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Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Immediate Ella Minnow Pea vibes so obviously it was amazing. I love a story for kids that doesn't talk down to them. Like, kids are worthy of respect too even if they don't fully understand what's going on they're still fully capable.
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Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I gotta read more comics by black women. Or at least follow more black female artists. My peoples! This was beautiful! Story's okay/fun.

A joke I'll always make is a parent, a parent of COLOR apologizing for something is so unrealistic... Says more about my life than the book... But sis keeping the Jamaican flag on her at all times? I C O N . That bumped my rating up. 
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

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

4.75

I first read this probably in 2016, also in one day, and I feel very feral rereading it. Words, the English language, language in general, cannot express or contain the joy I feel. I want to scream at a pitch only perceptible to dolphins. What a great damn near almost perfect story. It's got everything and then some, and more! Lara Jean, she just like me fr!
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Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

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challenging dark funny reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A perfect snapshot of our era (mid 2010s to mid to late 2020s maybe, we'll see) and not just the darkest parts. The girls that get it GET it okay. So nasty. Pure disgust. Utterly vile. I laughed several times. Wonderful amazing book so nasty I love it. Ew. What a great read!
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Taproot by Keezy Young

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lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Happy month!!! Happy month to all who celebrate! Is Hamal trans? I think so. So cute. The art, the characters; the story was fun but then it started to not take itself so seriously which made me have less fun but I get the feeling this was written by a quirky queer white millenial so I'll give it a pass.

Two petty lil nitpicky things I will mention though: A ghost has glasses? You telling me I die and I still have bad vision? And a year passes at the end and their hair is still the same. One issue I have with comics so far is I don't really feel the passage of time, but changing their hair really would've helped with that.
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Yemaya: Orisha, Goddess, and Queen of the Sea by Raven Morgaine

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informative medium-paced

4.25

Great book! Love the history love the explanations and care towards this other religion, something that's usually shamed / ridiculed / disrespected in the Western world. Book included spell work I wasn't interested in for personal magical reasons so I skipped those sections but it is nice to know. Reading this I came to the conclusion I may be child of Oshun, don't know if I have Yoruba ancestry but most likely, so that was also very nice to learn. Worth me looking into it.

Also EEAAO reference before the movie even came out! So cool! (I'm kidding)

Also also I found two typos while reading the book. Don't remember what pages but I mentioned it in my journal entries.
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Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun

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hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

very very very cute.
jomny should've stayed on earth. the other aliebns were ableist honestly.


the giving tree references made me feel like omg wow a book universe where books reference other books so cool. i don't know why that made me gasp or why i felt like adding that in my review but here it is.
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The only part I didn't like so much
was her coming back to life to have sex. Like I get it I don't wanna die a virgin either but there's more life to live other than sex!
I loved everything else though. No complaints!
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Xoeteox by Edwin Torres

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 38%.
I try to power through poetry I don't like because I think reading any and everything can have some sort of creative benefit toward me and my art / writing, but there's an attempt at something here I personally find unsuccessful. And I don't have to put myself through that. There are no rules!
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 20%.
I read A Very Short Introduction: Poetry and that was a better book. This book basically shows the prominent poets and poems but doesn't give more history and philosophy into poetry-making and the world of what was going when the poetry was made. It does that to an extent but it's mostly analysis of the lines it uses as examples. It's just not the kind of "A history of poetry" book I'm looking for but I would've rated this somewhere around 3.5 stars.
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