Hotel Transylvania 2
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Making a Market for Acts of God: The Practice of Risk Trading in the Global Reinsurance Industry
Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek and Paul Spee
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Reinsurance is a financial market that trades in the risk of unpredictable and devastating disasters...
The Gatekeeper on the Docks
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Nigel isn’t finding his work particularly fulfilling these days. Being a Gatekeeper to the dead...
Intimate Geography: Selected Poems 1991-2010
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Jennifer Maiden's "Intimate Geography" charts territory both personal and political, private and...
Rent Unmasked: How to Save the Global Economy and Build a Sustainable Future
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Rent Unmasked explores the new economic paradigm that policy-makers need to solve global problems in...
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
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Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic...
Kristy H (1252 KP) rated Love, Hate, and Other Filters in Books
Apr 15, 2021
Maya Aziz feels like she lives two lives. In one, she's the dutiful daughter to her Indian Muslim parents: attending college near home, marrying a suitable Muslim boy, and becoming a lawyer. In the other, she goes to school in New York City to become a filmmaker and falls in love with whomever she wants--maybe even Phil, the boy she's loved forever. And in Maya's real world, horrible things happen, often hate crime motivated, that can turn her world upside down.
This is such a beautiful book, and I completely fell in love with Maya and her voice. As the child of the only Indian Muslim family in her small suburban Chicago town, she's always felt different. She dreams of making films, not conforming the way her parents desire. But she also wants to please them. And she's scared, as she deals with all the terrible bigotry and Islamophobia that her family faces.
Ahmed writes so lyrically, weaving her story about Maya finding her way in the world, while still painting a stark and timely picture of racism. It's a bit of a love story, yes, but also one of discovering yourself and finding strength in yourself and the people around you. Maya and Phil's relationship is sweet, and it's so easy to root for her on all levels.
I found this to be a profound read. In many ways, it's simply about a teenager trying to stand up for herself, but it also speaks deeply about Islamophobia. It's often sad, but it's quite hopeful too. I found myself tearing up a bit while reading. Definitely worth a read. 4.5 stars.
ClareR (5996 KP) rated Gun Island in Books
May 21, 2021
Deen Datta certainly gets around on his journey. From New York where he lives, to the Sunderbans in India, then onto a California on fire and a more flooded than usual Venice. This could have been a book that preached about the perils of climate change, but it didn’t. It did lay the stark reality out for the reader, but this was just as much a part of the story as the relationships Deen has with the people he meets, and his friends. There is a real feeling that Deen doesn’t have a firm identity: he’s detached from his Bengali roots, and he doesn’t fit in to New York either. But I think he does feel a sense of belonging by the end of the book, with the help of his friends. Cinta, a Venetian, is an old friend, and someone who always seems to push him into doing what’s good for him. Then there are his Indian friends, Piya and Tipu who help him to learn new things about himself and the world he lives in.
I loved this book. It ticked a lot of boxes on my favourite themes list: the environment, India, history, folklore, the search for identity. It’s such a thought provoking, magical novel.
Weather Gods
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Meet the Gods: Fire, Ice, Water, Air & Moon delivering you the Weather as you have never experienced...
Pang Adventures
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