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I love receiving the “Your Holds are ready” notification from the library! Need to get through another book before I get to these, but looking forward to this stack!

Extremely emotive in its portrayal of young black men in London. Huge swathes of beautiful prose and repeated themes and phrases. I keep recalling the ideas of being seen yet nit seen, heard yet not listened to. And the love and hedonism of summer London Town.

The Message takes readers through three places Coates traveled to. Dakar is his first time in Africa, and his revelations about it are honest and highly personal to him as he looks at his ancestral roots. His time in South Carolina is timely as he meets a teacher who is at risk of being fired for teaching one of Coates' books. Finally, his trip to Palestine shows the continuing turmoil in that region and how injustice is on full display daily.

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Don‘t walk, run to get this book! Since Coates has been shaking the table with his discursive intervention on Palestine, that was the section I was most interested to read… but in the end I was particularly floored by the section on education & the war on “critical race theory.” If I taught HS English, I would def assign this book!

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While I was still processing Dear Martin, I wanted to listen to this one. The story of Quan, who‘s in juvie for murdering a cop, & his contacts with Justyce. TWs for domestic violence, gangs, gun violence. This book is one I can relate to because I used to work in a school with these types of boys (poor, poc, trauma in fams). I have thought about my 3 Black boys from that school who have died before they were 18 in the last few yrs. The school 👇

Tyler!! These books look epic, and the bookmarks are amazing! I cannot wait to use them, especially ghost face! My absolute all time favorite horror movie series!!! You‘re so talented! I‘m so glad you won the fight with your daughter for my treats as well, they look so yummy! Thanks also to @wanderinglynn for organizing! #hhs #hhs24 #hauntedhollowswap