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She’s just a girl. Let her go.

Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

February 27, 2020 by Sophia Leave a Comment

There are so many books out there that I need to read, it’s overwhelming. Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao was one I’d found last year on NPR’s Best Books of 2018 List–but hadn’t gotten around to reading until now. This book was more difficult to read than I had expected. The unrelenting hardship and abuse would have been impossible to read except for the connection between the girls that keeps them hopeful for something better. Rao uses allegories and vivid language to create a story that was […]

“Even the wind…scattering you, because you are a girl, and because you are ash.”

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Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao

December 27, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

(5 stars) She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey This is a frustrating, angry-making book due entirely to the material — the writing itself is very well-done. But listening to hour after hour of the abuse suffered by women at the hands of powerful men made this a tough one to get through. I had to stop and take breaks from it multiple times. I just downloaded Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill as well, but I […]

It was always burning, since the world’s been turning

April 8, 2018 by yesknopemaybe Leave a Comment

4.5 stars. This book, this book, this book. Wowza. Whoever picked the title did a good job because this book lit a flame in me that still hasn’t gone out, even after moving on to other books. I did something I don’t usually do: read this audiobook and another audiobook at the same time. Not playing them at the same time obviously, but switching back and forth between them throughout my day. I can read more than one book at a time, they just usually […]

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