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Texreader
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I‘ve started this audiobook tonight, my third book for #Rwanda #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

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Obviously this is a hard book to read. I‘m just not in the right head space right now to read it. So I‘m going to mark it unread rather than bailed (it doesn‘t deserve a bad rating because I‘m not up to reading it now). I need something a lot lighter. So I‘ll find another book that might work better for me now. #Rwanda #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

IriDas Understandable. 5d
kspenmoll I get it. I am avoiding my Rowanda choice at the moment as well - maybe next week?! 5d
ChaoticMissAdventures I feel a big shift in my reading happening. I cannot handle anything genocidal or dystopian right now. It is just too much. 5d
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GingerAntics It does sound like a great book, but it‘s definitely requires the right head space. 5d
dabbe That's why I've been reading a lot of detective stories lately. 💙🩵💙 5d
Catsandbooks Absolutely understandable. Gotta take care of your mental health! 4d
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I‘ve read a lot about this genocidal massacre but I didn‘t know that there were warnings ahead of time. I‘ve barely started this book and it‘s already overwhelming

And to finish the quote above, the Hutus who sympathized with the Tutsis were among the first murdered

#foodandlit #Rwanda @Catsandbooks

DGRachel I tried to read it years ago and just couldn‘t. I had to put it down. I keep thinking I want to try again, but I don‘t know if I can. 1w
Catsandbooks 💔🇷🇼 4d
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Tove_Reads I liked the book! 1w
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My next ebook on my tbr forever. #foodandlit #Rwanda @Catsandbooks

GingerAntics Well, that‘s a cheery title. I feel heartbreak coming on. 1w
Texreader @GingerAntics Yea, not sure this is a good time to read this one. 😕 6d
GingerAntics @Texreader that is fair. I‘m trying to balance my ability to mentally and emotionally handle timely titles and more relaxed titles. There is definitely a need to approach some topics/titles carefully. 6d
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K.Wielechowski
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I found this book about the six women rulers of Egypt very interesting, although at some times it felt a little tilted rather than neutral fact.
It, of course, covered the more well-known women like Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, and Cleopatra, but I really enjoyed learning about the lesser known women rulers: Merneith, Neferusobek, and Tawisret.

TheBookHippie I liked this one. 1mo
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megnews
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I can‘t believe I‘m the first to post about this book! Im not a huge nonfiction reader but I‘m a third of the way through and it‘s been fascinating stuff we don‘t learn in school. There is a BBC mini series on YouTube too. #firstlinefridays

ShyBookOwl Interesting! 3mo
Bookwomble This sounds good. Zeinab Badawi is one of those journalists/news presenters who inspire confidence in what they're reporting. 3mo
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breadnroses
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(1/2) Oops. Just completely forgot to post about the last two books I read lol. Been completely swept up in the new school year!

My last read of the summer. I figured it was short enough to squeeze in before school started & would be nice to knock out before I started the September seminar on CLR James that I‘m taking with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research! 🙂

bibliothecarivs What did you think? I haven't read it. 7mo
breadnroses @bibliothecarivs Anything by James is worth a read. The introduction by Robin DG Kelley is essential! 7mo
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This book should be titled, When Women "Ruled" the World instead. While I thought this was going to be about female empowerment/feminism... it's giving much more, "she was in power only bc... "xx" reason." Men were still seen as superior. I thought this was going to be about a time when women were seen as equals.. but the author enjoys pointing out the fact women were never equal - this was all coincidence/luck that brought them into their power.

reading.rainb0w I don't want to give a shit review because I'm annoyed over facts - it's not the authors fault, obviously - but I wish these women were seen in the same respective positive light as the men in that era - perhaps it actually Was the way it's been written, or perhaps it was different, yet we can't see it through that lens as a society today based on our limited perspective of reality/truth. 🤔 #currentlyreading #nonfiction 9mo
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