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mrs_a_is_a_book_nerd's reviews
456 reviews
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
4.0
This is an easy read on a difficult topic. Haig does a great job putting into words the experience of depression and anxiety-- in a way that both makes people who've had them feel understood, and helps those who have not experienced them understand the experience of others a bit better. For a heavy topic, the book is hopeful and uplifting. Because the chapters are relatively short, it's an easy book to read in short bursts, which is also good because there are things that really make you think.
November 9 by Colleen Hoover
4.0
It's well-written. It's a love story with some decent twists. I understand why the high school girls like Hoover's writing. There are scenes depicting the building physical attraction and physical relationship between the characters that are fairly adult, but not graphic for the sake of being overtly so.
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
4.0
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I think it did a notable job dealing with some very tough issues of race in America. As a white female, I will never fully understand what people of color experience, and most especially black men, but I want to TRY to understand better, to be more sensitive to those issues, and books like these are so important to that process for me and others.
As I wrote in an earlier comment, this novel resonates with themes and motifs brought forward in Ta Nahisi Coates' book Between the World and Me.
I was less than satisfied with the end of the book. It's a seemingly impossible issue to truly "end," but still, it felt a little too trite for me. All the same, this is an important book to read in the study of race and the struggle for equality in America.
As I wrote in an earlier comment, this novel resonates with themes and motifs brought forward in Ta Nahisi Coates' book Between the World and Me.
I was less than satisfied with the end of the book. It's a seemingly impossible issue to truly "end," but still, it felt a little too trite for me. All the same, this is an important book to read in the study of race and the struggle for equality in America.