PALI_RM

Reading fiction & non. Definitey reading & discussing everything Palestine related. ~Palestinian born and raised. FREE PALESTINE all 27.027 km2 of it 🇵🇸 🍉 ✌🏼 خاوة

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict

juneandday005

Thoughts from 45%

Haifa, Bisan. These are the names of some Palestinians. I’ve heard before that Palestinians will name their children after villages as a way to preserve their culture and remember their roots

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juneandday005

Thoughts from 98%

“For those of us safe and cozy in our homes, it’s hard to grasp the destructive capacity of the bombs that many of our governments sell to Israel.”

I’ll argue that it’s impossible for most people to understand what life is like for the people of Gaza. And it’s because of our taxpayer money that Israel has the funding for this.

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thestarsue

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Book lovers are the cutest omg!!!!

No seriously like I love it when someone is like “oh yeah I read 18383929283 books this month!!” OK AND NOW I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT ALL OF THEM! I love reading and talking about books (we know omg) but it’s actually so hard to meet people who feel the same way because a lot of people are online. Obviously this isn’t bad but I feel like lots of people have lost the value of curling up on the couch with a good book. Like I guess it really is hard to meet someone who will take a nice little walk with me and talk about books while we look at flowers and plants 😔 sigh

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September’s Over, Hello October

What was your favourite book for September? What was your least favourite? How many books did you read?

What are you planning to read this month? Are there any books releasing this month you’re interested in?

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I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Ann Liang

Snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters. Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a "pleasure to have in class." It’s not easy, but she has a trick to keep her model-student smile plastered on her face at all times: she channels all her frustrations into her email drafts. She'd never send them of course -- she'd rather die than hurt anyone's feelings -- but it's a relief to let loose on her power-hungry English teacher or a freeloading classmate taking credit for Sadie's work. All her most vehemently worded emails are directed at her infuriating cocaptain, Julius Gong, whose arrogance and competitive streak have irked Sadie since they were kids. "You're attention starved and self-obsessed and unbearably vain . . . I really hope your comb breaks and you run out of whatever expensive hair products you've been using to make your hair appear deceptively soft..." Sadie doesn't have to hold back in her emails, because nobody will ever read them... that is, until they're accidentally sent out. Overnight, Sadie’s carefully crafted, conflict-free life is turned upside down. It's her worst nightmare -- now everyone at school knows what she really thinks of them, and they're not afraid to tell her what they really think of her either. But amidst the chaos, there's one person growing to appreciate the "real" Sadie -- Julius, the only boy she's sworn to hate...

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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Stephanie Foo

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life"Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones know." By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD--a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don't move on from trauma--but you can learn to move with it. Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body--and examines one woman's ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.

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AlanisMoreBooks

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Do y'all gatekeep or share for the world?

I gatekeep like it's going out of style, though I'm slowly sharing more books I like, reluctantly. I just want to hold them close to my chest and bite anyone who dares try to take them. Even as I'm chatting about how great they are. Is there anyone else, or do I just need to relearn sharing is caring, like a kindergartener? Edit: Alright I guess I'm just a cranky toddler😂

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Braam.reads

Thoughts from 16% (page 31)

Not sure if its the translation..or the fact that I've beem reading dense books.. but I'm kinda disappointed so far.. the plot seems kinda thin. I feels really predictable

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girlintomusic

5 more to gold

Oh, so that English Literature degree was useful for something after all. :') i love this one!

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NotableMagpie

English Classic Literature Speedrun any%

I saw this quest and realised I had read 15 books back in 2017 when finishing my English degree 🥲 I have yet to read Macbeth but I surely will one day !

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Pipsy

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Story behind your username ✨

Hey, beautiful people 💫 After that post I made in the forum I felt so surprised to see so many people relate to my situation, and it was overwhelming (in the best way) to feel everyone's support and understanding. So I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who took the time to give me a little uplifting, it really made a difference.

This made me think that we really are a community of dear anonymous friends, who support each other through the love of books. Which led me to this thought: There are so many beautiful and original usernames... What's the story behind each one? (except for one_crazy_eliott, I think I understand the reason behind Mr. Crazy's username 🤭🤭🤭)

So, if you feel comfortable, share the story behind it. I think it will help bring us closer and keep everyone's anonymity anyway.

