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The Secret (Animorphs, #9)
K.A. Applegate
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Hi all! Iâm trying to solo travel soon and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on books to enhance the traveling curiosity? :))
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bookhermit completed their yearly reading goal of 74 books!







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Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
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The Familiar
Leigh Bardugo
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We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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a heartfelt story of black history and self-acceptance. i really enjoyed the audiobook and i think that i wouldnât have enjoyed it as much reading physically. bob brought so much passion to the narration and the humor of course was always on point. i think that it did lack a bit of distinction in the character voices and sometimes who was talking got a bit muddled, especially in the large group scenes. bob was ultimately able to handle deep, tough topics while still keeping it humorous. some other reviews have used âafter-school specialâ and i think thatâs an apt descriptor though i see that as proof of itâs accessibility to a wide audience!
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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Bob the Drag Queen
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another really, really great book by coates. his prose is so engaging i really felt like i was in those places with him, feeling as he felt. the hypocritical, propaganda state of israel being aided and abetted by the west in their genocide of the palestinians. and the call out that the palestinians are still so rarely able to even be able to tell their own stories. bringing attention to the fact that palestinian voices are (and have been) silenced and denied representation since the founding of israel in the interests of furthering white supremacy. i learned a lot and i appreciated coates being vulnerable enough to say that he had been uneducated on the matter previously but had learned and changed and i felt that he really showed that with this book.
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This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginningâfrom âIâ to âwe.â If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into âI,â and cuts you off forever from the âwe.â
wow. just wow. i definitely missed a lot of the theory in these alternating chapters when i first read this back in high school. no wonder the capitalists were up in arms about steinbeck.
i did a bit of research and steinbeck actually feared for his life after the publication due to the backlash it received, despite winning the pulitzer. clearly the sentiments are still relevant to this day.