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justzawe · 2 years
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candicec_w PEOPLE PERSON LAUNCH DUMP 2 ✨ A lot of love under one roof ✨ I didn’t have my phone on me so every single one of these pictures is stolen ✨ thank you
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higherentity · 1 year
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stonebutchooze · 2 years
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I can't help but get a lil annoyed when i see reviews of Queenie where I feel like people have missed the point, blaming Queenie's actions on her as "stupid decisions" as opposed to a symptom of her past trauma. Like, what I got from the book was that being a black woman comes with fetishization and unique discrimination that people around you enact even if they don't see themselves as racist, and it continually affects you. I feel like just seeing the book as a series of uninfluenced decisions someone has made is missing a key aspect.
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booksnotbombs · 1 year
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Wrap Up March 2023
❤️ As Good As Dead - Holly Jackson (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder #3) : yup, the third book and just as good as the other two! Couldn’t stop reading till the last page!
Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams : didn’t plan beforehand to take this with me from the library but stumbled upon it and gave it a try... this was a really nice read :)
❤️ Revenge of the Librarians - Tom Gauld : I immediately fell in love with this bookish cartoon book! Also the cover is so pretty with the red and gold! An absolute must have for book and library lovers and librarians!
Sapiens: A Graphic History V1 - Yuval Noah Harari : I tried the book years ago but gave up on it, but this graphic novel really works! It reads easily and the graphics and drawings are really fun!
Take A Hint, Dani Brown - Talia Hibbert : bought this secondhand... it was good but did not win me over completely...
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sunny-sez · 2 years
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#DRAWMYBOOKS May 2022
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz
“When I told fellow Chicagoans what I was doing, they each had their own notions about what should and shouldn’t be included, and they’d grumble and grouse. Inevitably they’d say, ‘How can you write a book about Chicago, and not write about…?’ Fill in the blank. Chicagoans are a possessive sort. They have set notions of how people ought to think of their home.” Oh Alex Kotlowitz, I must say that I am guilty as charged! I enjoyed reading this book and rate it 3 out of 5 stars, and cannot pretend that my rating is not because of the omissions of Very Important Chicago Places like The Original Rainbow Cone and DiCola’s Seafood. Another reason for my rating: this book was too short, and felt like an incomplete picture of the city. I could have used one hundred to two hundred more pages of different essays about Chicago and Chicagoans. Despite my two complaints, Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago is a well-written book that captures the feel of the city, and does not restrict itself to talking about just one overhyped, overrated side (cough cough North): “The truth is that the city’s imaginary borders can be as impenetrable as the Berlin Wall had been. A visiting friend once arrived at O’Hare airport and received a city map from a rental car agency; the map didn’t include the South Side.” I especially enjoyed reading and learning about Robert Guinan, a Chicago artist more known in France than in Chicago. A particularly funny story involves Guinan sketching a prostitute in a hotel and paying her for her time: “Guinan needed to return the next week to finish the drawing, and he asked Anita if they could get the same room. She simply told the clerk that she had a date who couldn’t ‘make it’ unless he was in the same room, a request that didn’t seem to fluster the man behind the desk.” Guinan also expresses some views on Chicago’s gentrification that had me nodding my head, too: “‘The image of Chicago is becoming self-conscious,’ he says. ‘Suddenly the mayor wants to clean it up, make it look like Anywhere, USA, with a lot of wrought-iron fences and flowers. Flowers in all the parking lots. There seems to be this need to homogenize the place. It was a city of neighborhoods but more and more it’s becoming…’ He doesn’t finish his thought. He doesn’t have to.” It is interesting to read this book and get a slice of Chicago life from 2004; it is exciting to see familiar and recognizable mainstays mentioned (Manny’s Cafeteria & Delicatessen), and sad to read about other beloved restaurants that have since closed (Edna’s). Most of all, it is validating to read a book where someone actually tries to capture how the whole city is, and doesn’t just write about the Cubs and call it a day: “Ordered and bedraggled. Excessive and austere. Familiar and foreign. An imperfect city, a city of quixotic quests and of reluctant resignation. A city that was, Algren once wrote, the product ‘of man’s endless war against himself.’” I recommend this book, especially to anyone looking to learn more about Chicago off the beaten path.
