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605 reviews
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
emotional
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest
Moderate: Death and Blood
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
challenging
informative
sad
slow-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and Drug use
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Diverse cast of characters? No
Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas
dark
funny
hopeful
reflective
4.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Homophobia and Suicidal thoughts
Euphoria by Lily King
adventurous
dark
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Blood, and Pregnancy
Minor: War
How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, and Body horror
Moderate: Eating disorder and Sexual content
Minor: Death of parent
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.5
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Abortion, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, Racism, Alcohol, Murder, and Rape
Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire by
4.0
I really enjoyed this anthology as an in-depth look at sex-positive feminisms. It dealt with sex and sexuality both in and outside of relationships, sex work, sexual desire, kinkiness/fetishism, the sexual body, etc. As with any anthology, I related to and liked some essays more than others, but I think I took something away from all of them.
How to Be Black by Baratunde R. Thurston
4.0
As a Black woman, I'm pretty easily reeled in by books whose titles suggest the author is trying to be either descriptive or, better/worse, prescriptive about Blackness. Baratunde Thurston's How to Be Black is clearly an example of this...and it definitely falls on the "better" side of that line for me. A collection of essays written mostly by Thurston himself, with interjections from others whose life work revolves around issues of race and identity in North America, How to be Black mixed punniness and provocativeness poignantly.