Title: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Author: Lisa See
My Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐ (.5)
Why I gave this rating: This book definitely takes some time to get into. In fact, about 50 pages in I was ready to throw my phone on the train I was so mad about what I was reading. I hate saying backwards way of thinking when describing different cultures, but this was as backwards as it got. Made me so frustrated how they treated people especially women. And it wasn’t even like it was many years ago. The book is set between 1980 -2016. However, after getting past those pages and just rolling my eyes when reading something I didn’t agree with, I came to really enjoy this book. A book that had me googling so much to learn more about the hill people minorities in China. It’s a book that definitely makes you think about how other people see the world.
People who would like this: People wanting to read about an unpopular minority group. Historical fiction set in China. Unique Read.
Favorite Quote: “Suffering has brought clarity into my life. Maybe the things that have happened to me are punishment for what I did in a previous life, maybe they were fate or destiny, and maybe they’re all just part of a natural cycle – like the short but spectacular lives of cherry blossoms in spring or leaves falling away in autumn”.
Title: Between the World and Me
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
My Rating:⭐⭐⭐
Why I gave this rating: I think this is a book everyone should read in their life. It’s only about 180 pages but its 180 pages filled with some powerful writing. It takes on race and opens the readers eyes to a lot of different situations the black community faces. Ta-Nehisi has some very powerful words that is for sure. The style of this book is written almost in a diary format to one of his kids.
People who would like this: People wanting to read more about race. Non Fiction fans.
Favorite Quote: “You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance—no matter how improved—as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children. Our triumphs can never compensate for this”.
Title: A History of Wild Places
Author: Shea Ernshaw
My Rating:⭐
Why I gave this rating: This book is weird. But not in like a good way. Like a WTF did I just read kind of weird. I made it 100 pages before I just gave up. I couldn’t even find the plot online but I didn’t really care. I was just annoyed with the writing of this book. The fact that I didn’t care to even find out the end of the mystery shows how much I didn’t like this book. Don’t have anything else to say.
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