Goodreads Summer Books

 Okay so this reading list is 🔥🔥🔥

As I was endlessly scrolling through my favorite website, Goodreads, I came across a link for their "Hottest Books of the Summer" and let me tell you I am not disappointed. I won't include them all but here's what made my list.

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 I just finished watching Unforgotten: 25 years after Willowbrook on Netflix. After reading the summary on Keeping Lucy, I would assume the Willowridge in the story is suppose to be Willowbrook. It breaks my heart to think of so many innocent and loving souls being suppressed and left to disappear in the hells of Willowbrook just because of differences or handicaps. I think these stories are so important to read fiction or not. Reading brings experiences and creates empathy to different journies the reader may otherwise never venture on. And stories like Keeping Lucy are a perfect example. I can't wait

In a nutshell, it's 1969, a woman gives birth to a girl with down syndrome. This woman's husband comes from a predominant family in Massachusetts and convinces Ginny, the woman, to take her newborn to a facility for "feeble-minded".  A few years later it comes to Ginny's attention what life is like at Willowbrook Willowridge, she does what every loving mother would for her child. Risk it all.

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This story reminds me of my family and I guess that's why I'm drawn to it.

A couple, madly in love even after 40 some odd years. They have 4 daughters with their own lives and all notably different. This is Claire Lombardo's debut novel with secrets, booze, lies, neurotic professors, the works. It's basically about families and all the shit they go through in a lifetime, it's messy and real and that's what I like. Now the question is am I going to finish this and feel better about my family or worse 🤔

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This is a genre I do not normally read, historical fiction fantasy, any fantasy really. But when I read Jazz Age, Mayan Gods, Mexico City in the synopsis I was intrigued. I am half Mexican from the Tamaulipas area, I just found this out a couple of years ago so my eyes perked when I read it was a story of Mexican heritage. The art deco book cover design is perfection. 

Casiopea is stuck spending her days cleaning her wealthy grandfather's house when she comes across a box. She accidentally releases the ancient Mayan God of Death who demands her help getting the throne back from his brother. If she doesn't succeed it will be the end of her and if she does all her dreams will come true.

So many questions come to me while I read the entire summary. Why is she cleaning her grandfather's house? How much of the Jazz Age is a part of the story? Who is the Mayan God of Death's brother? Does he deserve it back? And what are Casiopea's dreams? I hope Garcia answers all these questions. I feel like I'm going to devour this book in a Saturday.
(y'all I don't know why this text is different from the rest of the post, I have tried everything haha)

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Alright. I saved the best for last. That's right I said it and your eyes are not deceiving you. In case you haven't heard Margaret Atwood has written a SEQUEL to Handmaids Tale. It picks ups 15 years after Offred steps into the unknown. The story follows 3 female characters, I've read little about this but it's said not to have much to do with the Hulu adaptation. I am choosing not to watch it, so for me, it might not matter either way and maybe I'll change my mind after reading this and decide to watch it. When I read The Handmaids Tail not that long ago it changed my perspective not only on womens rights but the rights of humans and how fragile they can be. It also helped me come to the conclusion never to own an Echo or Alexa, nope I'll take my ass to the store and turn my radio on just like my mama does and her mama did and her mama. I do not invite the CIA into my living room, thank you.

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