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• What are you reading?

Back to Children of Blood and Bone, for SF book club. I don't understand how Zelie keeps on acting like John Bender when the consequences for mouthing off are not a year of detentions, but torture or death for her or someone she cares about.

• What did you recently finish reading?

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, for classics book club. I would love to read an essay comparing and contrasting this boy and his tiger to Calvin & Hobbes. When and how does Hobbes seem like a tiger? When and how does Richard Parker seem like a friend? How does the reader decide which narrative is the truth?

• What do you think you’ll read next?

Got to finish Becoming, by Michelle Obama, for Tawanda book group.

• What are you watching?

The Hate U Give from the library, and Luce in the theater. An interesting juxtaposition: both films are about teenagers, grappling with American racism, when they are at that stage of almost-adulthood where they can't bear the restraints of childhood, but their parents can't bear the fear that something terrible will happen to them.

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