Grete Rachel Howland

Review by grete_rachel_howland - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland It's easy to see why this book receives the praise it does. Keefe relays the most recent polit...

Apart from some subtle (or in one instance, not subtle at all) authorial bias creeping into the writing, I'm grateful to have read this book and recommend it--just don't consider it the whole story.

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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise...

A pleasant surprise!

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Review by grete_rachel_howland - This Is How You Lose the Time War I probably would not have picked up this book were it not for my book club deciding to read it...

This one was really fascinating--such a rich text!

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Review by grete_rachel_howland - The Overstory An incredible achievement in storytelling. The structure alone is enough to leave you in awe; ...

This one, on the other hand...

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Review by grete_rachel_howland - Playground There is much to like about this book. Powers is so skilled at weaving together the destinies ...

Not a favorite, unfortunately. The cover is really a treat, though!

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There’s so much out there about the lasting harms of purity culture when it comes to one’s relationship to sexuality, but I’m starting to realize being raised with the prosperity gospel fucked me up just as badly when it comes to my relationship to money

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Review by grete_rachel_howland - Homegoing A beautiful story of stories--a family's legacy expanding and then turning back in on itself. ...

Glad I finally got around to this one--it's a definite recommend.

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Review by grete_rachel_howland - The Midnight Feast A solid vacation read--the chapters are very short, it moves fast, there are multiple twists, ...

A decently fun time if you're not looking for anything too deep--good for a vacation read.

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Review by grete_rachel_howland - Wandering Stars Another brilliant piece from Tommy Orange. The way he weaves different points of view (not jus...

Another astounding novel

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Picked this one up used at a local indie bookstore. Not a life-changer, but I always try to remember what an incredible thing it is for someone to have written a book.

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Given the literal definition of deportation is removing a foreigner or noncitizen from the country, we - journalists, media orgs - should probably all stop referring to the ‘deportation’ of a 2 year old US citizen. It’s NOT a deportation.

I’m not sure what it is. A kidnapping?

You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.

A Black man won the presidency and they decided to burn the entire country to the ground so it won’t be something worth winning anymore.

No shit Sherlock. It infuriates me in a way i can’t put into words that any of this is reported like it’s not been completely obvious what drives this man

Review by grete_rachel_howland - The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Wilkerson conveys history with empathy, creativity, and clarity. If only we were all taught ab...

Why do we make teenagers read textbooks when writing like this exists?

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Russell Brand?!?!

Why is it always the ones you absolutely expect?

So glad comedy is legal again on X because this is gold!

My fellow eldest daughters raised in scary/unsafe homes who are trying to break cycles, I want to celebrate what a big difference we made for our siblings. How much work we did for them that maybe we didn’t even realize we were doing. What a blessing we were, even as we craved our own protectors.

One of the best things I ever learned in school—from my 7th grade civics teacher who was a white dude, go figure—was that we allll have biases & the only way to weed them out is to name them. You’re already on the train—inaction is complicity.

So many in positions of great power and influence will be remembered for only their cowardice in the face of this historic moment

A lot institutional leaders in the U.S. need to read this book right now:

Shutout babyyyy 🤘

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

Review by grete_rachel_howland - Somewhere Beyond the Sea I think I've figured out what it is about this world that Klune built that so mesmerizes, deli...

Thank the universe for TJ Klune. As with Cerulean Sea, this book left my heart bursting 💙📚 #booksky #thestorygraph

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remember when all we had was blogspot and a dream

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

"just to prove to myself I can do it" was one of my favorite motivations--when inspiration flags, pettiness will do! Keep going 💪

One of the brilliant things our current iteration of oligarchs did is get people to conceive of free speech as being able to call your coworkers slurs rather than using it to say stuff like why are my tax dollars subsidizing your billionaire ass