I'll start: The OGs know I started PB as fantasy.betareader but decided later to change my username to Pipsy to help me feel more connected here. This is a nickname my sister gave me when I was 3 or 4 years old, and it stuck until today. My whole family calls me by it, my friends, my teachers, my bosses, etc. Even on my passport, my signature says Pipsy. So that's basically my name 😊

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Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

Jesse Q. Sutanto

What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. It's the biggest job yet for the family wedding business—"Don't leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!"—and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie's perfect buttercream flowers. But things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy's great college love—and biggest heartbreak—makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos. Is it possible to escape murder charges, charm her ex back into her life, and pull off a stunning wedding all in one weekend?

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Noosh

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Choose my next read

One of my goals of the year is to read a modern arabic book and while browsing libby I found three interesting books

خوف: a horror jin story from a saudi author that I’ve always wanted to try but horror was never my cup of tea.(audiobook)
دليل جدتي لقتل الاوغاد: mystery thriller, murderess grandma? It’s been on my tbr and recommend by a friend. (E-book)
الغرفة رقم ٨: jin horror story (different author) used to own it but never read it and then lost it by lending it to multiple classmates (according to them-13 year old them- very scary). (Audiobook)

Update: currently reading the grandma murderer so far it’s good, unfortunately the book is currently unavailable here (I’ll add my thoughts in the form when it’s available if libby keeps my highlights)

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I Hope This Finds You

Ann Liang

Academic rivals Sadie and Julius fell in love in I Hope This Doesn't Find You when Sadie's email drafts were accidentally sent out. Their story continues in I Hope This Finds You novella featuring Sadie's and Julius's POVs!

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human.On Oct 25th, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet was viewed over 10 million times. One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture which has occurred for Black, brown, indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse. This book is a reckoning with what it means to live in the west, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries—America, the UK, France and Germany.  It will be The Fire Next Time for a generation that understands we’re undergoing a shift in the so-called ‘rules-based order,’ a generation that understands the west can no longer be trusted to police and guide the world, or its own cities and campuses. It draws on intimate details of Omar’s own story as an emigrant who grew up believing in the western project, who was catapulted into journalism by the rupture of 9/11. This book is his heartsick breakup letter with the west. It is a breakup we are watching all over the U.S., on college campuses, on city streets, and the consequences of this rupture will be felt by all of us. His book is for all the people who want something better than what the west has served up. This is the book for our time.

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You can now delete your Community Rec book :)

Just wanted to let everyone know if you accidentally add the wrong book to the "community rec" section, you can now delete it. And for everyone that's new or doesn't know what I'm talking about: at the bottom of every book page, there's community-sourced book recs (our "human", non-algo way of serving recs). Anyone can add a rec!

PS - for the beta app users, this is on web-only right now. I'll include it in the next release after app approval.

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The Spellshop

Sarah Beth Durst

The Spellshop is Sarah Beth Durst’s romantasy debut–a lush cottagecore tale full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships, sweet jams, and even sweeter love. Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as a librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and her assistant, Caz—a magically sentient spider plant—have spent the last decade sequestered among the empire’s most precious spellbooks, preserving their magic for the city’s elite. When a revolution begins and the library goes up in flames, she and Caz flee with all the spellbooks they can carry and head to a remote island Kiela never thought she’d see again: her childhood home. Taking refuge there, Kiela discovers, much to her dismay, a nosy—and very handsome—neighbor who can’t take a hint and keeps showing up day after day to make sure she’s fed and to help fix up her new home. In need of income, Kiela identifies something that even the bakery in town doesn’t have: jam. With the help of an old recipe book her parents left her and a bit of illegal magic, her cottage garden is soon covered in ripe berries. But magic can do more than make life a little sweeter, so Kiela risks the consequences of using unsanctioned spells and opens the island’s first-ever and much needed secret spellshop. Like a Hallmark rom-com full of mythical creatures and fueled by cinnamon rolls and magic, The Spellshop will heal your heart and feed your soul.

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Braam.reads

Thoughts from 16% (page 31)

Not sure if its the translation..or the fact that I've beem reading dense books.. but I'm kinda disappointed so far.. the plot seems kinda thin. I feels really predictable

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