amaranthpalmer's Reviews (294)

Resident Alien Volume 7: The Book of Love

Peter Hogan

2.0

Resident Alien Omnibus Volume 2

Peter Hogan, Steve Parkhouse

2.0

Resident Alien Omnibus Volume 1

Peter Hogan, Steve Parkhouse

2.0

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

5.0

Rethinking College: A Guide to Thriving Without a Degree

Karin Klein

2.5

medium-paced

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Patty Krawec

3.25

medium-paced

Meno

Plato

1.0

slow-paced

Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir

Walela Nehanda

4.5

medium-paced

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I am more of a prose reader, but this was excellent as a foray into poetry. The remaining 0.5 stars merely reflects my issues with the genre as a whole, Walela's craft is pristine.

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism

Laura E. Gómez

3.0

medium-paced

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

Emily Ladau

2.75

medium-paced

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This is an introductory and uncritical overview of disability. It was reminiscent of professional development courses, which are meant to propagate decency. It is necessarily incomplete and not at all theoretical. I'm not sure who the exact audience are (I suppose miseducated special ed teachers? The elderly who reject their own disability?) or how they would find this book if not from word of mouth.