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Marnanel Thurman

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Fascinated by language.

marnanel @ 2017-12-26T22:33:00

The Hate U Give The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


You've heard that Black Lives Matter. Let Angie Thomas show you why that's more than a slogan.

Content notes: racism, police violence, murder, death, riots, house fire.

Starr lives between two worlds: she lives in a largely black neighbourhood, but goes to a largely white school in the suburbs. When one of her closest friends is shot dead in Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.85 · 13 ratings · 3 reviews · 3 distinct works
Time Blew Away Like Dandeli...

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“I wonder if, from all those pairs of eyes, still, somewhere on this planet, I might find some reader with my poem in their mind.”
Thomas Thurman, Time blew away like dandelion seed

“How sweet the name of Cthulhu sounds”
Thomas Thurman, Time blew away like dandelion seed

“And then there was some writing on the base; I couldn't read it. It was hieroglyphs.”
Thomas Thurman, Time blew away like dandelion seed

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Ernest Hemingway

“The real question is, can we prevent the ignorant, the poor, the vicious, from filling the world with their children?”
Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12), Dresden Edition: Lectures

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