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Trigger warning: this book contains some sexual violence, as well as a brief medical description of its aftereffects on a woman’s body. Breakups are hard enough as it is, but they can be even more painful when the end of the relationship is ambiguous for one of the parties involved. This is the case for Queenie Jenkins, whose boyfriend Tom suggests they take a break when he really wants to break up completely. Queenie spends most of the book waiting in vain for Tom to change his mind, despite the fact that it is obvious to her friends and family members that the relationship is over: “‘He should be begging you to come back by now, fam,’ Kyazike said, shaking her head. I looked up at the sky even though the fireworks hadn’t started, willing the tears that were brimming to go back in my eyes.” Queenie also throws herself into a series of unfulfilling casual relationships during this time, which only serve to exacerbate her feelings of loneliness: “What was happening to me? I was meant to be taking this time to get better and to work on being a nice girlfriend so that when Tom and I reunited, I’d be normal; but instead, I was just having sex with everyone. This break isn’t going the way I thought it would. I wonder if Tom is suffering as much as I am? I hope so.” As a Jamaican British woman working at a newspaper, Queenie must also fight to have important topics like Black Lives Matter taken seriously by her white colleagues: “‘It’s not putting black lives on a pedestal, I don’t even know what that means,’ I said, my heart beating fast. ‘It’s saying that black lives, at this point, and historically, do not, and have not mattered, and that they should!’ I looked first at Gina, then around the room to see if anyone was going to back me up. Instead, I was met with what I’d been trying to pretend hadn’t always been a room full of white not-quite-liberals whose opinions, like their money, had been inherited.” I enjoy books like this, where a person’s life slowly spins out of control, and eventually they put it back together. If you also enjoy such books, I heartily recommend this book to you.
Vagina Obscura by Rachel E. Gross
When I began reading this book, I expected to learn a lot of information about vaginas, which I did; I was not expecting to laugh as much as I did. This book is frequently funny with sentences like these: “One of the first researchers to turn clitward was Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson.” In reference to a duck penis: “It looked like a deflated, flesh-colored Slinky in a jar.” “In March 2013, Brennan was in her office at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, checking her daily Google Alert for ‘duck genitalia.’” “‘I make vagina lollipops, Rachel,’ she told me in her lab, hunched over a dead snake. ‘This is what my life has come to.’” Laughter aside, this book was also packed with interesting information about vaginas. Take, for instance, this fact: “Altogether just 84 species—1.6 percent of all placental mammals—are known to menstruate.” Another: “In 1980, hysteria was finally deleted from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.” That’s NOT a typo meant to say 1880, unfortunately! Vagina Obscura supplied me with many opportunities to become frustrated with science’s limitations when it comes to women, too. It seems more dangerous than lopsided when a research facility is described in the book as “the only engineering lab in the nation to focus on endometriosis and a related yet even less known condition, adenomyosis.” I struggled with this sentence in particular, and keep furiously returning to it in my mind: “As a result, there are parts of your own body less known than the bottom of the ocean, or the surface of Mars.” There is a definite need for this kind of book in the world, and I hope more books about vaginas like this one are written and cherished.
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youritalianbookpal · 2 years
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"It's not putting black lives on a pedestal, I don't even know what that means," I said, my heart beating fast. "It's saying that black lives, at this point, and historically, do not, and have not mattered, and that they should!" I looked first at Gina, then around the room to see if anyone was going to back me up. Instead, I was met with what I'd been trying to pretend hadn't always been a room full of white not-quite-liberals whose opinions, like their money, had been inherited.
(Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie)
I think about this quote every day
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haveyoureadthispoll · 3 months
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Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?”—all of the questions today’s woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.
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veryslowreader · 9 months
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Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
You Don't Know Me: "Episode 3"
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“The road to recovery is not linear. It’s not straight. It’s a bumpy path, with lots of twists and turns. But you’re on the right track.”
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justzawe · 14 days
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Zawe in Candice Carty-Williams instagram story
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higherentity · 1 year
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cupofteajones · 2 years
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What I've Been Reading Lately: September 15
What I’ve Been Reading Lately: September 15
Welcome to What I’ve Been Reading Lately, a feature where I’ll be giving short reviews of what I’m currently reading: (more…)
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victorletras · 1 year
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andireads · 1 year
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People Person by Candice Carty-Williams
🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑 3.5/5
Teaser without spoilers: Cyril is not, nor will he ever be, father material. While consistently bouncing around, he has managed to have five children with four very different women. His children don’t know one another until he awkwardly brings them together for some ice cream during their adolescence. That was the first time all five of Cyril’s children were in the same room; the second time would be for a much darker reason. Would you trust the police to handle an intense situation? Or would you ask strangers who share your DNA for help instead?
Comments: This easy-read was not what I was expecting at all. Surely the back cover of the book has to keep some secrets yet capture the reader, but I really think the paragraph could have let some of the secrets go to better encapsulate the ride the reader was about to go on. The characters were a bit cliche and dry, but each served their purpose beautifully. There were many moments where I felt the author could have dived deeper, or expanded upon, the political themes that drove the plot forward. The backgrounds of these characters were important and I really think their emotions about trusting certain institutions was intriguing. All in all, I’m glad I picked this book up at my local library after seeing it on display at a bookstore! Great start to my 2023.
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