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breadnroses
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Feeling proud of myself 🤓 Revisited this after 5 years. (It was one of the 1st books I ever logged here!) My first go-around was extremely challenging & most of Davis‘s analysis went over my head. But since then I have learned a lot about Marxism & the labor movement, & I‘m happy to report that I was able to follow the argument this time around! Can confirm it is a work of true genius 🤯

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lilpumpkin2.0
Making a Scene | Constance Wu
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April 2, 2025 DONE! Now I wouldn't say this was a fabulous, fantastic, over-the-top read, because it wasn't. I am going to be more truthful and say that it was entertaining and easy to understand. It was the kind of book where you learn about one's life. This was not a "deep" book; it was a surface level book. Therefore, I give it 3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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lilpumpkin2.0
Making a Scene | Constance Wu

April 1, 2025 Today is Monday.... NOT April Fools!!! Today is Tuesday and it has been a gloomy cold day for me; not sure about you but that is how my dah has gone. I basically have been cooped up in my home snuggled up in a blanket reading (just imagine). I am flipping through these pages like nothing. I am very close to the end (page 243 out of 317) and have not felt surprised or like "Whoa, really?!" The book is so-so in my opinion. Not shocking

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Bookzombie
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This book about how Central Park was created is beautiful and I highly recommend it. I‘m pleased she included the forced removal of residents living where the park was built, even though this is a celebration of the park. The author ends by reminding us that the park was made for all of us.

Finished March 5, 2025.

Bookzombie This book came to my intention when Paul Castle, YouTuber/Tick Tock influencer and children‘s book author, posted about a bookstore owner pulling this book from their shelves and offering refunds to customers because there is tiny illustration of 2 males being married at the park. I‘m not sure I have all the words to express how much this shit angers me. 2d
Bookzombie Also, the book features Emma Stebbins, who sculpted Angel of the Waters, and OMG she was a lesbian (I might be labeling her and apologize if I am.) Emma and her partner, Charlotte Cushman, considered themselves married. 2d
PatriciaU Ugh about the bookstore pulling this. Takes me back to early days in my library career when idiots painted diapers on the naked little boy in Sendaks In the Night Kitchen. Cretins. 2d
Reggie All this is lovely to hear except for the bookseller. Wtf man. Have they read a book?!!! 9h
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ncsufoxes
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Other page from the previous picture. I find that these are important stats to share since I don‘t think k that most anybody knows how our prisons are funded. My new fear after reading this book is that the current state is that people will be so desperate they will commit crimes & be put in jail. Which since most prisons are private, someone is making money off of people being in jail.

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ncsufoxes
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Title: bankrolling the carceral state

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ncsufoxes
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Title: extent of the carceral control

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ncsufoxes
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Did you know that 1 in 58 people in the US are part of the carceral system (that involves prison- over 1.4 million, probation, on parole or in a local jail)? How is this statistic not being shouted from the rooftops? This book is comprised of short essays by activists, researchers, prisoners themselves about the prison system in the US. There are discussions about ways to decrease police use by forming stronger communities, providing adequate

ncsufoxes housing, food banks, education, mental health access & services. It was an interesting way to look at better ways to help people other than criminalizing them. Actually crime has been taking a downward trajectory the last 20 years but there continues to be massive increases in police funding. I found it to be interesting & of course found more to read from the authors. 3d
TheBookHippie As having visited and visit jail often.. I‘ve yelled often about this. It‘s a whole cesspool of variables. The unfairness of sentencing is mind blowing. 3d
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tpixie
The Road to Dalton | Shannon Bowring
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For those who loved The Road to Dalton for our #EuropaCollective #BuddyRead, the 3rd book in the trilogy will release in the USA on Oct 7, 2025

mcctrish I bought the second and I need to move it up on my TBR list 4d
CSeydel Oh man I haven‘t read the second one yet! 4d
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Deblovestoread I just saw this. So excited! 4d
tpixie @mcctrish @CSeydel @Deblovestoread I thought I‘d read Book 2 closer to book 3. I read too many books so I have a harder time remembering them. I think when I was younger, after I read a book I thought about it a lot more, which helped me remember them plus, I didn‘t read as many! 4d
Chelsea.Poole Ooh thanks for the post! I read book two but I didn‘t love it as much as the first one. I‘ll probably stick with it and see what happens in the third. 4d
tpixie @Chelsea.Poole hopefully the third will be a satisfying read! 4d
CSeydel Oh yeah that makes sense 4d
GatheringBooks Ooh! Thank you so much for sharing and for the tag! I already have book 2, and will now pre-order book 3. 4d
CBee @tpixie oooo book 3!! I need to get to #2 soon. 4d
BarbaraBB I had no idea there would be a third book! I still need to read the second one and fortunately it‘s my April #Roll100 book! 4d
squirrelbrain Like most others, I haven‘t read book 2 yet. #toomanybookstoolittletime 4d
tpixie @BarbaraBB that works out nicely! 💙🩵💙 4d
tpixie @squirrelbrain me either. If I do I‘ll read it right before the 3rd. Otherwise, it may just heighten my Mount TBR!! ⛰️ 4d
Lesliereadsalot Can‘t wait! I love these characters. 4d
tpixie @Lesliereadsalot yes! It kind of reminds me of this author that also writes about a community 4d
Lesliereadsalot Will definitely look into her books! 4d
CSeydel Checked it out today from Libby 📖📲 3d
tpixie @CSeydel 🩵💙🩵 yay! 3d
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julieclair
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My #MonthlyNonfiction choice for April has been on my TBR forever!

What will everyone else be reading?

peanutnine I've got some poetry books set aside as well as this essay collection on deck 5d
TheBookgeekFrau 🤷🏻‍♀️ Waiting to see what grabs my attention 😂 4d
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mhillis Good Girls Revolt is great 🙌 I‘m thinking about reading 4d
willaful I just stacked A Jane Austen Education so I think I'll go with that. Great cover. 4d
TheAromaofBooks I decided that I should just rummage through my crates of nonfiction books and read the first 300 that I found 😂 I ended up with 4d
Sarahreadstoomuch Honestly not sure yet, but liked the one I read this month 4d
Lauredhel I've just today finished some weird, pretentious environmental poetry protesting the building of a road bypass in my town... wondering if I can make that count 3d
MonicaLoves2Read Free by Amanda Knox 2d
julieclair @Rissreadswithcats Oh wow… that one sounds intense. Can‘t wait to hear what you think! 1d
julieclair @peanutnine Thunder Song sounds like a book my son would like to read. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. 👍 1d
julieclair @TheBookgeekFrau Love it! 😀 1d
julieclair @mhillis That one sounds fascinating, and also very scary. 😱 Glad you liked Good Girls Revolt. I have no idea why it‘s taken me so long to read it. 🤪 1d
julieclair @TheAromaofBooks Oohhh, I bet my husband would like that one! 1d
julieclair @willaful I agree about the cover! And the premise of the book sounds really interesting. 1d
julieclair @Sarahreadstoomuch That one sounds so interesting. Stacked. 1d
julieclair @Lauredhel Yikes! I just read the blurb about that book and even that doesn‘t make sense to me. 🤪 I‘d say you can definitely count it! 😂 1d
julieclair @MonicaLoves2Read I bet that one will be fascinating! 1d
TheAromaofBooks It's definitely a book that MY husband added to our library, so it comes husband-recommended 😂 20h
julieclair @TheAromaofBooks Recommendations from other husbands are always valued much more highly. 😂😂 13h
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