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She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Cycletherapy: Grief and Healing on Two Wheels by

adventurous emotional reflective

5.0

Pissing in a River by Lorrie Sprecher

tense slow-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

beHindert & verRückt - Worte_Gebärden_Bilder finden by Eliah Lüthi

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

Die Geisterjägerin: Drei Kurzgeschichten by Chris* Lawaai

inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

Nîtisânak by Jas M. Morgan

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

Oof, this is super good. Of course, as always with very political memoirs, there's bit where I go "eeeh", but even those were so few and comparatively tiny. It's just a very impressive poetic piece about hard & violent things.

Btw this was helpful to me for understanding the Cree family words: https://apihtawikosisan.com/2011/10/cree-kinship-terms/

Jinx by Meg Cabot

tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

I enjoyed reading this, but there was so much that I just… don't like. So I am a bit infuriated that I now dislike a book that was really fun to read. But. Yeah.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Stalking, Suicide attempt

Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Ellix Katz, Sally Fallon Morell

informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

It took me almost two years to read this, not because it's long or complex, but because I needed time to let it sink in before returning to it in the right moment. There were moments where I rolled my eyes and went "oh Bessel, why", but all in all this is a great book. I was pleasantly surprised by it's interdisciplinarity and non-shitty approaches to some topics.

… I did take out a pencil and comment disapprovingly on most mentions of Onno van der Hart.

Trauma ist ziemlich strange by Steve Haines

informative fast-paced

2.0

This format didn't work well for me. The pictures are cute. But the info is all over the place, somewhere between "here's random names of brain parts and two sentences on what they do" and "see, you're not crazy". I don't have a problem with being crazy, I have a problem with oversimplified and normative views on craziness.