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DejahEntendu, 8 months ago to bookstodon

#JustFinished 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Chick, by Mona Awad.

Ugh. Unreedeemed, imo. The main character is alternately self-absorbed and profoundly insecure. She spends her whole life bad-mouthing the people around her and I'm supposed to be happy that after 6 and a quarter hours of this immature brat, Awad ends the book with her perhaps on the brink of an epiphany? I like a good book about personal growth. This is not one.

#fiction #books @bookstodon #Fatphobia

ablueboxfullofbooks, 8 months ago to bookstodon

In Where is Anne Frank,we discover Anne's story ‘s from the point of view of Kitty, Anne ‘s imaginary friend in the diary. This graphic novel has an interesting paranormal twist, really unexpected when it comes to Anne Frank ‘s story. Ari Folman expands the original story‘s boundaries and examines our current world through themes taken from the Diary.
#annefrank #graphicnovel #comicsbook #holocaust #war #immigration #book #bookstodon #littlefreelibrary #bookdrop #retelling @bookstodon

ash, 8 months ago to academicchatter

WTF is the world we are living in

> An associate professor at the University of California Santa Barbara claimed during a recent speech that the Israeli Defense Forces fighting Hamas terrorists is akin to police officers "murdering" George Floyd. He called Israel a "white supremacist Zionist project" and issued a chilling call to action; American progressives must kill the Jewish nation.

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https://thepostmillennial.com/uc-prof-equates-hamas-to-george-floyd-says-progressives-must-stab-israel-in-the-heart

@israel @mazeldon @academicchatter #israel #mazeldon #academia