Reviews and Comments

A good introduction for someone entering the world of LGBTQ+ life through their child. Each chapter ends with first hand perspectives of others and a helpful list of resources related to the chapter's topic.

The way photography and a scavenger hunt are driving the story is really fascinating. All of the kids in the house are enthralled.

Our first family read aloud of 2023! Family members loved the author's book, Rules, so looking forward to this one together.

I'll have to come back and reread this. It's a powerful history lesson and memoir that highlights the beauty and difficulty of just being when your being doesn't fit the socially accepted norms.

Highly recommended.

As someone who wants to be an ally and understand more the experience and desires of other humans, Anderson's discussions about history and theory are eye opening in the best way.

I just can't with this book. The vocabulary is unnecessarily pretentious. The big words are there for the sake of there being big words to show off that the author can use them. They don't serve the story at all. They just get in the way. The fat shaming is grotesque (there was a whole chapter that went into great depths to talk about the main characters eating habits and food choices, and the author doesn't miss a chance to remind people how obese he wrote the character). There have been lewd scenes and innuendos that seem to exist simply because the author wanted to show that he could put them in the book. It's all just so ... unnecessary.

Setting aside, and won't be coming back to it.

Set in my city, I'm looking forward to exploring it through different eyes. I don't often get a chance to read books set in a familiar area!

An interesting collection of short stories that do, as promised, challenge perspectives. Glad to have read them.

The subtitle is science fiction stories to rewire your perceptions, and the stories are not disappointing. I just finished Walk 153, and it was a great story. Makes me want to walk more and pay attention better.

It was a good story, well thought out. Something about the ending didn't settle right, but I can't pinpoint what just yet. I enjoyed reading it and am glad I finished it, though. It's told from two perspectives, but it works well enough.

I picked the book up randomly at a bookshop based on the back cover description. As such purchases go, this one was quite good.

One title of a stack borrowed from the library to help me expand my understanding of gender and the bigger human experience.

I found Stuart's book exceptionally informative on many issues of gender and sensuality. I appreciated their humor and open invitation to make the world more open and welcoming for everyone, however they want to live and be in the world as themselves. I also really enjoyed all if the illustrations throughout the book.

If you are curious about gender expression and identity or just want to know more about what the pronoun fuss is all about, Stuart's book is a great entry.

There is some discussion about bodies (appropriate to tye topic and not lewd) and some use of language. I did not find it out of place or distracting.

Hollis Woods, Josie, Beatrice, Stephen, The Old Man. Vignettes and portraits told in snippets as we see through eyes that maybe aren't ours (or aren't ours anymore) to see the details that are so easy to miss in the blur of living.

Giff tells a lovely story of being found and accepting who you are and what you can be when you let others in.

This story of finding and being found tells of a mystery. As Hero adapts to yet another new home and school, she uncovers surprising friends and an absorbing mystery. Might she and her friends reveal a centuries old secret?

A read aloud shared with our kids,vwe all enjoyed this story.