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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Catherine — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 07:52:22 +0000

I feel like a broken record for all the times since 2017 that I’ve said, “Important reading. Timely reading. Everyone should read.”, but here I am again. Not That Bad, with its essays from women around the world, talking about their experiences of rape, harassment, intimidation, and violence is the kind of reading that goes […]

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The Hate U Give

Catherine — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 08:30:56 +0000

On the surface Starr Carter is a normal sixteen-year-old girl. But look closely and you’ll see a young woman struggling to make it in two very different worlds. Her home is a poor, largely black neighborhood and both her parents work, but she goes to school at a private school where she is one of […]

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The Care and Management of Lies

Catherine — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 19:25:03 +0000

Thea and Kezia have been friends since childhood and have just finished college to begin their teaching careers in The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear. That is until Kezia decides to marry Thea’s brother Tom, leaving Thea feeling isolated and betrayed. While Kezia adapts to married life and being a farmer’s wife, Thea […]

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The World We Found

Catherine — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:02:46 +0000

College is the last stand for the enthusiasm and idealism of youth and for four friends in Bombay it was where they cemented the friendship they believed would last throughout their lives. Then the world stepped in and the passions of Laleh, Armaiti, Kavita, and Nishta gave way to the realities of life. It isn’t […]

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