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Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (Oxford Oral History Series) by J. Todd Moye

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.
Read for class. It was taking way too long to read it all so thoroughly ended up skimming the rest of the book heavily and skipped a significant amount of pages.
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What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa by David E. Murphy

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 2%.
read ch 1 (as well as chapters 11 and 17) for class
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The History of Everything by Victoria Evans

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emotional hopeful lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Bitter Bonds: A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century by Leonard Blusse

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 57%.
Read for school, enjoyed it but not enough to spend the time to finish it for fun
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.
Amazing, but very dense and hard to read. Definitely want to finish this someday.
The History of Sexuality: An introduction by Michel Foucault

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 4%.
Another college class book that I didn’t have time to finish, but I really loved the (very short) part I read! This was from last fall; I was really sure I’d read it this past summer but I ended up wanting a reading break so I’ve finally decided to mark it as DNF and read it a different time.
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

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

5.0

I really don’t know what to say about this one except that it genuinely changed my life and me as a person and it made me feel every single emotion ever and it made me cry and the ending wasn’t even an ending and I wanted a real ending so badly and I honestly think this might be my favorite book of all time.
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Avi Cantor Has Six Months To Live by Sacha Lamb

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  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
If you’re looking for fairytale vibes, as it’s marketed, this is definitely not the book for you. I didn’t enjoy it as much as most people seemed to and I definitely did not get the fairytale vibes I was looking for. I guess one could argue it was a dark fairytale but it still didn’t hit that mark for me. It was decent, and I enjoyed the rep, but solidly okay, not great.
**Please don’t rely on my content warnings!! I read this all in one night two months ago and didn’t write the review until now; I’m confident I missed a few.**
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An Introduction to American Law (Paperback) by David G. Litt, Daniel Rosen, Gerald Paul McAlinn, Bruce Aronson, John P. Stern

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 68%.
Technically I was supposed to read all of this for class last semester but I ran out of time to do the readings for the last few classes and I simply do not care enough to go back and finish it. I’ll be taking lots of law classes. I’m not missing anything I won’t hear a hundred more times.
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Transmogrify! by g. haron davis

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 8%.
This is definitely a “temporarily set aside,” not a “I’m not going to read this.” I just didn’t have the time/energy/concentration to finish it when I first started and I’ve read a small enough amount that I think it would be easier and more logical to just start over whenever I get to it again.