Adrienne
The glass pictures don't do a great job of capturing the light in the installation. Too many distant pictures of these installation, too few pictures of individual forms. Too little explanatory text
I found that a number of these sermons still speak to me very deeply, especially the ones about what religion is for and who is welcome to Unitarian Universalism.
Anything addressing American politics was much less deeply convincing, especially as we know that Davies was aware of racial injustice, etc. He was working to desegregate DC businesses while he was at All Souls DC.
Anyway, this was a decent pick me up and recentering in my UU faith, but it has problems and you can't read it uncritically, which, honestly, is how we should approach all UU books.
It was fine. One of the romantic leads was really mean, and I never felt like we got clarity on what the leads were attracted to in each other, but this was otherwise competent
A cute little paranormal cosy mystery with a queer cast and a family and community orientation.
The only thing that really detracted is that our detective jumps to conclusions instead of considering possibilities, and she overreacts when people point out that this crime may not have been committed by this bad actor.
Funny, light, puts me in mind of an inexperienced Jessica Fletcher or Father Brown
Alternating 3rd person limited hero point of view, but the heros' voices and personalities are not distinct.
Book about two fathers that drops the kids with a nanny too frequently. Book premised on meeting in a support group and no other support group characters are characters!
Sexual harassment issue that is solved by protagonist telling the harasser to cut it out, after his deflections are ignored.
On a prose level, the book is competent.
The best part of the book was its premise, fake dating. Otherwise, quite mediocre.
This is a sweet story about a nonbinary, asexual person becoming more comfortable with eir identity as eir grew up. The narrative and writing were great, but the linework was in that mushy middle on detail, where it's not simple cartooning, but feels underdeveloped for realism. The coloring didn't set my hair on fire either.
This is a great story about growing up as a weird kid and coming to terms with the fact that you are different even from the rest of your weird family. It doesn't explain feelings of non-binary gender in a 101, just writes about the narrator's experience of them.
This book challenges us to a more expansive and heartfelt practice of religion, without abandoning the strengths of liberal religion.