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BookWyrm newbie. Trying not to be too busy to read.

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Jeannette Walls: The Glass Castle (Paperback, 2006, Scribner)
Kelly Lytle Hernández: Bad Mexicans - Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (2022, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.)
David Bowles: They Call Me Güero (Paperback, 2021, Kokila)

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition

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Octavia E. Butler: Parable of the talents (2001, Warner Books)
Octavia E. Butler: Parable Of The Sower
Nnedi Okorafor: Binti (AudiobookFormat, 2015)

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reviewed The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

Trung Le Nguyen: The Magic Fish (GraphicNovel, 2020, Random House, Incorporated)

Real life isn’t a fairytale.

But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with …

2022 #FReadom read 3/20

Finished book 3/20 from my 2022 #FReadom reading list: The Magic Fish, the debut graphic novel by Trung Le Nguyen. A truly gorgeous work, visually, lyrically, and emotionally. I read it as an ebook but now want to find and experience its beauty in print. Hién's journey home to Nha Trang in @Trungles' graphic novel also reconnected me with stories from my own mother, who passed away 15 months ago, but who was a nurse in Nha Trang in 1966-67: www.rememberingmccvietnam.net/memories-of-the-nha-trang-hospital

reviewed Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, #1) by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Benjamin Alire Sáenz: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, #1) (2012)

Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he …

2022 #FReadom read 2/20

Book 2/20 on my 2022 #FReadom list: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Rich exploration of the many things that teenagers (and adults) don't talk about, and why, and what happens when they finally emerge aloud. Highly recommend. Also, Aristotle and Dante introduced me to W S Merwin (1927-2019), whose poetry Benjamin Alire Sáenz wove subtly throughout. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52502/in-the-winter-of-my-thirty-eighth-year

reviewed The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Company: The 1619 Project (Hardcover, 2021, One World)

In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a …

2022 #FReadom read 1/20

I set a #FReadom resolution/reading goal for 2022: I’ll read at least 20 books that have been banned, removed, challenged or threatened in Texas libraries or schools. Book 1/20 was The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones and many contributors. Compelling scholarship & vision that doesn’t just belong in schools & libraries, it belongs in all readers’ hands. Linda Villarosa’s chapter “Medicine” hit me particularly hard.