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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.

This is much more of a memoir than I expected but I don't hate it. The chapter about Jersey Shore was more about her late Dad and their relationship and it made me cry and stuck with me for the rest of the day.

Oh man. The first & only time I read this was in high school and I remember how WEIRD it was to me then. Like , what is this story? Who the heck is this guy? 25 years later, having read more of his work and understanding the satire, it's a whole different experience. Also the illustrations embarrass me less. 😅

I don't know why it took me so long to get to this (GuRu 👎) but I can't tear myself away. I started watching RPDR in 2009-10, and I have been a fan ever since. This book lays out the first 10 seasons using interviews from the Queens, Ru, the judges, and others that brought the show to life. Reading about S1 really took me back & made me appreciate how groundbreaking it was at the time & what it's grown into.

This should be required reading for all Americans - the lengths the punishment bureaucracy will go to to keep expanding are so insidious and so prevalent that we don't likely notice it. I haven't watched the news on TV in decades and now I remember why.

Read this book!

Beautiful so far, her description of the flowers of her garden is lush - she is, after all, a poet. I am excited to keep picking this up.

Ugh the first half of this reminds why I never want a husband.

I'm really enjoying this - the similarities to the Neapolitan series by Elena Ferrante are the most prevalent in the first part. I am so intrigued by life in pre revolution Iran, though now I'm approaching that revolution in the book and I'm so interested to see what happens to the characters during that transition. Great story.

I love this story so much! I just bawled my eyes out.

Yes, I am loving this. Starting Part 3 now, 1 & 2 were stunning.

I love this guy! I can't remember why or when I started following him on FB (Roderick Struglass) but he's one of my favorites I've never met. His posts are always thoughtful, radical, and entertaining. I repost him all the time, and I'm so glad he wrote this book!

I've loved SoaD since really getting into them in college, their songs remain incredibly relevant today, and they're fun while being staunchly anti colonial and anti police. Learning more about their Armenian heritage while watching a modern day genocide that is also being denied - same bullshit from "developed" nations.

What a fantastic collection of stories. This reminds me a little of Interpretor of Maladies but with Filipinos instead of Indians. Both focus on stories of the diaspora from their respective countries and I am really enjoying this.

Ahhhh, an old friend of mine from back in the day is mentioned in this book! The chapter about pregnant people being more likely to be subjected to police violence is infuriating, and my friend was legal counsel to one of the people in the chapter. FTP for real. There is no accountability.

I started reading this a while ago but I maybe wasn't ready for it? Anyway, picking it back up because it's still very relevant and important.