Bram the Bookworm

  • Conversations with People Who Hate Me: Conversation, Empathy, Shame, and Snowflakes

    Conversations with People Who Hate Me: Conversation, Empathy, Shame, and Snowflakes

    Dylan Marron is the host of the podcast and the author of the book Conversations With People Who Hate Me. He has made many videos, including The Unboxing Series and Sitting In Bathrooms With Trans People. He has his own TED Talk: Empathy Is Not Endorsement. Dylan continues to present activism in unique and effective…

  • Dean Atta’s Only On The Weekends (Book Review)

    Only on the Weekends is written lyrically and in verse, creating a calm ambience. Mack has been in love with the same guy since forever, but K feels out of reach. When K likes Mack, they form what should be the perfect couple, but was what Mack envisioned better than the reality? Mack’s dad is…

  • Adib Khorram’s Kiss&Tell (Book Review)

    Adib Khorram’s Darius The Great Duology was incredible; how could he create the same energy with his third book: Kiss&Tell? Hunter isn’t able to speak out to the public, but more importantly, to his bandmates. He wears whatever “gay” clothes The Label puts him in, but when his private texts are leaked online, he’s pushed…

  • Francesca Zappia’s most Recent Success: Katzenjammer (Book Review)

    Francesca Zappia’s most Recent Success: Katzenjammer (Book Review)

    The young adult horror novel begins, “My eyes are gone. Figures. I stare into the mirror in the girl’s locker room for a full two minutes, examining the new blackness in the eyeholes of my mask. Then I wait another minute before I jam a finger two knuckles deep into my eye socket. Nothing there.…

  • Adib Khorram’s Darius the Great Duology (Book Reviews)

    I recently read both of the fun, quick paced, and humorous Darius the Great books by Adib Khorram. I couldn’t set either book down, and they are two of the few books that I think would still be amazing upon re-read. Since publishing both Darius the Great books, Adib Khorram has gone on to publish…