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The Darling | Russell Banks
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Pickpick

This one starts by exploring Hannah‘s life on her farm in upstate NY, in a sort of female enclave, then moves back to her years in Liberia as a younger person as the country moves steadily toward war. She‘s a complex character, which I really liked, and it was interesting watching a white American navigate an African country with all the privilege she retains. (My copy half-eaten by my dearly departed Gunther, but still readable!)

BarbaraBB ❤️ 1w
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Sparklemn
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I love Parks & Rec, and Retta has some of the best lines. I liked the audiobook. She is a funny, intelligent person. Not sure it would have been as enjoyable in print. Definitely a pick if you're a fan or just enjoy an entertaining memoir. Her essay with the list of examples of her laziness was very relatable...as I sit ignoring my messy house to watch baseball and screw around on my laptop. I accept my failings. 💻 ⚾ 😅

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5feet.of.fury I audiobooked this and loved it too. She‘s hilarious 12mo
Susanita I love her on The Ugliest House in America. Her facial expressions are priceless! 12mo
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BarbaraBB
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#12BooksOf2022

My May favorite was my favorite #ReadingAfrica2022 read as well. I loved that challenge and highly recommend the book!

Andrew65 Not read this one. Stacked. 1y
Deblovestoread Highly recommended = stacked! 1y
BarbaraBB @Andrew65 @Deblovestoread Thanks for trusting my judgment. It really is very good. 1y
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Andrew65 Now frantically trying to research books for #ReadingTheAmericas2023 1y
Currey Loved this book also! 1y
PaperbackPirate Such a good book! 1y
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Texreader
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At the time Gbowee wrote this autobiography, she apparently didn‘t know she was being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and won it in 2011. I didn‘t know it until I finished the book and googled her to see what she has done since. Talk about a woman who pulled herself up by the bootstraps—she is it. She grew up in a fairly stable #Liberia until she turned 17, when the first of its civil wars began. She married young to a fierce abuser ⬇️

Texreader who fathered 4 of her children, at which point she finally left him. Depressed in a world that offered no hope, she finally devoted her life to organizing women in the face of the worst odds to bring peace to her country and all of Africa. I felt it was a bit self-aggrandizing at times, but then hey, she earned the Nobel Peace Prize so I agreed she deserved to recognize herself & her worth. My 2nd to last country for #readingafrica2022! 1y
Bookwormjillk Wow, what do you have left? 1y
Texreader @Bookwormjillk The island of São Tomé and Principe 1y
Librarybelle You are so close to finishing! Well done!!! 1y
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Texreader
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Speaking about refugees from war-torn Sierra Leone:

“Even if you‘re poor and struggling, you don‘t kick out someone who comes to your house in need.”

#Liberia #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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Texreader
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#wondrouswednesday

1) Nowhere Bookstore—it‘s become my go-to store for the most part since it‘s in my neighborhood
2) “Monsen Mega Book and Craft Store”
3) Tagged

Eggs Love #2😀 1y
kspenmoll Lucky! A bookstore in your neighborhood! 1y
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I started this last night getting ready to roll back into non-#scarathlon challenges. It‘s for #Liberia #readingsfrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB But I‘m also counting it for appropriate challenges for #teamslaughter @Clwojick @StayCurious and #20in4 @Andrew65

Andrew65 I still need to get to Liberia for #ReadingAfrica2022 1y
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Cinfhen
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I picked this up months ago for #ReadingAfrica22 but somehow I didn‘t get around to listening until now. It‘s FANTASTIC!!! What a gripping medical story - the trajectory of the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa. I‘ve already read books for the three main countries #Guinea #SierraLeone and #Liberia - it also covers #DRCongo. With the knowledge we now have about Covid-19 this book is truly fascinating🤓

Bookwormjillk This is still on my list of want to reads for this year. 1y
Cinfhen I HIGHLY RECOMMEND @Bookwormjillk and the audio is excellent 🙌🏻‼️ 1y
Bookzombie Was your narrator Ray Porter? He is great. I read this in January 2020. @Reggie and I had a conversation about how we weren‘t ready for an epidemic here. Crazy timing. 1y
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Cinfhen Yes @Bookzombie the narrator is Ray Porter🙌🏻 and how crazy that you & @Reggie read this in Jan 2020! I can‘t imagine reading this BEFORE Covid - I think I would have FREAKED OUT 🤯 1y
Cinfhen I‘m shocked by how many careless “mistakes” the Ebola experts made @Bookzombie - not passing judgment but just scary how hard it must have been to stop the spread 1y
julesG @Bookwormjillk Same! I steered clear because of Covid so far. I love learning about epidemics and viruses, but with the pandemic around I just couldn't read it. 1y
Reggie @Bookzombie that was kinda crazy timing, lol. How‘s Indiana? Ya‘ll are in the Big10 now. You have to be Hoosiers fans I think. 1y
BarbaraBB I should read this! 1y
Librarybelle I should read this too! 1y
Megabooks Tag me in your review because I am very interested!! 1y
Bookzombie @Cinfhen It‘s hard to not judge in hindsight. I can‘t imagine what it would really be like to try to stop the spread of Ebola or even being on the front line of Covid. 1y
Bookzombie @Reggie It‘s good. We really like the area we are in. Starting to have cooler weather and I‘m loving the leaves changing color. If being a sports fan is a requirement, we are screwed. 😂 How are you doing? 1y
Reggie Yeah,lol, normal season changes are nice, right? I‘m good. I just saw Halloween Ends last night and it was sooooo good. I loved it. Also, I really only follow 2 sports, womens gymnastics and womens ncaa volleyball. And Indiana‘s conference is tough. Like 5 of the top ten are in that conference. Lol 1y
Cinfhen Glad to hear you‘re settling in @Bookzombie ❤️ 1y
Cinfhen DEFINITELY read this @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle @julesG @Megabooks I have about 3 hours to go on audio - it reads like a medical thriller!! And I think it‘s a bit less frightening as we‘ve now all lived through a pandemic. 1y
Megabooks @Reggie I‘m an ncaa gymnastics fan too! Mainly Florida, but I watch other teams too. The SEC is such a great conference for gymnastics. We get some Big 10 coverage here too, but I mainly like the SEC for gym. I feel like Oklahoma is overrated and UF was robbed at last year‘s championship. Bitter, I know. Anyway… 1y
Bookzombie @Reggie They are! I need to see the Halloween movie before this one still. I‘m off for a couple of days so maybe I will get caught up there. Those are two sports I could into. 🙂 1y
Bookzombie @Cinfhen Thank you! 💕 1y
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Erin.Elizabeth10
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Y‘all, I started this book in January and I finally finished it. I‘ve just taken a lot of breaks, but I finally got so tired of it on my shelf I pushed to finish it. It wasn‘t a DNF because the writing itself is so good. As in, the words, description, and style. The book is really hard to get through. The story is confusing and convoluted. There are too many characters. The magical realism doesn‘t quite land. Overall, great writing, but hard book.

Erin.Elizabeth10 I will say, the story is loosely based on the founding of Liberia, and that was all new to me and very interesting. So I am inspired to go read a history book about it. But this book was just too slow and confusing overall. 2y
Suet624 It‘s in my shelf and I just haven‘t be inspired to read it. 2y
Erin.Elizabeth10 @Suet624 Yeah 😕 if you were going to read it, I‘d say to pick a time when you have plenty of time and don‘t mind if it‘s a slower, complex read. I wanted to like it, and the writing and history are interesting, but there is just too much going on, it didn‘t work well for me. 2y
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