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In my latest Friday Reads booktube episode: artisan cheese touring on Vancouver Island; Victoria gardens; and 6 books.

https://youtu.be/B4BlfSUOVi0

#trans authors #OzFiction #kidlit #memoir #Gaza

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟(4.5/5)
Beautifully written short stories. Emotional, relective reading. The title story was particularly good.
Book 4/7 for #fabulousfebruary

I'm going to try to finish #7in7. I'm 80% or so finished with 4 books, and 60% finished with another. 6 and 7 might be a little ambitious. But it would feel so good to finish them all! #20in4 #fabulousfebruary #cantstopwontstop

This is Malek‘s story of using art to cope with the trauma of living in occupied Palestine during more than 50 days of bombing as part of Israel‘s “Operation Protective Edge”. It provides a good framework to discuss fear and loss with children, and also ways to cope through things like art. It breaks my heart to know so many more children are experiencing these same things and more right now, with no relief in sight.

#Shimmer #inquotes @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Day #3 for #12DaysofChristmas, #12Booksof2022, @Andrew65. Bittersweet.

I know I'm late, but wanted to post this from a book I started.

Of everything that disappeared, Kinder Eggs are what I missed most. When the walls closed in on Gaza and adult conversations became hotter and sadder, I measured the severity of our siege by the dwindling number of those chocolate eggs, wrapped in thin colorful foil, with splendid surprises incubating inside the eggs on store shelves.

I feel like this was the most important book I read this year. Certainly the most eye opening to me, an American Jew, who grew up visiting my grandparents in Israel. I don‘t know how Dr. Abuelaish was able to write with such grace about the stifling poverty and restrictions that he experienced as a Palestinian civilian living in Gaza, and about the cruel and senseless loss of his three daughters during an Israeli air strike in 2008.

Short stories from #Palestine & another book that makes me want to spend more time in a place, to hear more voices, a greater range of stories. Here, amongst the bombs & violence, we spend a day at the beach, see an employee dispute escalate, and sort stones with the children of Gaza. Qarmout steers away from good/bad guys tropes & declares that people (and places) are complicated. Not sure it‘s the best translation, but overall I liked this a lot