This is an essential read for anyone working with children.

Grief. The swamp. Sapphics. Florida. All the things I love.

First finished read of 2024! I listened to this on Spotify through my premium account and it was so easy. I loved the story and loved that it was a Michigan read. Helena‘s story was captivating and I loved seeing her relationship with her parents evolve.

The way this book looked at the good and evil in human beings was fascinating. I had a hard time putting it down!

This was a meditation on girlhood and mermaid hood that will be one of the “mermaid books” going forward. Truly weird and stellar and spooky and beautiful.

This book was beautiful and detailed but it was very sad.

Quick informative read. Going prepped for more in depth research

My first read on the kindle. I love Elizabeth Acevedo anyway but I absolutely loved Family Lore. The way sisterhood, and motherhood, and daughterhood all braided together gave me chills.

Yes! I am obsessed with these poems. The way water comes it‘s own being is so cool. I feel like I need to go and pray to the rivers.

This was a good one. I am excited to talk about it with my book club. I love stories of girlhood, especially liked how it was told in “we”

This book was a horror novel that‘s for sure. A southern gothic ghost story that takes place on a plantation that the former enslaved people haunt.
There was love and drama and mostly a lot of gross horrific things remembered.

CW: sexual assault, violence, and rape
A retelling of Phaedra and Hippolytus in which Phaedra takes him to Athenian court after her assault I picked this book up just two days ago and finished it this afternoon. It was told in multiple POVs which I did like. There were some times it was a little too on the nose but then I remembered women‘s history is intrinsically linked to violence.

Jennifer Saint is so good. I‘m going to read all her books. I loved the way this book looked at sisterhood and time/eternity.

I loved this book. Atalanta is such a cool character and the way Artemis was written felt so true to who she is.
(June read)

There were some really good essays in her and a few I didn‘t like as much. It was a super interesting look at “dead girls” in media and the trope they carry. I was on the fence about this one overall though.

I listened to the audio of this book, I enjoyed her reading. However, I just wasn‘t crazy about it. I kind of waited for it to start and it finally felt like it was starting right at the end.

I really loved how this book braided in narrative of the authors relationship with his father. There were some moments where the eel facts got dense but otherwise I enjoyed it. It did take me longer to read it then I expected though.

Omfg. I absolutely adored this book, it‘s a disability allegory a queer allegory and a story of motherhood in a way that feels feral and intense.
A cellist becomes pregnant with an owl baby.

Unapologetic about writing poems for past selves, and lovers.

There is a certain subtly in this book that I was uncertain about. I wasn‘t sure which way it would go or how things would get solved in the number of pages I had left. However the writing was mystical the relationship between sisters beautiful and the overall vibe was there. For sure this book was filled with a quiet female rage that I was unaware of when I picked it out. I wouldn‘t recommend this book to everyone but I loved it.

Loved!! Last read of 2022 !

I loved the romance in this book especially the romance the main character Clara had to find for herself. It was overall a very sweet book.

I have loved Annie Hartnett since her first book Rabbit Cake. And this book her second book was no different, I adored it.

“Advancing your craft at every level” I really liked all the exercises this book had. They never felt overwhelming just generative.

Love!!!! A trans boy infected with a bio weapon by a fundamentalist cult to start Armageddon?! It was very good!

I could barely turn this book off (I listened to it from my library‘s Libby app) it is so disturbing and thought provoking and honestly upsetting but was packed full of morality questions. Really recommend this one if you can stomach body horror.

This book started slow but by the end I was completely invested and emotional. An older woman with an octopus friend unpack and explore the grief of her son thirty years earlier.

I really enjoyed this book but was not as huge into the AA bits but understand how they were integral to the story. I also enjoyed listening to it through Libby.

Loved this one.

I got my library card and my first pick was this book of poetry which I really enjoyed!!

Hell yeah. I love Juli Berwald‘s books and I loved this one. Super informative and laid back and thought provoking.

Wow this is not one I would normally pick myself but my partner and I needed a listen for our 25 hour road trip. This was a mystery but also a story about father/son relationships. I really enjoyed it.

This book was so interesting especially looking at it from the lenses of it being an important first l#of women nature writing.

Photos and Poems. This was a pick for me.

Geffery Davis‘s collection of poems on fatherhood and sonhood.

Essential reading for those working towards anti-racism.

Essential reading.

Absolutely remarkable. Everything about this prose is lush and green and delicate and rough.

What a strange little book. It was so lush and comforting. It was full of grief and full of little shoots of new growth.

I will be returning to this one throughout my life I am sure.

If you‘re a writer or a artist or into words I can‘t recommend enough. I loved all four craft talks.

What would life be like without dogs?

Everything Borzutzky writes is a win. Cannot recommend enough.

Kendra Allen‘s poems are beautiful.

Nature and faith poems.

I am floored by these poems. Anything Emezi writes is fantastic and their poetry is no exception. Highly recommend.

Homes was okay. There are different Lake books I enjoy more. I couldn‘t get over the structure of each poem.

This book made me so homesick, and I absolutely loved everything in it.

Mary Oliver never misses.

Absolutely essential reading for educators.