READING RECOMMENDATIONS :)

💭 Every few blog entries, I'll recommend two books from my reading list. I'm a very eccentric reader, so I'll post everything from historical fiction to homicidal manifestos.  

1.

"...the minority must posses their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression."-  Thomas Jefferson

I know, I know...why ON EARTH am I promoting a collation of speeches by dead American presidents?❓ 

Well: why on Earth NOT? 

I'll say of my decision to promote this, only this: give the men in this book, the founders of what can still be a beacon of democracy and economic growth, a chance. American politics is currently at a strange and interesting crux: it makes us nervous but also it's our favorite joke on TikTok and Instagram. I was never really keen on it myself, no thanks to tRuMp and his...just everything he does, really! HOWEVER, after my Capitol Hill meetings and tour in May, I wandered into the Visitor's Center gift shop where I stumbled upon this gem of a book.  In its pages, and in words that are older than my great-grandfather from whom my surname comes, I have found so much wisdom, hope, and encouragement that I can't help but be inspired. Maybe, just maybe, you will too. 

P.S. read it slowly. The syntax in here is something else!

2. 

"...how can you be a teenager when you is only 12?"- Bette Greene

Oh, man! Where do I even begin? 

I myself was only about twelve when I read this and if I can be really honest with all you random strangers on the internet, I found it kinda romantic. This sounds like a scenario straight out of one of my final year Lit papers, 'Awkward Books', where we talked about censorship and 'morality'. It was one of those courses that would just answer all your questions with more questions. 

If you're into historical fiction that's more on the Y/A forbidden romance side, this might be for you. Be warned, though: the age gap between the protagonists is about ten years. You do the math, and you figure out what works for your own moral compass. 

Note: This book is a challenged/ banned list one. Take up the challenge of reading it, and see why.