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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

 "If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again."

Well, this made me cry several times.
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Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris

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dark reflective tense
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

A welcome addition to the “mushroom horror” canon. I love bogs, I love rot, I love unsettling rabbits.
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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

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emotional reflective

5.0

She’s a legend for so many reasons.
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Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power by Destiny Hemphill, Tamiko Beyer, Lisbeth White

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hopeful inspiring reflective
This was lovely, and I will be returning to it for inspiration in the future.
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Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick

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adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This is such a beautiful piece of work, from the art to the writing. It’s clear so much thought and love when into all of it. What a perfect origin story for the Amazons.
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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

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emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I understand why this book isn't for everyone. It certainly is for me, however.
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Christmas and Other Horrors: A Winter Solstice Anthology by Ellen Datlow

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dark tense
My favourites were:
The Importance of a Tidy Home
Return to Bear Creek Lodge
Cold
Löly Sow-ma
The Lord of Misrule

An overall good mix of tongue-in-cheek, strange, and creepy stories. There were just a couple I didn’t quite “get.”

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Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings

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emotional funny hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The characters felt real. I enjoyed the flower symbolism woven in. 

The “does she like me?” did grate on me after a while.
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The Mistletoe Motive by Chloe Liese

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funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

When I first started reading, the book felt like a Hallmark special—and I wasn’t sure whether I’d be into it. I soon warmed up to the story, though, and I appreciated how it subverted the
third act breakup
trope in the end.
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The Cunning Craft: A Torturous Path of the Wise Art by Nicholaj De Mattos Frisvold

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 40%.
Well-researched, but ultimately just not my cup of tea.