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Anna K||Jenny Lee GIVEAWAY & REVIEW • • A modern retelling of ANNA KARENINA set in current day NYC with socialite teenagers. Think Gossip Girl meets amazing storytelling and wonderful characters. • • I loved this book. Jenny Lee really creates something fun and exciting that I didn’t want to put down. I found myself so invested in the characters and their journeys. There’s a central love story that doesn’t feel corny, which is hard to do, especially with teenagers. This one comes highly recommended. • • Because I loved this book so much and because @jennyleewrites is awesome, we’re giving away a signed copy of the UK paperback. • • To enter: 1️⃣follow @thestackspod and @jennyleewrites 2️⃣tag two friends • • That’s it! Giveaway ends EOD Friday April 10th. For US residents only. #thestacksreview

March Book Haul • • Looking at all these gorgeous books reminds me of how grateful I am for books and the people who bring them into my life. It also reminds me of how much reading I have to do. • • Thank you to friends like @literarylauren_ @absorbedinpages @daraylopez @carlisshane for gifting me books, as well as indies for still getting books to folks. All books marked with a 🌷came from publishers. • • Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe After the Eclipse by Sarah Perry Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson🌷 Empire of the Wild by Cherie Dimaline🌷 The Mueller Report Illustrated by The Washington Post No Justice in the Shadows by Alina Das🌷 Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan🌷 Bad Moms by Nora McInerny🌷 The Heart and Other Monsters by Rose Andersen🌷 Threshold by Rob Doyle🌷 Solitary by Albert Woodfox🌷 The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett🌷 A Burning by Megha Majumdar🌷 Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami🌷 This is Major by Shayla Lawson🌷 The Holdout by Graham Moore🌷 Once a Girl, Always a Boy by Jo Ivester🌷 No Going Back by Sheena Kamal🌷 Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth🌷 The Office by Andy Greene🌷 Anna K by Jenny Lee Stray by Stephanie Danler🌷 The Beauty of Breaking by Michele Harper🌷 Barker House by David Moloney🌷 Perfect Tunes by Emily Gould🌷 Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby • • I’ve already read some of these and not sure where to go next. Help me! #thestacksbookhaul

The Stacks podcast turns two years old today!!! • • I can’t believe my first born is now toddler. This show is one of my great joys and I can’t imagine my life without it. Mostly because this shoe has connected me with so many wonderful book loving people! • • Thank you to all of you for listening, subscribing, rating, reviewing, giving feedback, suggesting books, commenting on a review, joining the patreon, telling a friend, and just generally supporting The Stacks. The show wouldn’t exist without you. • • Through out the day I’ll be sharing my Stacks Superlatives for episodes from the last year (and on the website, link in bio). • • I’d love to know what guest/episode/book has stood out to you in the last year? • • Thank you all again and again for helping me make a show that I’m so deeply proud of. Here’s to year three cheers 🥂 #thestacks

Real Life||Brandon Taylor #thestacksreview • • Real Life is the stunning debut novel by Brandon Taylor. It’s a campus novel that follows Wallace, a gay Black grad student, through a long weekend with his friends and in the lab. The book isn’t really about what happens, it’s about how Taylor makes you feel. Thank you to @riverheadbooks for sending a copy my way. • • Taylor’s sentences are out of this world. Each series of words feels beautifully crafted without feeling over worked. The writing is dynamic. I’m not usually one to obsess over “beautiful writing” but it’s hard to ignore it in this book. It’s everywhere you look, and it doesn’t come at the expense of character development and story telling. It’s not a polite criticism, it is what elevates this book. • • I am grateful a character like Wallace exists. He is meaningful, complicated representation. He experiences the world through his many identities and it’s thrilling to read the way Taylor had constructed him. He is lonely and hurt and mean and funny and smart and easy to love and fragile and all these other things all at once. The way he reacts and responds reminded me of being backed in a corner. Not predictable but understandable. There are scenes where I could feel my breathing quicken as I feared what micro aggression someone would say next and what Wallace would do in return. I could relate to him. The book certainly feels like real life. • • Have you read this book? What did you think? • • This is Taylor’s debut, and I can’t wait to read whatever comes next for him. Until then, check him out on this weeks episode of The Stacks! #thestacks

MARCH WRAP UP • • Quarantine isn’t my favorite, but it’s been good for lots of reading. I was able to get through nine books this month. I read more audiobooks than I usually do. I also relied heavily on my Kindle to get through E-ARCs for #thestacksquarantour since many publishers are limiting their shipping. So unfortunately four of my reads are not in this stack. • • As I mentioned last week, I’ve noticed a huge shift in my reading to lighter fiction reads. I need the escape. My standout this month was ANNA K by Jenny Lee. It’s so good. • • Anna K by Jenny Lee 📱(YA, Modern Retelling) • Fight of the Century edited by Michael Chandon & Ayelet Waldman 🎧 (Collected Essays, History) • Know My Name by Chanel Miller📱(Memoir) • The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory (Romantic Comedy) • Open Season by Ben Crump 🎧(Nonfiction, Racism in America) • So You Want to Start a Podcast by Kristen Meinzer 🎧 (How-To, Podcasting) • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Play, Classic) • Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling by Ellen Haun & Laura Lane 📱(Short Stories, Modern Retelling, Comedy) • The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré 🎧 (Fiction) • • What was your favorite book you read in March? • • Stay tuned for reviews of these books in the next few days and weeks! #thestackswrapup

We’re changing things up for #thestacksbookclub. Moving forward we will only have ONE book club pick a month, this way you’ll be able to read along with way less pressure! • • To kick things off, our first book of the third season, is TRUST EXERCISE by Susan Choi. We will be discussing this book on April 29th on the podcast. • • TRUST EXERCISE won the 2019 National Book Award in fiction. The book is an examination of truth, fiction, and how we tell our stories. Set in a 1980’s performing arts high school, the book has all the drama and heightened emotion you could ask for. Not to mention the writing is A+. • • Let me know in the comments if you plan to read along in April. Or if you’ve already read the book. • • Be sure to tune in on April 29th as I discuss TRUST EXERCISE with author Brandon Taylor (@brandonlgtaylor). There is more information on the website, link in bio. #thestacks

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