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charl08
Good Girl: A Novel | Aria Aber
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I was home neither in Rosenwald nor in Gropiusstadt. And like so many children before me, I became my own exile.

At school, the girls wore padded down jackets and boots I had seen only in equestrian ads. They knew how to ride horses and drank expensive water and used Dr. Hauschka products, which felt so expensive back then, I believed only millionaires could afford them. Longingly, I used a pump of their creams, inhaling that herbal scent.

BarbaraBB Dr Hauschka. She (somehow I‘ve always thought she‘s a woman) had been around for a long time! I used to love her rose hand cream 3d
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ChaoticMissAdventures
Good Girl: A Novel | Aria Aber
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Book 9 #WP25
This is a low pick for me. The last 100 pages were a bit of a struggle, I didn't want to pick it up and read more about her self destruction, but I was still interested in her life as an Afghani-German and what it was like as a German immigrant with so much hate that we don't talk about.
The writing throughout is solid, and the perspective is one I don't see a lot of in English Lit so it makes sense why this was chosen for the WP

ChaoticMissAdventures I might have had more patience for this if I wasn't reading Nesting at the same time, so many terrible men.... 7d
BarbaraBB Great review. I‘ll wait a bit with this one. Nesting I do have on my shelves though 6d
squirrelbrain Great review - this has just arrived for me at the library so I‘ll pick it up in the next day or two. 6d
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charl08
Good Girl: A Novel | Aria Aber
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She turned on the radio in the mornings, dancing when rock songs filled the kitchen with bygone delight. Recited poetry in an old, formal Persian-lines that I didn't understand but whose cadences imprinted themselves onto my brain-and took me to local libraries, where I was allowed to read as much as I wanted, the weight of the laminated library card like a luxurious treasure in my hand, my own name written in blue ink underneath: Nilab Haddadi.

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charl08
Good Girl: A Novel | Aria Aber
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...as if to signal to us idiots that reality still existed...

(How do you let someone know the party's over?)

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charl08
Good Girl: A Novel | Aria Aber
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ChaoticMissAdventures
Good Girl: A Novel | Aria Aber
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#WeeklyForecast
#WP25 I have 100 pages left of the tagged then I can start A Little Trickerie which I am super excited for
🎧This week's listen will be Ancillary Justice my January #DoubleSpin

Then hoping to sneak in The Coin which needs to go back to the library.

Ruthiella I loved the Imperial Radch trilogy. 1w
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ChaoticMissAdventures
Good Girl: A Novel | Aria Aber
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"Yet the hymns, the hosannas and hevenu shalom aleichem, the psalms, the lessons of Genesis and Revolution, they did not remain. What remains is the searing loneliness I felt, the nights I stayed awake by myself, reading Wuthering Heights and Lolita, underlining everything, trying to forget the fact I was one of the only girls at school who had black hair.

#WP25

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Schwifty
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I finally finished this massive tome. I‘ve neglected learning much about WW2 over my lifetime, so this was quite the journey through history, but well worth it. I realize that some modern academic historians are critical of Shirer‘s work in that as a journalist, they view him as an amateur who failed to research and analyze in a rigorous manner. I‘m in no position to weigh in on that, but I can confess that I did enjoy this book quite a bit.

kspenmoll I found his book quite accessible, & he was there in Germany reporting until 1940 which I think gave him insider insight. 1w
Schwifty @kspenmoll Yes, so I think in that way, this work is valuable. But I‘m aware academics took issue with some of it. It doesn‘t matter much to me. I think it‘s worth the read. 1w
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Lunakay
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🖤🤍🖤 2w
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charl08
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You, the gentrifier, have now been gentrified.... once every ten years, you should have a reunion and bitterly reminisce, clutching your paper cups of Moscow mule and growling about how this town's landlords and businesses put cash before community. At the end of the evening you should stand in a long line, in the order that your spending powers evolved to claim the city