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I Would Pay Money For a Book About the Family Ruffin

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

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You know the #1 thing I learnt from this book, something which has confused me greatly for very long? “Heaux” is a fancy(?) way of saying hoe/ho! I always read it and thought “beaux” which, as you can imagine, gives a whole different meaning to many situations. Thanks, Amber! JK that’s not what this book is about at all. This book is about Racism, with a capital R, but through the medium of comedy, specifically the comedy of Amber Ruffin, human delight we do not […]

Willingly In the Valley Still Means You’re Underground

Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener

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This book is the Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead for the Silicon Valley non-tech set. Which is to say, it is peak all the feminisms that we have tried to be better about since Ms. Sandberg’s book, aka White Feminism x High Paying Job Feminism x One of the Boys Feminism etc etc. That being said…I am, in my default, unexamined state, very much a White, High Paying Job, One of the Boys feminist. It takes constant work for me to plant intersectionality […]

If It Walks Like a Duck and Talks Like a Duck (and Does Autocorrect Ducking Things)

(won't you let me) walk you home from school by somethingdifferent

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After postcardsandbooks‘ post I am newly emboldened to publicly review fanfiction! I feel like doing so will also clarify my review of Bloodline, not that it was fooling anyone. First, rules, both my own ones and the ones that I am sticking with re: reviewing. No less than 5:1 ratio for books : fanworks (and honestly I reviewed two fanworks** last year in the course of reading 130 books, I am not often called to write page-long reviews) (although I always comment!) It’s okay for […]

66 Going on 19 Forever

Bloodline by Claudia Gray

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Ugh I had such high hopes for this, it hits every single bingo block for me: Star Wars! Leia! Inevitable Doom with Irony! Instead, I found it lacking in a very similar way that WW84 was lacking–namely that 24 years later a woman who has now been a public figure the vast majority of her adult life is still being defined by or remembering four years worth of events from ages ago? With much of the EU (almost all of it) non-canon, Gray has the […]

Sixteen Going on Seventeen

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

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This was never going to be an easy sell for me, and at the end of the day this book gets knocked down for similar reasons that 1Q84 was ultimately frustrating (talk about genre agnostic comparisons): too many threads at the end of the novel hastily tied up. Normal comparisons will of course be to Thomas’ debut novel, The Hate U Give. They all fall into this liminal audience space, where I’m not sure if she’s writing “for” me (the non-BPOC audience working out their […]

The Prince Is the Troll

The Prince and the Troll by Rainbow Rowell

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I am not sure what this is, but I’ll attempt to define it by what I know what it’s not. It’s not a full story–it’s part of Amazon’s bizarre plan of world Prime domination, which apparently has focus tested “multiple short essay-to-short-story length Kindle Books” as a perk that people enjoy? Seems gratuitous–I have Prime because I want Video and to occasionally order things I can’t find elsewhere–but I’m not complaining if authors I like get some of that Bezos money. There’s a lot of […]



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