Room Temperature LGBTQ+ Genre Fiction one that she takes very

one that she takes very seriously

there are very few written for parents of young children

A great introduction for middle-schoolers and tween readers on topics such as consent and the #MeToo movement

“The Tortured Poets Department”

Room Temperature LGBTQ+ Genre Fiction one that she takes veryNicholson Baker's novel The Mezzanine turned a lunch hour into a postmodern version of The Odyssey. In Room Temperature, originally published by Grove Press in 1984, Baker takes the reader an even greater distance in the course of twenty minutes, although his narrator is obliged to be stationary, as he is giving his baby daughter her bottle. Though all in the room is still, the narrator's mind is not, and in inspired moments of mental flight, Mike's