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36 reviews

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson

challenging reflective slow-paced

I’m a simple man. I read a Maggie Nelson book, I think about some things slightly differently in a manner that will change my life forever, I look up the books she references, and the cycle repeats. 

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

challenging reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

What a gift to have read as a trans person in their late 20s in a dead-end job I mostly like

Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

Lots to chew on, especially a decade after publication, but frankly I feel the amount of embedded Facebook comments in section 4 was disproportionate in an otherwise concise text. 

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
Did not finish book. Stopped at 11%.

Just not currently in my YA era 

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.5

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Didn’t always understand what was happening but I enjoyed it! Would probably get more out of it if I had Christianity-based religious trauma but I do not. 

Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany

funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.75

Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

The virgin JK Rowling: *does TERF shit*
The chad Ursula K. Le Guin: “here’s the fifth book in my magic school series, it’s mostly about how gender is socially constructed & enforced and also most of the people in my fantasy world aren’t white. Anyways.” 

The Unreal and the Real Volume 1: Where on Earth by Ursula K. Le Guin

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.0

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75