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Julia Miele Rodas

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Julia Miele Rodas is Professor of English at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York. She earned her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center and holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College.

A disability studies scholar and Victorianist, Julia is the author of Autistic Disturbances (University of Michigan Press, 2018), an academic book that theorizes the role of autistic rhetoric and aesthetic in literature. She is also co-editor of a collection on disability in Jane Eyre, The Madwoman and the Blindman (The Ohio State University Press, 2012) and co-editor of the Literary Disability Studies book series for Palgrave Macmillan. Her writing has appeared in numerous books and journals, including V
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Average rating: 4.23 · 47 ratings · 9 reviews · 2 distinct works
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American Fantasy by Emma Straub
American Fantasy
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very enjoyable

Always look forward to her novels and this one does not disappoint. Though I did have trouble keeping the boys in the band individuated.
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Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
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very enjoyable romance with a mystery

It took me awhile to get into this and I was scorning it and rolling my eyes halfway through at the predictability of the love triangle plot. But it took off about halfway through, became a real page turner. Don’t
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The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
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The Gloaming by Melanie Finn
The Gloaming
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not so much my kind of book

Too much pathos, indirection, hopelessness. Although I very much liked The Hare, which definitely shares some of the same themes and stylistic features, but feels a little less rudderless.
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Talking Back, Talking Black by John McWhorter
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Accessible, informative and persuasive explanation of the place of Black English in American history and culture.
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Images of Cuba by Gabriel García Márquez
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South to America by Imani Perry
" I actually read this as an audiobook, read by the author (borrowed from the library!). Might be worth it to give it a whirl in that medium—it’s a toug ...more "
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Another excellent recommendation from Teo. To be clear, I did *not enjoy this book and I don’t think it *is an enjoyable book, but it is beautiful, creative, and important. A vital mix of historical and autobiographical, familial, self-referential. P ...more
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The Hare by Melanie Finn
The Hare
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Took me a few chapters to really warm up to it …

… but once the antagonist reveals himself, the importance of the protagonist came into focus. Reminded me a bit of a Tana French novel, intricate, sensitive to loss. Love how female focused this was, ho
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very enjoyable read

Kind of like Ursula LeGuin and Andy Weir had a baby … interesting world building challenging norms of gender, property, language. Romance plot drawn forward by a series of technical crises. Humorous, very likable main characters.
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“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.”
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“All literature is protest.”
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