friday
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Post by friday on Dec 6, 2016 7:54:08 GMT -5
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Post by eva on Feb 22, 2017 11:31:47 GMT -5
A bit late  I just read it yesterday. Yes, it's cute. No sex (they're teens) but can be devy for some regarding some psychological aspects. |
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Post by tori on Feb 24, 2017 11:45:01 GMT -5
Amazon suggested this one to me and I binge read it in like two days, plus the sequel novella just last week. She even has an extra story on her blog. I can't get enough of this couple. www.amazon.com/RUSH-Emma-Scott-ebook/dp/B00WQI3STE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1487954275&sr=1-1&keywords=rush+emma+scottI don't think the writer is a dev, but OMG it hit all the right spots for me. This is one of my favorite reads this year so far. For blindness dev's I think you will enjoy it. It's very "Me before you" premise as she takes on a job as his caretaker, but with the HEA ending that I think we all really wished we could of got in "Me Before You." I went back to see and Valkyrja does have it on her list, but it was good enough that I thought I'd give it special mention here. |
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Post by devogirl on Feb 24, 2017 23:33:09 GMT -5
Thank you Tori! It's been a while since I went searching on Amazon, but this is a new one to me. It came out in 2015--I don't know how I missed it. I will definitely check it out!
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Post by parashoot on Mar 2, 2017 20:38:09 GMT -5
Just finished the new YA novel, "Love and First Sight".
It was okay. I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to devvy fiction I think.
This is one of those books that would have driven me crazy a year ago, but now that I have read so much written for and by devs, I think a little differently.
Anyone else read it?
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new books?
Jul 11, 2017 14:50:27 GMT -5
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Post by annabelle on Jul 11, 2017 14:50:27 GMT -5
Has anybody read "The Beginning of Everything " by Robyn Schneider? I am reading it now and totally getting a great dev tingle. It's a YA book.
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Post by parashoot on Jul 11, 2017 16:25:14 GMT -5
Has anybody read "The Beginning of Everything " by Robyn Schneider? I am reading it now and totally getting a great dev tingle. It's a YA book. I just downloaded it. I read "Song of Summer" this week, which has a deaf guy, but didn't find it super devvy. Not sure if I already mentioned it, but "Maybe Someday" by Colleen Hoover is a great novel with a sexy devvy deaf guy in it. |
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Post by parashoot on Sept 21, 2017 19:43:41 GMT -5
What I've read lately:
How to Keep Rolling After a Fall, Karole Cozzo (para)
I'll Meet You There, Heather Demetrios (amp, PTSD)
Broken, Lauren Layne (limp and scars, PTSD)
The Wrighr Brother, Marie Hall (colour blind and deaf)... I didn't like this one. She kept talking about them tapping words to each other, which I didn't understand, and then more than half way through she mentioned that they tapped morse code...I feel like maybe she didn't know how sign language worked and then just slipped that in because it was all written wrong haha. Also, maybe I don't know what it means to be colour blind, but this guy just sees grey...
The other three were all okay, Broken was sort of cheesy.
How to keep rolling and I'll meet you there were quick and cute.
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Post by lisa on Sept 25, 2017 10:53:42 GMT -5
I have come across another YA novel, "A quiet kind of thunder" by Sandra Barnard. The female protagonist has social anxiety and is a selective mute, the male one is deaf. Although these aren't the most devvy disabilities to me I really got a dev tingle out of reading this book, especially during the first half of it.
The story is about Steffi and Rhys who meet at school and become friends (and possibly more later on) because Steffi has some basic BSL knowledge due to her selective mutism. If you are into that kind of thing: There are a lot of (obviously well researched) explanations of BSL signs. Every chapter has the number and above it a picture with the sign for the number. At the end of some chapters there are funny lists, much like I would "expect" them in an Annabelle book. You can really see that the author has put a lot of effort into making the book fun to read.
The most interesting part for me were the descriptions of how their respective disabilities influenced everyday life, not only between the two of them, but also in other social situations. I could relate to lots of this and it certainly impressed my devness ;-). There are also some meta discussions about how to handle people with disabilities and how to "overcome" a disability. Since they are teenagers, their families do play a big role, but I liked to read about the different approaches they took to dealing with their children.
During the second half of the book, the story didn't move as fast as before and for me the suspense wasn't really increasing anymore. The girl does get better in the course of the book, but it isn't like a miracle cure or anything (in case you were wondering).
So, I really liked the book and can recommend it, especially if you consider deafness or mutism attractive. For me the most interesting part were the really nicely describes social interactions of the two protagonists.
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Post by Celaena on Nov 27, 2017 0:04:57 GMT -5
Hey everyone!
I’ve been out of the loop for a bit... I just had a baby on August so I’ve been a bit occupied, but I hadn’t seen this book mentioned anywhere.
Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas is excellent. It is the 6th book in her Throne of Glass YA series and it is a tough book to read if you haven’t read the others. It is a YA fantasy and Tower of Dawn is all about the character Chaol who sustained a serious spinal cord injury and becomes a para. He travels with his lady friend (they were a sort of couple, but that changes) to the Southern Continent where the healers have magic to try and cure him and convince the king down there to join their war.
