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"have been reading a lot of mediocre books lately, i’m thinking this could be a winner" — Aug 02, 2026 08:42AM
"have been reading a lot of mediocre books lately, i’m thinking this could be a winner" — Aug 02, 2026 08:42AM
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"this is literally the grossest book i’ve read in my entire life help ik it’s not even 200 pages but every time i read a few paragraphs i feel like im going to throw up please help" — Jul 14, 2026 01:21PM
"this is literally the grossest book i’ve read in my entire life help ik it’s not even 200 pages but every time i read a few paragraphs i feel like im going to throw up please help" — Jul 14, 2026 01:21PM
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"the prose is extremely inelegant; it’s so blatantly dumbed down (especially from a human rights lawyer who used to work at the UN) that it must be a ploy to portray her as the salt of the earth and to distract from her complicity as a wealthy Facebook senior staffer. it’s egregiously bad. she’ll write, “I was like, ‘TK,’” instead of “I said, ‘TK.’” distractingly horrible" — Sep 25, 2025 09:43PM
"the prose is extremely inelegant; it’s so blatantly dumbed down (especially from a human rights lawyer who used to work at the UN) that it must be a ploy to portray her as the salt of the earth and to distract from her complicity as a wealthy Facebook senior staffer. it’s egregiously bad. she’ll write, “I was like, ‘TK,’” instead of “I said, ‘TK.’” distractingly horrible" — Sep 25, 2025 09:43PM
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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