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Wild how Carter's reputation and legacy was so overrated, he didn't do shit for the people he promised to help. Even I forgot all his terrible policies and how he maintained the status quo for the rich. No American president has ever been good.

My god, how much time and effort went into creating this anthology. The editor's notes show the reality of creating art during a genocide, the delays because of no Internet, having to bury and mourn a loved one, being displaced yet again, all the while trying to survive the nearly constant bombardment and destruction. I am ready to be undone by these stories.

Gutting. I'm absolutely bereft. Palestinians have been through so much and IT CONTINUES TODAY. Reading about the 1967 war & the Sabra & Shatilah Massacre in 1982.... and look at what's happening now. This fictional family has been subjected to terror and devastation and it really helps you feel the pain and rage that everyone should feel.

Wow, this first chapter makes me want to piss on andrew johnson's grave.

I wanted to read this again but only the Spanish language version is available so I'm trying. It's tough reading in a second language but I find myself wanting to keep going. Plus I already know the story.

When you read Palestinian literature, you know it's going to be heartbreaking and you know it's even moreso because of the ongoing current gcide, and you're going to grow your hatred for the zio state that has done this for almost 80 years. It's worth it though. To get even a small glimpse of life before the nakba is lovely. And the resilience is unmatched. Fk israhell.

Reading about how the US came in and fucked it all up because they were so scared of communism...tale as old as time, but I didn't know the extent of it in Korea. Decades of brutal dictatorships backed by the US - I can't believe I didn't see it before. It's infuriating, the paternalism that said Koreans can't possibly run Korea so the US must. INFURIATING!

OMG I know the bad thing is coming but I don't remember exactly when and the foreshadowing is NUTS. This is my 4th reading of this book and I hate Nathan Price so damn much.

ah omg I AM SO INVESTED! This is my first time reading SA Cosby but I can tell you it won't be my last.

This is really great, I scaled back my # of books to focus on this one more. You can tell this guy is a writer's writer, every chapter is a self contained world with autobiographical interludes woven throughout. See, he's even got me doing it! I love Josephine Baker and Whitney Houston so much and he gave them the flowers they deserve.

Argh, I keep shouting at this brilliant clever woman to stop being dickmatized by these loser dudes who use her! It's so relatable lol and so infuriating!

Oh I am hooked! This is great.

Oh man, this feels like a novel but it's real! The 70s-80s were still pretty analog so it was easier to, say, book preteen you and your friends a plane ticket to LA from Minneapolis (where you KNOW PRINCE!) to meet Michael Jackson. Like, what?! She is so brilliant but also clever.

Alice Wong is such a badass, I love her writing and reading her words feels like a good way to celebrate her life. This is a great autobographic collection of her different works (podcast & speech transcripts, poetry from her college years, art, blog posts, etc.) showing how she grew into her badassery.

I'm so glad I committed to really reading this and taking the time to do each body settling activity he includes. This feels really important for all of us to be reading and revisiting often.

Ann Rule is one of the best true crime writers because she focuses so much on the women who were murdered, and I am totally absorbed. However, I giggled when she called Heart's "Dreamboat Annie" Tugboat Annie 😂. Tugboat Annie!

Damn, I wish I'd had this when I was in my 20s and 30s. The push to decenter men isn't something I was aware of then, or it wasn't being openly talked about. I'm glad that has changed, it has done wonders for my inner peace.

It's taking a while to get through this because I know how important it is to complete the exercises of settling the body...any time I felt like skipping them, I left the book for a while. This is good stuff and worth the time and effort.

No, I don't think I have nearly 500 pages of diaries in me. I love the guy, but not enough to be interested in the minutiae of his everyday life.

Oh this is fantastic. I knew it would be good, but it's better than I expected. The author is absolutely preaching to the choir but let us say amen.

I'm going to put this one aside for now. It's not grabbing me at the moment but I think it's worth reading.

Well this is excellent and I am not surprised by that.

I'm tearing up that these characters keep showing up. I'm so excited to read this!!!!!!

I was so excited to see that Elaine Castillo had a new book and I'm finally able to start reading it and I love it so far. I LOVED her first book, and I'm hooked by this one already.

Not fighting my instincts to just keep reading. I go back to work next week so I'm squeezing in every bit of reading I can.

I read this when I was in high school, so more than 20 years ago. While I wait for my library holds, I'm rereading books to see if they hold up and they really do. In general, I don't like reading works by straight yt guys (too niche, unrelatable 😏) but these were some of my favorites and I see why. Go me.

I'm already hooked. Re-hooked.

Oh shit, this is much more intense than I thought and I like it. I've always known that anti fat biases are the only acceptable ones (look at literally any comedy from the last 10 years and there are fat jokes galore), but I didn't realize that nypd argued Eric Garner couldn't have been murdered because he was obese and would have died from that anyway. 😳😳😳

My first reading of this was in 2008/2009 - a copy was left behind in the teacher house when I was in Mexico. It definitely holds up.