It was very devvy to me in a few spots. Some of the aspects are glossed over a bit (bathroom stuff, his ‘manhood’, and sex but not entirely. There is some sexy time, but nothing very graphic since it is a YA novel. There is sort of a cure, but not entirely. Difficult to explain, but I was also expecting there to be some sort of cure since it is a fantasy and they have magic. I think it is handled well though... the cure doesn’t come without a cost and the cure is not always permanent. (Again... magic!)
The series as a whole is fabulous (but also quite long... think Harry Potter 5 length for just about each book), so I’d recommend it to anyone regardless of the dev angle in Tower of Dawn, but definitely worth checking out.
I met Sarah a year or so ago when her latest book came out and Chaols injury happened at the end of that book. I told her how glad I was to see clear representation of disability in YA fiction and also told her I hoped she didn’t follow the miracle cure trope. She said she thought it was also really important to show that and that there is always a cost for everything and she thinks that representation of diverse characters is super important. Glad to see an author really thinks about what it means to include PWD characters in her work!
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Post by strawberrybubblegum on Nov 27, 2017 2:09:52 GMT -5
Hey everyone! I’ve been out of the loop for a bit... I just had a baby on August so I’ve been a bit occupied, but I hadn’t seen this book mentioned anywhere. Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas is excellent. It is the 6th book in her Throne of Glass YA series and it is a tough book to read if you haven’t read the others. It is a YA fantasy and Tower of Dawn is all about the character Chaol who sustained a serious spinal cord injury and becomes a para. He travels with his lady friend (they were a sort of couple, but that changes) to the Southern Continent where the healers have magic to try and cure him and convince the king down there to join their war. It was very devvy to me in a few spots. Some of the aspects are glossed over a bit (bathroom stuff, his ‘manhood’, and sex but not entirely. There is some sexy time, but nothing very graphic since it is a YA novel. There is sort of a cure, but not entirely. Difficult to explain, but I was also expecting there to be some sort of cure since it is a fantasy and they have magic. I think it is handled well though... the cure doesn’t come without a cost and the cure is not always permanent. (Again... magic!) The series as a whole is fabulous (but also quite long... think Harry Potter 5 length for just about each book), so I’d recommend it to anyone regardless of the dev angle in Tower of Dawn, but definitely worth checking out. I met Sarah a year or so ago when her latest book came out and Chaols injury happened at the end of that book. I told her how glad I was to see clear representation of disability in YA fiction and also told her I hoped she didn’t follow the miracle cure trope. She said she thought it was also really important to show that and that there is always a cost for everything and she thinks that representation of diverse characters is super important. Glad to see an author really thinks about what it means to include PWD characters in her work! Congatulations on the little one. This book series sounds interesting. I think I have heard of it before. Even though I’m not into fantasy stuff, it really intrigues me... |
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Post by Inigo Montoya on Nov 30, 2017 21:36:06 GMT -5
So, it turns out that Tower of Dawn (or possibly an abridged version...until I can buy the series) is online and I disagree about it being difficult to read if you haven't read the others. It's very engaging. HOWEVER, reading it will make you want to read the others, so if you're not spoiler proof, I would recommend starting at the beginning because it seems to be full of spoilers for the previous books.
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Post by Celaena on Nov 30, 2017 22:18:00 GMT -5
So, it turns out that Tower of Dawn (or possibly an abridged version...until I can buy the series) is online and I disagree about it being difficult to read if you haven't read the others. It's very engaging. HOWEVER, reading it will make you want to read the others, so if you're not spoiler proof, I would recommend starting at the beginning because it seems to be full of spoilers for the previous books. Good to know! I have read the whole series before this one and since there is so much world building and back story, I figured it would be difficult to pick up on its own. Glad that is not the case! This particular book does introduce a whole new world, so I should have considered that. Did you find it to be devvy, Inigo? I did, but I've also had a huge book crush on Chaol since book 1 and I literally squealed when his injury was revealed in book... 5? (They all blend together for me!) |
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Post by Celaena on Nov 30, 2017 22:19:39 GMT -5
Stumbled upon another book I hadn't found before. It's an SCI memoir that came out in June. Just bought it but haven't read it myself yet. www.amazon.com/Broken-Memoir-Emma-White-ebook/dp/B071GPDZ6HBroken- A Memoir by Emma White Summary: Emma White ventured from her home town of Melbourne to work in the Canadian ski fields. There she met Kev, a local ski instructor. After four years together, Kev was in a motorbike accident that changed both of their lives forever. Just four and a half months after Kev became a paraplegic, he and Emma travelled to Melbourne and embarked upon a whirlwind 18,000 kilometre camping road-trip across Australia. At a time when many patients with spinal injuries remain in hospital, Kev and Emma's relationship is put to the test until it is hanging by a thread. Together they fight to regain a future that seems lost, while facing the harsh and unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback in summer. |
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Post by rebeckers84 on Dec 4, 2017 7:55:26 GMT -5
I can't remember if I saw it on on this thread or on the list recently but I plowed through "A Cup of Complicated" yesterday... it was PERFECTION!!!! So much so that I kiiiiinda wanna text it to a guy I had been talking to for some time who just can't seem to get through his head that I would be into him 'now' and that he's 'good enough' still (which is a topic for a completely different thread!) but Im sure he wouldn't take that the right way so for now I'll just read it again!!
I tried really hard (ok well maybe not too hard) to take my time and make it last but nope, per my usual MO I stayed up till 2am so I could finish the whole thing.
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I just read it yesterday. Yes, it's cute. No sex (they're teens) but can be devy for some regarding some psychological aspects.
