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18% complete! reading crustacean has read 9 of 50 books.

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Tochi Onyebuchi: Riot Baby (AudiobookFormat, 2020, Blackstone Publishing) 4 stars

Moody scifi, social justice, but mostly brother-sister healing

4 stars

I liked it, it was very atmospheric. It starts out in a world that seems normal and ordinary, recognizable as the one we all shared in the early to mid 1990s (for those of us that old). Then, as the LA riots loom and the little girl is revealed to have strange, frightening, unexplainable telekinetic abilities, things get weirder and weirder. The main focus, though, is on the relationship between the girl and her younger brother, the one born during the height of the violence. They journey through pain and injustice to find a place where they can forgive each other, and their mother, and maybe even the world, for what they've been through. Sad but not hopeless.

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Kai Cheng Thom: Falling Back in Love with Being Human (Paperback, 2023, Dial Press Trade Paperback) 5 stars

What happens when we imagine loving the people—and the parts of ourselves—that we do not …

I wrote as though poetry and prayer might mean the same thing, as if words might reconnect me with what I once considered my unshakable relationship with the human divine. I wrote to summon the language that might help me fall back in love with being human. I wrote my way through the question: What happens when we imagine loving the people -- and the parts of ourselves -- that we do not believe are worthy of love?

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