Luke Estrada

Honestly better than the first book; better characters, building deeper relationships with the original cast (although Naomi is flat and just a love interest prop for Holden). Fun to be in space!

Just fine, more of a self-congratulatory perspective than any kind of history or reporting. Steph Curry cool tho

Very few people actually enjoy the experience of running a marathon, but when it's done they feel like they've got to brag about it and maybe they should. Moby-Dick has been on my list for about a decade and I couldn't get it done. Now it's done and I will absolutely be obnoxious about it

It's fun when hot people make out! The ending was a little too after-school special for me, but I really enjoyed this book

The best books, paintings, movies, really any work of art, for me, is when the artist makes it feel like the secret of their creativity is just there for the taking. It makes me want to write and create too.

I loved this book and its meditation on love and friendship and art and holy days.

Undoubtedly helpful for people transitioning into new jobs, especially jobs where they'll be managing others for the first time. But I just couldn't get into it at all; it reads more like a business textbook than anything else

Honestly a little disappointing after The Will to Change and All About Love. It's still bell hooks, so it's obviously worth the time, but I don't think I was the target demo

Relatable tbh

It's an important book because of its difficult message, but it badly needs to be updated to reflect the reality of modern internet porn. It also just isn't accessible if you're not already invested in feminism or deconstructing masculinity, I need a resource I can just hand other men and not have them turned off right from the start by accusations that they hate women (which, maybe they do, but that kind of language cuts off the conversation before it can start). It was hard to read.

Why can't all sports books be like this? Halberstam is always aware that he's writing about Michael Jordan and basketball but that those two things only exist and work in a larger world that we all live in. Really the only thing this book was missing was the interviews Jordan was supposed to give Halberstam, which definitely would have strengthened it. -1 star because you can tell he's pro “we should all be colorblind” when it comes to race

An absolute monster of a book for an absolute monster of a man. It's hard to hate Robert Moses when I directly benefit from so many of his works but it's undeniable that he did more harm than good. A great read about what absolute power can do

It's a very very patriotic book. I don't know how important patriotism is to me anymore. A huge part of me says I should shed my patriotism altogether for the kingdom of God. Another part of me is still moved by the acts of nobility that try to balance the horrors of our American past. I still cry during the national anthem sometimes, so I still really liked this book.

Super interesting, I wish I had read this with someone or maybe in a class. I'm sure most of it went over my head. I greatly appreciated the critique of missionary colonization

This is the kind of important book that leaves me feeling helpless. It does not end on a down note or anything, Marohn gives a lot of room for hope and rebuilding, but it just sucks that now these are all problems that we have to deal with. Why couldn't I have been born a Boomer?

A quick fun read. I wish I had more opportunities to play with language; then again, maybe I wish I was clever enough to play with language.

The beastie boys go hard. I've always loved them I always will

Yeah this jawn was tight. Dr. J's eminence comes through in the few quotes he gets. Really crazy that this ever even happened at all. But that applies to most things I guess

When it comes to rating sports books everything falls short of Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game but I can't deny that this is a good book. I grew up with some cousins in Miami who were huge Knicks fans and I never understood why but they were at the exact right age when the Heat/Knicks rivalry was going and their dad's a New Yorker so go figure. I also love the giant middle finger to Dolan. Pray for the Knicks

This book is exactly what it said it would be so it's my fault for expecting something else. It reads far more like the history of a handful of cities rather than an analysis of sports stadiums and their cultural importance but I still learned a lot. The last like ten pages are what I wanted the whole thing to be

An absolute slog but I learned a lot about process theology and some neat conceptions of love that I'm sure will haunt my sermons

A beautiful introduction to mujerista theology. I wish I could give this book to all the people I love to explain how my theology has grown and changed, but then they might burn me at the stake

Inject this book into my VEINS. Read for my “Teaching Controversial Issues” class and this was far and away the most useful book

Absolutely brutal you can't do half stars on this thing. I never grew up with the idea that Michael Jordan was a super nice guy who could do no wrong so “controversies” relayed in this book are in no way shocking. The dude was a competitor, not someone I'd want to play with, but a dude I'd love on my team

Not great, not as insightful as I wanted it to be, and it reads like an extended blog post.

Pre-Star Wars sci-fi has a nobler feeling than more contemporary stuff even if it drags a little more. Nobody in this book is trying to be a version of Han Solo and that's a good thing. Le Guin rules