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"this book is very interesting, but I'm also bored? this is always my problem with nonfiction: I'm interested in the subject but the language of the writing is more formal than what I want to read in my free time. I'm determined to finish this book, but in the future, I need to look for more nonfiction that's written like a story or conversation and not a dissertation" — Jul 07, 2026 07:15AM
"this book is very interesting, but I'm also bored? this is always my problem with nonfiction: I'm interested in the subject but the language of the writing is more formal than what I want to read in my free time. I'm determined to finish this book, but in the future, I need to look for more nonfiction that's written like a story or conversation and not a dissertation" — Jul 07, 2026 07:15AM
It was closely connected to the role it occupies in larger society: Incarceration serves as the default answer to many of the worst social problems plaguing this country—not because it solves them, but because it buries them.
Helena’s 2025 Year in Books
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