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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks

informative

4.0

i think much of what she says about education in here is already standard in the university where i study, where most of my professors follow paulo freire's conceptions about teaching (being ourselves brazilians as he was) and so much of what was said were things i was already aware of and things that i already to try to put into my own practice as a teacher. but i imagine back when this book was published, education wasn't the way it is today, and, either way, this book is worth the reading for the way hooks looks at education.
ps. it is ironic that the professor who recommended this book to our class last semester is one of the few of my professors that doesn't seem to follow bell hooks' teachings lmao. 

I Am the Wind by Jon Fosse

4.0

short but powerful

The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

this book is just boring me. all the things i didn't like in the first book are worse here. you won't connect to the characters because they're all hollow. i'm just not gonna waste my time.

Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka

3.5

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

4.0

100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed by Melissa Panarello

1.0

i don't see a point to this book

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

4.0

i had high expectations. that never quite works out, but... this book was good. enjoyable and easy to read. the fantasy elements were unique and kept me entertained. my biggest problem was that i couldn't connect to the characters. they felt all kinda hollow to me. but,

i love my protagonists evil,

and that is already enough reason to keep reading the series 

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

3.5

The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.

just kinda boring. was not feeling it

Cem Anos de Solidão by Gabriel García Márquez

5.0

this book fucked me up in the head. five stars.