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Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan
4.25
Second chance is my new favorite trope. Beautiful and devastating portrayal of grief, depression, and trauma.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
2.5
The first chapter was painfully bad. It was nearly a DNF but it got steadily better. Glad I stuck with it. Time travel as a trope always irritates me but I liked the way the author handled it here. It was more a literary device that helped reveal deepened character relationships with self and others vs the more conventional time travel as an integral and pervasive plot driver.
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
5.0
If you love this book, and even if you just like it so so, please read some Angela Davis. The factual stats and laws in the footnotes against a fictional near-term future is grotesquely disturbing. Let it radicalize you.
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
5.0
Great collection! I would have liked a little longer introduction but chapters were impeccably organized and the poetry itself was beautiful and moving.
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
4.25
Impressive in scope of timeline and cultures in just over 200 pages. It was obvious to me that the author sought out numerous sensitivity readers. As a white reader I think they did well but am not an authority with lived experience.
Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse
5.0
Fantastic wrap up to a great trilogy! The pacing was unbelievable. It was 600 pages of sprint. One of the things I have loved most about this series is the way Roanhorse wrote shifting lines of “good” and “evil”. There was no morally uncorrupted character.