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'Imagine that it really is too late.'

74/52 ★★☆☆☆

Here's why I felt this was a rather depressing read: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5347698429


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@Eetschrijver
Zeker! Maar dat was niet zozeer een verfilming van het boek, als wel een gefictionaliseerde uitvergroting van kleine onderdelen eruit.
Het boek viel mij tegen (en in mijn review vertel ik waarom)
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Ik heb je geboekmarkt en ga zeker lezen!
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'Even people who feel they have no ability to influence the political system have social power.'
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 67/52 ★★★☆☆

Fairly informative book:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5807138102

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@fifischwarz @boeken @bookstodon Is the book written in English or Spanish?

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@yuniorglex
Hi, this edition was in English (it was an audiobook narrated by herself).
Perhaps a Spanish translation of her work is available as well
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Meteen ook een Nederlandse bewerking van deze bespreking op mijn blog gezet:

https://dedingendebaas.nl/2023/09/03/een-poetisch-pleidooi-voor-woke/


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'...such distant times can become a vast canvas for the working out of our collective fantasies.'

59/52 ★★★★★

Here's why this is an excellent book, not just about history, but about framing narratives as well:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4792789528

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Thx! Gebladwijzerd. Ik ga die later terugkijken.

Hier trouwens ook nog mijn Nederlandstalige bewerking van de boekbespreking: https://dedingendebaas.nl/2023/08/10/het-begin-van-alles-boekbespreking/

(Stiekem ook wel benieuwd wat je daarvan vindt)

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'The task of countering colorblindness is thus not merely to see race again, but to reenvision how disciplinary tools, convention and knowledge-producing practices that erase the social dynamics that produce race can be critically engaged and selectively repurposed toward emancipatory ends.'

80/52

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5154901593

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‘My reading might be pointless in terms of the history of literary criticism; but it’s not pointless in terms of pleasure.’

78/52
★☆☆☆☆

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'Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise'

75/52 ★★★★☆

Vulnerable and powerful


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'It is important if someone asks you to remember one of your happiest times to consider not only the question but also the questioner.'

71/52 ★★★☆☆

My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5947459375

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'We want other people to have a centre, a history, an account that makes sense.'

60/52 ★★★★☆

A very impressive elegy printed as a leporello.
It made me realize a thing or two about mourning and about translating (and how those are more interrelated than I had previously thought). Here's how:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5007397334

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'An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.’ #DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 60/52 ★★★☆☆

A love story, a sad one. Am not a fan of the genre myself, but I could appreciate this one. Hurston wrote in the vernacular of her characters, while the backdrop tells of how Black Americans, especially women, struggled to make a living in the 1930s.

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'How are we together?'

Peter Block - Community. The structure of belonging
57/52 ★★★☆☆

My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5193717628

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'He says that a real, authentic book breathes an unmistakable scent of... well, he calls it "truth", or "life". I think maybe he means "despair".'

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Bridget Collins - The Binding
#BoekPerWeek 56/52 ★★★☆☆

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5696864507

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'The question is whether we as a society are willing to sacrifice a bit of effciency in the interest of fairness.'

53/52 ★★★☆☆

Here's why this book is worth a read:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4407791668

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'Does being the one to say it mean I was the one who did it?'

51/52 ★★★☆☆

My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5313478030

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