Review: Falling Back in Love with Being Human
5/5 stars Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls , by Kai Cheng Thom (2023) "from the depths of my rage and...
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A New York Tate of Mind
A New York Tate of Mind
In which this reader and explorer reviews books, muses on literary (and other) matters, and shares some of her adventures.
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My 1-5 rating system:
1 = I did not like it and would not recommend it.
2= It was fine. Read it if the subject matter interests you.
3 = I enjoyed it and would recommend it.
4 = I really liked it, and think you should read it!
5 = One of the best books I've read.
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Aug 192 min read
Review: A House With Good Bones
5/5 stars A House With Good Bones , by T. Kingfisher (2023) To me this was reminiscent of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the...
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tatedecaro
Jun 52 min read
Review: The Door of No Return
5/5 The Door of No Return, by Kwame Alexander (2022) TW: Violence, descriptions of the slave trade, mention of rape “Black history began...
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tatedecaro
Feb 102 min read
Review: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
5/5 stars Ink Blood Sister Scribe, by Emma Törzs (2023) Fabulous. So fun! This is a fantasy-thriller with gothic libraries filled with...
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tatedecaro
Sep 18, 20232 min read
Review: Station Eleven
5/5 stars Re-read of Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel (2014) I first read this book in 2017, when the realities of a worldwide...
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tatedecaro
Jul 24, 20233 min read
Review: Barracoon
5/5 stars Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo," by Zora Neale Hurston (2018) Barracoon tells the story of Olualo Kossula, also...
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tatedecaro
Jul 7, 20232 min read
Review: Weyward
5/5 stars Weyward, by Emilia Hart (2023) I absolutely LOVED this book, but let me get some trigger warnings out of the way first: sexual...
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tatedecaro
Apr 3, 20233 min read
Review: Deaf Republic
5/5 stars Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky (2019) This past weekend I was fortunate enough to attend two of RIT/NTID's Big Read events,...
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tatedecaro
Feb 18, 20233 min read
Review: The Night Circus
5/5 stars The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern (2011) I've read this twice before, and the third read was just as awesome. This time I...
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tatedecaro
Nov 11, 20222 min read
Review: The Book Eaters
5/5 stars The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean (2022) Vampires for book lovers! (with zombies too, kind of). I was planning to wait until next...
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tatedecaro
Oct 8, 20222 min read
Review: Truly Devious series
5/5 stars Truly Devious, The Vanishing Stair, The Hand on the Wall, and The Box in the Woods, by Maureen Johnson (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)...
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tatedecaro
Jul 7, 20222 min read
Review: What Strange Paradise
5/5 stars What Strange Paradise, by Omar El Akkad (2021) Beautiful and haunting and cinematic. The narrative follows Amir Utu, a 9-year...
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tatedecaro
Jul 1, 20221 min read
Review: Clap When You Land
5/5 stars Clap When You Land, by Elizabeth Acevedo (2020) Sixteen year old Camino Rios has grown up in the Dominican Republic (DR) with...
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tatedecaro
Jun 7, 20222 min read
Review: Lanny
5/5 stars Lanny, by Max Porter (2019) This is such a unique, beautiful, poetic, fantastical little book. If you're a fan of poetry, a fan...
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tatedecaro
May 10, 20223 min read
Review: Shrill
5/5 stars Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, by Lindy West (2016) "Women matter. Women are half of us. When you raise every woman to...
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tatedecaro
Dec 29, 20212 min read
Review: The Deep
5/5 stars The Deep, by Rivers Solomon (2019) Decades back, pregnant African slaves were thrown from slave ships into the ocean. Their...
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tatedecaro
Dec 13, 20212 min read
Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
5/5 stars The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman (2013) "Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside,...
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tatedecaro
Nov 26, 20212 min read
In This Moment chapbooks
5/5 stars In This Moment: Revolution, Reckoning, Reparation, a chapbook series curated by Amanda Chestnut, coordinated by Jeanne...
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tatedecaro
Jul 21, 20213 min read
Review: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
5/5 stars The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton (2018) I enjoyed this book SO MUCH! It is as thrilling as it is confusing,...
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tatedecaro
Jun 10, 20213 min read
Review: The Anthropocene Reviewed
5/5 stars The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, by John Green (2021) I first came to The Anthropocene Reviewed...
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