READING NATION MAGAZINE APRIL 2022

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READING NATION MAGAZINE APRIL BONUS BOOKS

Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes All Luis Gonzalez wants is to go to prom with his boyfriend, something his "progressive" school still doesn't allow. Not after what happened with Chaz Wilson. But that was ages ago, when Luis's parents were in high school; it would never happen today, right? He's determined to find a way to give his LGBTQ friends the respect they deserve (while also not risking his chance to be prom king, just saying...). When a hit on the head knocks him back in time to 1985 and he meets the doomed young Chaz himself, Luis concocts a new plan-he's going to give this guy his first real kiss. Though it turns out a conservative school in the '80s isn't the safest place to be a gay kid. Especially with homophobes running the campus, including Gordo (aka Luis's estranged father). Luis is in over his head, trying not to make things worse-and hoping he makes it back to present day at all. In a story that's fresh, intersectional, and wickedly funny, David Valdes introduces a big-mouthed, big-hearted queer character that readers won't soon forget. ISSUE NO 13

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Abbe Rolnick

5min
pages 96-99

Stories Make Us More of Who We Can Be by Judy Christie

4min
pages 14-17

If Our Pets Could Talk

2min
pages 106-107

Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes

1min
page 13

The Passing Storm by Christine Nolfi

1min
page 12

The Moon Always Rising by Alice C. Early

1min
page 11

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

1min
page 10

THE PULPWOOD QUEENS' TIARA WEARING, BOOK SHARING, GUIDE TO LIFE

4min
pages 102-105

READING WITH QUEEN MAMA KAT!

2min
pages 100-101

Speed Round with Zoe Disigny

3min
pages 86-90

The Passing Storm by Christine Nolfi

1min
page 65

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel by Pamela Binnings Ewen

1min
page 34

Sugar Baby and Other Stories by River Jordan

2min
page 64

God, Destiny and a Glass of Wine by Linda Mason Crawford

2min
page 41

The Mermaids of Lake Michigan by Suzanne Kamata

1min
page 40

Crazy to Leave You by Marilyn Rothstein

2min
pages 10, 35

Rita Quillen

3min
pages 82-85

Ruthie Landis

4min
pages 76-79

Janet Oakley’s Favorite Independent Bookstore - Village Books

9min
pages 18-27

John Shay

5min
pages 91-95

With a little help from my friends...

6min
pages 68-73

Antonina Duridanova

5min
pages 60-63

Laura Whitfield

3min
pages 58-59

Abigail Keam

3min
pages 54-55

R.J. LEE

2min
pages 38-39

Michele Kwasniewski

5min
pages 50-53

Claudia Hagadus Long

2min
pages 46-47

Annette G. Anders

2min
pages 44-45

Alice C. Early

2min
pages 32-33

Pamela Binnings Ewen

2min
pages 129-130

Timber Rose by J.L. Oakley

2min
pages 4-5, 26

Allison Hong Merrill

3min
pages 1-3
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