rubycb's Reviews (109)

Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

Eman Abdelhadi, M.E. O'Brien

4.5

fast-paced

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.0

emotional informative reflective relaxing fast-paced

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Lulu Miller

4.0

emotional informative medium-paced

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This book was a pretty hard start for me, and I almost chose not to finish it. However, the last 1/3 of this book made it well worth it. It was fascinating to connect the history of Stanford University, the American eugenics movement, Darwinism, and the scientific category of “fish”. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Infertility, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide

Minor: Self harm

Harrow the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir

4.0

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

Sarah Schulman

4.0

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

This is How You Lose the Time War

Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

3.0

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing

Lesley J. Wood

4.0

slow-paced

Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr

4.0

fast-paced

The Pump

Sydney Hegele

5.0

fast-paced

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes