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Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism by Joel Andreas

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informative fast-paced

4.0

These brief overview of America at War from its inception until 2003 is a great starting place to understanding the US military industrial complex and with it's exhaustive citations, it easily leads to to being able to look further. It doesn't aim to cover each war in great depth or mark every single US conflict, but rather to outline this (continually growing) issue of the US and war. 
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Colonization, Population Contacts, and the Emergence of New Language Varieties: A Response to Peter Trudgill by Salikoko S. Mufwene

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Reading Sexualities across Cultures: Anthropology and Theories of Sexuality by Evelyn Blackwood

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What We Mean When We Say "Creole": An Interview with Salokoko S Mufwene by Michael Collins, Salikoko S. Mufwene

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Homophobia Without Homophobes: Deconstructing the Public Discourses of 21st Century Queer Sexualities in the United States by Jane Teal, Meredith Conover-Williams

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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emotional tense
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

Rereading this before Sunrise on the Reaping and it really does hold up. I read it in a day, still sobbed... it's more horrific in ways reading it as an adult (the age of the characters, but also understanding what inspired the setting and how much it reflects some issues still). I'm so excited to reread the rest of the trilogy! 
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If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar

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emotional reflective

5.0

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A Fortune for Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib

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reflective

5.0

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1919 by Eve L. Ewing

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emotional informative reflective

5.0

This was a phenomenal read! This collection is inspired by research the author did on the Chicago Race Riots. Most poems are inspired by a specific passage of a document from the time about it. There is a good mix of kinds of poems in form and content. The photographs added yet another layer. This is not one I will soon forget and I am excited to read more from this author. 
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Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi

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emotional reflective

5.0

Visceral and haunting. Short, but in that it is purposeful without being repetitive. I really loved the strings throughout of the poems with religious characters, as well as the Self-Portrait poems. 
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