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When AIDS crashed the party

The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir by Lynn Curlee

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CBR15Passport Different genres (Nonfiction as memoir)   Holy Flying Monkeys!  The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir was not what I expected. My first thought was, “Um…do we really need a book about AIDS? Didn’t we already “do that?” But then I realized two things, first it was a memoir and not a factual book (my bad) and second, especially as I got into it, I realized that yes, we really do need this book. This is not a book about AIDS, but about Lynn Curlee […]

Gilbert Baker and a Grand ol’ Flag

Sewing the Rainbow: A Story about Gilbert Baker by Gayle E. Pitman

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Sewing the Rainbow: A Story about Gilbert Baker is good introduction for older children. Baker was a young man who lived in a gray world, especially after his art supplies and drawings were taken from him. He was a young man that was drafted, but who would not shoot a gun no matter what names he was called. And he was a man who knew how to put his glittery, wonderful, colorful self out there. And how to represent the community he was part of. […]

And I thought my new quilt was bada$$

Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt by Rob Sanders

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Even though Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt came out in 2021, I found a copy online. And because of that, I was unable to read all the extras at the end as it was too small to read (darn my old eyes an no zoom features). But that just means I will have to get a copy for myself, for several friends and at least two libraries, as I know there is more than I was able to get! Stitch […]

A little love

Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall’

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Around seventh grade I first heard about the Japanese American internment camp stories because my aunt is Japanese American. But it was not until I was much older that it clicked. My aunt, her siblings, her mother, and my cousins, not to mention her aunts, uncles and cousins would have been incarcerated. And while I was able to find a little here and there, it was difficult until the last few years to find things that were well done or interesting enough to keep me […]

Turn back the clock and see how it started

History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights by Archie Bongiovanni 

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I give History Comics: The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights by Archie Bongiovanni  a four for the story idea and showing history in this genre/format. But it loses a point due to the time traveling aspect. The fact this was a major point of GLBT+ rights mean that having 21st century people in 1969 allows the smallest thing to cause a butterfly effect and could have changed history. However, that aside the look at the struggles of Stonewall is well done with contemporary […]

“Bon appétit!” “Enjoy your meal!”

Born Hungry: Julia Child Becomes the French Chef by Alex Prud’Homme

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Julia Child was just bada$$. Working in the Office of Strategic Services, learning to cook as an “older” woman, inventing a formula that was a shark repellent (wonder if that is where Batman got his Bat-Shark Repellent?) and just being herself, Child was and would become (in her words) Born Hungry: Julia Child Becomes the French Chef and would teach others that it was worth the time to learn how to do thing the “right way” when it came to cooking the perfect dish or […]



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