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weeee congrats congrats!!! 💗

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it issss!!! It was an immediate 5 star for me after I finished it and I still can't stop thinking about it

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yayyyy well done amber!!! 🌟

  • So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
    Sep 17, 2026
    So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of ColorCaro De Robertis
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.5Characters: Plot:

    So Many Stars gathers essays from elder bipoc queer people to share their story and their journey as a queer person, going through the hardships they had to face but also the happy moments they found in their life and their community.

    This was an incredibly emotional read because of how personal it was. By having these people be the ones to tell their own story, you get to understand more intimately how they felt through different moments in their lives, how the people around them affected them negatively but also how others helped them in the most positive way and became their beacon of light.

    It brought me a little to tears how so many of these people felt different, how the people around them looked at them differently and felt the need to assign them to a specific gender or label, when most times they didn’t even have words to express how they felt, only that they just wanted to be themselves - “and I don’t even remember secretly feeling like I wanted to be a boy. I just felt like I wanted to be who I am.”

    It broke my heart when they mentioned how they got beat up, were called slurs and put in prison only to say after “That was how it was back then.”, that this was their normal and what queer people had to face on a daily without being able to do much about it, otherwise they could face even worse consequences.

    But it also brought me so much joy reading more positive perspectives with how some had accepting families, were able to find people they could trust in and belong to a community that made them happy where they felt accepted and seen and where they were able to find joy in being queer. As important as it is to learn about the prejudice queer people had and still have to face today, it’s equally valuable to also read about queer joy, people being happy in their body and loving who they are.

    The structure of the book didn’t work for me and unfortunately that affected a lot my enjoyment in reading this. I do think there is cohesiveness in the way Caro De Robertis chose to put together transcripts all relating to the same topic of discussion in the same chapter, but these segments were all mixed together with even ones by the same person split apart, breaking the flow of their train of thought and, consequently, my own reading. This made the reading a bit confusing, losing track of who was saying what, and blended all their voices together instead of keeping them distinct. I wanted to learn more about these people individually, but with the way this book was written it was hard to piece their history together.

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    minsuni commented...

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    even if a little boring at times, I thought overall it was cute! Hope you end up liking it :)

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    So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

    So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

    Caro De Robertis

    Award-winning novelist Caro De Robertis offers a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of queer and trans elders of color, from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens to tell their stories of breathtaking courage, cultural innovations, and acts of resistance, all in their own words.So Many Stars knits together the voices of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer and two spirit elders of color as they share authentic, intimate accounts of how they created space for themselves and their communities in the world, how they pursued their passions, and how they continue to be at the vanguard of social change. This singular project collects the testimonies of over a dozen elders, each a glimmering thread in a luminous tapestry, preserving their words for future generations—who can more fully exist in the world today because of these very voices. Award-winning novelist De Robertis creates a collective coming-of-age story based on hundreds of hours of interviews, offering rare snapshots of ordinary kids growing up, navigating family issues and finding community, coming out and changing how they identify over the years, building movements and weathering the AIDS crisis, and sharing wisdom for future generations. Often narrating experiences that took place before they had the array of language that exists today to self-identify and to describe life beyond the gender binary, this generation lived through remarkable changes in American culture, shaped American culture, and yet rarely takes center stage in the history books. Their stories feel particularly urgent in the current political moment, but also remind readers that their experiences are not new. Young trans and nonbinary people of color today belong to a long lineage.   The anecdotes in these pages are riveting, joyful, heartbreaking—so full of life and personality and wisdom, and artfully woven together into one immersive narrative. In De Robertis’s words, So Many Stars shares “behind-the-scenes tales of what it meant—and still means—to create an authentic life, against the odds.”

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    minsuni commented...

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    omg happy birthdayyyy to the cutest reading mouseeee!!! Hope you're having a wonderful day 💗

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    minsuni commented...

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    whaaaa 500 days is amazing!!!

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    unlikeable characters, heavy themes but balanced with humor and you had fun reading it RAAAHHH SO EXCITED TO READ THIS

  • Fruit Fly
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    Sep 16, 2026
    Fruit FlyJosh Silver
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    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5
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    Yes. (Yas.)

    I ate this book up. The two MCs are unlikeable but just redeeming enough to root for. While the book deals with a lot of heavy themes, there’s a perfect balance with witty and humor. I just really had a lot of fun reading this. I loved being inside the brain of these two characters. I was basically like this 😯😨🤭🫢😳 the whole time. This book was extremely hard to put down!

    The type of humor in this book really worked for me! It actually made me laugh quite a few times (which hardly ever happens) without feeling like it was trying to make me laugh.

    The only reason it’s not 5 stars is because there was a section where it felt like it dragged a bit. And I wanted more resolution on one character near the end that we didn’t get.

    Other than that READ THIS.

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    Im not feeling it☹️ The first one was funny, at least. This one is just annoyingly horny without much to back it up. I felt so much anticipation in the first one, and now Im just kinda ehhh the whole time.

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