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Such a Pretty Smile
- A Novel
- De: Kristi DeMeester
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 68
2019: Thirteen-year-old Lila Sawyer has secrets she can’t share with anyone. Not the school psychologist she’s seeing. Not her father, who has a new wife, and a new baby. And not her mother - the infamous Caroline Sawyer, a unique artist whose eerie sculptures, made from bent twigs and crimped leaves, have made her a local celebrity. But soon Lila feels haunted from within, terrorized by a delicious evil that shows her how to find her voice - until she is punished for using it.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Worst book I’ve read in a while
- De Amazon Customer en 02-04-22
- Such a Pretty Smile
- A Novel
- De: Kristi DeMeester
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam
An EVERY woman's declaration
Revisado: 02-08-22
I personally loved it. As a bisexual WOC who has struggled with SMIs (serious mental illnesses) all her life, I can relate to every emotion, every situation, every slight...all those passive-aggressive actions and words the protagonists experienced.
We live in a Patriarchal dominant society that has very blatant, along with more subversive, expectations and stigmas. If a female is not willing to fit within those invisible boundaries, that "pretty little box", she will ultimately suffer the consequences.
In my opinion, this is a wake-up call, as clear as any Feminist Manifesto (that also calls out the racism, classicism, ableism, anti-LGBTQI+, etc.) that is a collective blight on our society.
Bravo, Ms. DeMeester. I shall definitely follow your writing career.
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Caste
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- De: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 20,857
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18,127
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 17,993
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant, articulate, highly listenable.
- De GM en 08-05-20
- Caste
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- De: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
THIS is what social awareness is all about!
Revisado: 08-11-21
THIS is that piece of literature...not to be speedily read, quickly absorbed...and then moved on from. Oh, no, no! This gem by Isabel Wilkerson (which was so deftly, so faithfully, and so artistically narrated by the indomitable Robin Miles!) is literary genius from cover-to-cover.
Even the side stories, which seem almost impossible to connect to the main theme(s) have their proper place...like Aesop's fables, you will be struck by an a-ha moment, an epiphany of realization. And even if this is not YOUR personal history, unless whatever sympathetic and/or empathetic part of your soul has perished, you WILL "get it" once Ms. Wilkerson is finished.
Bravissimo, Ms. Wilkerson & Ms. Miles!
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