Category: Nonfiction
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I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

Wow an even longer hiatus, cool. My first book completion of 2024 was an audiobook, which is kind of weird for me.
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Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko

The interesting form factor of graphic journalism combines with sparse, immediate narrative to make Other Russias a quick and interesting read.
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Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

A thorough if abstract primer on the give and take of intimacy and desire in committed relationships.
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The Ethical Slut by Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton

An introductory manual to consensual nonmonogamy that would have benefited from more specificity and depth.
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I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

This was easily my least favorite book of the 53 I read in 2021. It is possibly my least favorite book that I have read by choice in my adult life.
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Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener

The tech industry is pretty garbage for a lot of reasons. Anna Wiener walks readers through some of those reasons.