This was really great. I loved the characters and Sonali Dev's writing is so amazing. I loved the Pride and Prejudice not-quite-retelling, right down to the monologues that some characters gave. I got really frustrated at the sustained miscommunication in the story, but that's really a personal pet peeve, and not the fault of the author. (Actually, I'd say the fact that I got so frustrated and was yelling "just say what you really think!" is probably a credit to her skill, lol.)

Whew, what an amazing read. I loved the complexity of the story and the characters - how deeply flawed and completely human they are. The twists and turns of the mystery were a bonus and the perfect backdrop for all the questions that Angie Kim is asking here about family and love and suffering. Some of the thoughts this book brought to mind will stay with me for a long time.

All the feels, all the thoughts. Rivers Solomon has done again what they do best: take a concept and twist it ever so slightly into a whole world that takes you on a ride and makes you question everything. In their new work, The Deep, they ask us: What does it mean to be a person with no history? What does it mean to be a person who holds all the pain of their people's history? What does it mean to be a people birthed out of a painful history? Do we remember, or do we try to forget because the burden of remembering is too much?

Lowkey ashamed that I haven't read this before, but also really glad that I got to read this for the first time at this point in my life, where I could fully appreciate the brilliance and the nuance of this book. The way this story is woven together is just incredible, especially as Toni tells the sad story of Pecola Breedlove by giving us the feeling that she's on the periphery of her own story. Also the themes touched on here: poverty, racism, misogyny, and more make the story so rich.

I'm always a big fan of collections of essays by various writers on a single topic. This one poses and answers the questions: Can we all be feminists? What does that mean for women of various other identities? What does it mean to call yourself a feminist?

This was *really* good. Saini takes a comprehensive look at the science of sex, and how patriarchal bias has affected our understanding of everything about women for centuries. Using examples from historical scientific beliefs, contemporary science, nature, and more, she traces how the very questions that we ask about sex show how deeply ingrained sexist bias is in scientific research.

Whew...this was amazing! A look at the phenomenon of the StrongBlackWoman in its cultural and historical context, using examples from both the church and the clinic, Dr Walker-Barnes has given us a comprehensive handbook into this mantle that so many black women carry, and offers suggestions (and a 12 step plan!) on how to minister to, and recover from being a StrongBlackWoman.

Great perspective on how timing is an essential consideration in every aspect of our lives. Less, a this is when you should do things book, and more a this is what you should consider with respect to timing when you do things book.