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#AuthorAMonth I‘m learning a great deal from Roxane Gay. But I‘m not planning to finish this book this month. There‘s too much to take in and I don‘t want to miss a thing.

I don‘t usually read comics but I liked it. While I was at the library there was another graphic novel by her on the next shelf, so I grabbed that too.
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This was a powerful read and such an interesting and important pov, but hearing how Gay kept punishing herself for her own childhood trauma was oh, so sad. @Read4life #weeklyfavorites25 @Soubhiville #AuthorAMonth
It's been a hard week all around and I think I need some happy fluffy reads next for my own mental resilience haha. Suggestions?

I had no idea until I had this in my hot little hands that it was short stories. I always assumed it was essays. Side note that the ebook has additional stories in it that do not appear in the original print version. I love this author. This didn't disappoint.

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February is already halfway over #AuthorAMonth readers. I hope you‘re enjoying your time with Roxane Gay.

In case you need to place an order or hold for March, our author will be Leigh Bardugo.

Happy Reading! 📚❤️🙂

Ive read some of Gay‘s nonfiction in the past and enjoyed it so I opted for some of her fiction — but maybe I should have stayed with her nonfiction. Some of these stories worked for me but the majority didn‘t, and collected together, some felt repetitive and confusing. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Perhaps the confusion was the intent.

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Brave testaments. Powerful voices. Listen.

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Finished these two for #AuthorAMonth

I flew through these powerful stories.

“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn‘t make certain choices for ourselves.” ~ Bad Feminist

My February #bookspin is The Kiss Countdown - reading with #riseupreads and enjoying it so far
My #doublespin is any memoir. I'm thinking of reading Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay for #AuthorAMonth if library holds work out
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These short stories about women in Haiti or its diaspora are painful and poignant, sometimes hopeful and sometimes despairingly sad. Some feel so real I thought they were autobiographical. They are not but I felt I learned so much about the author from reading them. This is the first I‘ve read by Gay and it was so good. I look forward to reading another one by her. Having just finished a book of short stories about Nepal, with what I felt were ⬇️