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	Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal by Jessica Baldanzi (Editor), Hussein Rashid (Editor), J. Richard Stevens (Contributor) 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2020 — 3 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
	Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2018 — 3 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 Other 1980s: Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade by Brannon Costello (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brian Cremins (Editor), Maaheen Ahmed (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2021 — 3 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
	Studies in Comics and Cartoons by Lucy Shelton Caswell, Jared Gardner, Kate Polak 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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Aaron rated a book it was amazing The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove	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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Aaron rated a book it was ok Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence	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
I loved The Rainbow, but Women in Love was excruciating. Most of the book consists of philosophical conversations that go on at great length, but nothing ever happens, and when anything does happen, there's no narrative purpose or logic behind it. I' ...more
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I started out reading the Jean James translation, and I thought it was boring and tedious. Then I misplaced that book and bought the Howard Goldblatt translation instead, and I loved it. Goldblatt's translation shows why Rickshaw Boy is a work of lit ...more
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Aaron rated a book it was amazing Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe	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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This book includes a lot of important insights, but the author's prose style is extremely annoying. He constantly uses unnecessary metaphors and rhetorical figures, and (as mentioned by another reviewer) he gives improbably precise accounts of scenes ...more
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Aaron and 15 other people liked Romany Arrowsmith's review of How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America: "The stories (and the millions like it that go unnoticed and untold in this country) are as important as the writing is horrendous. At the beginning of every new essay, Bayoumi feels the need to orient himself into the story - where he was when he fir" Read more of this review »
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