Rebecca

A well written, simple but very powerful story about a teenage girl trying to find herself. The story hits deep in its exploration of themes that many trans people can relate to but in a way that diverges from the same old tropes. Personally I have never been so touched by a comic book.

Light from Uncommon Stars is a story of a violin teacher who has made a deal with a daemon and finds a young trans woman to be her final student to complete the deal. The story also features a family of extra terrestrial aliens who are fleeing a galactic empire. Even though the story is beautifully absurd, it has so much soul and I found the whole thing to be so lovely and the relationships between the characters are gorgeous. Highly recommend.

I can't think of a negative thing to say about this book. Elliot what I can only believe is a genuine open and honest account of his life. There were experiences that he shared that really resonated with me as a trans person and touched me deeply. Elliot seems like a very insightful person and I feel like because of that he writes in what seems like a very impartial way about aspects of his life that someone could be biased about. I am very thankful to Elliot for sharing this book with the world and found reading it a valuable experience. I highly recommend this book, especially if you are trans or have someone in your life who is.

Another fantastic book by Jeffrey Marsh! In this book they share stories from their own life amongst lessons they have learned from their childhood experiences, life as an LGBTQIA+ advocate & mentor and from their buddhist perspective. This book contained a few ideas that were extremely helpful for me and whole thing has a very positive perspective. The only reason I didn't give it five stars is because I wasn't really into reading the letters they wrote to their past selves and ended up skipping them.

This is an amazing book, I wish it was longer so that I can continue enjoying it but feel like I understand why it had to be that length. The story is set in a world where an extra terrestrial collective entity has merged with most of humanity so that it can be part of the human experience. This book explores love, loss and willingness to embrace uncomfortable emotions. I highly recommend it.

This was a compelling read. It's a fictional story from the late 1960s that is set in a post-apocalyptic world and uses AI, reality altering machines, and the environment itself to explore empathy and identity.

A solid Doctor Who adventure! Filled with everything you'd expect on the TV show except you get to fill in some of the visuals with your imagination, ya know, because it's a book.

The author of this book was a pro skater who became a philosopher and is working at a university. It's pretty awesome to see how these two aspects of this person come together in this book. So nice to see such a unique perspective!

What I didn't like was how even though the author explain later on in the book how you can't really be awesome and that awesome is something you do, the hierarchical viewpoint of awesomeness being and attribute of a person that makes them better than others is kinda expressed in this book and that's kinda sucky.

Overall, it was a fun read that dragged on a bit but was pretty good. Not awesome, but good.

This book discusses Adlerian psychology and some of the ideas it share I found to be quite challenging to accept, which I loved. It got me questioning my preconceptions about psychology and really got me thinking. I still disagree with it's views on trauma but appreciate that it challenged my views on that and I think I ended up with my views altered. I really like what Adler has to say about separation of responsibilities and other ideas that this book shares. I love how it is written as a dialogue and how aspects of Japanese culture shine through in this format. The dialogue format also makes it less prescriptive and helps with the more challenging aspects of Adlerian psychology. I did some research on Adler and feel like this book has its own perspective on his psychology which I think is great. Overall I am really glad I read this book.

Such a good story, it was a great introduction to what seems like an incredible world. I look forward to further exploring this word. The BBC created a great performance. The voice actors were great, the sound effects were appropriate and just enough to give the story depth. Having not read the original I can only say that the adaptation flowed nicely and seemed well written. This performance wanting more which is all you can ask from something like this.

A sapphic romance comedy with trans characters, an interesting premise and arc of personal growth. This book is perfect. The characters are amazing, the story and romance kept me hooked all the way through and the writing style was just awesome. I especially love how Jack is introduced using they/them pronouns until Ellie actually meets them, it shows how the author truely gets it. 1989 is the best Taylor Swift album.

This was an amazing book that highlights the contributions and personalities of some of the women who contributed to the technological landscape of our modern society. These women are heroes and are not celebrated as much as they should be. I highly recommend this book and for the reader to do their own research on these people as you read, to see the additional photos and sometimes videos of these people really brings the book to life.

I am very interested in the ideas around ACT therapy and find them very helpful for living a full and rich life. I find the information I gleamed from this book to be very helpful but the book itself was very dry and repetitive. I bet a better book on ACT therapy could be found.

I love Brené Brown and this book is amazing. However, there are a couple of things that stopped this from being 5 stars. Brené if you read this I am in the arena so you shouldn't ignore my feedback and know that it does come from love.

One is that she keeps using the phrase “Men and women” when she could use the word “people” which is inclusive of other genders and like uses a third of the number of words.

Another criticism I have and it's not really even a criticism is how Brené creates her own meanings for words, I both love and hate this. It helps with looking at things in another way but make her work a lot less accessible. “I rumble with my SFD to discover the delta”

The third this is that a lot of the information in this book has already been said in her previous books.

Despite these issues I found this a pleasant and helpful read and I highly recommend it, especially if you haven't read any of her work before. Also, her Netflix special is great.

“Many of the understandings we have been taught and socialized to believe are based on the assumptions of long dead European colonizers who worked to maintain systems of supremacy and dominance instead of presenting fact, evidence, or truth.”

A well written overview of the systems of oppression.

Beautiful little book, I read it very slowly, off and on, and coloured in some of the pages using coloured pencils. I feel that was a great way for me to really absorb the messages. I may go back and illustrate some more of the pages.

This comic has so much heart, is so original, and so beautiful. This is a different story than the Netflix film, which is also so amazing and has many elements from the comic. ND Stevenson, who created this graphic novel, was a co-writer of Lumberjanes and also developed the She-Ra reboot. He seems like such an amazing person who puts so much of himself into his work. I highly recommend anything that this person creates. ❤️❤️❤️