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Starting this one this morning on audio 🎧 It‘s a nice morning to sit on the porch! Rain is coming ☔️ 🌼 🌱
Happy Sunday 💛💗
Starting this one this morning on audio 🎧 It‘s a nice morning to sit on the porch! Rain is coming ☔️ 🌼 🌱
Happy Sunday 💛💗
pick4.5/5⭐️
Unreliable narrator, bleak, violent, sad, dark and all the triggers.
I couldn‘t stop reading.
so-so(2017) Six years ago, a white family's baby died while in the care of Mary's mother. The blame fell on Mary, who has just been released from 6 years in "baby jail" to a group home. But what really happened and will the truth ever out? Mixed feelings about this: it has multiple strengths but ultimately didn't work for me due to a gimmicky resolution. OTOH, the audiobook is read by Bahni Turpin, who is always a pleasure to hear.
Think I‘m behind on the #12booksof2024 so this is my October pick. I finally read Dear Martin & this one—in time to meet Nic Stone at a book fair. Loved both, but this one hit me just a bit more because of kids I have worked with. @Andrew65
pickWhile I was still processing Dear Martin, I wanted to listen to this one. The story of Quan, who‘s in juvie for murdering a cop, & his contacts with Justyce. TWs for domestic violence, gangs, gun violence. This book is one I can relate to because I used to work in a school with these types of boys (poor, poc, trauma in fams). I have thought about my 3 Black boys from that school who have died before they were 18 in the last few yrs. The school 👇
Tired, by Langston Hughes
It has been a hard week in the US, for those of us who believe the Death Penalty should be abolished. 5 state executions in 7 days.
I am sad, I am tired.
If you have not read the tagged by Angela Davis or The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander I really encourage you to even if you do not live in the states.
#AboutABook #ByMultipleAuthors @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
One of the only books this year I‘ve sent away for my own physical copy of as soon as my library copy got returned.
