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This is a really cool book. It is a true story, meticulously researched, and then written like a novel. While occasionally there are preachy under/overtones, they were not overly distracting. Definitely worth reading!

Amazing primer on the Indian (indigenous) experience in north America and Canada. If you have read much on this subject, start here!

I gave it three stars because so of the ideas were truly new to me. HOWEVER, He routinely made sweeping and unsubstantiated claims about the benefits of a capitalist system, even as citing counter examples. This drove me crazy.

If you pick this book up, read it with a VERY critical eye.

I love David Graeber. While maybe not as profound as some of his other books, and maybe not as strong a foundation, it is delightfully humours and thought-provoking all the same

There were parts that were quite thought-provoking, but both as a book and a process for how we get to that future it was underwhelming.

I had such high hopes. I stubbornly finished the book.

Beautiful and evocative book. Since I don't speak Igbo, if found listening to it to be particularly powerful (I have a hard enough time reading in English).

Stunning short stories. Chiang plays so elegantly with belief, loss, religion, science, and wonder. I was utterly captivated.

I keep recommending this book yet struggling to even explain what it is or why I am recommending it. I was confused and delighted, excited, mesmerized, and tantalized. Lavery brings to life to foreign in a way that feels so personal it feels like memory. The book riddled with retellings of classic stories in a classic and modern voice that brought new meaning to the story for me and still wove together the narrative/stream-of-consouness.

I would recommend

I cried and cried.

The problem with high expectations for an author I love is sometimes I am just a bit more critical.

I read this mostly because of nostalgia. I can't really recommend it, even if it was cute at times

Not quite Caste but still damn good

There are parts of this book that really stuck with me, though it fails to address the cost of grit other than to acknowledge that it doesn't address it.

So imaginative. If you love books and you might enjoy it for the world alone. feels like a first novel at a number of points

Wow. Read this book. The ideas are clear and clarify, a true paradigm shift in that I can't imagine not using Wilkerson's frame work for understanding american history. She is not only insightful but a gifted story teller, breathing drama and tension into her work of nonfiction.

I read through this book quite quickly and enjoyed. I then for the next 25 hour I could not stop thinking about it. The book can be read as a simple magical coming of age story. Or about overcoming predgidous. Or as a fantasy adventure. It can as be read as a critique of capitalism and castism. It has all the appeal of HP but without the sexism and morality tropes. While it has shade of dark like Garth Nix, Novik maintains her delightfully unique voice. I am greatly looking forward to the sequel.

I would recommend this to anyone almost anyone who participates in partner dance or plays music. It was fascinated but sometimes required familiarity with artists that I lacked. I found my self stopping to listen to the songs mentioned by the author. Even though it was academic and I, not the intended audience, baraka makes so many compeling connection that it was an intelectual joy all the same.

While a compelling plea for using a checklist and a good read, most of the learning seem to be superseded by Agile. If I had read this 5-10 years ago I think it would have been more powerful.

A delightfully quick, young-adult novel. A little like ready player one, with better romance.

A delightful read

A beautiful weaving together of science, poetry, life anecdotes, indigenous history, environmentalism and philosophy into a story that manages to be simultaneously light and deep. I must have cried 3 or four times. This book took me by surprise.

It is a radio drama of The Sandman. They did in soundscape what the artist did with drawings. Thought it was not the complete work.

A beautifully compassionate and introspective work. I timely read for anyone who wants to dismantle racism.

What a delightful story about a system that is essential and almost invisible to most of us. It is the rare book that I can reconomend both to the novice and the knowledgeable. I hope you read it and enjoy it as much as I have.