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Micro story collection about women through many lenses. The titular story is a tour through a theme park designed after women's bodies & plights. Another story is about female pirate, and another about a group of lesbian cave explorers. Very easy and a good afternoon read. A good rec for someone looking to get back into reading

Prose poems about nature & family from a beloved musician & writer 🫶🏼

“And no matter what I was doing, another me sat in my belly, absolutely cold with terror over the question of my life.”

A striking novel following David, an engaged American man in Paris and his relationship with Giovanni. Each sentence is heightened, tense, and achingly beautiful, but not overly complicated. Heartbreaking, gritty and insightful. 

BRILLIANT collection!! One of the all-time great collections if you are interested in character psychology. Bloom writers characters that are struggling with their morals, anxieties, mental illness, and relationships. A mother having an affair, a relationship between a client and a psychoanalyst, a daughter struggling with her mother’s breakdown. 
Super tight prose, very well paced, and honest insights. 

A very thorough look at the hundred year occupation of Palestine & the spikes of violence and war from Israel & western powers. It was certainly dense, but incredibly detailed and a great resource for educating yourself against common lies and misconceptions about the conflict.

A strangler is on the loose in LA…. so atmospheric, the gritty underbelly of paradise 

A real page turner with a very compelling premise! 

What a memoir! Thank you Julia for sharing such vulnerable and intimate stories with us <3

A tiny memoir about a queer crush & food 🍅 The author reflects on a past relationship using different meals they cooked/ate together (and also provides the recipes!) Really loved this voice & can't wait for more from this author!

A celebrity memoir that seems genuinely not ghostwritten! 

Page is a little all over the place here, but some of his essays are really insightful, powerful, and juicy! His coming out speech was a really pivotal moment for me in my journey with my sexuality (and my model for when I came out) so it was super interesting to read about the behind the scenes of that moment and his path towards coming out (first as a lesbian and then as a trans man)

You can tell reading this that Page took a lot of pride in this (and his other creative work) and that makes it worth it for me! 

A beautiful & solemn reflection in close third. Anna is the age her mother & sister were when they died, when she runs into a man on the street and falls in love at first
sight—but she’s been with her partner for 20 years.

A stunning novel where the only thing that happens is the churning over of leaving someone you love for someone you love.

Stunning prose, observations, and sentences

“She, who had no wish to be welcomed anywhere, just to carry on playing fast and loose with love!”

“How can you walk away from a man who puts himself in your hands? Who looks to you for the coming of spring? Who looks to you to release him from the woe that was his life? Who only half believes in his life, if that, but nevertheless, since meeting you, believes in it a wee bit more just the same?”

“Yet whenever she was overcome with desire like this at the sight of Thomas, she would lose the ability to compare, to see herself from the outside, and would live exclusively with her powerful emotions, pressed up against them, tucked up inside them, feeling their warmth and life like a cat ensconced in a basket with her litter of newborn kittens.”