{"id":18427,"date":"2022-04-30T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/?p=18427"},"modified":"2022-04-30T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T20:00:27","slug":"deweys-24-hour-readathon-tbr-and-updates-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitgoodwin.com\/books\/deweys-24-hour-readathon-tbr-and-updates-april-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon: #TBR and Updates | April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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It’s here it’s here it’s here!!!!! I don’t know about you, but I look forward to Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathons as much as (or more than) I look forward to other holidays now. But! Since you’re here for the updates, I’ll stop writing my intro now and let you see what you came here for!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\"Dewey’sTrue Biz<\/strong> by Sara Novi\u0107<\/a>
Published on<\/strong> April 5, 2022 by Random House<\/a>
Genres:<\/strong> Adult<\/a>, Contemporary<\/a>, Queer<\/a>, ASL<\/a>, Linguistics<\/a>, New Adult<\/a>, Romance<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 386
Format:<\/strong> Audiobook<\/a>
Source:<\/strong> Rochester Public Library<\/a>
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A transporting novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War<\/i>.<\/b>
\nTrue biz (adj\/exclamation; American Sign Language): <\/i> really, seriously, definitely, real-talk <\/i><\/i>
\nTrue biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the headmistress, who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another--and changed forever.
\nThis is a story of sign language and lip-reading, cochlear implants and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t