Litsy

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Domestic violence, depression, assault. This novel of varying formats expresses the trauma and hurt felt by two beothers as they try to survive their senior year. Thoughtful and heartwarming.

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xicanti

Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters | Maria Campbell, Kim Anderson, Christi Belcourt

Lunchtime nonfiction with Saki. Despite my little pal‘s glare, this is an important and insightful work that digs into the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls from academic, legal, and personal angles. (NB: it was published in 2017. More recent writing on the matter also includes two-spirit people.)

UwannaPublishme Aww! Great photo! Does Saki get along with Casey? 1mo

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1mo

xicanti @UwannaPublishme he and Casey probably won‘t meet, but he lives with two Border Collies and they‘re all great friends! 1mo

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hannah-leeloo

Fourth Wing | Rebecca Yarros

Just ordered my new reading mug lol, 40oz should be big enough 😅 love it 😍 #fourthwing #dragons #violence #xaden #violet

MissyD Love. Love. Love. 5mo

Meshell1313 Love! 😍😍 5mo

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ravenlee

On violence | Hannah Arendt

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This wasn‘t at all what I expected: it‘s largely a criticism of the state of the world that led to university uprisings/rebellions around the world in the 1960s. There‘s a lot of referring to works by other writers, both seminal (Engels) and contemporary (lots of late-1960s magazine/journal articles) without context or actual quotes (many of the quotes given aren‘t translated). This was my first Arendt and it was not a good starting point.

Clare-Dragonfly Oh wow. I hated it when texts I read for college had untranslated quotes. More than a decade out from that, I have even less patience for dense text! 12mo

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ravenlee

On violence | Hannah Arendt

I admit I‘m not following much of this so far, but this statement seems wildly prescient, especially given a publication date of 1970:
“…Western representative democracy(which is about to lose even its merely representative function to the huge party machines that ‘represent‘ not the party membership but its functionaries).”

Clare-Dragonfly Wow, 1970! I hadn‘t thought of the present-day political parties as “machines” like Tammany Hall before now, but it‘s so accurate. 12mo

ravenlee @Clare-Dragonfly I‘ve been following Heather Cox Richardson‘s political/historical daily news updates for the past few years, and she does an amazing job of putting current events into historical context. She‘s on Facebook and has a blog or listserve or something as well. If you don‘t read her already, I highly recommend it. 12mo

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cant_i'm_booked

A Behanding in Spokane | Martin McDonagh

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Full of dark and twisted humor, very Martin McDonagh-esque! A killer, after losing his hand on a Spokane railroad track, has been searching for years to recover it. His luck may be turning when he agrees to meet up at a small-town motel with a young couple who aver they have the missing hand. Makes me wish I could‘ve seen the actual play in 2010, starring Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell.

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