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Wait I didn’t even realize there *were* actual reviews on StoryGraph and I’ve been on that app DAILY for 2 months 😅
I made the mistake of reading it in January of 2023 and it ruined the possibility of any other book being my favorite for the entire year 😅 so good, so impactful 💕
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Grid of 5x4 featuring book covers on a graph paper background. Text rotated 90 degrees reads “roundup.” Book covers are: Top row: The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chboksy, Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, Equity Centered Trauma Informed Education by Alex Shevrin Vernet, Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff, Second Row: Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour, Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa (Mac) Crane, The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings, Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova Third row: Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam, The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo, The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo Fourth row: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, The Sentence by Louise Erdrich, Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, Before the Ever After by Jaqueline Woodson, Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary
All 20 books I posted in the 20 books in 20 days challenge. At no point did I know where this was going and I could have probably posted 30 more, but this feels like a pretty accurate depiction of what/how I read (chaos. It’s chaos.) #booksky 💙📚
Text that reads: “Then Ramona felt her mother’s hand on her back. “Ramona,” she said gently, “what are we going to do with you?” “With red eyes, a swollen face, and a streaming nose, Ramona sat up and glared at her mother. “Love me!” Her voice was fierce with hurt. Shocked at her own words, she biting her face in the pillow. She had no tears left.” -Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Brave
This was the one that stuck with me. Hard. I reread it a few years ago and it had me in tears, especially this part:
Book cover of Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary featuring Ramona, a little girl with bangs and teary eyes, hiding beneath a brown and red patchwork quilt
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky 💙📚
Day 20
Book cover of Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky 💙📚
Day 19
Book cover of Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky 💙📚
Day 18
Book cover of The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky 💙📚
Day 17
Book cover of Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky 💙📚
Day 16
Book cover of Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky 💙📚
Day 15
I’d read this book 😅
Book cover of the dramatics play service version of The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky 💙📚
Day 14
Book cover of Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky 💙📚
Day 13
A library copy of Blob by Maggie Su with a yellow cover featuring a translucent blob and the title in bold black letters. “A love story” and the author’s name are in smaller letters below. The book sits at a diagonal on a burnt orange blanket to the left half of the frame and white background to the right.
I LOVED Blob by Maggie Su. It was weird, laugh out loud funny, self-aware, and it held a mirror up to the very worst parts of early 20s life in a way that was utterly relatable. It also captures so well the experience of disenfranchised trauma that comes with a lifetime of micro-othering #booksky 💙📚
I’ve heard great things, but I think you’ve convinced me to get to it next!
Book cover of The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky 💙📚
Day 12
😂😂😂😂
Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤
Ahhhhh so there’s a whole army of them. That makes sense (but woof, massively underpaid).
Book cover of Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusuf Salaam
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky 💙📚
Day 11
A bingo board style reading challenge graphic that is pale pink with read hearts, with a hot pink 5 by 5 grid with black text. There are pink feather boas creeping into the top left and bottom right corners, and across the bottom is a wired red telephone and a pair of red heart-shaped glasses. There are two tattoo-style bird illustrations on either side of the board. The board is captioned Harry Styles Reading Challenge in pink and red text. In each of the boxes is a reading prompt. They read: First row: grapejuice: read a backlist book (Bonus if it was originally published in 1982!) Cherry: Read a book originally written in French. Treat People with Kindness (TPWK): Read a book by a queer author and/or a LGBTQIA2S+ identifying major character. Satellite: Read a book set in or featuring space. Medicine: Read an anticipated new release. Second row: Sunflower Vol. 6: Read a book with flowers on the cover. Ever Since New York: Read a book set in New York Watermelon Sugar: read an award-winning book. Love of My Life: Re-read a favorite book. Sign of the Times: Read a book about a social issue. Third row: Matilda: Read a book featuring found family. Carolina: Read a book off of your TBR or your shelves. Free Space. Two Ghosts: Read a book featuring ghosts or a haunting. As It Was: Read a book set in a country other than the USA. Fourth row: Music for a Sushi Restaurant: Read a book you borrowed or got for free. Adore You: Read a book with a love story. Meet Me in the Hallway: Read a book with a door on the cover. Keep Driving: Read a book with a road trip. From the Dining Table: Make a new recipe from a cookbook. Fifth row: Fine Line: Read a book with a happy ending. Golden: Read a book with a golden or yellow cover Falling: Read a book that shares a title with a song (Bonus if it’s a Harry Styles or 1D song) To Be So Lonely: Read a coming-of-age story. Cinema: Read a book that’s been adapted to film or TV.
“Harry Styles Reading Challenge: Prompt Guide" Grapejuice: Aged like a fine wine, a book published last year or earlier (Bonus if it was originally published in1982!) Cherry: Cou Cou. a book originally written in French. Treat People with Kindness (TPWK): Time to bring out the pride flags! Read a book by a queer author and/or a LGBTQIA2S+ identifying major character. Satellite: Read a book set in or featuring space. As a creative interpretation, this could be someone “taking space.” Medicine: We all can’t wait for this one. Read an anticipated new release. Sunflower Vol. 6: Read a book with flowers on the cover. Ever Since New York: Read a book set in New York (city or state). Watermelon Sugar: Celebrating Harry’s first song to win a Grammy, read a book that’s won an award. Love of My Life: Re-read a favorite book. Sign of the Times: Read a book about or featuring a social issue. Matilda: Read a book featuring found family. Carolina: She’s got a book for every situation, and I bet you do, too. Read a book off of your TBR list, or your (physical or digital) shelves. Two Ghosts: Read a book featuring ghosts or a (real or metaphorical) haunting. As It Was: Leave America! Read a book set in a country other than the USA. Music for a Sushi Restaurant: I don’t want you to go broke. Read a book you borrowed or got for free. Adore You: Read a book with a love story (it doesn’t have to be a romance.) Meet Me in the Hallway: Read a book with a door on the cover. Keep Driving: Read a book with a road trip. From the Dining Table: Make a new recipe from a cookbook. Fine Line: We’ll be alright. Read a book with a happy ending. Golden: Read a book with a golden or yellow cover (text counts, too). Falling: I’m well aware I write too many songs about you. Read a book that shares a title with a song (Bonus if it’s a Harry Styles or One Direction song!) To Be So Lonely: I was just a little boy. Read a coming-of-age story. Cinema: Read a book that’s been adapted to film or TV.
I might be one of very few people here in the middle of the #booksky 💙📚 and #harrystyles Venn digram, but I’d been looking for a Harry Styles themed reading challenge and hadn’t been able to find one, so I made my own. 🥝🏠🍒🌈
It’s also a challenge on storygraph (I’m @booksonthecouch there too) 🥰
Book cover of Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky 💙📚
Day 10
Maybe also look into secondhand boox devices? I’m not super familiar, but it’s my understanding that they run android so you could still use the kindle app for the books you already own and purchase through other channels moving forward (bookshop.org just started selling ebooks!)
Book cover of The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky 💙📚
Day 9
I closed my therapy practice in July and I have never been so confident I made the right choice. There is no way I could help other people hold this (professionally) right now 😢
A lot more of us from #booktok especially have found each other since the last time I posted this starter pack, so please go and also follow these queer🌈 reader/reviewers!
Still space left too - who else am i missing from this? Is it you? 👀
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One of my very favorites of all time 💕
