Jo's Bookshelf

We Were Once a Family is such a subtle look at the child welfare system in America. These kids maybe should not have been taken from their birth families. They probably should have been taken from their adoptive family. The system seems to be set up in a way that resulted in both errors in a really predictable way, that has happened over and over and over.

There is significant overlap between this book and Dunlop's podcast, Nobody Should Believe Me, which I've also listened to. I find the podcast compelling but mostly listen to it because the fucked up family dynamics are something I relate to.

This is the kind of book you want to make fan art about.

An Immense World is an essential, must-read text that illuminates the natural world in a way I've never experienced. It has heart, it...

Sue Havens is a multimedia artist who paints and sculpts in ceramics. Her work is abstract, chaotic, emotional but obscure. She also...

To be completely honest, I read this book because I needed to check a box for my library's summer reading program: read a graphic novel....

n.b. Got this from my library on a whim; the book's social attitudes are about what you'd expect from a genre mystery in the 90s, i.e. it...