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Future Home Of The Living God
by Louise Erdrich
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Wow I really wished for a better ending. Not that the ending wasn't completely great and well written, but I was just really hoping that Cedar would make it out! And she was so close too. This was a really beautifully written book about the end of the way we know the world, the meaning of family, and watching it up against my own estranged connection to my Minnesotan Ojibwe grandfather was really poignant. Louise Erdrich really writes such beautiful books.

Strange Houses
by Uketsu
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What a fun quick read!! I loved the repeated prints of the house layouts so you never forgot the images to make the story more intriguing. I wish it was longer!!

Gender Queer
by Maia Kobabe
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The art of this was really beautiful. I think this had a really unique and very unsure message in a completely good way, like so many books on sexuality and gender are so self-confident, either in the science or in the self-understanding, and I really appreciated that this author was even to the very end not very sure of eirself. It's a strong message that you don't ever have to be an expert on the way you feel, because sometimes the words and labels we make don't quite describe the way we feel, and we don't have to put ourselves in a box

Bloody Irish
by Bob Curran
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This book was labeled as a non-fiction but it definitely read more like a fiction set of short stories! A quick and easy read with some nice spooky stories perfect for a campfire.

Remina
by Junji Ito
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Junji Ito does it again! This is perhaps my first standalone I've read from Ito; I'm more familiar with his short story collections. This is an absolutely horrifying tale of a planet from another dimension that crosses into our realm and makes a devastating approach to Earth, destroying everything in its path. This is a story that goes hard in both its storytelling and its visuals.

Your Head is a Houseboat
by Campbell Walker
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This is an awesome book that helps you to examine your own fears, insecurities, and cognitive biases using inventive metaphors and wacky humor. Campbell Walker, aka struthless on YouTube, uses creative illustrations, his wonderful sense of silliness, and his own lived experiences to help you journal your way to accepting and understanding yourself better. His approach is not only funny and whimsical, but easy to comprehend. You can tell that he's been through it all himself and that he knows what he's talking about. For anyone struggling for mental clarity, I highly recommend this book.

The Message
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I knew this was a collection of essays but I did not realize that most of the book was an essay about Palestine and the oppression and colonization of Palestinians. It was incredible, well-written and addresses the situation using American and global historical context to understand the present day suffering. I've really enjoyed Ta-Nehisi Coates in the past, but I commend him here for his clarity, objectivity, and bravery for speaking up.

The Indifferent Stars Above Lp
by Daniel James Brown
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This was a very well-written book that managed to be extremely thorough without being excessively dry. Funny enough, I found myself finishing his sentences because I had read a book to the kids I nannied, Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party, that I actually knew a lot of the historical details from family names and fates to the side-adventures of various characters that joined and left the wagon trail along the way. This book was always going to be heavy due to the subject matter, but it never felt sensationalized or drawn out, treating the history as a matter of fact without being too dramatized. A great and quick read!

Jackal
by Erin E. Adams
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I don't read a lot of mystery but this was so interesting and so gripping! A perfect interaction of supernatural, historical fiction, and contemporary topics that it made a really fantastical story that you so desperately wanted to know the ending all the way through. And a very satisfying ending at that!! Maybe I'll have to pick up more mystery next time I'm at the library

The World According To Mister Rogers
by Fred Rogers
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This little book is a great resource for some of the wisdom and thoughts of Fred Rogers. Mr. Rogers was as much a part of my growing up as Sesame Street and Disney. Hearing his words now so many years later hits on a deeper level, a more appreciative level. With all the negativity and chaos going on in the world right now, it may do you some good to read this book or listen to the audiobook. An absolute 5 stars.
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