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Originally begun as a letter to his sons, Craig Yorke’s deeply thoughtful autobiography is a startlingly honest look at what it was like to grow up as a Black man of whom much was expected in the 20th century. Subtitled A Black Neurosurgeon’s Story, this is a book that advertises from the start that it’s …
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Happy Friday the 13th, friends! I finally drove myself into the city for the first time since getting sick almost a month ago and it was Not Pleasant. But at least I have a bunch of more than pleasant books to look forward to reading soon, beginning with Fergus Craig’s delightfully titled I’m Not The …
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As someone who enjoys but doesn’t follow much comedy (a lot of my favorites come from random clips passing through my Instagram,) I honestly don’t remember how I first became aware of groundbreaking comedian Maysoon Zayid. I do remember her inspirational TED Talk tho, which this book expands upon in a format more suitable for …
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Hahahahaha, I’m in this book and I don’t know if I like it. Look, I know I do too much. The fact that I’m taking so long to recover from the flu rn has given me plenty of time to reflect on what I usually spend my days doing (a lot, tho it honestly doesn’t …
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This seventh installment in the terrific City Spies series finds our family of young secret agents (and their adult handlers) getting used to their new living quarters in London. Now that Le Fantome, the head of the terrorist group known as UMBRA, is in an English prison, the kids are focusing on their academics, both …
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It’s my birthday week so I’m going to treat myself by focusing on recently published Middle Grade books this week instead of going for a wide variety of genres, as I usually do. MG is one of my favorite categories because the authors uniformly care about being entertaining and emotionally engaging — and often educational …
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I can’t believe it’s the first week of February already, dear readers, especially since I’ve been a shut-in with one illness or another for these past three weeks. I’ve managed to leave the house exactly once — for much-needed specialty groceries — but haven’t ventured any farther than my yard otherwise, as I’ve only felt …
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Steven Max Russo is back with another action-packed examination of the repercussions of war and the moral choices we need to make, both in theater and in the aftermath. Ophelia Harris is a former CIA analyst who joined up with a private security firm, Grendel, in Afghanistan. After an investigation into an insurgent money laundering …
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I’m a doomscroller. In this environment, who can afford not to be? But I do have a carefully curated feed that helps me know when I’ve come to the end of my Instagram and, especially, BlueSky time so I can go do other productive things once I’ve thoroughly acquainted myself with what fresh horrors this …
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Y’all, as soon as I finished this book, I was all Adam Driver Saying More gif. I’m actually kinda mad that I’m going to have to wait who knows how long before I get to read the next book in this series. Tracy Wolff has written something so fresh from what can often feel like …
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Professor X
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