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Category: Book Review
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Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My Life
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Girl Unmasked: How Uncovering My Autism Saved My LifeAuthor: Emily Katy Category: Memoir Publisher: Monoray Publication date: 28 March 2024 Blurb: ‘Emily’s moving book is a powerful testimony that shines a light on the continued failure of health services to provide any kind of meaningful improvement for autistic people. Should be essential reading for mental health professionals and anyone with autism in their lives’ – FERN BRADY, author of…
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Review: Aspergirls
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: AspergirlsAuthor: Rudy Simone Category: Non-Fiction Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publication date: July 15, 2010 Blurb: Girls with Asperger’s Syndrome are less frequently diagnosed than boys, & even once symptoms have been recognized, help is often not readily available. The image of coping well presented by AS females can often mask difficulties, deficits, challenges, & loneliness. Review: This was such a mixed book,…
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Review: The Unlikely Heroes Club
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: The Unlikely Heroes ClubAuthor: Kate Foster Category: Middle Grade Publisher: Walker Books Publication date: 5 July 2023 Blurb: A fun, frolicking adventure about five kids with a mystery to solve! Eleven-year-old Oli is spending his school holidays at Heroes Club, where kids can build friendships and learn about their emotions, but Oli just wants to be home … where it’s familiar, not-so-boring and…
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Review: Act Your Age, Eve Brown
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: Act Your Age, Eve BrownAuthor: Talia Hibbert Category: Novel Publisher: Piatkus Publication date: 9 March 2021 Blurb: Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong—so she’s given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins a wedding, her parents draw the line. It’s time for Eve to grow…
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Review: Don’t Tell Me What to Do
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: Don’t Tell Me What to DoAuthor: Renee Connoulty Category: Picture Book Publisher: Renee Connoulty Publication date: 8 May 2024 Blurb: Rose wants to learn and have fun, but when she feels like she’s being bossed around, she gets upset. Rose might yell or run away, even if she really wants to do what’s being asked. Rose can’t help how her brain reacts. Rose’s mum and…
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Review: Growing In To Autism
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: Growing In To AutismAuthor: Sandra Thom-Jones Category: Memoir Publisher: Melbourne University Press Publication date: 30 August 2022 Blurb: What’s it like to realise you’re autistic? And how do you start to ask the world around you to accept that? From the outside looking in, Sandra Thom-Jones was living a successful life: she had a great career, a beautiful home, a caring husband,…
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Review: Late Bloomer
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: Late BloomerAuthor: Clem Bastow Category: Memoir Publisher: Hardie Grant Books Publication date: 7 July 2021 Blurb: Introducing a bold new voice in Australian nonfiction, Late Bloomer is a heartfelt coming-of-age memoir that will change the way you think about autism. Clem Bastow grew up feeling like she’d missed a key memo on human behaviour. She found the unspoken rules of social…
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Neurospicy Characters
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Neurospicy CharactersLast November, I started a list of books that I have read that feature characters that are explicitly neurodivergent. This includes memoirs, novels, middle grade, and picture books. You can read that list here. I update this as I read more books. When I compiled that list, I promised to create a list of books…
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Review: The Kiss Quotient
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: The Kiss QuotientAuthor: Helen Hoang Category: Novel Publisher: Berkley Publication date: 5 June 2018 Blurb: Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases–a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.…
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Review: Little Victories
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: Little VictoriesAuthor: Yvon Roy Category: Memoir Publisher: Titan Books Publication date: 7 July 2020 Blurb: The award-winning graphic novel autobiography of a father, and the challenges he faces raising his autistic son. A beautiful visual exploration of the highs and lows experienced by a parent learning how to adapt to his son’s autism. Faced with a challenging road ahead, the author…