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Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Bruce Erickson

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4.5

Fantastic collection. I imagine I will be revisiting this frequently 
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen

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4.0

I wish I had more time to actually enjoy this book. It definitely has more to it than I picked up. I think just from a personal taste level the questions it was interested in asking were questions I myself do not find particular interest in
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell

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4.0

It had some interesting points but there were some funny lack of intersections for what it thinks it’s doing
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

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4.75

This book is so good. Nearly brought me to tears so many times. The older characters are written so beautifully. The younger characters are slightly more cliche with diasporic lit, but the beauty/sadness/longing is still palpable.
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss

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3.75

Had some really fantastic prose, but I remained overall uninterested in the story.
A Curious Land: Stories from Home by Susan Muaddi Darraj

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4.75

This book is so good at weaving the domestic and the geopolitical together so that the reader never forgets what the stories are framed by. I so badly want to read their other works now. What a masterpiece of writing
Signs of Disability by Stephanie L. Kerschbaum

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4.5

Really difficult, thought provoking, and worthwhile work! I now am excited to go back and read her first book!