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Escape From Incel Island by Margaret Killjoy

adventurous dark funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I love this book. It's a spoof on action/adventure. It challenges gender without making me sad about how bad shit is out there. It raises big ethical questions and then finishes the chapter with a joke about how dumb the military industrial complex is. Incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Minor: Transphobia

The gore is out of control, but it is played for laughs, and not dwelled upon for long. Trans characters exist, and also the book is loaded with incels. You do the math. But Trans characters are seen in the eyes of the book as valid.

God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments by Hannah Brown

4.0

As far as celebrity memoirs go, top tier. She is candid about her life, is a medium-good righter, and her life is interesting. 
She's not the greatest writer of our generation or anything, but if you like Hannah Brown, you'll like this. Her personality shines through, and its got the gossip you'd hope for.

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker

emotional informative lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

There is some great advise in this book around organizing an event with purpose, and even some of the autobiographical stuff was fun.
But it definitely shows that a rich New Yorker wrote this. Only about half of the advice was any good for my poor, 20-somthing, Midwestern use case.
That being said, I did use this book to plan a wedding that went VERY well. So. Read it.

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus

dark funny informative slow-paced

5.0

This is my new favorite book.
I know it makes me a bad person, but it makes me want to eat a hot dog.
This book was made FOR ME and maybe only me. I laughed, I cringed, I learned. I mostly laughed though.

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber

dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

This book bummed me out. New interesting way to look at the world, and I think about it all the time. 
But it made me so sad.

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Girl Juice by Benji Nate

funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is so funny, I couldn't put it down. I'll have to read it again to pay more attention to the illustration, but the narrative was so compelling, I definitely missed out on the great graphic element on this first read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Religious bigotry

There is a brief arc of a religious parent's judgement, where that religious parent is the butt of the joke. There is also a demon and some exorcism stuff, again, for laughs.

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Death of parent

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

adventurous dark funny reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Loved this book. A great well-thought-out world, but our narrator is apathetic and funny. Interesting characters, interesting world, and a great plot.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Gun violence, Blood, Excrement, and Medical content