Best Reads (and Book Gifts) for the Rest of Us – 2018 – Here are my favorites books of 2018, just in time for gift-giving!
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Buy This Book! Naomi Klein’s The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September of 2017. And despite Puerto Rico’s status as a territory of the United States, the US government has done embarrassingly little to assist the American citizens of this beautiful island. While the absence of US assistance has been bad enough, there is a…
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Leaving the Queer Desert: A Review of Genevieve Hudson’s A LITTLE IN LOVE WITH EVERYONE
Can one be in love with a book? Like, have an ongoing relationship with it in which you spend time with it, learn new things from it, appreciate and value it, grow from it? And I’m not talking about being in love with a book like some of those women…
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Drink It In: A Review of FRESHWATER by Akwaeke Emezi
The raw honesty with which Akwaeke Emezi frames their debut book grabbed me by the throat and compelled me to continue reading.