Just incredible. I‘ve read it before and it makes me cry every time. So powerful and important.

I mean it does exactly what it says on the tin—it‘s a very short introduction to the military history of WWI. I just found it boring and really got lost in the names and places.

Really good—fun, great trans rep, sexy, even! So grateful I read it.

A DELIGHT. So many great pieces in here, and really makes me want to read more of some of the contributors for sure.

Just an incredible book. So nuanced and careful, deeply sad but holding space for experience and love and tenderness. Can not recommend strongly enough—and it‘s short!

I really feel like I‘m not smart enough to fully grasp all the nuances of this book, but it was still wildly entertaining, and so darkly funny (which is my favorite part of Nabokov.) Just a good, if long and sometimes dense, read.

A definite nostalgia read but one that makes me feel so soft and tender. Finally feel like I understand it now, 10 years after I first read it. Very Salinger with all his Stuff Going On, but still delightful.

Just an incredible book. I was so sucked into the story, and really loved the narrative voice. So much to chew on. Just an amazing read.

Just incredible. LaCapra takes these concepts that are critical to his field and applies them to history as a whole. It‘s deep, hard stuff—sometimes my brain would hurt after a chapter—but it‘s so amazing and worth it. Should be required reading for all historians. [image: a copy of Writing History, Writing Trauma on a desk. A sticker of a bullhorn appears in the upper right hand corner.]

A decent historically-influenced fantasy story, though the plot itself didn‘t like... super catch me or make me feel enthralled. But it was a fast read and I definitely didn‘t bail on it, so! Makes me wanna read more historically-influenced fantasy, like Tamora Pierce! [id: a Stone fireplace with a sticker that reads “LibraryThing Early Reviewers”]

Honestly liked this more than volume 2, which seems to be an unpopular opinion. The stories really helped the overarching plot make more sense to me, and I liked the different artists‘ takes on the characters and world. [image: The Wicked + the Divine volume 3 lays against a gray background.]

Moved really fast, it felt like, but I could look at Jamie McKelvie‘s art and Matt Wilson‘s colors for years, and I truly believe Kieron Gillan‘s comics writing is like waaay too smart for me.

Just an incredible collection. Really thought provoking and definitely teachable. Grateful to have all this insight and more reading to do!

An interesting magical technological world, but ends up feeling a little under developed, and the ending felt like it came at me way too fast. Still interesting though!
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“numbing ... may function for the historian as a protective shield or preservative against unproblematic identification with the experience of others and the possibility of being traumatized by it.”

Nuff said. [image: the text of the quotation, with handwritten marginalia that reads “HEY FUCK OFF”] in blue ink

Just incredible—funny, witty, SEXY, thoughtful, heartbreaking. Gotta get my hands on the fourth volume. [image: a copy of Sex Criminals, vol. 3, laying against a pillow on a bed.]

Really thought-provoking, if a bit unnecessarily dense (and I don‘t usually say that.) lots to think about and chew on, though, and could be useful in writing lectures!

Interesting premise for sure—free black planters in early Virginia—but inconsistent in its use of its framework, which is mostly disappointing, because the framework seemed awesome! But it‘s short and could be useful for teaching kids, maybe! (The picture is of the morning I finished the book—beautiful blue skies!) [image: trees against a blue Summer sky.]