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That expression “politics makes for strange bedfellows” is absolute facts. If you can push through this truth, you might get something wonderfully done. I don’t know that I have that constitution, but I truly admire those that do. You really have to care about a cause and be in it to win it.

The Claimant is clearly Trump. This book is hilarious. I don’t recall this author being so funny like this.

That list of the top books of 2023 so far is giving very much so YIKES. The fact that The Perfect Marriage is on the list is tragic already, but this list also lacks diversity and color among the authors and books chosen. Side eye to whoever put that list together.

This book is beyond horrifying. I’ve never wished for the downfall of so many people in my life. Their families, too. You don’t get to prosper because your granddaddy was a freaking slave owner by another name. Bump you, too.

The last book I read is was so damn bad I had to pivot towards a lighter topic. /s

Things are so much worse in this country than I could have ever imagined, and I read and know a lot about our healthcare “system.” It’s fucked doesn’t begin to accurately describe the state of affairs. SMH

This book is so damn good. I started reading this morning. I'll easily be done by Wednesday because I can't put it down.

This guy is insufferable. This book is giving me arrogant prick tease. He makes some good points, but WOW is he insufferable.

76 pages and counting on stuff we already know! We want to know what happened AFTER you moved into the White House!

This book is so cringe-not the writing; the content. I now see why there is a contingent of learned black people who say F voting and F both parties. I still think voting gets stuff done, but when you legitimately have two choices and both those choices are actively racist, you're screwed. That's where we are in 1920, and some people say that's where we are in 2020.

This book is going to take me a long time to finish. The pain and suffering white people put black people through in this country is too much, and they’ve never paid the price for it.

Uganda's role in the genocide is interesting. I had no idea RPF had a contingency in Uganda.

Peter Jahrling is an asshole. White male privilege in the flesh. I have a real disgust for people who do research and experiments that have no public health benefit, ESPECIALLY when it involves killing innocent animals.
DA Henderson should have punched him in his smug face.

Yet another novel featuring trash ass parents. SMH. I think Ng wants us to feel sympathy for Marilyn and James, but I don't. They are trash people.

It becomes more apparent with each page that Seifu should have killed Fucelli when he had the chance.

1. Men pretty much ain't shit all over the world. Sad.
2. There's a special place in hell for women that go right along with these ain't shits in holding up patriarchy.

This book is so damn timely, it's unbelievable. Also, there is literally nothing new under the sun. From politics to scientists not being allowed to tell the truth to quack remedies to misinformation to the military hoarding resources. There is LITERALLY nothing new under the sun. One day, I pray we actually learn from the past.

This book is so upsetting. It's taking me a long time to read this. I'm having physical reactions to what I'm reading. Capital punishment is wrong, period. The racial Injustice in our legal system is an abomination. There are human beings being killed by the state, and only a handful of people actually give a damn. It's enough to make you vomit.

This book is so good. So. Good. I can't.
Also, this book is aptly named.

I've just started this book and already I see that it's going to be one of the best books I'll read this year.

I'm up to Chapter 7 and I already regret reading this book. Reading about white trash beating the shit out of young black boys is not good for my spirit.

This book is one giant horror story, except it's true. I'm even more disgusted with the prison industrial complex. I also now have a fuller appreciation of those who were disgusted that HRC at one point was getting money from prisons.

Trying to see if I can finally finish this book on this welcome snow day. I also want to say that Robert Gallo is an asshole.

Larry Kramer and Bill Kraus are my heroes.

Still pushing through. I don't know how many times I've renewed this book from the library. I'm determined to finish it before the month is out.

I had to return And The Band Played On to the library and get back on the wait list, so the last book of my reading challenge will be from the Queen. I'm only on page 1 and she's already dropping gems.

It's an honor to be reading this book finally, especially in light of what I do for a living and the fact that the 30th World AIDS Day is on Saturday, the 1st of December, which is in a few short days.
Shilts's writing is incredible. The only thing I'm sad to read is how cowardly and complacent gay activists from NYC were in the late 70s/early 80s. The gay activists in SF were responsible for all the gains made.

It's an honor to be reading this book finally, especially in light of what I do for a living and the fact that the 30th World AIDS Day is on Saturday, the 1st of December, which is in a few short days.
Shilts's writing is incredible. The only thing I'm sad to read is how cowardly and complacent gay activists from NYC were in the late 70s/early 80s. The gay activists in SF were responsible for all the gains made.