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Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec
5.0
Fantastic book. As someone who walked away from the faith on my own while my entire immediate family and most of my extend family are still in it, I sometimes feel soul-crushingly alone and I needed this book. It's so good to know that I'm not the only one living this life. Incredible, relevant book.
Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street by Lee Stringer
5.0
This book positively ensnared me and I will vouch for the rest of time.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
5.0
Good Gaiman book! So used to the movie version, I was insanely confused when Wybie didn't show up.
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
1.0
Quit reading (listening technically since I'm on my audiobook grind). There was a lot of sexism here that, whatever, may have been meant to "represent the time period", but it really just annoyed me and had me thinking, "I'm not enjoying this. I'm not going to waste my time. I'm done." Like, a man had a debt, and his sister-in-law paid it off for him, and when he finds out, instead of saying, "Thank you," like a normal person, he starts ranting and raving like a little baby, crying shit like, "Noooo! A woman can't pay my debt for me! No fair, I wanted to stay in debt with absolutely no way of paying it off!!! I wanted the massive interest to keep going up until we all lost everything!!! You're literally emasculating me! Look, my balls are shrinking because you paid my debt for me!" Just annoying, embarrassing, cringe-worthy man being a man.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
5.0
A really awesome story set to the French Revolution. It's funny, the author in the first half really shows just how awful and oppressive the rich are toward the french peasants, but once the revolution happens, he tries to turn around and make the revolutionaries the villains. Well, that didn't work on me, and I just kept right on rooting for the revolutionaries. I don't care about these dumb main characters and their stupid decisions that put them on the wrong side of the revolution. The main guy really thought he was invincible and could just do whatever he wanted, and he found out the hard way the revolutionaries weren't playing around. Shout out to the guillotine for effectively ending the oppression of the working class!
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
5.0
This book may, to some people, seem to have an alarming title, but this book is solution-focused. It's filled with concrete plans, things that have worked well in other countries, that would make our society more human and more safe, without the involvement of police. It's incredible.
“Left-Wing” Communism, An Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Lenin
fast-paced
5.0
Lenin remains an icon.
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
5.0
Socialism is just the next step in human growth. We either end capitalism and live, governed by empathy and equity, or we burn this planet and everything on it so that billionaires can exist, controlled by greed and selfishness.
Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing by Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Stringer
dark
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
5.0
Really interesting conversation. What I honestly most appreciated about this book is the way it introduced me to Lee Stringer. Can't wait to read his book!