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The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale

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adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Wish the story would've rhymed :/
Very unfortunate name for the horse. They could've came up with something else. Ebony? Noir? Midnight?? Anything.
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In My Past Life I Was Cleopatra: A Sceptical Believer's Journey Through the New Age by Amal Awad

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funny informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

3.75

What a perfect title for a book that is fiction. However this was not fiction! But I still had a fun time. Awad’s a good writer so I’ll read what she has to say. I giggled a handful of times too!
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Squire by Sara Alfageeh, Nadia Shammas

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adventurous medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

art is good but also funny looking in a way i found odd (specifically the faces of the characters in a lot of scenes). dialogue is also weird which i ordinarily wouldn't mind except that all the text is dialogue, there is no storytelling here that isn't conversation so its much more noticeable when it's clunky. other than that i had a good time and its a good message for the kids, can’t complain too much. didn't love the bts origin of the character being a dark skinned girl named flea... that lost some points.
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American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

Got this book 10 years ago for a college class. I picked a terrible time to read it (as i’m trying to finish as many books at the end of the year and I read nonfiction the slowest) but it's also a perfect time to read it (as a genocide inspired by a genocide inspired by this genocide is currently happening). The line or paragraph that sums it all up is along the lines of every holocaust is similar in many ways and unique in its own way. Above all each one is its own tragedy. We must take the time to learn about them all. We cannot look away. History always comes, either by knocking or burning down the door.
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Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega

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emotional reflective 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

Now why wasn't miss girl named Izzy? Short for Isabela? Frizzy Izzy? Izzy "The Frizz"? That could've been her super hero name!
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The Pale Queen by Ethan M. Aldridge

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adventurous funny hopeful mysterious 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

4.5

if agatha don't want the primordial lesbian witch i do!!! hand her over!!!
the ending is so powerful. setting a hard boundary by her dropping the offering. i love love LOVE that thats such an important message for people, kids, to know you don't have to forgive people who hurt and / or groomed you!
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Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott

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informative fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

i’m like a baby, i love the bright colors. the art style is amazing too. surely its from the ashanti so 5 stars for the ashanti! that's all i got tho 3 stars is me being generous there's not much going on here.
Dyke (geology) by Sabrina Imbler

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emotional informative reflective fast-paced

3.75

not to brag not to flatter myself but i write like this too! lesbians rise tf up!!!
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Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

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adventurous funny informative reflective slow-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

4.5

Of all the graphic novels I read this year this one had the most text. Which isn’t a complaint! I loved it. It was just a lot more reading than I'm used to (for graphic novels!)!

As a fellow nonbinary, as a person who is exactly like Nour, their issue is that they need to transition. Or they were suffering from autistic burnout. Or maybe it’s both. Or maybe I’m projecting but not really I know what I’m talkin about!
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1919 by Eve L. Ewing

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dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

3.75

I feel like since I was born, and even before thinking about Rodney King, there's always been some sort of killing / murder of Black people (usually a man) in America in the summer that leads to a riot all because it was hot and tensions had been building up for the past ___ years. What's our future gonna look like with climate change / global warming making everything hotter? That was over a hundred years ago now and what’s changed really?
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