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Another tempting book list, this time from World Literature Today with seventy-five translated books to check out. I can see more than a few that are already on my TBR, but might just find a couple of others to add.📚❤️
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https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/lit-lists/75-notable-translations-2023-michelle-johnson

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#booklist #16DaysOfActivism #zonta #books #bookstodon
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Contemporary Fiction Recommendations:

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

The Frederick Sisters are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Books About Motherhood Recommendations:

Mother Brain: How Neuroscience is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood by Chelsea Conaboy

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of
Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley

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Today's book list for Zonta's 16 Days of Activism is all about women musicians.

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh

Baby Girl: Better Known As Aaliyah by Kathy Iandoli

I Put A Spell On You by Nina Simone

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Early morning #CurrentlyReading list:

Riot Woman: Using Feminist Values to Destroy the Patriarchy by Eleanor C. Whitney ( #nonfiction )

Sirens: The End of the World Has a Sound by Braden Cawthon ( #YALit )

The Color of the Sky is the Shape of the Heart by Chesil, translated by Takami Nieda ( #YA )

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#books #library #read #bookstodon #reading #BookList

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1/4 Palestine reading list (maybe some Egypt) - things on my bookshelf i either want to read again or forgot i read... Reminds me of a time i used have to scour second hand bookshop shelves regularly for books on Palestine because the internet wasn't a thing, i didn't have access yet or maybe it was social media that ended that primary method of search for me.

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Book, Soul in Exile. The cover is black and white with the fishing net keffiyeh pattern.
Book, The Disinherited. Small black and white photos cover the cover in a block of nine.
Book, Wild Thorns. A small drawing of tangled thorny vines is at the top of the cover. An orange block at the bottom with the title.

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2/6

  1. Soul in Exile, Fawaz Turki - poet/essayist relates his refugee story in the 90s in a refugee camp in Lebanon.

  2. Wild Thorns, Sahar Khalifah - born in Nablus in 1941, predating the apartheid state of Israel. Her first novel was confiscated by Israeli authorities; the second was published in Cairo. Fiction. Published 1976.

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3/6
2. Continued. An early depiction of life under occupation, maybe controversial as it doesn't depict a righteous victim.

  1. The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile, Fawaz Turki. Memoir.

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4/6
4. Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi - she taught at Duke University. Fiction. Story told from prison, villager, prostitute, prisoner. You'll probably have some feelings. Also see (8) Two Women In One. And (9) Daughter of Isis, autobiography.

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5/6

  1. Beggar at Damascus Gate, Yasmine Zahran - Fiction. Published 1995. Archaeologist finds diary of lovers - a Englishman and exiled Palestinian woman working for the PLO. Could give insight into displaced people.

  2. I Saw Ramallah

  3. Children of Catastrophe

Also:
(10)In the Eye of the Sun and the (11)Map of Love by Ahdef Soueif

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6/6
A Book List:

  1. Soul in Exile, Fawaz Turki
  2. Wild Thorns, Sahar Khalifah
  3. The Disinherited, Turki.
  4. Woman at Point Zero, Nawal El Saadawi
  5. Beggar at Damascus Gate, Yasmine Zahran
  6. I Saw Ramallah, Mourid Barghouti
  7. Children of Catastrophe, Jamal Kanj
  8. Two Women In One, El Saadawi
  9. Daughter of Isis, El Saadawi
  10. In the Eye of the Sun, Soueif
  11. Map of Love, Soueif
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https://bookriot.com/unique-magic-systems-in-ya-fantasy/

Unique magic systems in YA... there are some good recs on the list.

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