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Jeanelle
The Anti-prom | Abby McDonald
Mehso-so

I didn‘t read this book because I thought it would be good, I read it because I wanted to reread one of the books that I loved in middle school. It‘s not a very good book, but it made me happy to reread it.

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Singout
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Gutwrenching bio with multiple themes of colonization, Christian evangelism, eugenics, and racism. It tells the story of Ota Benga, a Mbuti (“pygmy“) Congoloese man who was kidnapped by an American thinly veiled as a missionary, brought to the US for show at the 1904 St. Louis World's fair, exhibited with monkeys at the Bronx Zoo for white people's amusement, then released with Black support.

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Singout I appreciated how it wasn't just limited to what happened in the U.S., but looked at how the politics of the Belgian colonization of King Leopold and its context win wider Europe, the American history of enslavement, the longer history of Congolese peoples, and the structures and practices of Christian evangelism all intersected as parts of white supremacy.
1y
BarbaraBB Incredibly sad, all these white groups, and what it led to… 1y
Librarybelle Great review! 1y
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Blackink_WhitePaper
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Pickpick

Its hard to read , but still I read only because of the way it is written. Honest memoir about domestic abuse and racism. It made me to think about lot of issues , and to see my life in a different prospect. 4.5⭐️

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TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 2y
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LiseWorks
Brave New Girl | Louisa Luna
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June 17 #BigJuneReadathinPhotoChallenge "Girl/Boy" one if the books i had on my shelf and decide I should read it. It was ok, a teen girl finding herself. @Clwojick

Clwojick Way to go! 2y
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MaggieCarr
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Mehso-so

erring /ˈəriNG/ adjective: having failed to adhere to the proper or accepted standards; having done wrong.

Turning up pregnant after parental sexual abuse, abandoned after marriage while pregnant etc give many, many endearing back stories to the characters of the Berachah House in Texas. Written as time-slip with Cate (a hundred years later) finds the Bertha cemetery after moving near the old grounds finds she can relate to history quite easily.

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Cinfhen
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I‘m not sure what I was expecting but this memoir was full of surprises. Omar Sharif Jr reflects on growing up as the grandson of iconic Egyptian film star Omar Sharif while also being raised by his maternal Jewish grandparents, both of whom were Holocaust survivors. Raised in Montreal, Sharif (half Muslim) attended Jewish Day school, had a Bar Mitzvah, affectionately called his grandparents Bubbi & Zaide and hid from EVERYONE that he was gay.👇🏼

Cinfhen This is his coming out story, as well as a love letter to Egypt, where he is no longer allowed to visit for fear of retribution for his homosexuality. Sharif lays bare some terrifying situations he found himself in, his road to becoming an activist, the backlash he received from both the gay & straight communities and how he found his personal freedom. 2y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Not a memoir I would have thought twice about…but the content sounds great. Stacking. 2y
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Cinfhen The writing is pretty average but the story is pretty remarkable. Such a blending of cultures and identities @Riveted_Reader_Melissa 2y
Megabooks Not sure if I‘m up for more memoirs, but this sounds interesting! 2y
Cortg Ooh! I put this on my TBR recently. Love a good memoir story. 2y
Cinfhen It was just okay @Megabooks I found it very interesting that he was raised in an Orthodox religious community given his other family background. You can wait for a rainy day to pick this up. It was short though and there was some really crazzzy stuff that happens to him. He becomes a personal assistant to a Saudi sheik and that part was pretty lascivious 2y
Cinfhen It‘s just a very unusual set of identities that OSJ deals with @Cortg and that does make for a good story 2y
BarbaraBB All those prompts! Well done 👌🏽 2y
Cinfhen Totally worth it for all the challenge prompts @BarbaraBB 😂😂 2y
Cinfhen Although his Egypt involves palaces, yachts, cooks, drivers, swimming pools and private planes @BarbaraBB not the most realistic view of Africa 2y
BarbaraBB Omar‘s reality 😜 2y
Butterfinger Wow! I need to read this book. 2y
Librarybelle Wow! I had not even heard of this one! 2y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Glad to know this one is worth the time! 2y
Smrloomis Wow, totally missed this! Glad you posted it here 😊 2y
Cinfhen I‘ll be curious to hear your thoughts if you get to it @Smrloomis I found it while searching for a book about Egypt @Librarybelle @Butterfinger although I didn‘t learn too much about the country I did appreciate hearing Omar‘s story @BarbaraTheBibliophage 2y
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Addison_Reads
The Girl and the Stars | Mark Lawrence
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This was a perfect read for this time of year. The descriptions of the ice were wintery perfection. ❄

Great characters, great world building, and the ending has a big cliffhanger that has me wishing I had the second book already.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 2y
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monalyisha
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Mehso-so

I‘m going to continue reading these because I LOVED The Books of the Ancestor. So, any chance to return to this world is worth it for me. However, I have some complaints. There are FAR too many battles & not nearly enough levity. And Lawrence does something that‘s a big pet peeve of mine; this first installment ends on such a major cliffhanger that it doesn‘t feel remotely whole unto itself. It‘s incomplete. The story could never stand on its own.

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monalyisha
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“There‘s nothing like friendship for pulling someone down a hole…or out of it.”

monalyisha 📸 by: Koveh Tavakkol Photography 3y
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