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Holly M Bryan
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✡️ BLOG TOUR BOOK REVIEW ✡️ Q: Do you enjoy reading diverse books? A: Yes! I actually prefer, for the most part, reading about experiences and cultures different from my own. As a white woman it's easy to find myself centered, so I prefer to find diverse books! ✡️ I'm happy to be part of the @htpbooks blog tour for KISSING KOSHER by @jeanmeltzer, and wanted to share my review here on Insta as well. This is the second book I’ve read by Jean Meltzer (the first being THE MATZAH BALL), and what can I say except I loved it *even more* than the first?! As with her other books, KISSING KOSHER is unapologetically Jewish and heavy on disability awareness. But the amazing thing is that she does all this without sacrificing any of the pieces that we love so much about rom-coms -- the romance, the comedy, the banter and flirting, the butterflies, the adorable male love interest (Ethan is an absolute dream). I don’t know how she achieves this balance so well, but I love it! With THE MATZAH BALL I felt seen because I have fibromyalgia, which is in many ways similar to ME/CFS, which the FMC has in that book. In KISSING KOSHER, our FMC, Avital, has interstitial cystitis. I so enjoyed and appreciated learning more about living with IC because a good friend of mine has it. I kept telling her, “You have to read this book, you’ll feel so seen!” This is why reading diverse books is so, so important! People who identify with the characters feel seen, and the rest of us learn so much. I didn’t just learn about IC, either, but about Judaism and their teachings on sex and intimacy (which just might blow your mind!). Honestly, if you haven’t yet read one of Jean’s books, what are you waiting for? RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ✡️ ✡️ ✡️ #kissingkosher #kissingkosherbook #jeanmeltzer #jeanmeltzerbooks #htpbooks #mirabooks #jewishromance #jewishrepresentation #disabilityawareness #interstitialcystitis #disabledcharacter #disabilityrepresentation #romancebookstagram #romancebook #romancelover #romancerecs #romancebookrecs #blogtour #bloggersofinstagram #bookkeepingblog #bookstagramfeature #bookstagram #bookstagrammers #bookstagramcommunity #authorsofinstagram #jewishliterature #bookreview