Leah Rachel von Essen reviews genre-bending fiction for Booklist, and writes regularly as a senior contributor at Book Riot. Her blog While Reading and Walking has over 10,000 dedicated followers over several social media outlets, including Instagram. She writes passionately about books in translation, chronic illness and bias in healthcare, queer books, twisty SFF, and magical realism and folklore. She was one of a select few bookstagrammers named to NewCity’s Chicago Lit50 in 2022. She is an avid traveler, a passionate fan of women’s basketball and soccer, and a lifelong learner. Twitter: @reading_while
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A reader on the far-reaching, negative effects of the assumption that in order for a character to be queer they have to kiss or "prove" it.
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Seven lushly illustration editions of Neil Gaiman's novels.
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A reader vows to dedicate 10% of her reads in 2020 to books in translation, and shares eight of the books high on her to-read list.
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