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Maybe it’s just the mood I’m in but this feels cornier than the other Taylor Jenkins Reid books I’ve read… it’s also less fun when you don’t like the characters as much

Read this for the first time last year… forgot how charming the premise, the characters, and the prose is…

This is the most comprehensive and detailed source on ACT UP I have ever seen… this is truly amazing and I wish more social movements were written about like this! (By former members, using interviews and primary sources of those involved, talking about the political context and history of other movements that influenced the group, highlighting the accomplishments of women and POC in the group)

Reading this because I liked the author’s other book the cemetery boys and I like that there are more novels with trans characters 💕

Holy fucking shit

I get why this has a lower average rating than Normal People and Conversations with Friends

I’ve already cried

Why is this the second time this year I have read a character wanting to fuck a dolphin

I’m really in my non fiction era

I liked the parts about Domestic Workers United and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

I read two nonfiction books this week. It’s Kyoshi time

Mentioning this random Bernie quote twice that goes “it’s not enough to say I’m a woman, vote for me”? Ah yes, every single criticism of Hillary Clinton was misogyny. It’s giving Margaret Thatcher utilized girl power 🙄

Okay I have thoughts…
I love getting statistics about women, but I wish analysis factoring in class and race was more central (otherwise we get moments like saying all women are workers because all women do care work? 🤨). Plus treating women like a monolith with the overemphasis on the sex based differences that apparently go to a “cellular level”? Plus citing sources like the UN, world bank, mckinsey, etc.

Comparing the CPP to Pol Pot because they both were fine with violence?? Fuck off

Still thinking about the claim that the United front against Japanese imperialism happened because the Soviets told the Chinese communists to do so… and then the betrayal of the nationalists was unexpected??? Lmao

How do you have a worse understanding of communism than Parenti…

For a book talking about anti communism, introducing the Soviet Union in such a basic and regurgitated way is so disappointing 🙄

I forgot how long this book is 😵‍💫

I’m still waiting to get access to the Jakarta Method so I figured I’d pick something less serious to reread