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Remy Rose

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She/they. I like knitting, math, and uplifting the proletariat.

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commented on Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (EBook, 2018, Blomsbury)

First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in …

Paulo Freire: You must meet people where they're at. Education isn't a one-way transfer, but a dialogue. You must always pair the abstract with the concrete, they are meaningless without each other.

Also Paulo Freire: Proceeds to spend an entire chapter using the most abstract language I've ever heard outside a phenomenology textbook

reviewed The Free People's Village by Sim Kern

Sim Kern: The Free People's Village (2023, Levine Querido)

In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War …

More Bleak than I Expected

Despite being set in an alternate history, this book really felt like an extremely realistic depiction of everything going on with the left these days. It's pretty brutal and sad, honestly. I really wanted it to end on some utopian note, but it ends in an extremely probable way instead. Maybe that's more important.

reviewed Bro and the Beast 1 by L. C. Davis (The Wolf's Mate, #1)

L. C. Davis, Joel Abernathy: Bro and the Beast 1 (EBook)

Too Much Fun

I love this series, or at least the first 5 books I've read so far. Somehow it never takes itself too seriously, while simultaneously also being pretty heartwarming and dramatic at the same time. The premise plays out exactly as amusingly as you might imagine.

stopped reading Futuristic violence and fancy suits by David Wong

David Wong: Futuristic violence and fancy suits (2015, Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press)

"Get ready for a world in which anyone can have the powers of a god …

Ok, I can't finish this book... I hate to DNF stuff, and I won't rate/review books I haven't actually read fully, but I've lost all interest at this point. I was at the 40% mark.