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Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

ckkurata529's review

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challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

jessicaychambers's review

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challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

iannome's review

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challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

natashaniezgoda's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad

5.0

adrianlwaller's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

danamantooth's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

birdykinsreads's review

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A poignant and achingly profound book of increasingly intertwined notes—thoughts gathered from a myriad of sources that each strike a chord alone and together to create such a powerful and deeply poetic collection of  musings on the ordinary and extraordinary facets of Black existence. 

Christina Sharpe grapples with both public and personal loss, grief, trauma and the epigenetic inheritance of it—from slavery to our current state of systemic racism a lot of people can’t even acknowledge exists—and how we interact with and participate in that every day.

It’s a beautiful, tender and quietly devastating work of art that I wish I could convince everyone to read.

ejs_99's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad

curtisjc3's review

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

hansonkarly's review

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informative

5.0