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I learn so much from this book and the constructivist approach to addressing reparations. This book does the amazing job of taking the moral necessity of reparations and showing concrete steps that we can take to further them in the material world while also benefitting humanity (with a focus on benefits to there global South) in facing the climate crisis.

I had to return it and moved on something else, but the essays were very profound. Highly recommended and I intend to go back to it.

This was such an excellent biography. It's the biography of Kendrick Perkins, a basketball player and media personality. It's about his life growing up poor and black in Texas and his growth as a person in the NBA. It offers a really great critique of racial relations in America, white supremacy, and athletics. Kendrick talks from experience as a black man engaging in the tremendously profitable sports arena. He has a ton of color and nuance to the topic and greatly elucidates the life of a black athlete in America at the present time. I love basketball and that was a huge reason. I read this book but I was super impressed with the focus on racial relations and athletics and black men in American society and the 20th and 21st century.

Try as I might, I just cannot get into Lipsyte. People who's opinions I respect think he's a riot but it does not work for me. He's just no Charles Porier.

I liked this novel. It's inventive and I could see going back to it again. I just got on a Charles Portis kick.

The funniest book I have ever read, indubitably. I laughed out loud while reading CONTINUOUSLY. Absolutely genius and Bob Odenkirk is the ideal person for a blurb on the cover. I could see Bob and David doing a movie adaptation. Can't recommend highly enough. I'm going to gift this often.

Absolutely hilarious. Every page is laugh out loud funny.

This is as good as anything Saunders has ever written. The titular story is absolutely amazing and has shades of Severance the TV show. Love letter, a story from my grandfather to his grandson in an eerily similar world to our own, is better and more powerful on a second read. I loved every minute of this book and can't recommend it enough. Saunders truly is a voice for our times.

I didn’t finish it, but it was good. Lots of sex scenes. Is it make an interesting movie but I didn’t really feel like keep going.

Definitely intriguing me.

This book was simply impossible not to begin reading immediately because of the cover. I spent a year working at the Worcester public library and the staff fourth floor lunchroom looked out on this statue in the back of City Hall?!?