This was pretty solid, though I think it felt slow to me to start, but the second half of the book went by fast, and there were some really good moments without the plot feeling too big to keep track of. Really fun characters,

although I was kind of hmm on Pax because like lol raised by protocol droids but also uh weirdly coded as autistic? But could just be me.

It also grappled pretty hard with the larger questions of the role of the Jedi in the Republic, and the Council's relationship to change.

I would say what is most disappointing about this is that it definitely feels like a standalone, when I just want more of these two, but that's probably my Jedi Apprentice love talking... give me 200 books of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan please. There's also like some really interesting overall implications, and I think this book makes some of Qui-Gon's Big Faults in The Phantom Menace a little smoothed over, which is nice.

Really beautiful and atmospheric; Fajardo-Anstine is clearly familiar with the landscapes she writes about, and there is so much about each story that is deeply rich. The stories themselves are obviously beautiful, though in some ways they conjured the same feelings in me over and over, which got a little bit repetitive by the end. Maybe that's the tossup for a united atmosphere in a book? Regardless, it was really good and I recommend it for sure.

This was a really deeply thoughtful biography; Perry manages to balance her personal investments in telling Hansberry's life story alongside Hansberry's actual life, and does so much work to draw out what is radical in her work. I found it really compelling, and a very easy and accessible read, even for people who are unfamiliar with Hansberry's work or maybe only have hear of Raisin in the Sun. It definitely made me want to look at her work more closely. The chapters about her friendship with James Baldwin and Nina Simone both were so powerful, and the connections made between her work and that of Baldwin were both so powerful.

Sometimes Perry seems too into her role as not!biographer, in resisting speculation in particular earlier in the book, and then seems to give that up fairly easily later in the book; frankly I'm fine with the latter, but I wish she toned down the former, if only because it disrupts the narrative a little bit. In some ways I appreciate how she draws attention to certain practices of biographers that often go unnoticed, but I think just committing--speculating on her pain is frankly not that different from speculating on her relationships, and I think it's fine to acknowledge that! But that was not enough to really distract me from the power of this book wholly, and I really strongly recommend it.

I really really loved this--Lorusso does a great job of gathering together the work of a bunch of different theorists and making their work very accessible and in conversation with one another, and then offers up really great examples of how these systems that the theorists he talks about work in real life. The chapter on GoFundMe is particularly damning, and goes farther than the larger critiques of the use of the site to cover costs that should be covered by free healthcare. I want like every person I know to read this book, but especially folks who are freelancers, to start to see ourselves inside of this but also imagine collective ways to work through it.

If you're looking for a pretty accessible exploration of precarity and entrepreneurialism, definitely check out this book. I'll be chewing on it for a while for sure, and the bibliography leaves me a bunch of different ways to keep exploring the issue.

Just a really fun Star Wars book! Poe's characterization was spot on, and the story of rebuilding was really compelling and interesting. I feel like the book FLEW by, with interesting things happening all the time, but not in an overwhelming sense. Just really enjoyed this quite a bit, had a really fun time with it and it left me wanting to read more!

I had a great time with this, even if it took me forever to get through it. The fantasy names weren't too terrible (though of course many are drawn from the actual world, as Brian Herbert notes in his afterword in the edition I read) and some of them were even good (frankly five stars for "thopter" alone, because it's so fun to say both in my head and out loud.) But the story was also really well-paced and kept me interested the whole time, and I am considering trying to read the sequel!

(Confession: I did watch the Lynch film before reading this, and that might have helped me understand what was going on somewhat even if I didn't know what was happening while I watched the movie. So that may have helped me feeling more comfortable with some of the stuff going on.)

Just really fucking gorgeous. I was uncertain about it at the start, and then the shift happened two-thirds of the way through and I was completely hooked and could not put it down until I finished it. There's so much here to unpack and work through, and I know I will be buying a copy of this as soon as possible (I got it from the library.) Really not much more I can say about this other than it hit me in all the right places and I'm really glad I read it.

I think I tried to read this years and years ago (like middle school) and put it down, but I picked it back up here and wow it's very clear to me why this is such a classic. I read it really over the course of two days, and the second day I could NOT put it down. The tension is so palpable, and I didn't feel compelled to really try to solve the mystery which made me sort of more able to relax. (Yes, I managed to not know how it ended until it ended, good for me!) There are obviously parts that have not aged well despite this updated version that uh tries to be slightly less racist (unclear if "soldiers" was part of the original text or not, but still woof) but it's kind of a roll of the dice anyway on that front. I had a good time with this and am glad I read it!

This wasn't super my jam, but I did find the forwardness of Róisín's poems to be somewhat refreshing. Róisín works heavily in the abstract which is maybe why I struggled with some of these, but I think it's still definitely worth picking up and reading, even if just to establish that you have a sense of taste in poetry (which is what I discovered reading this!)

Absolutely a necessary read, and so, so good. Foucault is I think really clear in this book, and makes his points about normalization and carcerality so, so well. I was left with a lot of questions, in a really generative way, and I definitely want to push out and read more. I'd say if you're looking to get started with Foucault, start here, because it's so foundational to so much more and is honestly still incredibly relevant for thinking through power and knowledge.