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absolutely loved this one - so much so that I kept listening to the audiobook long after my cleaning was done & made a point of making time in today's schedule so I could finish it. this book is one that is both hilarious & necessary because we need to do better & this book provides a great start 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
#nonfictionnovember #favsof2016

this is such an essential book for today's times & it's also fairly short (under 200 pages) + is both a good starting place for those who are just learning about Islamophobia & also great for those who know more about the subject as well - while most of this information was not new to me, I really appreciated seeing it all presented here & actually quite enjoyed reading this 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
#nonfictionnovember #favsof2016

this was such a great read & there was so much that I loved about it. this is a funny book with lots of pop culture references & funny jokes, but I really appreciated how she was able to use them to talk about race - like why you can't touch her hair & the implementation of coded language - & gender.
I've read lots of essays collection/memoirs by comedians but this is definitely one of my favorites 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
#nonfictionnovember #favsof2016

such a fun & necessary middle grade read - and it was also exactly the book that I needed right now, so glad that I remembered it was on scribd
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#blameitonlitsy #comics #favsof2016

I read so many great books this month... some of my top favs were: Lab Girl, Hamilton, We Gon' Be Alright, Reasons to Stay Alive, Necessary Trouble, Where Am I Now, & Hag-Seed - some of these will definitely be appearing in my Top Favs of 2016 list 😀📚
#octoberwrapup #readingstats #favsof2016

I read so many great books this month so it was hard to narrow it down to just a few favs, but here are my top favorite reads of October 📚
#bestofoctober #booktober #favsof2016

really enjoyed reading this one, all the essays in here are great but I think her frank disssuon of mental illness & mental health - as she says, "... Mental health care can & should be taken as seriously as physical health care" was one of the things that really made the book for me
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#nonfiction #memoir #essays #favsof2016

an essential read on the importance of post 2008 movements - the marches, demonstrations, occupations, & other types of political activism - in the US. this book has everything from the importance of Occupy & the rise of the Tea Party, an in depth look at various labor movements, Black Lives Matter & the militarization of police & more. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
#nonfiction #americanpolitics #favsof2016

today I'm recommending Before The Next Bomb Drops, a phenomenon poetry collection looking at a variety of issues from the occupation of Palestine, police brutally, racism in American, Islamophobia, & a range of other issues
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#recommendsday #poetry #favsof2016

one of those books that I believe everyone should read ?????

as Matt Haig says near the beginning of the book that "Minds are unique. They go wrong in different ways . . . . That said, if the books had to replicate our exact experience of the world to be useful, the only books worth reading would be written by ourselves."
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