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Depending on how much I connected with the stories my opinions varied hugely. I really loved Breastfeeding and The Long Braid - women's stories of resilience and autonomy always get me. I love the reoccurring theme of the sea and of women's rights, and I was very haunted by any details about relations with settlers (like in the one about grapes).

Man I'm definitely too silly a reader to fully understand this book properly but when it hit it was really good. Super difficult to get through though. 

Really great adaptation, with characters that make you want to scream about the unfairness of it all

The “Would you say the cast of characters is diverse?” Question is hilarious for this. Bruh there can be no diversity here

This was dark and mysterious, not like anything I've read before. 

The dialogue style didn't really work with me? 

Love the bite-sized life stories, lovely illustrations.

This book helped me so much in working on making learning materials about space for kids.  Any time I lost my motivation, I'd just open this and feel better again.

I'm really glad this kinda lesbian fiction (written by and for lesbians!!) exists. Also one of the only books I've read with a non binary character (and they're a great character so that's a bonus!) 

Aaaaaaaa one of the most beautiful things I've ever read both in style and writing

Love how much this focuses on the ‘childish' vs ‘mature' crowds at that age.  I definitely struggled a lot with that myself at that age

Very bold (and very fun) that all the white characters in this entire book are 100% The Worst

Love how it shows the community and coming together behind a revolution - katniss was not the first to revolt, neither was Haymitch. The movement just needed it's time. 

Favourite were the Resident and the Husband Stitch! All stories were great though, we covered Real Women Have Bodies in my short story group <3

I wish this came with a cd of the songs because oh my god i wanna hear them

ngl i cried more at this than at the comparable scenes in the song of achilles

My heart breaks thinking about this world.  I love Nausicaa and Teto so much

pretty but not gay enough

I would really love to be patroclus's buddy

every woman in this book is treated appallingly and it does grate on me

I hateeeeee this man. Hate him. Sejanus, Lucy gray and reaper slayed tho. 

Diamond ??????????????????

I enjoyed reading it a lot but I found the characters and dialogue very flat and the stories very basic. I feel like much cooler stories could be created with the same concept. I'd recommend the film The Concierge, which is extremely similar but more fun. 

Imperfect but so so rich.  Feminist and sexist at once. 

Really love the interplay between her own experiences and her research into polyamory at large. Also love how she's reflective of the fact that her experiences are not universal, she's just adding to the voices in this world telling their experiences of polyamory. 

This was one of the wildest books I've read in a while. I'm so used to reading dystopian teen fiction that it totally threw me when this was...utopian??? 

oh the yearning