I promise there are enthusiastic book reviews coming, but first we have to get through one more book that I just didn’t enjoy very much.
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Book Review: I Want to Burn This Place Down by Maris Kreizman
Like a lot of middle class white Americans in their 40s, Kreizman grew up believing that if you just followed the rules and did all the right things, you’d grow up, get a job with security and good healthcare, be able to afford a home, find The One, and live happily ever after.
Book Review: Imagination by Ruha Benjamin
It’s not really that this book is bad, it’s just that it feels like a Ted Talk.
Book Review: Empire of AI by Karen Hao
If I could make everyone in my life read any one book, it would be Empire of AI by Karen Hao. Maybe then they’d stop suggesting I use AI for things.
Book Review: Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
Shubeik Lubeik takes place in an alternate version of Earth where wishes can be mined, packaged, and of course, commodified.
Book Review: Dead & Breakfast by Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor
When the bigoted sheriff accuses Sal of the murder, Arthur decides he has to clear his husband’s name. Of course he does, otherwise we wouldn’t have a cozy mystery on our hands!
Book Review: A Hexcellent Chance to Fall in Love by Ann Rose
You know how every year, around August, Spirit Halloween seems to just suddenly appear in the most convenient empty store front in your town? Well, what if it was literally magic?
Book Review: The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Tan does a great job of conveying the confusion of being in a strange land by making the land strange to the reader as well.
Book Review: Trees by Kelsey Oseid
It’s a sad fact of growing up that in general, the older you get, the less illustrations your books have. But it doesn’t have to be that way!
HRCYED: I Completed the Non-Fiction Challenge Square!
Those who know me, or who have looked at my archive here, will not be terribly surprised that the Non-Fiction Challenge square is the first prompt I finished for the Hardest Reading Challenge You’ll Ever Do. In fact, I joined the challenge in Sept but (as is allowed) retroactively counted some books I read after…