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Zak

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Sabrina Imbler: How Far the Light Reaches (Hardcover, 2022, Little Brown & Company) 5 stars

Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and …

Informative AND Queer

5 stars

My dad told me a while ago about a writing assignment he had - memoirs disguised like other things - a recipe, an obituary, a research paper. This book delightfully interweaves the author’s experiences and feelings with each informative chapter. I’m going to see if my dad wants to read it

Olga Ravn: The Employees (Paperback, 2020, Lolli Editions) 4 stars

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and …

Beautiful and Intractible

4 stars

I feel as though once I've gone through more therapy I'll understand better what this book is an allegory for. For now, it's an unbound allegory. I picked up this book expecting a space opera and got something much more akin to poetry. I don't despise the book for that. In fact, I have a kind of fondness for it. But I think I will one day have to revisit it and be more prepared for poetry when I do.

Gabrielle Zevin: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group) 4 stars

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur …

Review of 'Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

A beautiful story of people doing their best to love another. Just clever enough and just heart-wrenching enough

Lawrence Lessig: They Don't Represent Us (AudiobookFormat, 2019, Harpercollins, HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing) 5 stars

Review of "They Don't Represent Us" on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

I listened as an audiobook. Overall, I’m a big fan. It gave new words to a lot of the thoughts I’ve had for a while now, and got me thinking about a few things in a less partisan way. I’m dubious of the possibility of implementing the change this book demonstrates as necessary, but it doesn’t skirt the issue of that difficulty, either.