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  • The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn

    The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn

    I picked this up because the author is local to the region I’m doing a lot of work in this summer. This is a Lakota man’s account of the Battle of Little Big Horn, but from the Lakota perspective. He contextualizes the culture…

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  • The Nature of Oaks

    The Nature of Oaks

    I’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

    we are so back

    I 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

    Joe Vs Elan School

    So 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

    The Correspondent

    Baby’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

    She Disco on My Witches til I Fire Island

    Read 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

    Organized Hate

    An 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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