriano#Brandy Colbert#Children&039;s Literature#collection#Francesca Zappia#friendship#Julian Winters#Karen McManus#Kathleen Glasgow#Kayla Whaley#Laura Silverman#Marieke Nijkamp#Maurene Goo#Nina LaCour#Romance#Tiffany D. Jackson#Up All Night
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Book Review: "Love Sugar Magic: A Dash Of Trouble" by Anna Meriano
A little baking magic goes horribly wrong in "Love Sugar Magic: A Dash Of Trouble" by Anna Meriano! #LoveSugarMagicADashOfTrouble #AnnaMeriano #bookreview #humour #fantasy #friendship
Cover of “Love Sugar Magic: A Dash Of Trouble” by Anna Meriano
I’m back with another book review, and this time I’m reviewing “Love Sugar Magic: A Dash Of Trouble” by Anna Meriano! It’s been a while since I read some baking-related fiction, let alone children’s fiction, and this looked like the perfect opportunity to pick up something that checked off both categories!
“Leonora Logroño’s family…
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#amreading#Anna Meriano#baking#book review#bookreview#books#family#fantasy#friendship#humour#Love Sugar Magic: A Dash Of Trouble#reading
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Aro book review: It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano
This is a contemporary YA novel about a girl who plays flute in the school marching band, and despite her strong ambitions has to switch to tuba. I played flute in school concert bands for 8 years, so I enjoyed that aspect of it (even if the marching specific part was new to me)! It was a quick and enjoyable read, I finished the book in an evening.
There are a number of well-done sub-plots about family, friends, and bullying, and also, one about the main character questioning whether she is aspec. Another major character in the book, Bloom, is grey aroace, and through him she realises the attraction she has been feeling probably isn't romantic or sexual.
She hasn't decided on anything by the end of the book, and while I don't mind leaving characters still questioning, it would have been nice to have a bit more acknowledgement of this sub-plot at the end of the book.
But it did feel present throughout the story, with Bloom referencing his orientation is ways that felt natural, and some discussion I really appreciated about not always worrying about exactly what attraction you may or may not be feeling, and just spending time with the people you want to spend time with.
The only other little thing that didn't quite work for me personally was all the references to the school tests that are in the US - I didn't have any idea what they were for!
Overall, a nice example of some grey aroace and questioning aspec rep.
#aro#aromantic#aro books#Honestly marching band just sounds like hard work#But I did love concert band very much#Although there's a bit in this book where she talks about how she tried piano first and didn't like it!#And while I might be a bit of a flute player I don't relate to that at all - Piano is definitely the best instrument#I also don't relate to having that strong drive to practise for hours and hours - even though I love playing and music in general#But that's why I went for composition instead
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It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano
It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano (This is How We Fly) was a lot of fun. Yasmín is part of her school's marching band. She plays the flute, but following a need for new people in the low brass section, she starts playing the tuba.
Yasmín's non-binary sibling, Ellen, was the protagonist of This is How We Fly. This takes place a few years later, but the books are very independent and can be read in either order.
I've compared Anna Meriano to Alice Oseman before and I'm doing it again: this novel is for fans of Loveless.
Yasmín is a-spec (with no romance plotline) and Latina. Bloom is grey-ace and grey-aro. There are a bunch of other LGBT characters.
For more a-spec marching band stories, check out Forward March by Skye Quinlan (I haven't read it, but it looks interesting as well).
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A lot of friendships can survive more than you think they can.
Anna Meriano, It Sounds Like This
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Hello, books and worms!
I’m testing out a fun new project of creating themed lists of five to a dozen titles each month. They’ll have a cute little collage for each title’s cover, and then a very short blurb for the title, author, age, genre, and a sentence or two of description.
This month’s theme is devoted to Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, but feel free to send an ask with requests!
Description blurb for each book under the cut v
Life Underwater / Matthew Metzger: Romance; a gray-romantic Muslim transgender man accidentally falls in love with a non-binary marine biologist
Fire Becomes Her / Rosiee Thor: YA Fantasy, Historical; a demiromantic bisexual woman schemes her way to the top of alt-Jazz Age magical politics
Syncopation / Anna Zabo: Romance; two band mates, one tour bus. can a gay song writer make it work with an aromantic rock star Dom?
