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The Nature of Oaks
READ MORE →: The Nature of OaksI’ll start by saying many folks love Tallamy, and I do so appreciate his work for the native plant movement, but his writing makes him come off like a Master Gardener Final Boss and I can’t seem to get over it. I was…
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we are so back
READ MORE →: we are so backI am glad to have finally gotten to wiggle over to these pages. This one has been sitting untouched behind this bookshelf that will be my tomb for a while now. A fan of science fiction, short stories, and dangerous visions I had…
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Joe Vs Elan School
READ MORE →: Joe Vs Elan SchoolSo full disclosure: This is a webcomic, which I read as a webcomic, which was published as a three-volume graphic novel series after web publication. I’m splitting the difference and entering it as a single book here. Quite an astonishing memoir about a…
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The Correspondent
READ MORE →: The CorrespondentBaby’s first epistolary. Selected based on coworker hype and I enjoyed the experience even though I don’t really know how I feel about the overall book. Some components felt very powerful through the letter format while others felt like sanitized boomer slop character…
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She Disco on My Witches til I Fire Island
READ MORE →: She Disco on My Witches til I Fire IslandRead this for my Big Gay Bookclub. This follows a cast of gay characters on Fire Island in 1989, sort of at the tail end of the worst of the AIDS epidemic. Our main character, Joe, moves for the summer to bartender with…
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Organized Hate
READ MORE →: Organized HateAn account of a hate crime in Orange County, California, with a deep dive into the subculture of white nationalism and hate that created a murderer. This scratched two itches for me: true crime and history. The Real JB 1
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A Sorceress Comes to Call
READ MORE →: A Sorceress Comes to Callvery solid and spooky book. Not horror, but a different narration of the same events could be. Thought the ending was a little too happily-ever-after convenient, but thats probably just genre. Panda 1