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Reading Log: Mid-Air
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.22]
[Last Updated: 2024.08.04]
I read Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams. 📚
(I guess I put everything in the genre tag now, feels less auspicious.)
(I guess I put everything in the genre tag now, feels less auspicious.)
Should write a real review for granitemedia.org, but until then I’ll just say I quite enjoyed this, a really strong book. Highly recommended for readers of Kwame Alexander and Jason Reynolds, and it holds its own among their work.
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Reading Log: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.16]
[Last Updated: 2024.08.04]
I read The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On : Poems by Franny Choi. 📚
Read the first half of this in one day about a month ago - not sure why I let it slip, but now I’m back to it and finishing it. Need to buy a copy of it.
Read the first half of this in one day about a month ago - not sure why I let it slip, but now I’m back to it and finishing it. Need to buy a copy of it.
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It was on the April Poetry Month display at the Holladay Library and I’d heard of it and decided to grab it. Took me a while to open it up (obviously, since it’s not April anymore) but I’m very glad I did.
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Reading Log: And Then, BOOM!
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.11]
[Last Updated: 2024.08.04]
I read And Then, BOOM! by Lisa Fipps. 📚
Fipps has mastered the novel as an empathy-building machine, for sure.
Fipps has mastered the novel as an empathy-building machine, for sure.
Characters young and old who exemplify how to be a friend and helper as well as how not to be. Her free verse makes for an easy entry-point to an undaunting read. Serious subjects but so accessible; hard things not played for melodrama or exploitation.
Makes me want to be a better community member and friend to people. First thing I looked up this morning after finishing the book late last was discovering if there are little free pantries already in my community I could donate to - I love the idea of a place for sharing and taking with no intermediary, no questions asked, no “accountability” or “relationship” required to get the help that you need.
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Reading Log: Blackouts
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.09]
[Last Updated: 2024.08.04]
I read Blackouts by Justin Torres. 📚
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Listening Log: Frame & Canvas
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.02]
[Last Updated: 2024.06.12]
I listened to Frame & Canvas by Braid. 🎵
Listened to this album for the who knows how manynth time - still just love it, songs have been in my head all week and I’m not sure why.
Listened to this album for the who knows how manynth time - still just love it, songs have been in my head all week and I’m not sure why.
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Reading Log: Starfish
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.02]
[Last Updated: 2024.08.04]
I read Starfish by Lisa Fipps. 📚
I get so angry at terrible adults in middle grade novels - i have no patience for it and want the kids to start fighting back immediately. It takes her awhile but this girl finally pushes back spectacularly.
I get so angry at terrible adults in middle grade novels - i have no patience for it and want the kids to start fighting back immediately. It takes her awhile but this girl finally pushes back spectacularly.
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Reading Log: To the Lighthouse
[Originally Posted: 2024.06.01]
[Last Updated: 2024.08.04]
I read To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. 📚
chef’s kiss emoji
chef’s kiss emoji
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I read the Standard Ebooks edition, available here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/virginia-woolf/to-the-lighthouse
Read:
- “I Actually Went to the Lighthouse” by Patricia Lockwood
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Reading Log: Orlando
[Originally Posted: 2024.05.26]
[Last Updated: 2024.08.04]
I read Orlando by Virginia Woolf. 📚
This is such a rich, enjoyable book, I almost started at the beginning again right after finishing.
This is such a rich, enjoyable book, I almost started at the beginning again right after finishing.
Instead I started on To the Lighthouse. Virginia Woolf is now my favorite writer of the moment. I feel stupid that I haven’t read anything by her until now, and a little more grumpy at a couple of my old English teachers and professors for some of the other things they skipped Woolf to have me read instead…
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Reading Log: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
[Originally Posted: 2024.05.21]
[Last Updated: 2024.07.28]
I read The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien. 📚
Read aloud with my son.
Read aloud with my son.
Probably took a year and a half to get through the whole trilogy? I’ll have to check back in my notes if I can figure it out, because I haven’t been keeping a good reading log these past few years.
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Reading Log: The Eyes & the Impossible
[Originally Posted: 2024.05.19]
[Last Updated: 2024.08.04]
I read The Eyes & the Impossible by Dave Eggers. 📚
This was fun and not overbearing.
This was fun and not overbearing.