Reading
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You Must Take Part in Revolution
Three idealistic youths, forever transformed by the real-world protests in Hong Kong in 2019, develop diverging beliefs about how to best fight against techno-authoritarian China. As conflict escalates and a nuclear disaster looms, is working with an increasingly fascist and non-democratic United States the answer? –Storygraph MY REVIEW First off!…
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Fledgling: The Keeper’s Records of Revolution
Would you trade love for peace? Raisa of Upper Earth has only lived a life of privilege and acquiescence… –Storygraph My Review I’m not even sure how to write a coherent review on this. I am a *huge* fan of dystopia (Hunger Games is my comfort read, lol). And this…
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Poison Ivy: The Virtuous Cycle (Vol.1)
Humanity had its chance. Now it’s time for Poison Ivy. –StoryGraph My Review Poison Ivy’s solo run in The Virtuous Cycle is just a great run at least for this first volume (I did not read the rest). We got some body horror, we have some prime villain/vigilante run up…
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Chesapeake Requiem: Same Page Community Reads Author Talk
Tangier Island, Virginia, is a community unique on the American landscape. Mapped by John Smith in 1608, settled during the American Revolution, the tiny sliver of mud is home to 470 hardy people who live an isolated and challenging existence, with one foot in the 21st century and another in times…
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Women of the Post Review
An emotional story, based on true events, about the all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps who found purpose, solidarity and lifelong friendship in their mission of sorting over one million pieces of mail for the US Army. –Storygraph My Review Simply put, this is an absolutely fantastic novel. We all know…
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Swamp Thing: Becoming (Vol.1) Review
Swamp Thing returns in a new series that stars Levi Kamei as the next Guardian of the Green! –StoryGraph My Review The art was absolutely gorgeous in this, I read it for the graphic novel club at my local comic book store (first read with them, for me). It was…
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Diverse Book Recommendations for all the Moods
Hey all, I thought it’s been a hot minute since I hit you all with some recs, and well, I’m feel a lil feminine rage, a lil sad, so I’m going to get you all a nice rounded out post. We’ll start with the angry, go to the sads, then…
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Carmilla Film VS. Book
I won’t be writing my usual review for the book here since I *just* reviewed it, so here’s the link and if you want something shorter and not have a new tab, here we go… Awesome classical novel with Carmilla being BEFORE Dracula, and lesbian. Book is super atmospheric, short,…
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Immortal Dark Review
Hidden in our world, a society of vampires originating in Africa, can only feed from select human bloodlines. –GoodReads My Review First off, you can take this book out of my cold dead fingers. That being said, let’s get to some fangirl review of this because I have no objectivity…
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The Eyes are the Best Part
Feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective. –GoodReads My Review Monika Kim did her job too well. This book freaked me out and yet it was like a scary movie so good that you couldn’t look away. Or well, I couldn’t, and…
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