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Katie’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Katie Singer
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Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark
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The Darkest Parts of My Blackness: A Journey of Remorse, Reform, Reconciliation, and (R)evolution (Black Studies)
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“The Horn Has Always Gotten Me Into a Lot of Trouble”
As our so-called government actively works to bury and dispute any history that includes people of color, queer citizens and the poor, my activity of Great Migration story-gathering sometimes feels futile. Like trying to swim against a giant ocean wave. (Which I would never even come close to doing because I’m scared of those things). But my understanding and observation is that when one is swimmi
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| This is such a good, entertaining, important, compelling novel! It's loosely based on an actual court case and brings in several historical events of the American South circa 1960s-70s. Great characters and storytelling. Can't say enough. I happened ...more | |
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California Dreams: The Making and Remaking of the University of California
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| I mean there were a few stories that were a bit abstract for me, that's the reaosn for 4 stars. But, in all, what a beautiful collection of ghostly, other-wordly, fairy-tale, as well as straight lit writing. Just gorgeous stuff froma collection of wr ...more | |
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| So this has a lot of research. And, I think for those who don't think much about race and class --and yes caste -- it may be even enlightening. But there is also a lot of anecdote -- which I am not against as evidence per se -- shoehorned into provin ...more | |
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I love this writer. I had finished a book of her short stories a while back and then found this novel. I was definitely more interested in some of its characters more than others, all who inhabited The Apartment. But they were always well written. Th ...more |
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“You've got to breathe! And make the bridge between the top half of your body and the bottom. Between the woman in you who's sweet and tender, and the woman in you who's a bitch.”
― The Wholeness of a Broken Heart
― The Wholeness of a Broken Heart
“When I called Nona Aguilar, author of The New No-Pill, No-Risk Birth Control (Simon & Schuster, 1986), I described my frustration that I was not acceptable to the training program at the Albuquerque clinic. “Well,” she said, respectfully, “I agree with that policy.” I leaned back in my chair. “Okay,” I said. “I don’t understand this. Please explain.” “Properly used,” she began, “sex is about emotional and psychological union. In our culture, artificial birth control—which feminists have strongly advocated—has made sex a recreational activity. Sex certainly can be recreational, but its potential is to be transcendent. Sex is the life-bearing force of humankind. When lovemaking is recreational, it’s a little like being color-blind during sunset over the Grand Canyon. Union becomes harder to experience, and that’s a loss.” With”
― The Garden of Fertility: A Guide to Charting Your Fertility Signals to Prevent or Achieve Pregnancy- Naturally-and to Gauge Your Reproduction Health
― The Garden of Fertility: A Guide to Charting Your Fertility Signals to Prevent or Achieve Pregnancy- Naturally-and to Gauge Your Reproduction Health
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room