reading_to_write's Reviews (207)

The Lonely Other: A Woman Watching America

Diana Hume George

5.0

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones

5.0

Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism

Seyward Darby

5.0

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency

Tove Ditlevsen

5.0

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

Bridgett M. Davis

5.0

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Jessica Bruder

5.0

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A comprehensive examination of a growing, hidden culture, in beautiful narrative prose. It’s very different from the movie- which itself is good. This is like the “true life” version, made so by the author’s immersion and eventual inclusion of her own experience.

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

Susan Orlean

5.0

Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers

Elissa Washuta, Theresa Warburton

5.0

Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

Robin DiAngelo

4.0

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A.S. King, A.S. King

5.0

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Ingenious, and important. AS King found a way to make the pandemic make sense, and quickly, too. The only book created out of the pandemic/around/about the pandemic that I’ve finished, not to mention devoured and enjoyed the writing. She breaks the grammar rules, but for good reason, and effectively.