Rated The City We Became 8/10
Inventive and energetic.
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Wants to read Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Wants to read X-Men: Days of Future Past
Rated The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer 8/10
A good set of short stories, each stylistically different and linked by being set in a mystical dystopian future with a mind-controlling police state called New Dawn.
Rated Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade 10/10
Wants to read Stranger in a Strange Land
Wants to read Manhunt
Rated All This Could Be Yours 8/10
A skillful and fast-reading unhappy-family drama, from multiple perspectives.
Rated Sejong Korean Vocabulary and Grammar 1A 10/10
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Rated Sejong Korean Vocabulary and Grammar 1B 10/10
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Rated Sejong Korean Work Book 1A 10/10
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Wants to read Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Rated Crooked Kingdom 8/10
I enjoyed [b:Six of Crows|23437156|Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)|Leigh Bardugo|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1651710803l/23437156._SY75_.jpg|42077459] a lot, but was annoyed at how abrupt of a cliffhanger it ended on. All is forgiven because this one is even better. Fun, engaging, rich, a quick and compelling read, and aspirationally, the kind of thing I'd like to be able to write. You *do* need to read Six of Crows first, but they're both well worth it.
Rated Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America 8/10
Not 100% sure how I feel about this book and my opinion wavered as I read it. In some ways the book itself is also the kind of thing the book is intended to critique: a well-intentioned poverty safari, a member of the elite trying to explain to other elites what the non-elite life is like, without really offering the reader anything to *do* about it. But it’s humble and kind enough that it doesn’t come off nearly as badly as it could, and Arnade doesn’t paper over or exclude the reality of racism and the deleterious effects of market capitalism. I don’t know who the ideal reader of this book is; I guess I’m included in that category, though I think I know a lot of the broader points he’s trying to make and certainly buy his worldview a lot more than other people in the technocratic-elite set he’s addressing. A quick but tough read, mostly in the ways it intends, and I’m glad it exists and I read it, but I do have some mild reservations about it.
Rated The Sparrow 8/10
wild-ass book - a unique take on the first contact story. Bleak and weirdly compelling