Candy Bunny Reader

What's your favorite movie/show/video game (yeah, he's voiced video game characters!) Tim Curry was in? Mine was when he voiced the Mouse King in Barbie in the Nutcracker. When a legend passes away, you have to read his life story.  Vagabond is famous British actor Tim Curry 's memoir, chronicling his early years growing up in Britain, how he got into acting, and some fun behind the scenes trivia and sentiments about his time working on his most famous projects, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show to The Wild Thornberrys.   This was very digestible! Tim Curry wrote his book with a lot of dry humor but also warmth. He has never been one to stayed tied down to one place for too long (hence the title "Vagabond"), and he hopes that his memoir touches his readers' in some way (it did for me!).   I gave this 5 stars ! 

This was on my TBR for a while! Sensory: Life on the Spectrum is a comic anthology edited by Bex Ollerton . It's a compilation of comics by popular autistic artists (mostly based in the UK) about their personal experiences being autistic.  The comics vary from sad, to funny, to a mixture of both. Some are even educational! With so many unique art styles! They all have the same message: there is nothing wrong with you and you are not alone.  I loved this book so much! It gets 5 stars from me. This book was especially helpful for me as an autistic adult that was diagnosed later in life. A lot of the artists featured in this book were just like me! But anyone whether your are neurodivergent (autism or anything else) or neurotypical should read this. 

  Another memoir everyone needs to read! Homebody by Theo Parish is a graphic novel memoir of the author on their journey on how they discovered they are nonbinary. They use an extended metaphor of a house to explain their story, on how discovering they were nonbinary was liking coming home to themselves. They also highlight realities on being nonbinary that not everyone will understand you and that is okay--surround yourself with people who support you. And questioning yourself and coming out is a continuous process.  I loved how uplifting and heartfelt this memoir was! I also love the author's illustrations. I also liked their cats and the fact they were a nerd who likes cosplaying and roleplaying games. So this book got a pure 5 stars from me!

It's Deaf Awareness Month, so why not share the book perfect for this occasion that I just read and got as a present from a family friend?! A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard is about Steffi, a girl in her last year of high school who has selective mutism. She is hearing, but she also can communicate through sign language (specifically BSL, since the story is set in Britain). She gets assigned to help out a new student in her school named Rhys, who is deaf. Slowly, they become friends and they become a couple. Through Rhys, Steffi is able to meet more people who support her and her disability and alternate communication styles after struggling with them for so long.  Such a cute romance book! And great disability representation, too. I though this book would be perfect to share this month since it's Deaf Awareness Month.  But I did give it 4 stars . There is some mild ableism sprinkled throughout the book (although it is handled well at the end). One character is mention...

  I just finished reading Mandy by Julie Andrews. (Yes, that Julie Andrews. Did you know she was an author as well as an actress?) I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars. This was such a sweet book! This gave off the same heartwarming, cottagecore vibes similar to Anne of Green Gables, which is one of my favorite books of all time.  Mandy is about an orphan girl named, well, Mandy, who is ten years old and has lived in an orphanage all of her life. Despite her relatively normal an non-chaotic life in the orphanage, she's had a lingering sadness in the back of her mind because she always felt that something was missing from her life.  One day while exploring the woods behind the orphanage, she comes across an old abandoned cottage. She decides to make it her own personal sanctuary. So she starts a project to tidy up the cottage and grow a garden there, but she has to keep it secret, as she has felt she finally found a place to call her own and doesn't want to share it with any...