Katie

This book was interesting and sad. I feel the same way about it as I do about Harriet the Spy. I love the book, but I didn't always love the main character.

Wow. This was an incredible book. My heart sank when I saw the giant cast of characters at the front, but it wasn't hard to keep track of everyone and follow their individual stories. She did such a great job of using all the characters to really make the reader feel the issues. I wanted more time to delve into each person's life and mind.

This book was deeply weird and disjointed. I didn't really enjoy reading it–I'm not sure why I finished it.

I'm sort of tired of fantasy because it seems like the main characters always have to be in terrible peril over and over again. I stayed in this one because of the fiercely feminist messages.

This was funny overall, but there were a few that just slayed me. I apologize to the people I couldn't stop texting the best ones.

I loved this book a lot, but, like the others in the series, I felt like I didn't get as much out of it as I should have. My fault entirely. I'm sort of sad that I read the books as they came out, instead of all in a row. I'll do that when I read them a second time. :)

The stories in this book were heartbreakingly similar. I'm not sure I fully liked the oral history format.

I've always admired Maria Hinojosa, and after reading this I admire her much more. It was an interesting look at the incredible work she put in to get where she is today–both professional work and emotional work. The last few chapters dealing with immigration detention were heartbreaking.

I love this series, and this book was no exception. There's always a good, feminist message plus interesting history, plus the three great main characters.

This was equal parts hilarious and horrifying, as I'm sure most reviewers will note. I've read so many books about race in the past 3-4 years that they've all started sounding slightly alike (with good reason–us white people refuse to listen). But this one was different.

This was a fun read, and I'm looking forward to the continuation of the adventures.

Some of the stories in here were not for the faint of heart. I enjoy reading about peoples' journey through therapy, and this definitely did not disappoint (except for the title–the book is about heroes, not monsters, and I think the title is misleading). I like when her mentor pointed out that “the unconscious never cares for the facts.”

I read this in one sitting and it had me in a kind of a trance. I'm so glad I don't live in Korea. I don't think I'd make it. The characters were great, and I felt I really got to know them more as the book went on, in a way that felt almost like getting to know someone in real life. I loved how things came together in the end, even though we don't really have any conclusions there.

I wish I could give this 10 stars. The stories were funny, cathartic, moving, and true, even when they were fantasy. When our grandchildren want to know what it felt like to be alive at this time, this is what we should give them to read.

I quickly realized this book had little practical advice, but I stayed for the zingers. You just never knew what the author was going to say next, and I often laughed out loud or dropped my jaw at just what she wrote. An interesting read, at least!

This was a strange book. A sort of bleak, spare book. But I enjoyed it nonetheless. I felt for the narrator, I felt for her partner. I was worried the language was going to be a sort of gimmick, but it didn't turn out that way, which was good. It just felt genuine (the narrator learns English as she writes). I felt unsatisfied at the end, and wanted to know much more about how the narrator's life turned out.

It's hard to read this book. Like the last archaeology book I read, it has a lot of references to other archaeologists. Also, I feel that it shares a lot of information the Tewa would not want people to know. I believe it's a classic, well-respected book, though.

This is way too big a topic for one book, and sometimes jumped around or felt unfocused. But every single word in it was try and important and needed to be said (or said again, as most of it I've read about before. I think For the Live of Men is a better book about some of the same issues, but this added a laser focus on race, which is so important.

This was super interesting and fast-moving. I read it in one sitting. I've followed the campaign for Amendment 4 pretty closely, so I knew there was a happy ending coming up (more or less...) and was invested in the story.

It's hard to give this book a reading since it's really written for archaeologists and not for people like me. However I found parts of it very interesting and learned a lot about the history of the place where I live. I am looking forward to reading one of the books mentioned that by an author from the Tewa Pueblo.

I did not enjoy much of this book. It was a hard read, because bad things just kept happening and happening and happening. I realize sometimes life is like that, but that doesn't mean I always want to spend my down time reading nothing but tragedy. I did learn some history, for sure.

I liked the story, but I wish it were a book. I'm not sure what the point of the story was. Maybe there didn't need to be a point...

Reading this reminded me why I don't read white males anymore. All the main characters are white males. There are some women, but they're only there to react to what they men do, they don't really have much agency, thought, etc. of their own. Oh, and there's one non-white person in the whole book. A few gay characters thrown in, maybe to make the author seem open minded? Anyway, I gave up 2/3 of the way in. I don't really care what happens to any of the characters.

Wow. I loved this book so much. It was brilliant, mind opening, hilarious, and it gently pushes the reader in so many right directions. Can't wait to read her other book.

This was hilarious and painful and awkward and true. It reminded me a little of Allie Brosh, if she were black, gay, and disabled. And much more graphic.