This book is very much aimed at parents with a mainstream schooling mindset.

The book also needs to have a lot more sources referenced for the claims it makes such as "screen time is bad/damaging to children." 

I was expecting a book about how to incorporate Buddhist principles within a busy lifestyle but mostly, it's an autobiography filled with lots of anecdotal stories (many unrelatable), and a small sprinkling of Buddhist teachings and knowledge inbetween.

This was a very heavy read. Alice Achan's life is inconceivable to me, but her resilience, determination, ingenuity, and hope are beyond inspirational.

An important read for those of us who have grown up without the fear or experience of war.

I'm a big fan of Mary Anning, and I looked forward to reading this book. Unfortunately, whilst there is a lot of good information about Anning's life and the social climate of her time, the overall book felt a bit weak and uncertain. It didn't really draw me in and the constant use of "most likely", "probably", "she likely", etc before any piece of information made it feel like the entire book was simply speculation.

DNF

I was fairly certain that I was going to be disappointed with this book after the opening chapter begins by telling the 'quirky' tell of Truman - a man who used to settle his disagreements with his wife by throwing her into a lake despite the fact that she couldn't swim - and seems to find it all somewhat amusing. Domestic violence, what fun!

This book, at least the first half of which I read, is the worst kind of popular science in that it is full of interesting and charming stories about how things work but not very forthcoming with the actual science of it.

This book is well-written and well-explained. It clearly shows the different ways in which bias affects Black peoples daily lives in a multitude of overt and insidious ways that white people are not affected by.

This book is a perfect entry book to opening the eyes of white folks, including those who need to be a little bit coddled.

I did find the author's use of referring to "Blacks" instead of "Black people" and "whites" instead of "white people" a bit jarring as it goes against the way I have been taught to refer to people, but ultimately it takes nothing away from the book or the points made.

This book wasn't a good fit for me.
The flow of consciousness was too much, and as a white person in Australia, it was almost impossible to relate to the situations and experiences mentioned by the author.

But then, this book wasn't written for me, and that's okay. 

This book is one long love letter to the author's son, and I feel like it would have a great deal of meaning for those who can relate to it.

A very insightful and eye-opening read. The book is chock full of facts and history and may be an information overload for some, but I thought the author did a very good job of setting things out in a comprehensive and concise manner. 

Whilst specific to the United States, the systems and issues discussed are universal. 

I appreciate that Kendi makes it clear that you are either racist or antiracist - there is no inbetween - and that people can swing between the two. I also gained a better understanding of why terms like 'systemic racism' can minimise or lesson the full impact that racist polices have and his well articulated definition of racist and antiracist policies - racist polices cause inequity, antiracist policies cause equity.

I felt really awkward with what seemed to be agreement from Kendi that reverse racism exists. Even as a white person, I feel like that's inaccurate and that Kendi is confusing prejudice with racism.

I may be wrong, but I kind of felt like Kendi was trying not to offend white people a lot of the time with the way he phrased things, which I found odd.

I've read other authors who really made me question and challenge my own ideas about race, racism, white supremacy, and white privilege, but I felt Kendi was too even-handed. 
I'm also not sure if I am the intended audience as I'm white, and Kendi often spoke directly to BIPOC readers in regard to internalized racism.

I feel very awkward reviewing an Indigenous Australian author's views on what it means to be Australian and the way forward for us as a people and a nation, but I really struggled with Grant's position that we should all move past our colonised/coloniser history and all just be "Australian".

I am not a First Nations person but I have friends and family who are, and through talking with them and through reading First Nations authors, I cannot help but feel Grant's views - whilst often focusing on liberalism - are very conservative. Too conservative, in fact. I also felt his views swung between idealistic views of moving beyond race and culture and stories deeply rooted in identity born from race and culture.

At the very least, this book gave me a little insight into the double consciousness that many Indigenous Australians possess and how hard it can be to reconcile them.

I started with the book and switched to the audiobook. Grant is a great orator, but I found his writing style to be repetitive and stilted in many places.