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a worthwhile read

Revisado: 05-02-25

Collins goes back to the well and come up with a relatively full bucket of meaningful and worthwhile story. This tale helps the reader understand Haymitch's tortured personality and role as cantankerous agitator. The bucket is almost entirely full, diminished only by a bit of over reliance on connecting all characters over so many decades

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Heart-wrenching and Hopeful Story

Revisado: 02-07-23

I first met Cilka in the Tatooist of Auschwitz. Her bravery and complexity was intriguing.

In this fictionalized exploration of her journey, imagined between facts, Heather Morris explores that bravery and complexity further.

We follow Cilka from Auschwitz to a Russian Gulag, where she is unfairly imprisoned for the way she survived the German death camps.

I am inspired by her strength that is shown in stark relief to the depravity she faces.

Morris pens a story that feels true, and certainly captures the experiences of many.

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Anchor in Christ and leave space for all

Revisado: 07-13-21

This book spoke to my soul. It reminded me that the gospel of Jesus Christ is about welcoming all to the table .

It also reminds me that the savior's admonition to not judge, means to not label, not condemn, not speculate as to why someone's faith journey is different than mine it is different than mine.

it reminded me to listen and love

this is a must read for every member of the the LDS church.

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challenging, thought provoking

Revisado: 06-17-21

As I listened to and,sometimes, read this biok, I found myself sometimes feeling indicted, sometimes angry, sometimes depressed at the caste we have created. yes, I sometimes found myself arguing with the author, but always wondering how if I was simply defending my place in the hierarchy.


Wilkerson masterfully explores the origin, development, and impact of racial hierarchy. she weaves personal experiences with headlines.

she unequivocally shows that caste lives in America.

she inspires me to do something about it, starting with me and extending to breaking down barriers.

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personal and powerful

Revisado: 11-19-19

Maledoma shares his intimate initiation, purging himself of how captivity and entering a world where magic and spirit are common and the. beckons us to join him. to find our path in our past so that we can survive and thrive in our future. this, being The Abridged version, it was too short, and I am intrigued to read the whole book, but this glimpse, provides powerful testimony of the importance of ritual, ceremony, myth, and connection to our past for the modern world

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Fascinating and wel told, if not a little fanciful

Revisado: 10-04-19

Like most westerners, I suppose, I know very little of Mongolia, beyond the name, and beyond the name of Genghis Khan. This book does shed light on, not just Mongolia, but the greater Trend in our society, to erase powerful women, and replace the story with men and victors.

The epilogue actually made the book for me as the author draws threads from the Mongolian steppe throughout the world. He makes a compelling case for Mongolian influence throughout the west, and specifically of Mongol queens.

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dark, deep, and Lasting

Revisado: 09-08-19

this book is haunting and harrowing. the narrator is unreliable but the images he describes are powerful that point yet. I love how the narrator gives magical purpose to the horrors he sees, and how people are the stones that bear the Chronicles.

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enjoyable and affirming if not earth shattering

Revisado: 08-30-19

having read a lot of leadership and self-help books, I'd say this is in the upper third. Enjoyable and helpful and easy to digest and implement. as I listened to it, I kept thinking "you know that's right" which gave me conviction and motivation to make some necessary endings. I'm not sure that they contain anything new, but the framework is helpful

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I feel battered and bruised

Revisado: 08-22-19

I finished this book, because, dang it, I finish what I start. But it was a slog. I felt like I was pushing through an endless sorghum field being randomly battered by criminals hiding in the thick. The writing is vivid and powerful, but the story, and the pain, and the violence, and the utter lack of Hope, leave me feeling tired, with no desire to revisit the story or the pages. I appreciate the look into pre war, post war, pre revolution, post revolution China, but I couldn't lose myself in the pages. it's been since I read Love in the Time of Cholera that I just felt relief at getting to the end of a book, rather than pleasure and accomplishment. I do appreciate the rich symbolism. the red sorghum is at once the source of the family's income, a setting for their pain, and a symbol for their loss. But my overwhelming feeling is relief at being done, and I'm not going back

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I am conflicted

Revisado: 06-26-19

are you kidding me?!? I found myself yelling at the narrator at the End of This Book. this book is an emotional, compelling, and visceral crime novel, gritty and Stark and dark. it is a departure from american crime novels, set in an idyllic Polish town miles and Worlds Away from Warsaw. Theodore, the main character, is sympathetic and believable, and at the end pitiable. I won't spoil it, but I am seriously conflicted by the end. Hence the drop of a star. also, don't love the sex and swearing, but it does fit in the gritty setting

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