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20 reviews

Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life by Amy Gahran

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet by Jayne Buxton

medium-paced

0.25

Packed full of misinformation and junk science, this reads like an industry propaganda piece, or someone’s desperate attempt to justify their blatant inaction in the face of the climate crisis. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

“We Are Certain of Our Own Insanity”: Antipsychiatry and the Gay Liberation Movement, 1968–1980 by Abram J. Lewis

fast-paced

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The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery by Marjorie Spiegel

challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

5.0

What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why by David Allen Sibley

informative fast-paced

4.0

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Did not finish book. Stopped at 18%.

Fatphobic slurs and meandering, boring writing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise Busby

challenging emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.25

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

4.5