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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

This was an incredible read. The art was captivating and the way the stories intertwined was beautiful. I only wish there was more!

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

My Alcoholic Escape from Reality by Nagata Kabi

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emotional reflective

3.75

This was a really interesting addition to the memoir series. Just as My Solo Exchange Diary was different pacing than My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, this volume is different still. It is more of an immediate reflection of a year, not as small as diary entries in My Solo Exchange Diary and not as large of a focus as My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. This difference is part of what makes this series so unique. It's not just telling you about the author's experience, but you're seeing the change in approaches within the work itself.

In My Solo Exchange Diary Vol 2, one of the things she covered was the experience of writing memoir and even some of the fallout. In this volume, you see this more as her feelings around it shift. There's also a clear change in how she handles discussing interpersonal elements and discusses how it had caused issues after her other memoirs had been published. So this volume focuses much on her internal experience of hospitalization and recovery.

Over all, this whole series has been a really interesting look into her life, issues of mental health, and what it means to be vulnerable and seek intimacy. How do we seek comfort in a way that is healthy and productive? This series doesn't serve to answer this -- it is very honest in it's open endings.

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Nubia: Real One by L.L. McKinney, Robyn Smith

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adventurous

Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

This was a really wonderful collection. I liked that some of it was from Aphrodite's perspective and some was from the author. It has a lot of important things to say about self-worth, sexism, and queer identity. This will definitely be a collection that I will revisit.

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