Fyi re: usa's women's hockey team... (via: www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...) #Olympics
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Fyi re: usa's women's hockey team... (via: www.nytimes.com/athletic/700...) #Olympics
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.75 - My tips for reading this book are 1: do the audiobook, 2: trust the author, & 3: the title is important on multiple levels. Now go enjoy the brilliance that is Erdrichβs literary mind!
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- a stopover in London & occultist hijinx at the British Museum for book 5. I liked seeing more tension in the Emerson marriage tbh. It was cute. Ramses, however, remains the star of the show.
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- A truly masterful, moving, impressive, & satisfying ending to the best spec-fic / sci-fi / fantasy series Iβve ever read. My number one rec for these revolutionary times.
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.5 - a brief overview of the history of the Algonquian, Siouan-Catawban, & Iroquoian languages speaking peoples, particularly the Cherokee & Lumbee tribes, of North Carolina.
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.75 - a thoughtful overview of the history of the Algonquian, Siouan-Catawban, & Iroquoian languages speaking peoples of the Outer Banks with a focus on Indigenous experiences & perspectives.
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- an exceptionally deep & intentional contribution to the procedural thriller genre focusing on museum ethics & Indigenous culture, history & mythology.
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- a really special genre-defying, memoir-adjacent read about the modern Inuit experience through the eyes of two-spirit artist, musician, & shaman, Tanya Tagaqβmust read on audiobook!
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.5 - a generally informative book with an exhausting amount of cisheteronormative assumptions, christian & imperial apologism, & queer & neurodivergency erasure.
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- a fun, hilarious, clever, & charming coming-into-oneβs-self story about a young boy who is apprenticed by Death.
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- for lovers of whimsical, brilliant, unusual writing, characters that undergo affirming transformations, & storylines that explore under-examined, charmingly mundane, ND human experiences.
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- disturbing, mysterious, dark, felt a bit thriller-tropey, ultimately just left me confusedβ¦
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.5 - a brutal, honest vignette of the violence of misogyny & the insidious way it shapes the psyche & directs all relationships.
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- the very autistic-coded mother-son duo of Amelia & Ramses is making this series for me. They keep getting better!
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- interesting & informative, thoughtful & thorough, with some problematic momentsβa self-published work so go in expecting a lack of editing oversight & an amateurish writing style.
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- a compulsively readable, heart-rending, hilarious, sweet, & incredibly tragic vignette of modern Penobscot lifeβthe kind of literature destined to be a future classic.
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- an equal parts absorbing, satisfying, & infuriating dark academia mystery/thriller about co-ed private boarding schools, the dynamics of privilege, found family, & systemic misogyny.
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- My first time read of this horror classic - surprised to find that it's less about dual sides of one's identity & more about 'what if your worst intrusive thoughts were a person?'
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.75 - Fairytale retellings that are as magical as they are horrorific, unhinged, flowery, feminist, & spectacular: my third time reading Carterβs collection has finally made me a fan!
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.5 - Brilliant & heart breaking with a powerful, believable, beautiful, & (mostly) satisfying ending. Three cheers for disability rep in historical fiction!
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- for readers who love to be philosophically & intellectually challenged by their fantasy / sci-fi reads, especially when they have ultimately wholesome & very queer themes.
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- a dark but powerful look at the (young adult) Autistic experience & the search for belonging, community, mothering, love, & acceptance as oneβs true, whole self.
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- more dreamy Victorian worldbuilding, witty, relatable & lovable characters, themes of progressive politics, feminism, queer love, & found family, with lotsss of delectable spice!
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.5 - it should have been five stars because of the overall content (fascinating, challenging, & extremely important), but the writing style & the tone made it positively excruciating to read.
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- a thrilling ride with lovable characters & hilarious banter; a bit repetitive at times & an MC that drove me CRAZY but it all comes together for a very satisfying end. Sequel??
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One of the most beautiful & bookish cities I've ever visited!
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- the sapphic historical fiction romance novel of my dreams! I loved everything about this book from the characters to the setting to the plotβall I can say is βBridgerton who??β Read it!
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- Osundeβs immaculate second novel is a wholesome, hopeful, & heart-wrenchingly, devastatingly beautiful Deep Envisioningβ’ of a better world for queer folx in Nigeria & beyond.
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Agassi just coached De Minaur to his first victory over Zverev in their last eight matches? & Fritz to his first win over Alcaraz AND a world number one ever? Thatβs probably not insignificant, yeah? #LaverCup
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.75 - The creeping pace, nauseating imagery, rage, trauma & pain all weave together to make this one of the darkest, cruelest, & most effective slow burn literary horror novels I've ever read.
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