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- THIN SKIN is the kind of essay collection I love: one where the author at first seems to ramble between ideas, but soon enough it all clicks together and you're reading passages aloud to anyone who will listen.
- This book is a perfect encapsulation of the current moment. How are we supposed to live when the world is crumbling around us? Does no one else see what's happening? What can we do to recognize the wrongs humans have enacted (and are enacting) on each other? How much impact do our individual choices have?
- All of this and more is explored through Shapland's own perspective as a white lesbian woman. The essays are not impersonal philosophical wanderings because her identity is inextricable from her experiences.
Graphic: Ableism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Genocide, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, Racism, Xenophobia, Mass/school shootings, Alcohol
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic
Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Transphobia
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder
- A LITTLE LIKE WAKING is one of the strangest, silliest books I've ever read, but it's also full of heart.
- Comparisons to THE GOOD PLACE are apt, given that this is a story of two people finding themselves amid the most ridiculous imagery. There are even illustrations in case you aren't sure you read that right (laundromat clown? Surely not. Oh yes, there she is!)
- For me, it was a little on the long side, but if you or your kid are looking for something over the top silly with a side of serious, this is definitely one to check out.
Graphic: Medical content
Moderate: Child death, Car accident, Death of parent
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent
Moderate: Sexual content, Pregnancy
- IMMORTAL LONGINGS is a retelling of Antony and Cleopatra, set in a world of poverty and despair where no one can be trusted because people can swap bodies at will.
- This book is very much an adult Hunger Games. The body-jumping element was a bit confusing at first, but Gong is quite detailed about the mechanics of it, so you're soon enough blazing through San-Er with the protagonists as they slash and burn their way to the top.
- I thought it got a little repetitive in the middle (there were a LOT of people to murder), but there are a couple of twists in the second half that literally made me gasp out loud. I'll definitely be reading the next installment.
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Pregnancy