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Used for teaching. I'm not sure either half of the book does a good job of explaining liberalism to students, but the Liberal/Radical debates section especially does not do a great job; it's unclear to students the difference between liberals and radicals as they're being defined in this book, much less more broadly. The Liberal/Conservative section does a little better, but fails to put the definition in conversation with a longer history of liberalism to contextualize it for students. Additionally, the Conservative section plays the debate so even as to overlook certain aspects--the "social order" section mentions the "possibility" of racism in thinking through these sets of policies. It could maybe be paired with Imani Perry's work out of [b:Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation|36338011|Vexy Thing On Gender and Liberation|Imani Perry|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1532178642l/36338011._SX50_.jpg|58016805] about "order" and Nixon's language, but otherwise underplays the policies to students who don't have a larger grasp of the kind of hidden racialized language in these claims.

Overall I'd say it does an okay job; the primary sources are a little superfluous given that we're also using a primary source reader that covers SDS, the Great Society, and the New Right, but ymmv on that front.

Just a super useful, incredibly accessible, and also deeply informative all at the same time. D'Amato manages to draw together all these different parts of storytelling theory, improvisational theory, and practical solutions to figure out both how you want to play, how you can better your play with others, and how you can turn your tabletop roleplaying into the kind of narrative play that makes popular shows like The Adventure Zone (and D'Amato's own show, One Shot so compelling.

Really strongly encourage folks looking to get more out of their roleplaying, or even just explore other possibilities for telling stories at the table, to check this book out!

Incredible and frankly absolutely required reading for all people living in Minnesota, both non-Native and Native, Dakota and non-Dakota, and frankly the latter chapters are required reading for anyone living in a settler state. Visionary and also wholly possible, it's a challenge to Minnesotans to look an alternate future in the face. Just so powerful and a critical read, and I'm ashamed it took me this long to get to it.

The beginning chapters of this felt a little slow/not that great at making me think about the special needs of queer people in terms of working outside of the bargaining table, which might be interesting for folks looking to examine incorporative organizing. The book took off for me, though, when Frank switches to look at organizing in queer-owned businesses and queer-directed non-profits; the comparisons of trying to organize across AIDS organizations was really insightful (and therefore ABSOLUTELY enraging) as Frank hits on the affective register that queer bosses try to manipulate to prevent their queer workers from organizing (or straight bosses using their community ties.) It is also I think a great jumping off point for seeing more work; the bibliography spans labor and queer histories and many of the places where they overlap, and I think it's definitely teachable (I'm definitely already planning where I can use that chapter--chapter five--in a syllabus.)

I will say right off the bat that I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful to the publishers for the opportunity to read this book.

This book was sort of intriguing, and there is a lot of kind of interesting art information in it. The plot itself sort of spirals out a little bit, and I think the main character was someone I wasn't sure what to do with--was I supposed to sympathize with Percival? Hate him? Understand he was complex? (I'm not sure, if the last option was the intention, that it was pulled off very well, but I don't have much patient for men being Like That, so ymmv.) In some ways, the more interesting part of the book happened before The Scream was involved at all, and the parts involving that painting were kind of a jarring shift from the tone of the rest of the book.

But I think if you enjoy crime stories, you may really like this--like I said, there's a lot of fun stuff going on here with art, which you may appreciate even more than I did if you know more things about art than I do. Parts of it were definitely intriguing, I just think it fell flat for me in the latter half.

I will say first that I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful to the publishers for the opportunity to read this.

This was a very cool atmospheric story that I personally had a really hard time following. I'm not sure if it's a story you "follow," exactly, and I'm not sure that the cool atmosphere and great descriptions were enough for me but I can definitely think of people I'd recommend this book to who might be really into it! It was cool, just not totally my thing; I think I need a story with a little bit more structure to it than this wanted to give me.

A solid introduction both to ideas around theater and disability and ways of writing about it. I would have liked a little bit more around writing about audience and disability maybe from a performance studies or theater studies perspective, though Kuppers's pieces were interesting at the beginning especially about her own viewing embodied/"enminded" (embodyminded?) experience. But definitely very accessible and interesting, super short--I read in one sitting pretty much over the course of a morning--and could be really useful especially in the classroom.

So I would definitely recommend this edition if you're looking for a definitive Catholic bible; the annotations are often helpful (though sometimes they end up feeling repetitive, but might be helpful for folks who aren't just reading it straight through like I did.) The introductions are also fairly helpful, and there are often summaries of sections. If I were to do this again (which I might some day, but given it took me over a year to read it this time it'll be a while,) I would probably change the way I did it and try to focus more on the text itself and less on the annotations, but that's about me reading and not the book itself.

I will say right off the bat that I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful to the publisher for the opportunity to read this book!

The world is pretty rich here, and I will give the author credit that there are "Native" characters here who are allowed to just be characters; I would say, given the source material, there's no real way of escaping racist aspects of the world, but Handman doesn't lean much further into stereotypes so that's kind of refreshing. The mystery was pretty compelling, with many twists and turns, and I had it figured out (loosely) by the end--not in a frustrating way, but just in that satisfactory "ah the pieces have come together!" way of a solid mystery. (ymmv on that--I'm not super familiar with mystery as a genre so it's an Accomplishment when I "solve" a mystery.) All in all, not a bad read!

First off, I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I'm grateful to the publisher for the opportunity to read this book.

I found the book interesting, if not exactly up my alley. I'm also a graduate student in history, albeit in the United States, so there were parts of it I felt kind of judge-y about, and also weirdly had a hard time suspending my disbelief about the DNA/science parts (tracing motherhood lineage is actually way harder than it sounds, which I know from Native American DNA by Kim TallBear, weirdly.) But I think that was me having difficulty, and if you want to turn off your brain and just enjoy it, you can. Some of it felt rushed towards the end, and given that is it in a series I was expecting the ending to be less neat than it was, but it wasn't bad, and I did enjoy some of it. If you like historical fantasy, there is lots for you to love in this book!