Devon’s Island / SI Clarke: Sci-Fi; a soldier and her food scientist wife must work together with an aro-ace autistic scientist to plan a mission to Mars
The Bruising of Qilwa / Naseem Jamnia: Fantasy; a middle eastern aro-ace non-binary refugee discovers a terrible new disease amongst accusations of blood magic
The Last 8 / Laura Pohl: YA Sci-Fi, Apocalypse; eight teens survive an alien attack and gather at Area 51, led by an aromantic bisexual Latina who discovers a space ship that could change everything …
Two Dark Moons / Avi Silver: YA Fantasy; an aromantic bisexual female must survive in a jungle of reptilian people to pass her coming of age ritual
It Sounds Like This / Anna Meriano: YA Fiction; fat ace Latina MC leads a brass marching band of newbies with the help of a sweet and shy gray-romantic ace boy who just might be her new crush
Tarnished are the Stars / Rosiee Thor: YA Sci-Fi; a lesbian with an illegal clock-work heart, a tyrant’s aro-ace son, and a skilled assassin form an uneasy alliance to end an epidemic
The Liar’s Guide to the Night Sky / Brianna Shrum: YA Action; a ski-slope accident pits a bisexual girl training to be a firefighter and her cousin’s aromantic pansexual Latino best friend against freezing temperatures
The Rhythm of My Soul / Elin Dyer: YA Mystery; an aro-ace ballerina, a boy determined to dance until it kills him, and a new boy with a dark past need to figure out who is out for revenge–and why
Common Bonds: an anthology of short stories featuring aromantic characters
#aromantic awareness week#aromantic awareness#aro week#aromantic#aro rep#YA#YA books#adult books#fiction#lgbt fiction#lgbtqia#themed lists#book recs
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(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (August 2nd, 2022)
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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:
How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez
You, Me, & Our Heartstrings by Melissa See
Bloody Fool for Love by William Ritter
Dauntless by Elisa A. Bonnin
It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano
What’s Coming to Me by Francesca Padilla
Bad At Love by Gabriela Martins
The Stars Between Us by Cristin Terrill
Don’t Go to Sleep by Bryce Moore
Sadie Starr’s Guiding to Starting Over by Miranda Luby
The Brink by Holden Sheppard
Wild is the Witch by Rachel Griffin
New Sequels:
My Imaginary Mary (Mary #2) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows
The King Will Kill You (Kingdoms of Sand and Sky #3) by Sarah Henning
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Happy reading!
#book list#new releases#august books#august 2022#new books#book blog#book blogger#Features#yalit#yareads#2022#young adult books#sarah henning#cynthia Hand#Brodi Ashton#jodi meadows#rachel griffin#holden sheppard#miranda luby#bryce moore#cristin terrill#gabriela martins#francesca padilla#anna meriano#elisa a. bonnin#william ritter#melissa see#cristina fernandez
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New Releases
There's quite a few new YA books out this week on Tuesday, so let's get into it!
Dauntless by Elisa A. Bonnin
“Be dauntless, for the hopes of the People rest in you.”Seri’s world is defined by very clear rules: The beasts prowl the forest paths and hunt the People. The valiant explore the unknown world, kill the beasts, and gain strength from the armor they make from them. As an assistant to Eshai Unbroken, a young valor commander with a near-mythical reputation, Seri has seen first-hand the struggle to keep the beasts at bay and ensure the safety of the spreading trees where the People make their homes. That was how it always had been, and how it always would be. Until the day Seri encounters Tsana.
Tsana is, impossibly, a stranger from the unknown world who can communicate with the beasts – a fact that makes Seri begin to doubt everything she’s ever been taught. As Seri and Tsana grow closer, their worlds begin to collide, with deadly consequences. Somehow, with the world on the brink of war, Seri will have to find a way to make peace.
It Sounds Like This by Anna Meriano
Yasmín Treviño didn’t have much of a freshman year thanks to Hurricane Humphrey, but she’s ready to take sophomore year by storm. That means mastering the marching side of marching band—fast!—so she can outshine her BFF Sofia as top of the flute section, earn first chair, and impress both her future college admission boards and her comfortably unattainable drum major crush Gilberto Reyes.
But Yasmín steps off on the wrong foot when she reports an anonymous gossip Instagram account harassing new band members and accidentally gets the entire low brass section suspended from extracurriculars. With no low brass section, the band is doomed, so Yasmín decides to take things into her own hands, learn to play the tuba, and lead a gaggle of rowdy freshman boys who are just as green to marching and playing as she is. She’ll happily wrestle an ancient school tuba if it means fixing the mess she might have caused.
