All the review are here
I have been hearing - even in these halfway house walls - of this book:
1. Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor
(Riverhead)10 Rave • 2 Positive
“[An] impressive first collection … Although each of the stories here can be read as a stand-alone work, over half of them are perhaps best described as chapters of a novella-length piece … the cloistered world of student life offers Taylor the perfect canvas for the emotionally charged interplay between an insular cast. Most significantly though, these stories provide further evidence that intimacy is Taylor’s great subject … moments of connection that pepper these stories feel so miraculous. But welcoming relief involves acknowledging the true depth of the void that’s been filled … Taylor also dares to show us how violence can be an act of terrible intimacy.”
–Lucy Scholes (The Financial Times)
I find myself curious about these two non-fiction books:
2. The Storm is Upon Us: How Qanon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything by Mike Rothschild(Melville House)2 Rave • 4 Positive
“In clear, punchy prose Rothschild explains how the movement that started on a message board for white supremacists, antisemites and fans of hard-core porn moved into the mainstream … The story of QAnon has so many twists and turns, it’s sometimes hard to keep track. But Rothschild’s book reads like a thriller, with cliffhangers that leave you eager for the next episode … Rothschild writes with compassion about some of those who have been sucked into it … What he doesn’t quite do is explain the psychological leap that enables perfectly ordinary people to believe that liberals and Jews are child-trafficking paedophiles. Perhaps no one really can … The Storm Is Upon Us is an impressive piece of research and a gripping read.”
–Christina Patterson (The Sunday Times)
(Harper Perennial)4 Rave
“Both a blazing polemic against the concept of race as anything more than a means to create racism as well as a fundamental route toward active unification … Dabiri once again pulls no punches, offering a sharp, relevant critique and deconstruction of racial categorizations, particularly the common assumption of White people as the default norm … the author is consistently direct and urgent in her presentation … A must-read for anyone seeking to be an agent of much-needed societal change.”
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