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The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom by Felicia Rose Chavez
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
read this for my creative writing pedagogy course and it was so good. highlighted a lot of problems in the crw mfa that I had realized but thought I was alone in my feelings or that I hadn’t noticed before or put a name to. also almost got into an argument with a white man in my class over this book lol
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker
challenging
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
“Everyone knows how race stories like these begin, after all. But we do not know how they will end.”
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hernández
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
wow wow wow wow wow wow wow
An Earlier Life by Brenda Miller
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
really good, moving essays. my personal favorites are probably Regeneration or To Live For.
“Wasn’t it an ordinary condition: to be slightly blue most of the time, to feel terrible about yourself even when all evidence points to the contrary? Don’t we all stare out the window, waiting for something to change?” - from Regeneration
“Wasn’t it an ordinary condition: to be slightly blue most of the time, to feel terrible about yourself even when all evidence points to the contrary? Don’t we all stare out the window, waiting for something to change?” - from Regeneration
The Mary Years: A Novella by Julie Marie Wade
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
so so good. both heart wrenchingly vulnerable and funny at the same time.
“Maybe this was the moment I stopped pretending and became my part… Perhaps a body could be repurposed like a story, rewritten halfway through. Those scissors I had been holding in the wrong hand for years-I didn't need them to cut away the overgrowth. I heard my name in my lover's mouth, and it sounded true… I heard my lover's name in my mouth, and it sounded right.”
“Maybe this was the moment I stopped pretending and became my part… Perhaps a body could be repurposed like a story, rewritten halfway through. Those scissors I had been holding in the wrong hand for years-I didn't need them to cut away the overgrowth. I heard my name in my lover's mouth, and it sounded true… I heard my lover's name in my mouth, and it sounded right.”
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
2.75
I couldn’t stop reading this and I’m so mad about it
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
4.5
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
challenging
dark
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.0
i really wanted to like this more than i did but something just felt off for me all throughout. still a worthwhile read, but idk. i feel like it could’ve been longer