But when the secret gossip Instagram escalates their campaign of harassment and the end-of-semester band competition grows near, things at school might be too hard to bear. Luckily, the support of Yasmín’s new section—especially new section leader Bloom, a sweet and shy ace boy who might be a better match for her than Gilberto—might just turn things around.
I Rise by Marie Arnold
A heartbreaking and powerful novel about racism and social justice as fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on her mother’s activist role when her mom is shot by police. As she tries to find answers, Ayo looks to the wisdom of her ancestors and her Harlem community for guidance.
Ayo’s mother founded the biggest civil rights movement to hit New York City in decades. It’s called ‘See Us’ and it tackles police brutality and racial profiling in Harlem. Ayo has spent her entire life being an activist and now, she wants out. She wants to get her first real kiss, have a boyfriend, and just be a normal teen.
When her mom is put into a coma after a riot breaks out between protesters and police, protestors want Ayo to become the face of See Us and fight for justice for her mother who can no longer fight for herself. While she deals with her grief and anger, Ayo must also discover if she has the strength to take over where her mother left off. This impactful and unforgettable novel takes on the important issues of inequality, systemic racism, police violence, and social justice.
A Girl’s Guide to Love & Magic by Debbie Rigaud
Cicely Destin, a Haitian American teen living in Brooklyn, loves the annual West Indian Day Parade that takes place in her neighborhood. The colors, clothes, tastes, sights, and sounds all celebrating Caribbean culture fill her with pride and joy. This year, the parade will be extra special: it falls on Cicely’s birthday, AND Cicely will get to hang out with her awesome aunt, Mimose, a social media influencer known for dabbling in Haitian vodou. But when Mimose’s dabbling becomes a little too real, and she seems to be possessed by a rogue spirit right before the parade, it’s up to Cicely, plus her best friend, Renee, and her crush (!), Kwame, to try to set things right. Cicely and her friends set off on a winding, thrilling scavenger hunt through Brooklyn to find the items that will undo the possession. But can Cicely help her aunt if she doesn’t fully realize her own powers just yet?
Bad at Love by Gabriela Martins
Ever since Daniel moved to L.A. from Brazil to join the band Mischief & Mayhem, he’s become the tabloids’ bad boy. Paparazzi follow him and girls swoon over him . . . except for Sasha, who hates bad boys. When a chance encounter brings them together, Sasha sees an opportunity to get close to Daniel and write a story that will make a name for herself at the celebrity gossip magazine where she interns. But Daniel is surprisingly sweet and extremely cute—could she be falling for him? The truth is: Daniel is hiding something. When Sasha discovers his secret, will she follow her heart or deliver the hottest story of the summer?
What’s Coming to Me by Francesca Padilla
Seventeen-year-old Minerva Gutiérrez plans revenge on her predatory boss in this equally poignant and thrilling contemporary YA about grief, anger, and fighting for what you deserve, perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson and Erika L. Sánchez.
In the seaside town of Nautilus, Minerva Gutiérrez absolutely hates her job at the local ice cream stand, where her sexist boss makes each day worse than the last. But she needs the money: kicked out of school and stranded by her mom’s most recent hospitalization, she dreams of escaping her dead-end hometown. When an armed robbery at the ice cream stand stirs up rumors about money hidden on the property, Min teams up with her neighbor CeCe, also desperate for cash, to find it. The bonus? Getting revenge on her boss in the process. If Minerva can do things right for once—without dirty cops, suspicious co-workers, and an ill-timed work crush getting in her way—she might have a way out . . . as long as the painful truths she’s been running from don’t catch up to her first.
#ya lit#new releases#we need diverse books#a girl's guide to love and magic#dauntless#what's coming to me#i rise#bad at love#it sounds like this
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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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hi :)
what are your most anticipated book releases of the second half of 2022?
*in little miss perfect voice* nanananananananadia hi:)
OOH OKAY SO MANY LET'S SEE IM GONNA TRY TO NARROW IT DOWN TO ONE PER MONTH
july: dauntless by elisa a bonnin!!! (not counting the society for soulless girls which released a week back and which i loveee so much)
august: BABELLL and also it sounds like this by anna meriano
september: death by society by sierra elmore
october: nothing sun and nothing spoken by nita tyndall
november: never ever getting back together by sophie gonzales
december: a million to one by adiba jaigirdar ive literally been waiting for it since before hani and ishu came out hdjhddjh IT WAS SUPPOSED TO COME OUT ON APRIL 5TH IM STILL SALTY
WHAT ABOUT YOUUU (not month-wise obviously im just a nerd who marks book release dates on my calendar as my primary reason to live hdhdjdhj)
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