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Guy A. Person posted:So after breaking my record considerably last year I've decided to slow down my reading a bit for two reasons: This pretty much sums up my a lot of my thoughts on last year. I ended up not reading things I really wanted to read because I wanted to catch up on challenges and check off boxes. Name: cryptoclastic Personal challenge: more than one book Booklord 2021: some of it! How much remains to be seen. I will do the wildcard challenge later though, as the past couple of years have been pretty good.
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I read two books in January. 1. A Burning by Megha Majumdar This was for my local book club. We read Interior Chinatown, which won the National Book Award, and wanted to see what the competition was like. I feel I would get more from this if I knew more about the Indian system. I am pretty sure it was a commentary on the current administration. Not bad but nothing special. Class struggle and the selling out of one another to move up. 2. Mina by Kim Sagwa I first heard about this from the KBS daily news podcast that I listen to. It sounded interesting, so I had been looking for a copy for a while, but refused to buy it. I got my local library to order a copy, so I finally got to read it! I new it was a weird story about life for young people in Korea, but I didn’t know it was going to be as messed up as it was. At the same time, however, I was definitely reminded of many of my students while reading the book. The lack of concern for others was a real thing that I have seen time and time again among young people here, and there’s a general lack of apathy. Kids will have fun and get along with each other, but not actually care for their classmates. From the beginning, the end of the book was pretty much spelled out for you, but the path it took to get there was more and more sickening as things went on. None of these books fit any of the categories, but both are by non-white women!
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