LGBT MONTH: Sign up Post

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LGBT Month is hosted by Cayce at Fighting Dreamer and Laura at Laura Plus Books. It runs throughout April and it’s here to celebrate LGBT readers, LGBT authors and of course LGBT books!

For the whole month of April, I will be posting all things LGBT! I am pretty stoked about this event, as LGBT is a genre I want to explore more, as I've only read few books in it. I love how positive this event is, and I encourage all of you to sign up as well! It's going to be a great opportunity to learn something new and become more aware about equality and acceptance.

These are the LGBT books I have read: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, and basically every David Levithan and Julie Anne Peters book. Those are all pretty basic, and I plan to read more in April. If you have any LGBT books in mind or LGBT posts you want me to post, help me and leave a comment! :D

To know more about LGBT Month, go here.

BOOK IN REVIEW: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe



Title: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication date: February 21st 2012
Hardcover: 359 pages
Rating: 5/5 stars

It's funny how after I finished reading Tell the Wolves I'm Home (will review this next time) I told myself "I don't think I'll ever find a book that will measure up to this perfection", and then a month later stumble upon this impeccable, engrossing, coming-of-age tale of two friends as they go through self-discovery and their exploration of identity and sexuality. Guess I proved myself wrong. I don't even know what to say anymore, except that this story is simply divine, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since I finished it two days ago.


I have cried over books for as long as I can remember, but never have I cried for more than half the time reading one. Let me just say that with other books, I had to stop reading, let out my feelings, then read again. But with Ari & Dante, I couldn't put the book down. I was probably an amusing sight (if you could've only seen me) - crying while reading from my iPad. I wonder what it would've been like if I was reading from an actual hardcopy book - it probably would have been drenched with my tears.