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This book is a great spring-board for thinking about and planning for abolition through a series of well-chosen metaphors drawn from nature. Especially as I've learned more about abolition, I've encountered the "but how do we get there?" question from folks curious about what a world without policing can look like and the concrete steps to take to arrive there.

The answer this book presents isn't a set of concrete steps, but a nimble and robust framework for thinking about abolition as a process, one that is fractal, iterative, cooperative, autonomous, and creative. The answer to what we do about the prison industrial complex is different for everybody, and this book presents a way to think about that.

If you are already convinced we need to abolish police and prisons but aren't sure how to carve a path forward, this might be the text for you in this moment.

Full disclosure: I contributed to this book. BUT it is such a good anthology, there isn't a dud in the whole book. This is a real who's who of Canadian horror with a full range of genre and voice, there's sure to be a couple stories in here for any horror fan's taste.

Finished my re-read of this last week, I'll return again to it. I love Dostoevsky's characters and the way he piles on layer after layer of small town gossip into a tragic story of murder, suicide, and revolutionary ideals betrayed.

Couldn't really put this down, just a sweet and tender and vulnerable book giving us a glimpse into the intimate pandemic correspondence between Ivan Coyote, a nonbinary storyteller, and people who were touched by their words. Sometimes, as a queer person, I can feel a little existentially lonely, and I suspect the next time I do I might pick this up and read a little bit of it for some connection.

While I'm not a receptive audience for a certain kind of spirituality talk, I was willing to set aside some skepticism to read this book as a workshop, progressing through the text, tasks, and morning pages week to week. Overall, I found a lot of the tasks useful and engaging, and I did have some personal and creative breakthroughs, enough to keep me overcoming my skepticism and general curmudgeonliness until completing the course. If you like pop-spiritual approaches to art this book might hit all the bases, and even if it isn't quite for you, some of the tasks and tools presented might be worth it anyway.