Liy rated Too Much and Not the Mood: 4 stars
Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose
"An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice"--
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Liy rated Time's Arrow: 3 stars
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991) is a novel by Martin Amis. It was shortlisted for the …
Liy rated The Dispossessed: 5 stars
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
The story takes place on the fictional planet Urras and its moon Anarres (since Anarres is massive enough to hold …
Liy rated Night sky with exit wounds: 5 stars
Night sky with exit wounds by Ocean Vuong (Lannan literary selections)
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: “The poems in Mr. Vuong’s new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds…possess …
Liy rated The Poet X: 4 stars
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she …
Liy rated How To Do Nothing: 4 stars
Liy rated Grief is the Thing with Feathers: 5 stars
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted …
Liy rated Pleasure Activism: 4 stars
Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make …
Liy rated Care Manifesto: 4 stars
Liy rated Man's Search for Meaning: 4 stars
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its …
Liy rated How to Take Smart Notes: 4 stars
How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
An informational book that describes and advocates for the note taking system of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. The author's …
Liy rated How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: 5 stars
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and …
Liy rated Thinking in systems: 4 stars
Thinking in systems by Donella H. Meadows
Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from …
Liy rated The Art of Gathering: 4 stars
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
"A bold new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together--at work, at …