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Reddy should see America in 2025. I fundamentally agree with the agree with the argument about subjectivity and violence. The sources were very random.

3.5 Another addition to this novella series, I think the narrator and their quest for stories is interesting. I also enjoyed the premise that histories can be told from different perspectives, but I wasn’t overwhelmed by this book.

4.5 stars
Wow, that was a really excellent book. It was a slow start, but a spectacular ending. I’m rounding down because I do think Native futurism should be written by Native people.

I’m giving it a 3, but it may be a 3.5. A very cute book about life and nature and beauty, but the plot was very slow/could have been a short story.

A return to a really good Horowitz and Hawthorne. I was worried that the schtick of Horowitz as suspect would be too much but the expansive plot was great.

I wish there was more theory/criticism and less exposition.

The lowest point in the series so far, but still a strong series.

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This book was very mid. And it also underscores the need for Asian American studies at the high school and college level—to help people understand their identities and experiences much earlier (and perhaps without me having to read them).

Somewhere between 1-2 stars. A meandering and highly unpleasant meditation on life. Keep your high thoughts to yourself.

This book is fine. I am interested in war memorial pilgrimages, but this book requires you to be interested in the particular politics of mourning in Ireland.

A book about four assassins of a certain age has enough thrill to keep the pace up. That’s about the only thing this book has going for it.

An interesting premise, but a little too broad in scope.

Honestly I don’t have much to say about this. High point: at least the unbelievable career woman didn’t leave her big city. Low point: there’s no evidence that Charlie is surly.

My real review: Emily Henry made a joke that Darcy Fielding is bad at researching her settings. This was either brilliant self awareness or guerilla irony. In practice, hilarious; in intention, has to be the later.

A 3.5, there was a lot about this book I really liked. Táìwò raises a lot of compelling philosophical questions and frameworks (he is a philosopher after all). There was just something about the style that I really didn’t like, the examples seemed both excessive and disconnected to his philosophical interventions.