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Mr. Acton

Mracton@sfba.club

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2025 Reading Goal

75% complete! Mr. Acton has read 34 of 45 books.

A down-on-his-luck Broadway playwright is marooned in rural Illinois in this sharply funny queer rom-com

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It’s a very sweet rom-com about second acts and second chances. It’s does what it says on the tin, but the characters are lovable. No it won’t challenge you, and <spoiler>most of the beats are pretty telegraphed</spoiler>. Still, it grabbed my heart on the end.

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I just finished my first read through. I will proabably read it again before returning it. In this poetry collection Saeed Jones lets us follow him through a winding journey through grief for his mother, black and queer bodies, his own identity, culture being commodified without paying the original artists, the hidden identities of icons. I often hopped online to read the stories behind many of the poems, which were as fascinating as Saeed’s poems. Highly recommend. 

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I consider myself fairly media savvy, but it gave me a couple new tools to look at how I process information.  This should be part of every 7th grader’s curriculum. It’s half historical retrospective of fake news, propaganda, and misinformation & half manual on learning skills to be a better analyst of information presented as news.