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Kris wants to read Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté

Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté
A groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway …
Kris finished reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House book follows four strangers, all of whom come to Hill House, long-rumored to be haunted, …
Kris quoted Raising Free People by Akilah S. Richards
This book is an opening and a risk. A decolonial journey. Its author, standing at the crossroads with Èsù, the Yoruba god of change, knows the urgency of the awkward. Akilah writes rudely and with the lyrical precision of a herbalist whose great task is to bring you to the site of your rite of passage. She hasn't got time, yours or mine. As we would say in Lagos, she no sen' you. She is not going to patronize you. Yet her non-proselytizing directness feels like the hard medicine of someone who knows in her bones, in her arm bent behind her back by a traumatized White police officer, in her palm that has just gently slapped her daughter and wondered if she wasn't perpetuating the slavery dynamic of the "adult gaze" and the "good nigger," that we are not free, that we are caught in an assemblage of gestures and behaviors that have confined our imaginations, that we are living out the imperatives of old dynamics—even in our quests to win, to behave properly, to become black billionaires, to earn labels, to beat them at their own game.
Kris quoted Raising Free People by Akilah S. Richards
Modernity constructs children as citizens in the making, as furniture beneath the all-powerful "adult-gaze." Akilah calls this "studenthood" and, with stories that will hold you in their little pink grip, demonstrates how this "studenthood" is a racial project of perpetuating the centrality of the human subject, the Euro-American Enlightenment self that is disconnected from magic and animacy and the vibrancy of ecology, from the wisdoms that trees secrete, from the pollination songs that empty space traffics, from learning-as-becoming, from the miraculous abundance that is available if we knew how to look.
Kris quoted Raising Free People by Akilah S. Richards
Like Akilah herself, this book—modestly titled— is an invitation to stray away from the fixed algorithms of colonial reinforcements. To know power differently. To refuse the freedom the system offers. To allow the cacophony of noise to draw us away from the beguiling harmony of troubling colonial order.
Kris started reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House book follows four strangers, all of whom come to Hill House, long-rumored to be haunted, …
Kris finished reading The Marathon Don't Stop by Rob Kenner
Kris started reading The Marathon Don't Stop by Rob Kenner
Kris finished reading Raising Free People by Akilah S. Richards

Raising Free People by Akilah S. Richards, Bayo Akomolafe
No one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while reform may be a worthy …
Kris started reading Raising Free People by Akilah S. Richards

Raising Free People by Akilah S. Richards, Bayo Akomolafe
No one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while reform may be a worthy …
Kris finished reading Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
Kris finished reading Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
"The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more …
Kris stopped reading

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion …