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Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Misogyny, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Alcohol
Minor: Toxic relationship
- BOTTOMS UP AND THE DEVIL LAUGHS is an exploration of the sort of secondary government hiding under the one we know - the organizations and people that are tracking everything that happens electronically here and overseas.
- Howley makes the topic easy to understand. Even if you have only a cursory knowledge of people like Edward Snowden, she writes so clearly and engagingly that it isn’t hard to follow her down the rabbit hole.
- I did find the ending of the book to be abrupt. We jumped very quickly from Reality Winner to Q, without much discussion of how everyday people went from reading news of the whistleblowers to storming the Capitol.
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Antisemitism, Pregnancy
Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Lesbophobia
Minor: Homophobia, Rape
Graphic: Cursing, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Mass/school shootings
- SOMETHING KINDRED is like Jas Hammonds x Courtney Gould, and I loved it.
- This is a book about relationships between women and how generational trauma can affect them. I loved all the women in this book, and watching them grapple with the choices they had made in their lives.
- These relationships dovetailed so beautifully with the exploration of small town life; how something can feel like home and be stifling at the same time. The imagery and feelings it evoked will stay with me for a long time.
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Child abuse
- OMG, this book 😭😭❤️ I very NEARLY cried reading this book, which is high praise because books never make me cry.
- You wouldn’t think this book, which you know is going to end in a death, would be so hilarious, but it is. I loved the road trip shenanigans and the bickering and the joy and beauty found in the bleakest of times.
- Then, of course, this book is also filled with thorny questions of how to live your life and what are the most important things in that life. Just a treat, all around.
- I also loved how Logan’s ADHD and Rosemary’s anxiety are not problems to be fixed, but integral parts of who they are. (Not that I expected anything less from Cochrun!)
Graphic: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Abandonment
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Alcohol
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation
Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Infidelity, Sexual content
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail