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specialseaweed

specialseaweed@bookwyrm.social

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i never read as much as i should

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Chelsea Manning: README.txt (Hardcover, 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 4 stars

An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time.

While …

A whole lot more than I thought I was getting.

5 stars

I think these kind of books often come off badly. They feel self serving, they feel like history rewriting, they feel, well, bad. This was none of that. It felt earnest and honest, the thrashing around of growing up. I highly recommend it.

Wonderful book.