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This graphic novel recounts the story of Zumrat Dawut, a Uyghur woman living in East Turkestan (occupied China) with her family. It details the forced internment, beating, sterilization, and other brutalities she suffered for months in a reeducation camp before fleeing to safety in the US with her family. The graphic novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting in 2022.
Thank you Edelweiss and Lev Gleason for providing me with a free digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
The sweet story of an older sister who wants to build a seahouse far away from home after her new sibling is born. She imagines all of her new adventures, the great house she will build, the new friends she will make, the diaries she will write, but then realizes that there would also be lonely, stormy, and scary days, all alone and far from home. In the end, she decides to build her seahouse, but keep her real house too :)
A sweet story about the meaning of home and family.
Thank you NetGalley and Nimbus Publishing for providing me with a free digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.
1 star for the story, 5 stars for the art. Why does she need to ask an old male whale to learn what she wants, and why does she have to find her brother to feel home? But the worst was how rude all the animals she encountered were to her. I don't even understand the point, even from a human's perspective. It didn't feel empowering.
I liked it, but the beginning was hard to get through, the communication issues got a little bit boring for me, and the episode with the AI and the computer made me roll my eyes. But, it was cute to have a cinnamon roll as the hero and the main characters were a great match and cute together. Also, this book got me seriously interested in more sci-fi inter-species romance hu hu hu.
I haven't read all the short stories yet
Prologue: Oooh I like that this first story is the frame of the entire book! Such a neat idea! I wonder if the illustrated man is going to find the witch at the end of the book, or if something is going to happen once the narrator reads all the stories. The Illustrated Man warned him to turn away and not look....
Kaleidoscope: what do we become when we are about to die? A long and extended fall. The regrets and jealousy, the sense of peace, the amazement about the space around. I guess their deaths were indeed reflected in their lives...
The Veldt: oh my. I had to re-read the ending to make sure I understood. The nursery devoured the parents, right? And the kids knew it and watched it happen. And when Mr McClean came back, the lions had already finished eating. But what about the other screams, the chewed wallet and scarfs? What is their own screams, other versions of themselves? Rehearsal? I don't think it was other people, as they didn't seem to have guests over the house, and these items belonged to the parents. Such a strange and interesting story. Bradbury is really better at short stories than novels!
No Particular Night or Morning: I liked this story. I stopped mid-way and looks at the ceiling to think about what Hitchcock was saying. I could hear my wife typing as she writes her story, see my dog sleeping by my side, and the plants grabbing the sunlight. It's an interesting concept. What is real? What can be proven real? Can you even prove yourself real? Are you not just space, an in between gap like everything else around you? I liked the ending, the sense of serenity for Hitchcock.
It took me over a week to finish it as I was reading during my breaks and a little bit in the evening, and I loved it! A steamy romance set in pre-Civil War Louisiana. I decided to try a romance paperback from the Little Free Library, to see why so many people love them, and I understand why. It was so good huhuhu. 4.5 stars
Read and reviewed: 2022-06-22
