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I am recovering from a concussion and will likely reread my NetGalley reviews.
I only vaguely remember some of these overdue NetGalley ARC’s. The reviews will be posted as I get to them.
I barely kept track of what so read while recovering🤷🏽‍♀️

This is really well done.
Depressing but important

This wasn't the ending I wanted.

This was fantastic.
I loved everything about it.

This was quite long and took longer to finish than I anticipated.
This was thorough and information dense.
I hope to have the review up tomorrow.

This is interesting but not feminist in the least.

This is an interesting premise but treats feminism as if it's synonymous with 'girl boss', and that's not actually feminist.
Nazi women had a lot of power but weren't feminist because you can't be both a feminist and an oppressor.

So this fails in the feminist thought experiment.
But succeeds in giving biographies of otherwise forgotten princesses.

This is another book I was unable to access on NetGalley's platform out of the country while I was recovering.
I hope to finish this and have the review up by Friday.

I was out of town recovering and unable to get this to download out of the country.
So I'll be starting this now and hope to have the review up by Friday.

I loved this and hope to have the review up by Friday

This was excellent and I hope to have the review up by Friday.

I loved this.
It's not what I thought and the author focuses on the many revolutionary sides of James Baldwin.
I'm hoping to have the review up by Friday.
This is excellent.

This was fantastic.
Mysteries revealed, old friendships strained, new friendships made, movement on the plot between Conjuror & Marveller.
Wow!

I kinda love this🤷🏾‍♀️🥰❤️🙌🏾

Interesting. I'm biracial Black but older than the characters in this book and from the US.
Both my mom & 1 of her sisters were married to and had a child with a Black man.
Both of my white aunts had Black women friends and were largely welcomed into the Black Community.
My mom struggled because she doesn't really like Black women.
Interesting to hear that in Canada Black women were hostile.

I loved this, and will post the review closer to publication.
This is easily my favorite novel in this series.
I'm truly hoping Clarita will also get a novel 🙏🏾

Sigh and defending another problematic Republican.
Trumpers no less.
Sigh.
Sis.
So much why.
This is definitely a choice.
🤷🏾‍♀️

She's defending Jeff Sessions.
There's so much yikes here.

"Back then, a rich white girl and a poor black boy didn’t have much of a chance."

What was this the fucking 50's? Sidney was likely born after Obama was president.
This is bullshit and nonsense.

My poor Black father did just this in the 60's. So what is Charlie on about?

This novel is frustrating, so much potential just wasted.

"Let’s get it straight: white folks did rape and steal and kill, and black folks died by the thousands—was dying all the way up’til a year ago. Never feeling shame for that, and not allowing us to feel anger over it, means we don’t evolve."

This is fascinating

The author is from Detroit but attended private suburban schools.
As a proud graduate of the Detroit Public Schools I feel sorry for her.
I got a world-class education and she could've as well in Detroit. From Black teachers who taught me immense pride in my history.
Also desegregation has created the school to prison pipeline and took Black teachers out if Black classrooms.
Schools need equal resources.

I finished this and quite enjoyed it. I'm trying to hold the review until closer to publication.

I loved this.
The reviews will be posted later today or tomorrow.

I've finished this and will try to have the review up this evening.
I enjoyed this.

Review will be posted later today.
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I loved this.

"Maybe there is no saving, only salvaging.
Maybe every breath is the triumph, and we must learn to take the win."

Oh my fucking gawds.

"So much of what we speak is our attempts to make our fantasies real."

"Do not read of the indignities visited upon Black people enslaved in the American south, in the West Indies, unless you are prepared to die of grief. A child bound and raped is a sad thing, but not so rare a thing. 

Humans are gods making worlds and then making miseries of those worlds."