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The climate be changing

Change Is in the Air: The Hidden Discoveries of Eunice Newton Foote, the First Climate Scientist by Rebecca Donnelly and Mercè López

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My review is: Just read Change Is in the Air: The Hidden Discoveries of Eunice Newton Foote, the First Climate Scientist by Rebecca Donnelly and illustrator Mercè López, okay? Well, unless you get an online reader copy like I had, you do have to wait until mid-February to do so, but that still does not mean you need me to tell you all about the wonderful things about Eunice Newton Foote. Like how she, during a time when few people let alone women, had a […]

Losing Tom Hart’s heart

Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir by Tom Hart

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Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir by Tom Hart is an interesting look at grief. The author’s self-centered approach (meaning he is the center of the grief, how things around him come into his circle of emotions and trying to live) is both relatable and unique to his own experiences. Anyone who has lost a child (regardless of the age) can find parts of themselves. Seeing how weeks to a few months after the death of his almost two-year-old daughter came to shape him is touching […]

Black womxnhood

Wash by Ebony Stewart

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Though available, I read via an online reader copy. I did not read all of the poems by Ebony Stewart in their collection Wash. This is because it is difficult to read poetry online for me and second, they were terribly intense and it was not something I really needed to immerse myself in at the time. However, I will find a finshed copy and just sit and read. Stewart has a passionate voice that needs to be slowly enjoyed. And I hope this does […]

Resisting all my instincts to make an inappropriate puberty pun…

Secret Boys’ Business (2nd Edition) by Rose Stewart, Fay Angelo & Heather Anderson

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I have an 8-year-old son, and it’s starting to become apparent that we need to have some conversations about the facts of life — birds and bees, bodies, changes, all of it. I wanted a resource that would help us start those conversations in a way that felt natural, factual, and not at all awkward. Secret Boys’ Business (2nd edition) turned out to be exactly that. This book is an extremely accessible, easy-to-digest overview of pretty much any question a pre-pubescent boy might have about […]

I’m Still Listening

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

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I picked this up because I wanted to have more of an idea of what it might be like for Black individuals to navigate predominantly White spaces, including the ones I am part of. As much as I strive to be anti-racist and to learn, I know that I will fall short sometimes. And while I have done a lot of learning and work at an organization that values diversity, even a memoir such as this one was able to open my eyes yet more […]

hot take if reading this book doesn’t make your blood boil you might be an android

On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane by Emily Guendelsberger

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This book should always be mentioned in the same breath as Nickeld and Dimed to give everyone a full primer in what life under Capitalism is truly like in the land of Capitalism, aka America. Emily Guendelsberger “takes advantage” of a temporary break in employment (funemployement!!!) to work at three separate low-wage, computer-shift-driven jobs that are done by millions of Americans, day in and day out. To get to the main point: they’re all, pardon the word, crazy making. And in a way that really doesn’t […]



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