2.5, It had its inspiring moments but overall was full of farce.
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I am an autodidact always looking for new things to learn. I teach high school literature. My main bookish interests are theology, philosophy, poetry, and science fiction/fantasy
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Aidan Reads set a goal to read 50 books in 2024
Aidan Reads started reading Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis, Frank Barat, Cornel West, and 1 other
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles …
Aidan Reads started reading Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
![Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette, ʻAdanīyah Shiblī: Minor Detail (Paperback, 2020, Fitzcarraldo Editions)](https://bookwyrm-social.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/images/covers/9b80efab-80f3-4abc-a8a1-80a99aa98ee7.jpg)
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette, ʻAdanīyah Shiblī
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the …
Aidan Reads set a goal to read 52 books in 2023
Aidan Reads rated Saga, Volume 6: 3 stars
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Saga, Volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples (Saga, #6)
After a dramatic time jump, the three-time Eisner Award winner for Best Continuing Series continues to evolve, as Hazel begins …
Aidan Reads rated Don't Call Us Dead: Poems: 4 stars
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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us …
Aidan Reads reviewed The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Aidan Reads rated Gilgamesh: 5 stars
Aidan Reads rated Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation: 5 stars
Aidan Reads rated Ungrading: 5 stars
Aidan Reads rated Selected Poems: 4 stars
Aidan Reads rated A Black Theology of Liberation: 5 stars
Aidan Reads rated Cenzontle: 4 stars
![Marcelo Hernandez Castillo: Cenzontle (2018)](https://bookwyrm-social.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/images/covers/36477417.jpg)
Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (The A. Poulin, Jr. new poets of America series -- no. 40)
"A new edition of American contemporary poetry"--
Aidan Reads reviewed The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
Review of 'The Broken Sword' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Deserves its acclaim as a fantasy masterpiece. I love Anderson’s maximalist language and narration style, it makes the story fittingly feel like an Anglo-Saxon epic. The fantasy elements are wide and wild co-mingling many mythologies and many tropes from ancient epics. My biggest hesitation comes from the melodrama that the writing descends to at some points but overall it’s a well-paced, action-packed story that deserves more readers.