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People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.

Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

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On the 4th day of Recsmas I recommend to you…..

a first book: Skyward by Brandon Sanderson (both the first book in the series and my first Sanderson read)

because it exciting and full of good banter and intriguing characters (though be warned, it’s sad, too)

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Recsmas Day 4: A first book

It should be no surprise that I choose Nevernight by Jay Kristoff, which is the first book in the Nevernight Chronicles trilogy. This series is absolutely amazing and I haven't been obsessed with a book series since Harry Potter first came out. This has got a murder assassin school, badass MC, amazing world building, LGBT main characters, and wonderful writing. This series is decidedly NOT YA despite it being shelved that way from time to time. Despite it being written by a male, the females do not fall into the fantasy female tropes. They are written with power, independence, individualized personalities, and ownership of their own bodies. I honestly cannot gush about this trilogy enough! If you're into any of the things I mentioned above, I highly recommend you pick this trilogy up!

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RECSMAS 2019: DAY 19

Day 19: A Book That Made You Cry - HA. So if you know me, you’ll know that it takes very little to make me cry. I probably cried at half the books I read this year, but the one that stuck close to me was Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer. This is a story about Juliet who lost her mom in a car accident, and her way of helping with the grief is writing her mother letters. Declan, who goes to school with Juliet, finds the letters and because he recognized a familiar hurting soul, he writes back. It’s really hard to write about this book without crying because the grief that Juliet experienced echoed my own when I lost my dad this year. There are still moments where I remember how much what she was thinking and experiencing felt like Brigid saw what was inside my head. There’s a scene in the book with her dad where he tells her that if she never feels ready to get rid of her mom’s cameras then that was okay. I didn’t know I needed to read that until that moment, and I just kind of lost it at that moment. This book touches on some heavy subjects, and Brigid treats them all with the utmost respect. I can stress enough how much this book meant to me.