{"id":14811,"date":"2025-05-01T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14811"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:24:06","slug":"happy-15th-birthday-to-booksyalove-reflective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14811","title":{"rendered":"Happy 15th birthday to BooksYALove! (reflective)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Antique<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Well, then\u2026 fifteen years of recommending young adult and middle grade books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Altogether, 1250 books and lots of audiobooks\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some years I’ve been marvelously consistent, others much less so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All along, I’ve sought out books beyond those that get all the publicity – books by debut authors, by writers from marginalized communities, by writers from beyond the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During recent months’ turmoil, I was caught in a despair-loop: what could I do as a blue dot in a very red county in a very red state?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the AprilAtoZ reminder came earlier this spring, I realized that the power I do have is to talk about books without having to placate an employer or my congress-critters<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, another AprilAtoZ is in the books – 14th successfully completed with 26 alphabetical posts in 26 days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will I keep posting six days a week? Not likely.
Will I keep recommending books that reactionaries want to ban? Absolutely!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s to more BooksYALove, connecting the right book to the right reader at the right time!
**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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