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Making progress - only 48 hours left!

The characters and worldbuilding are interesting but the whole plot rests on a paper-thin super-obvious mystery and meh, this is why I rarely read mysteries

I really struggle sometimes with histories written by journalists, and this is going to be one of those, unfortunately. Doesn't help that the author is clearly not coming from a place informed about disability conversations

This is so much better than I had feared. Closer to book 1 than to whatever book 2 was doing

This step by step for how to create and lead campus UDL teams is super helpful

Man I really hope I love this like I loved book one instead of the confused meh feeling I got from book two, but I'm afraid PM might be one of those authors whose series start off strong and then meander into tears

I appreciate the reminder that increasing choices doesn't always mean increasing complexity

The thing about including references to specific text in books is that the landscape changes so quickly; not even ten years since publication and I don't know if anyone under 30 would get some of these references

Oof this is a lot

There is So Much exposition in this book

This is apparently my year of accidentally picking up books by white women with MFAs

Zombie golem!

Chapter 1 was written for people who have never thought about this before, which is fine but for myself I hope there's more to chew on later

SPED as containment (a way to keep "normal" white middle class students protected from everyone else), SPED as risk-management (everyone else is both at-risk and risky due to not being "normal" white middle classm

For white children with emotional/behavioral disturbances, the problem is identified as congenital or developmental at the personal/family level, not a problem of white culture. Compare that to how Black children with EBDs are discussed.

I typically hear people say that the disability rights movement came out of the civil rights movement but this seems to show that while it borrowed strategies, it was actually in conflict in terms of goals such as segregation

Psychology was a mistake, basically, and ed psych in particular.
Black kids who can't read at grade level = mental r-word
White kids who can't read at grade level = reading disability

Ehhhh... I don't think I'm going to love this as much as I did Eyes.

Well, at least if I'm accidentally picking up a book in a series it's the first book!

omg I will never look at sugar beets the same again

I was really enjoying this and how the romantic leads had been childhood friends because I'm sick of her large age gaps and... whomp whomp, the hero is 12 years older than the heroine

I was struggling with a bit of a mental health crisis when I started this, and I think I picked the perfect book to help me get through this episode of My Brain is a Jerk

Yes, that's right, more Heyer. Will this phase last me until I get to the last of the titles lingering on my (physical) to-read pile? I don't know. But I'm close, only one left after this one!

"Put a stick between your legs and you'll have a horse worthy of you."

Man I really have to be in the right mood for this one and I just have not been lately

Remember when classic romance novels were all digitized en masse and no one bothered to check formatting before posting them? This book is reminding me

I don't want to read either of the easier reads on this week's book agenda so going for a translated classic instead (still seems weird to me that books published in the 1980s are now considered classics!)