I wonder if people who are not in English-speaking countries have noticed it about the books available, but here in Poland, especially for young adult books (since younger people are more comfortable speaking English), more and more books use the original English title rather than translate it into Polish (the rest of the book would be translated into Polish).

It makes me a bit sad because there is less creativity to come up with cool titles in Polish. Like the Polish title of The Hunger Games slaps, I think it's better than the English one (link to a post that explains it: https://pagebound.co/posts/166511) , and I think if The Hunger Games came out now, they would have just stick to the English title, and we would lose a really amazing bit of creativity.

I think translation can elevate the book by using words not available in the original and I think we're losing it a bit as more people are comfortable in English.

Bonus: Dirty Dancing in Polish got translated to Spinning Sex when it first came out and my parents still cannot let it go.

I find the description of the KKK from the White Southern perspective after the Civil War interesting.

So white men in the South got brainwashed into dying/becoming poor for the "cause."

Then they lose the war. They subsequently get poor, disenfranchised by the Yankees by e.g. losing the right to vote. The Yankees appropriate the South's wealth by pretending they're giving it the newly freed slaves, but instead steal it to enrich themselves. But they do create an enemy in black people for the poor whites.

So we have this group of poor, young, white men who join a terrorist organisation in the form of KKK because they think they're growing resentment toward black people who have been positioned as beneficiares of stolen wealth by people in power.

So KKK is the first in the long line of terrorist organisations like Al-Qaeda and ISIS that the United States Government gave rise to through its policies to disenfranchise the local population. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

I was definitely expecting myself to question a lot of the book since I’m reading it from the perspective of the Lost Cause supporters, but I’m interested in how the Yankees aren’t the good guys here either.

Everyone is evil, just some with more political power than others and Scarlett as the racist diva she is, is girlbossing through it all.