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I Remember Beirut
I Remember Beirut | Zeina Abirached
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Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powerful collection of wartime memories. Abirached was born in Lebanon in 1981. She grew up in Beirut as fighting between Christians and Muslims divided the city streets. Follow her past cars riddled with bullet holes, into taxi cabs that travel where buses refuse to go, and n outings to collect shrapnel from the sidewalk. With striking black-and-white artwork, Abirached recalls the details of ordinary life inside a war zone.
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Adventures_of_a_French_Reader
I Remember Beirut | Zeina Abirached
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Mehso-so

Zeina Abirached recounts some anecdotes about her life in Beirut, Lebanon during the civil war between Christians and Muslims.
While I liked her drawing style, the content feels more like a list of anecdotes without much, if any, explanation about the nature of the conflict.

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BarbaraBB
I Remember Beirut | Zeina Abirached
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#BookReport 24/21

I am back on track with my reading I suppose. All these books in one week despite EURO 2020 ⚽️, still watching Lost and summer weather. But my concentration is lousy and I think I didn‘t do the books I read this week enough credit.

TrishB I definitely struggle more with concentration these days! 3y
BarbaraBB @TrishB maybe one day we‘ll long for another lockdown and no diversion 😉 3y
Cinfhen Great week!!!! 3y
Suet624 I was particularly grumpy about the book I just finished and I wondered if I was being fair. 3y
charl08 I love thisnstack: they all look so interesting. 3y
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BarbaraBB
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Pickpick

This graphic novel set in wartime #Lebanon was an okay read. The concept of the book is good, despite the subject the book is more fun than educating.

#ReadingAsia2021 🇱🇧 #Booked2021 #SetInCountryWhereUNPeacekeepersAre

Cinfhen Love the photo (edited) 3y
Librarybelle Agree with @Cinfhen ! 3y
Megabooks Gorgeous day in the Netherlands!! I‘m glad you‘re finishing books! 💜😘 3y
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BarbaraBB @Megabooks Me too!! The 🇳🇱 is because Robin graduated from high school! @Cinfhen @Librarybelle (edited) 3y
Cinfhen Congrats 🎉🍾 🎓send love to Robin💕💕💕 3y
Megabooks Congratulations to Robin!! 3y
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Readingnomad1
I Remember Beirut | Zeina Abirached
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I should be doing homework, but decided to procrastinate and read this tonight! 😎

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irasobrietate
I Remember Beirut | Zeina Abirached
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Pickpick

I flew through book 7 of #24in48. I loved it and I'm gonna need to reread it more slowly later. Still got half an hour left in the readathon!

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alibrarianslibrary
I Remember Beirut | Zeina Abirached
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This method of storytelling is unique but extremely effective. In under 100 pages readers are able to gain a real understanding for life in Beirut during the civil war. Each page is a series of " I remember's, sometimes funny, sometimes full of emotion, but all of them showing the realities of living through war. Beautiful and meaningful.

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bookishnerd
I Remember Beirut | Zeina Abirached
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Mehso-so

After reading A Game for Swallows, I decided I would move on to her other memoir. It is basically a collection of memories from the war that is the centre of her first memoir. It was okay, but the first one is way better. The art is still awesome, though. I would say give it a read if you can borrow it (or have Scribd) but don't rush out and buy it.

ValerieAndBooks At first I thought this was a new work by the author of Persepolis -- art style is similar. 8y
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