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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

by Suzanne Collins

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Victoria said: " I first read this over a decade ago and, as with most books, it definitely hits differently reading it again at an older age. Not to mention reading it in the terrible, horrible, no good year of 2020. It's so hard to remember what I originally though I first read this over a decade ago and, as with most books, it definitely hits differently reading it again at an older age. Not to mention reading it in the terrible, horrible, no good year of 2020. It's so hard to remember what I originally thought of this book when it first came out and while I'd love to give 18/19-year-old me more credit, I suspect I missed some of the nuances of what Collins was doing here. Unlike many of the dystopian heroines who came after her, Katniss is not a born rebel. She just wants to survive. You see this in her conversations with Gale and Peeta, and consistently during the games. The moments when she does openly rebel come only when she's pushed to her very limits. That's part of what makes her journey throughout the series from scrappy survivor to open fighter so compelling.

Collins has so many critiques packed in here it's hard to catch them all. She excoriates the prevalence of tragedy porn in our modern world and sees it to its darkly inevitable end. She critiques the reality that geography plays an irreversible role in a child's success, calls out the exploitation of workers, points out how agricultural communities are often the first to starve, and so so much more. There's even a fascinating commentary on romance in pop culture that I wish I had the brainpower to fully tease out.

I think the series has been so whitewashed over time (by the movies, by everything that borrowed from it later on) that I had forgotten how brutal this book really is. In a lot of ways, I think it's a stroke of brilliance that The Hunger Games was even written as a young adult novel. Its content is so contrary to what most people think of as YA these days but, much like novels like Room, using a young person to expose the brutality of society is a masterstroke. Particularly as an adult, reading how Katniss just accepts so much about the tragic state of the world around her is heartbreaking.

Ultimately, I could ramble on for ages about this book so I'm going to stop now and just say that it holds up. And that very little of the dystopia fiction that followed comes close to living up to how good THG is. ...more "

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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

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The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike, #6) by Robert Galbraith

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Robin went to the bar and Strike, realising he was grinning foolishly, consciously repressed his smile. He could still feel the warm shape of Robin’s body, pressed briefly against him.

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“I did the same thing, with Matthew. I did exactly that. Painted in the gaps the way I’d have liked them to be. Believed in Higher-Level Truths to explain away the bullshit. “He doesn’t really mean it.” “He isn’t really like that.” And, oh my God, the evidence was staring me in the face, and I bloody married him – and regretted it within an hour of him putting the ring on my finger.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave

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“it occurred to Strike that his sister’s determination to cling to stability and her notion of normality, her iron-clad refusal to dwell endlessly on the awful possibilities of human behaviour, was a form of extraordinary courage.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave

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“They make a good couple,’ said Pat complacently.

‘We’ll see,’ said Strike.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave

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“Wace's charm and ease of manner, his smile, his warmth, had vanished. Once before, Strike had faced a killer whose eyes, under the stress and excitement of hearing his crimes described, had become as black and blank as those of a shark, and now he saw the phenomenon again: Wace's eyes might have turned into empty boreholes.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave

tags: mask-of-sanity, psycopathy, sociopathy

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“A stab of cold shock, an electric charge to the brain: Robin couldn’t quite believe what she’d just heard. The passing seconds seemed to slow. She waited for Strike to say ‘which was her spite, obviously,’ or, ‘because she never understood that a man and a woman could just be friends’, or to make a joke. Yet he said nothing to defuse the grenade he’d just thrown, but simply looked at her.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave

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