Y'all mind if I ~sob~ ?

I have really loved this series. It's all a duality, a ballance of sweetness and sorrow, wholemeness and unsettling -- the whole way through. I have so many thoughts and feelings, but I'll just leave it at that to avoid any spoilers. 

I was looking for a poetry audiobook to listen to while I cleaned and happened to har about this author. Without looking into it much, I played it -- and I wound up stopping what I was doing just to listen to it! (I almost always need to multitask in order to listen to audiobooks!). This was beautiful and heartwrenching. I will definitely be looking into more of their poetry collections! 

I will say, my Spanish is... more than rusty, so I really was mostly just able to understand the parts in English -- but that was more than enough to give it five stars. 

This book is a cute story. It's lighthearted for children about being yourself, but adults will likely see the bigger issue of coming out and/or integrating parts of yourself/your life that can be really difficult as a queer person. Also, the art is amazing with lots of neat bits in the details! 

Cute little kid's book. Good for a silly read for a child, especially if you're potty training and the like.

The description of capitalist realism and the analysis of capitalism was really well-done. However, it fell short for me because some of the other elements he tried to incorperate were not done with the same analysis or rigor. There was a bit on technology as well as some critique/analysis of various parts of leftism that just did not have enough backing in the text or depth of analysis. In order to bring in those elements, I think the book needed to be at least twice as long (and some of the assertions, I'm not sure would stand up -- or certainly would have more nuance -- if more analysis was done). I think the main focus was really great and absolutely worth reading -- the concept of capitalist realism and a lot of the points he makes about it are spot on and ver important. However, I think he tried to do too much with other elements for such a short work.