🇮🇱 Israel
Region: Middle East
Freefall
Author: Anne Levine
256 pages, published 2008
Original language: English
Native author? Yes
Age: Teen
Blurb:
What would your life be like if military service was compulsory, not voluntary?
Aggie is eighteen and getting ready to do her service for the Israeli Army. She could get a cushy assignment—maybe pushing paper somewhere—or she could just take her chances. Only, Aggie isn't like that. Despite her small size and the fact that she needs to gain weight to even make the grade, and despite the total disbelief of her entire family (except her grandmother, who is an old freedom fighter and don't you forget it), Aggie is trying out for an elite combat unit.
Other reps: #jewish
Genres: #contemporary #romance #adventure
My thoughts:
With both Israel and Palestine (though this could be said for many other countries with human rights or genocide issues, the US included!), it was a decision to choose either a book highlighting the conflicts there or one that falls outside it. Since on one hand, it is important to acknowledge such things, but also ultimately it is not the fault of teenagers growing up there, who are faced with things like compulsory military service. So the book above is completely non-political according to reviews. For something looking at deeper issues, try Real Time by Pnina Moed Kass.
Review to come.
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Speaking of BioShock Infinite, have I ever told you about that time I made a timeline of the BioShock series?
Tumblr made the image smaller so I’ve uploaded the original here :)
It’s far from being exhaustive because the reason I drew this in the first place was to make sure I really understood Infinite (the ending, especially) and Burial at Sea, so only the most significant and/or pivotal events are featured here. I later added some stuff from the other two games and the Minerva’s Den DLC after playing them. However, the novel BioShock: Rapture isn’t included because I haven’t read it (and it seems it’s generally not considered canon anyway).
I made this 8 years ago (with Paint, haha) but very recently translated it and made some adjustments so I could post it! I didn’t check everything I wrote because it’s been a while since I’ve really thought about the lore of BioShock, so I decided to trust my 2015 self and assume she knew what she was doing :’)
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my bioshock headcanons (and canons) pt.1
(should have clarified this, the ages they are all at the time of 1960, or the time they died. so grace, gil, delta, sinclair are not as old as i think they would be by the time bioshock 2 takes place.)
andrew ryan
jewish - belarusian - russian
6'0 · 54 · 1906/01/26
bisexual (heavy f lean) neutral
sander cohen
jewish - american - czech
5'9 · 53 · 1907/07/12
homosexual ally/phobic
brigid tenenbaum
jewish - belarusian - german
5'4 · 32-35 · 192(5-8)/08/08
asexual aromatic lesbian ally
j.s. steinmann
jewish - american - german
6'1 · 49 · 1911/04/30
heteroflexible ally
frank fontaine
american - italian
5'8 · 42 · 1918/03/15
heteroflexible neutral
sofia lamb
british
6'3 · 48 · 1912/09/23
asexual aromatic ally
(deems love stupid)
augustus sinclair, esquire
panamanian - british - cuban
5'6 · 46 · 1914/07/28
pansexual ally
yi suchong
korean
5'6 · 52 · 1908/12/16
homosexual phobic
gilbert (gil) alexander
polish - romanian
6'4 · 36 · 1924/11/05
homosexual ally
grace halloway
brazilian - american
5'8 · 33 · 1927/11/07
heterosexual ally
anna culpepper
argentinian - caribbean
5'5 · 26 · 1933/09/09
heterosexual ally
reginald (reggie) furey
american - irish
6'3 · 53 · 1905/08/19
heterosexual neutral
jökull (johnny) sigrúnsson
icelandic - finnish
5'9 · 37 · 1923/06/23
bisexual ally
jack
jewish - belarusian - russian - dutch - swiss
6'4 · 4 · 1956/??/??
asexual aromantic ally
mary-catherine (jasmine) jolene
dutch - swiss
5'6 · 30 · 1929/04/30
heteroflexible ally
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It’s been 11 years since the release of Joe Wright's adaptation of the Russian classic, ‘Anna Karenina’.
Here is Domhnall Gleeson as Konstantin "Kostya" Dmitrievich Levin!
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