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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
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
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
The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing by Kevin Young

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing

Kevin Young

336 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0alekz's review
nonfiction poetry reflective medium-paced
On Palestine by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

On Palestine

Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky

215 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0alekz's review
nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Notes on Grief

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1 hour, 27 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0alekz's review
nonfiction essays memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

Under the Whispering Door

TJ Klune

14 hours, 54 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0alekz's review
fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern

7 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0alekz's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ psychology self help sociology informative slow-paced
Tastes Like War: A Memoir by Grace M. Cho

Tastes Like War: A Memoir

Grace M. Cho

9 hours, 24 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0alekz's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney

Sometimes I Lie

Alice Feeney

10 hours, 7 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0alekz's review
fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced