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Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
tense
medium-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? Yes
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
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? Yes
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
adventurous
emotional
reflective
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
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by Jenn M. Jackson
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
adventurous
emotional
reflective
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
Favorite quotes:
"I'm dead again, somewhere else, and I didn't feel a thing."
"There, there I am. Because that’s what a sister is: a piece of yourself you can finally love, because it’s in someone else."
"What they don't tell you about getting everything you ever wanted is the cold-sweat panic when you think about losing it. For someone who'd never had anything to lose, it's like drowning, all the time."
"I’ve always believed, like all rational people, that my selves are separate. That they—we—exist independently. But sometimes when life is too still, when I lie in bed in the quiet, I can feel it all happening. Not just my selves collapsing, but time collapsing, because past and future are other selves just as surely as those on different worlds. My mother is dying right now, and I feel it. But she also recovered, woke up, got clean, and I feel that too. I feel that somewhere I am not alone. And I feel that sometime, soon or not long ago, I will accomplish something great."
"I'm dead again, somewhere else, and I didn't feel a thing."
"There, there I am. Because that’s what a sister is: a piece of yourself you can finally love, because it’s in someone else."
"What they don't tell you about getting everything you ever wanted is the cold-sweat panic when you think about losing it. For someone who'd never had anything to lose, it's like drowning, all the time."
"I’ve always believed, like all rational people, that my selves are separate. That they—we—exist independently. But sometimes when life is too still, when I lie in bed in the quiet, I can feel it all happening. Not just my selves collapsing, but time collapsing, because past and future are other selves just as surely as those on different worlds. My mother is dying right now, and I feel it. But she also recovered, woke up, got clean, and I feel that too. I feel that somewhere I am not alone. And I feel that sometime, soon or not long ago, I will accomplish something great."
No Bad Parts: How the Internal Family Systems Model Changes Everything by Richard C. Schwartz
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced