Amie's Book Reviews

“Spend enough years studying a thing, the thing might begin to study you.”
― Abigail Miles, The Building That Wasn't

“How do we stitch together a society severed by incendiary rhetoric and callous political opportunism? At a time when it’s tempting to see our neighbors as others rather than as people like us, how do we even begin to care for ourselves and our communities?”
― Brandon J. Wolf, A Place for Us: A Memoir

“Our world is designed for extroverts. We place a high value on those with a seemingly effortless knack for socializing. Magnetic personalities are deified, while the more muted among us are bulldozed in conversation. We turn every email into a video call and race to fill silence with sound, indicting quiet as “awkward” without considering its necessity.”
― Brandon J. Wolf, A Place for Us: A Memoir

“It didn’t take long for me to see how intertwined all of our struggles are. Justice is justice. And the denial of justice for any one group of people erodes justice for all people. Attacks on the rights of transgender people to access health care are tied to assaults on abortion rights, as both are grounded in a fight for sexual autonomy, a tug-of-war with the government over control of our own bodies. The fight for immigrant rights is an LGBTQ+ fight, too, because it is a collective demand for human-centered politics that treat people with a basic level of decency. And the work of dismantling systemic racism is ours as well.”
― Brandon J. Wolf, A Place for Us: A Memoir