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What in the JK Rowling bullshit is this

Yeah this is officially a hate read. The pompousnes..the nitpicking of historical and myth to fit this very narrow view of how a person is supposed to be post menopause. And the basic misunderstanding of that menopause is literally one day of your life when you haven't have a period for 1 year. It's not a life phase. There's still 75% left. Maybe I'll be surprised..?

Jfc. "A series of unfortunate events led to the Beothuk demise. While some historians hint at a possible genocide, no such thing happened. Smallpox and tubereulos were the biggest stalkers, followed by starvation caused by a lack of ac cess to traditional coastal fishing, tailed by "sport hunting" by murderous settlers."

Timothy. That's genocide.

Maybe don't villainize hormone therapy that can absolutely alleviate and help people who go through peri and menopause?

DAMMIT TIMOTHY. "THE" Ukraine again? You wrote this in 2019. Get your shit together.

THE Ukraine? Fuck you Timothy.


Also. It's Kiyv Rus. Not "Kievan" and "Rus." They're not two separate things. Literally basic google search.

Found the first obvious spelling mistake. Trying to see how far I'll get in this book since so many folks have hated it and/or dnf-ed it 😂

The mistake was using "course" when she meant "coarse" btw

"No matter how bleak it got, surviving in a country that disdained them was better than starving to death with pride."

People really are obtuse about what the immigrant experience is but this quote made me think of whenever people ask, "well why don't you just go back to your country if you don't like how you're treated".

Some people literally can't Karen. They with wither and die.

"israel knows there is little to be won from war" -2018

LOOLLLLLLLLLL

Up until now the book was actually critical of this occupation force. But that one threw me for a loop.

Fuuuuuuuck Facebook, Fuck Sheryl, Fuck Joel. Nasty pieces of shit.

I. Hate. Missionaries.

As someone in public health, I already had a poor view of missionary but fkn hell..

The way our taxes have been misused to fill the pockets of all those deigned to kiss the proverbial asses of Hillary and Bill Clinton cocks is wild [instead of going to the Haitian people].

This book has been quite *de-programming* for someone in public health. I tended to think of orgs like USAID and UN and World Bank as large scale social good entities but really, they are not impervious to political corruption.

"Clippy is a c*nt" ☠️☠️☠️

The dig at how awful Kanye is (and always was) in this intergalactic music contest 💀👽

This book would have been very insightful had I read it in 2017.. reading it now makes it's outdatedness very apparent.

It's weird to have him wax poetic how war and pestilence no longer plague people when millions have died from Covid and war claims the lives in Ukraine while genocide is annhiliating the Palestinian people.

If I hear "my father said I was always going to get shit" one more time....

This might be a DNF.. it's started out so patronizing and the intro by Sinek was creepily insistent that if we just went to church we'd be better (gag). We'll see..

Going to be a book I recommend to everyone. To know and understand how dictators are born in the modern era - and how Facebook/Instagram is a key instigator - is an essential skill.

I'm finding this to be a relatively useful read but the way she idolizes the presidents (especially Bush and Clinton) makes me gag.

I'm enjoying this read but these extra long single character pov chapters - the pov that we don't come back to - are hard. You almost forget what's been said from the other povs.

So far we have:
- slut shamed
- fat shamed
- abortion shamed

Might need to put this audio at 2x speed and make it a hate listen.

Would be so cool if men could write one sci-fi or fantasy book without either incest or 15yo children having sex with old dudes.

The spice in this is so vague I couldn't tell what happened until it's randomly mentioned a chapter later. But the romance 🤌🏻🤌🏻

I'm not saying it's a bad thing, could in fact be considered very soothing and peaceful, but the first fifth of this book is just building a coffee house.

Honestly not sure if I will get past 25% of this book. It's so anti-science and lots of anti-pill and veiled pro-birthing messages sprinkled through it kind of makes me gag. I've never not finished books I've started, but this drivel might be my first time.