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lilpumpkin2.0
Making a Scene | Constance Wu

April 1, 2025 Today is Monday.... NOT April Fools!!! Today is Tuesday and it has been a gloomy cold day for me; not sure about you but that is how my dah has gone. I basically have been cooped up in my home snuggled up in a blanket reading (just imagine). I am flipping through these pages like nothing. I am very close to the end (page 243 out of 317) and have not felt surprised or like "Whoa, really?!" The book is so-so in my opinion. Not shocking

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Bookzombie
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Pickpick

This book about how Central Park was created is beautiful and I highly recommend it. I‘m pleased she included the forced removal of residents living where the park was built, even though this is a celebration of the park. The author ends by reminding us that the park was made for all of us.

Finished March 5, 2025.

Bookzombie This book came to my intention when Paul Castle, YouTuber/Tick Tock influencer and children‘s book author, posted about a bookstore owner pulling this book from their shelves and offering refunds to customers because there is tiny illustration of 2 males being married at the park. I‘m not sure I have all the words to express how much this shit angers me. 18h
Bookzombie Also, the book features Emma Stebbins, who sculpted Angel of the Waters, and OMG she was a lesbian (I might be labeling her and apologize if I am.) Emma and her partner, Charlotte Cushman, considered themselves married. 18h
PatriciaU Ugh about the bookstore pulling this. Takes me back to early days in my library career when idiots painted diapers on the naked little boy in Sendaks In the Night Kitchen. Cretins. 17h
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ncsufoxes
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Other page from the previous picture. I find that these are important stats to share since I don‘t think k that most anybody knows how our prisons are funded. My new fear after reading this book is that the current state is that people will be so desperate they will commit crimes & be put in jail. Which since most prisons are private, someone is making money off of people being in jail.

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ncsufoxes
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Title: bankrolling the carceral state

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ncsufoxes
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Title: extent of the carceral control

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ncsufoxes
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Did you know that 1 in 58 people in the US are part of the carceral system (that involves prison- over 1.4 million, probation, on parole or in a local jail)? How is this statistic not being shouted from the rooftops? This book is comprised of short essays by activists, researchers, prisoners themselves about the prison system in the US. There are discussions about ways to decrease police use by forming stronger communities, providing adequate

ncsufoxes housing, food banks, education, mental health access & services. It was an interesting way to look at better ways to help people other than criminalizing them. Actually crime has been taking a downward trajectory the last 20 years but there continues to be massive increases in police funding. I found it to be interesting & of course found more to read from the authors. 2d
TheBookHippie As having visited and visit jail often.. I‘ve yelled often about this. It‘s a whole cesspool of variables. The unfairness of sentencing is mind blowing. 2d
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Rachel.Rencher
Sleeping by the Mississippi | Patricia Hampl, Alec Soth, Anne Tucker
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Went to the art museum just to look at more books. 🤓 It was a cool experience to hear Alec Soth talk about his work and the meaning behind his photographs.

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lilpumpkin2.0
Making a Scene | Constance Wu
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March 28, 2025 My next TBR! I have just started reading it (yesterday actually) and it sounds like a book that is pretty conversational and focuses on her life. Can't wait to see what her life is about because I don't know much about her other than watching Fresh Off the Boat on ABC...

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MonicaLoves2Read
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I just didn't like this book that much, which isn't a popular opinion. It looked at a murder 200 years ago. Dawson wrote about the murder, Williams ( the author of the first book about the murder),and Hawthorne ( how he based the Scarlett Letter off of the victim). It just seemed to me that way too much stuff was going on in the book. It could have been just me, as others liked the book. 2⭐️

#Bookspinbingo #Read2025

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