jaymeb finished reading The Change by Kirsten Miller
Not my usual read but entertaining enough.
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jaymeb finished reading Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara
Wonderfully informative and heartbreaking
jaymeb finished reading Good Trouble by Christopher Noxon
Good Trouble is the helpful antidote to all the pessimism and name-calling that is permeating …
An illustrated history of the civil rights movement and an inspiration to keep up the fight.
jaymeb quoted Katerina by James Frey
James Frey: Katerina (2018)
"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny …
He thinks of himself as a philosopher, a weatherman, an astronomer, a speaker of languages, an artist. We live on a little ball, he says, a little blue ball in a minor solar system in a small galaxy in an infinite universe. Nothing I do, or you do, or anyone does means a goddamn thing. We should be happy and spend our days in pursuit of pleasure and pain and every form of lust and desire that exists.
— Katerina by James Frey (Page 2 - 3)
jaymeb rated The Dark Fantastic: 4 stars
The Dark Fantastic by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (Postmillennial Pop, #13)
Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack …
jaymeb finished reading The Dark Fantastic by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (Postmillennial Pop, #13)
The Dark Fantastic by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (Postmillennial Pop, #13)
Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack …
jaymeb started reading Good Trouble by Christopher Noxon
Good Trouble by Christopher Noxon
Good Trouble is the helpful antidote to all the pessimism and name-calling that is permeating today’s political and social dialogues. …
jaymeb rated Tender Is the Flesh: 3 stars
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that …
jaymeb finished reading Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though …
I started this book and stopped it…and picked it up again two months later. I enjoyed the writing and the complex emotions, but the story was very dark. You need to be in an emotionally stable place for this one.
jaymeb finished reading Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo (Alex Stern, #2)
Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight …
Not as good as Ninth House, but still a fun read.
jaymeb wants to read The Change by Kirsten Miller
jaymeb finished reading Our Missing Hearts
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former …
I would hope that I would be the one with the courage to resist. I’d settle for being the one who resists privately but keeps up a front of being complicit. Sadly, I know the fear of losing my child would be too much for my heart to bear so I suspect I would be the neighbor who keeps her mouth shut in the face of injustice.
jaymeb commented on On Tyranny by Nora Krug
“One moment of shock enables an eternity of submission.”
jaymeb finished reading My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
I’m a slow reader so I was surprised when I finished the book last night. A quick read for a book that is not plot-driven. Interesting look at familial relationships, but one I couldn’t necessarily relate to being the youngest. But I bet my siblings could