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13 reviews

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

incredible.

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Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Gaza Writes Back by Refaat Alareer

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

0.0

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

hm.

it was easy to finish.

and difficult to read.

easy: i really like
the pacing, voice,
characterization.

difficult:
1. I... am studying my eye
for desire politics...

this book was useful
in this regard --

the narrator's discussion
of self, Whoopi
("magical negro trope"/fixation
with Whoopi and her body),

and/in relation with every other
person/subject in the book.

2. This person 
is really hurting.

p.s.
did not realize
until now that 

i wasn't forgetting
her name -- we do
not ever get it!



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Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

This is exactly what I needed to read right now to begin to understand what’s happened. 

I’m very glad and changed by this work.
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Breathtaking.