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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Susan Sontag

183 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

5.0alekz's review
nonfiction essays philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

266 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0alekz's review
nonfiction essays health lgbtqia+ sociology emotional reflective slow-paced
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

Oona Out of Order

Margarita Montimore

11 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.5alekz's review
fiction magical realism adventurous emotional medium-paced
Creative Interventions Workbook: Effective Tools to Stop Interpersonal Violence by Creative Interventions

Creative Interventions Workbook: Effective Tools to Stop Interpersonal Violence

Creative Interventions

248 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0alekz's review
challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems by Alice Walker

Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

Alice Walker

165 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

4.25alekz's review
nonfiction feminism poetry emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It by Greg Marshall

Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

Greg Marshall

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

4.0alekz's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional funny reflective medium-paced
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill

We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility

Marc Lamont Hill

128 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

4.5alekz's review
nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

Grief Is for People

Sloane Crosley

191 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

3.5alekz's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

The Tao of Pooh

The Way, With The Enchanted Neighborhood

Benjamin Hoff

176 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

4.5alekz's review
nonfiction philosophy religion informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on

Franny Choi

1 hour, 59 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

4.5alekz's review
fiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced