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“Feo wished she could explain - that the beauty of the world is itself a kind of company, and they lived in one of the most beautiful spots in the world. ‘You can make the snow a kind of friend, if you know how.” ― Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder
A-Z Challenge: @ibuzoo vs. @aly-naith
L - Luna Lovegood
tried to be minimalist!
ig: tinycl0ud ☆。・゚゚
My current read! I’m really enjoying it so much!
Spooky October books for All Hallows Read.
The Hate U Give
Author:
- Angie Thomas
Publisher:
- Balzer & Bray
Content:
Star Carter is sixteen-years old and lives in a poor and black neighbourhood. Since she is a young girl Star tries to hide her background from her suburban school where mostly children of white and wealthy families attend. One day Star witnesses a deathly shooting of her childhood friend Khalil. He gets shot by a police officer even though he was unarmed. Star is the only witness of the fatal shooting and the only one who knows the truth. With her as only witness both of her worlds, collide in a dangerous way. Moreover, the police seems not to be interested in investigating the shooting and the media calls him a drug dealer and gang member. However, Stars neighbourhood wants justice for Khalil. When protests turn her neighbourhood in a dangerous area Star has to decide what to do. Every word she says could destroy her neighbourhood but it could also help to get justice not only for her friend but also for her community.
My Review:
Angie Thomas addresses police brutality as well as racism against black people in America within this book. By writing in Stars first person the political issue that, we mostly now from the news gets a total new and unique perspective. With the young girl as main character, Angie Thomas shows us how police brutality and a fatal shooting can affect lives and complete neighbourhoods as well as communities. Moreover, the book shows with Stars both worlds colliding that there is still an important issue of culture and racism within the United States. Thomas also highlights in an authentic way the realities of black people living in poor neighbourhoods and their struggles to live life in a still racist America. Angie Thomas used powerful, hard as well as soft words to describe Stars feelings, which made it possible for the reader to understand the emotions and stages of such an investigation. All the characters were realistic, as well as their relationships and roles within the story. This book is beautiful, powerful, and necessary in todays reality of racism and police brutality against black communities in America. It shows in an authentic way that racism is still an important and current issue in the United States.
Resume:
An absolutely important and necessary book. Angie Thomas described in a powerful way police brutality and racism against black communities in America.
I really did not expect how hard to find this book is, but finally after ordering it and waiting for it far to long I'm able to read it. I've just started in the morning after a yoga morning session, drinking some red tea while reading.
A book crystallized in the ocean
I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.
Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden (via books-n-quotes)
ok but i honestly think one of the most unbelievable things about hogwarts is that fact that the school is in scotland and there is basically no scottish culture to be found so i’m gonna list some headcanons facts that definitely happen at hogwarts.
the three broomsticks havin to start selling irn bru due to popular demand
muggleborns desperately trying to find out if any of the made up animals they grew up hearing about are real
resulting in a two month waiting list to check out any book in the library relating to haggis, nessie, kelpies etc.
muggleborns finding out that nessie IS in fact real and being pissed as hell that they can’t tell their friends back home
500 miles being played at any and every event
speaking of events
y’all are telling me that mcgonagall, a SCOTTISH witch was in charge of teaching the kids to dance for the yule ball and she dinnae have them up doing the gay gordons????? strip the willow???? dashing white sergeant?????
nah fam the yule ball was exclusively a ceilidh
burns night is a thing™ and the feast is literally just haggis, neeps and tatties
(maybe a veggie haggis and mince and tatties for the fussy folk who willnae go near haggis but that’s your lot)
that one kid that has a highland cow patronus
lokchart at one point tried to play the bagpipes
it was horrifc
the kids pissing themselves when they find out lockhart tried to track down the “weetimorousbeastie” (x) bc as we all know a timorous beastie is in fact a mouse
students trying to set up games of creaothceann (x) without getting caught
while the WSSRU (wizarding supporters of scottish rugby union) (x) just wanna get a nice game of rugby going
it’s like 482043940982x less sunny and more windy than the books/films make it out to be
Preparing for a study session at home
First step is always making some tea. Today I’ll go with some red tea, bowl tea style. That’s the easiest way to drink high class tea while reading without having to pour the tea in different vessels, like a gaiwan, a pitcher and a cup. And most important you do not have to watch the time to take care of your tea.
Second step is choosing some background noise. Depending on my mood it’s most likely some jazz or blues or rap. Today I’ve chosen some old school german rap. Trying not to get to nostalgic. Often there is a point I’m getting a certain level of concentration and I’ll turn of the music, but it helps me to get started.
And last but not least, you’ve gotta decide which text you want to study or which task you want to fulfill. Today I’m starting with a dossier published by iz3w, the information center third world, which is doing a lot of educational work about the global north and south, questioning every bit of argumentation done around its topic. The Topic of this dossier is refugee policy.
I’ll post something about the content of this dossier later on and maybe also about the tea.
Zuerst einmal muss Tee her, vor allem jetzt im Herbst. Heute habe ich mich für einen roten Tee entschieden, bowl tea style. Das ist leichter beim Lernen, da man nicht auf die Ziehzeit achten muss und keine Zeit mit abgiessen und umgiessen von Kanne oder Gaiwan in den Pitcher und in die Tasse verschwendet.
Danach suche ich mir, je nach Stimmung, ein bisschen Musik aus, damit fällt es mir leichter anzufangen. Die Musik mache ich meistens irgendwann aus, um mich besser konzentrieren zu können. Heute hatte ich Lust auf old school Deutschrap. Der Trick dabei ist nicht melancholisch zu werden.
Zu guter Letzt muss ich mich noch entscheiden mit welchem Text, welcher Aufgabe ich anfangen möchte. Heute war das einfach, weil ich das Dossier vom iz3w, dem Informationszentrum Dritte Welt noch nicht fertig gelesen habe. Das iz3w beschäftigt sich hauptsächlich mit Bildungsarbeit rund um das Thema globaler Norden/globaler Süden. Immer kritisch hinterfragend widmen sich die Autoren in jedem Dossier einem anderen Thema. In diesem Dossier geht es um Flüchtlingspolitik.
Später werde ich noch etwas über den Inhalt des Dossiers und vielleicht auch über den Tee posten.
Isola - Isabel Abedi
Song for the book: Faithless - God is a DJ
I do not know how often I have read this book during my teenage years, but sure I have read its several times.
It is an easy to read book, written in a first-person perspective. Sentences are short as you often find it in books for younger readers. Time goes by very fast and the story lets you forget anything else. The reader finds himself head over heels in the middle of an ongoing story.
It’s a bit a well known setting, a group in an isolated space is filmed day and night.
Vera, as the narrator, is using a form of flashback to tell about her experiences she had, traveling to an island called Isola for a film project. Her real name is Joy, but the embers of the project all had to adopt new names for Isola. Joy was born in Brasil, where the island is, but lived most of her life in Germany. She is traveling in a group of twelve young persons, maybe between 16 and somewhere above 20. There is also a small film crew and the director. The twelve adolescents will be filmed nicht and day. They are allowed to take three personal things to the island and those things reveal how different and peculiar some of them are. Vera amongst other things takes a photograph of her Brazilian sister with her, the others are taking long things like instruments, a dog, dead pets, knives, sketch blocks, condoms and one is even taking his aunt Kate, a blow-up doll.
Vera has a crush at first sight on Solo, one of the group members.
First days on the island seem to be paradisiacally, but than the game starts. Unannounced the group has to play a murderer game, the roles are decided by drawing lots. The murderer bans its victims from the island. As it is forbidden to consume drugs on the island, another rule is added, the prohibition of violence. If the rules are not followed, the project will be ended.
In between Veras first-person perspective another first-person perspective is taken by the observer of the whole spectacle. This parts are depressing in their voyeuristic view.
One after another the participants are leaving the island Isola „killed“ by the murderer.
In one night the rest of the groups decides to have a party in one of the caves, this is where the song God is a DJ comes up.
The drug rule is already broken, but the project is still going on.
Two of the group are missed, so the murderer game is revealed and than one of the two who have gone missing turns up again dead.
The remaining ones are living the island heading for the observations headquarter. There they start to review the already filmed material and it dawns on them that there has to be a doppelgänger of one of them. What they are not recognizing is that they are still observed.
In consequence of what they have seen Solo disappears and Vera follows him back to the island Isola, they are leaving the other alone at the smaller island.
Ich weiß nicht wie oft ich dieses Buch in den vergangenen Jahren gelesen habe - oft soviel ist sicher.
Das Buch ist in einer leicht lesbaren Ich-Perspektive geschrieben, die Sätze sind kurz und prägnant, die Zeit fliegt beim Lesen nur so an einem vorbei und man vergisst alles andere. Der Leser stürzt Hals über Kopf in diese Geschichte und fiebert von Anfang an mit.
Es handelt sich teilweise um ein mittlerweile gut bekanntes Setting, eine Gruppe verbringt Zeit an einem einsamen Ort und wird Tag und Nacht gefilmt.
Vera erzählt in einer Rückblende, die gleichzeitig sehr real und gegenwärtig wirkt, von ihrer Reise auf eine einsame Insel vor der brasilianischen Küste. Vera selbst heisst eigentlich Joy und wurde in Brasilien geboren, lebt aber seit ihrem zweiten Lebensjahr in Deutschland. Für ein Filmprojekt reist sie mit elf anderen Jugendlichen für drei Wochen auf diese eine einsame Insel auf der sie Tag und Nacht gefilmt werden sollen. Für dieses Projekt mussten alle neue Namen annehmen.
Schon bei ihrem ersten Zusammentreffen am Flughafen in Brasilien beginnt sich eine eigene Geschichte zwischen Vera und Solo zu entfalten, doch auch diese Geschichte ist wie alles andere voller Hindernisse.
Auf die Insel darf jeder drei Dinge mitnehmen. Dabei offenbart sich wie unterschiedlich und vor allem eigen all die Teilnehmer sind. Vera hat unteranderem ein Foto ihrer brasilianischen Schwester dabei. Andere haben Instrumente, ihren Hund, verstorbene Haustiere, Messer, Malsachen, Kondome oder eine Gummipuppe mit.
Unangekündigter Weise wird ein Spiel eingeführt, in dem ein Mörder nach und nach seine Opfer von der Insel schickt. Die Auswahl findet per Losverfahren statt. Es darf bei diesem Spiel keine Gewalt angewendet werden, wenn doch droht, wie bei dem Bruch aller andren regeln, der Abbruch des Filmprojekts.
Im Text finden sich Zwischenparts in denen der Regisseur zu sprechen scheint. Die Person beschreibt, wie sie die Teilnehmer beobachtet. Beim lesen dieser Parts läuft s einem kalt den Rücken hinab, sie sind so voyeuristisch gehalten.
Nach und nach verlassen Teilnehmer die Insel.
Die regeln werden gebrochen, doch das Projekt wird nicht abgebrochen.
Eine Party in einer Höhle eskaliert.
Das spiel wird aufgedeckt als zwei der jugendlichen verschwinden und dann taucht einer der übriggebliebenen tot wieder auf.
Die Übriggebliebene machen sich voller Angst auf den weg zur Insel der Überwacher, doch auch dort werden sie überwacht. Sie erhalten Einblick in die Geschehnisse auf der Insel als sie das Filmmaterial sichten.
Es wird klar, dass es die ganze zeit über einen doppelgänger gegeben haben muss.
Auf einmal verschwindet Solo und Vera, die sicher ist, dass er wieder auf der Insel ist, folgt ihm. Sie lassen die anderen auf der kleineren Insel zurück.
Feminist Fantasy Book Rec
For @i-mindtraveller and @ladyknightkel. These are all authors who write high fantasy. Edit: for @logarithmicpanda and @heretherebebooks as well!!!
Gail Carson Levine: Her books are aimed a little more towards children, but they are timeless to me. She has a lot of fairy tale retellings as well as some original stories as well.
Robin McKinley: Most of her books are fairy tale retellings, but she has some original tales as well. She also has some more urban fantasy books as well. (just read her books already, you won’t regret it)
Tamora Pierce: She writes in two worlds and features a variety of female protagonists, including WOC and queer woman. Each protagonist has an entire series in the Tortall books.
Kristen Cashore: Her Graceling trilogy is gold. Features important female friendships, along with central WOC and queer women.
Malinda Lo: Lesbians and bisexual women are all her main characters. Lots of wlw, which we always need more of.
Sabaa Tahir: A high fantasy world that is not based on a European setting, with an awesome female villain and an anti hero as well as protagonist.
Kiersten White: Ok, so she has a really wide variety of books, but Illusions of Fate totally belongs on this list. A WOC is the protagonist and features an awesome female relationship.
Cinda Williams Chima: Her Seven Realms series follows two protagonists, one the crown princess of her kingdom. She’s also a WOC.
Leigh Bardugo: Two high fantasy series set in the same world, with a really interesting magic system. Lots of female friendships, WOC, and queer representation as well.
Livia Blackburn: Another series not set in a monarchy. Also thieves. And WOC.
Sarah J. Maas: If you’re in Tumblr, I’m assuming you have heard of her. She has a series about a female assassin and another that is a retelling of Beauty and the Beats with faeries.
V. E. Schwab: I’ve only read A Gathering of Shadows, but it’s about parallel universes and I love the female protagonist.
Feel free to add more to the list or ask me any questions and happy reading!!!
Books by @shiraglassman (Shira Glassman) particularly the Mangoverse series which features a queen who is a Jewish lesbian woman of color and various other lgbtiqa+ characters.
I also really love the Spiritwalker trilogy by Kate Elliott (Cold Magic, Cold Fire, and Cold Steel) which features two women characters – it is primarily centered around the woman named Cat, but she is very close (technically cousins, but almost like very close sisters) to a second woman character named Bee. They spend a lot of story time together. And they also spend a lot of story time apart. But it is clear that, even when they’re apart, Bee is still having her own series of awesome adventures. This also has a lot of PoC characters.
You know what would be great?
My own universe full of books, but I’m still young so I’m just in the first steps of building it.
And you can be part of it. I’ll, step by step, write about all the books I have and I can recommend for diverse reasons. So just have a look every now and than and I’ll remember you either of a book you read once and forgot or you know very well or you’ve never read and maybe you will read in the near future.
So let’s get started.