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	Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography 4.64 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2024 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rainbow Connection: Richard Hunt, Gay Muppeteer 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Walk Back to Myself 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography, Library Edition by Jessica Max Stein (Goodreads Author), Will Tulin (narrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jessica Stein wants to read Unlearning Jewish Anxiety: How to Live with More Joy and Less Suffering by Caryn Aviv	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jessica Stein and 13 other people liked Casey's review of The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture: "I'll probably add to this later, I just wanted to address comments in other reviews that Bonnie Morris blames trans women or the queer movement as the main culprit for the disappearance of lesbian physical spaces. It just is not true. Trans women are" Read more of this review »
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Jessica Stein liked Mattschratz's review of Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship: "This was good and gave me a lot more books to add to my TBR (Leon Forrest, Gayl Jones, rereading Toni Cade Bambara). Also, like 84 Charing Cross Road, Big Fiction and the movie Can You Ever Forgive Me, it made me sad that to live in the world of mono" Read more of this review »
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Jessica Stein asked a question about Detective Aunty: Who had the dead guy’s phone?? Guess we’ll all have to read the next book!
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Jessica Stein and 14 other people liked laurel [the suspected bibliophile]'s review of Detective Aunty (Kausar Khan Investigates, #1): "I love literally everything Uzma Jalaluddin writes, and her debut cozy mystery is no exception! Kausar Khan is a widow stepping out into her second life—until her estranged daughter calls, summoning Kausar back to Toronto to help her out because she's" Read more of this review »
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Jessica Stein made a comment on Paul Mason’s review of Baldwin: A Love Story " Then why did you only give it two stars? "
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Jessica Stein rated a book it was amazing Franny, the Queen of Provincetown: A Novel (Stonewall Inn Classics) by John Preston	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jessica Stein rated a book it was amazing The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America by Philip Kadish	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jessica Stein rated a book it was amazing The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS by Martin Padgett (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: courage, empowering, fear, feminist, political, powerful, vision, women-strength

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“All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.”
― Katherine Paterson

tags: books, censorship, reading

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