nornielAll My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
This is the book she got the National Book Award for this week and one of my favorites this year.
This book contains #TriggerWarning for
drug addiction
alcohol addiction
physical abuse
Islamophobia
repressed sexual assault
tense exchange with law enforcement
Death
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir
drug addiction
alcohol addiction
physical abuse
Islamophobia
repressed sexual assault
tense exchange with law enforcement
Death
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir
Let me say a few words about #ContentNotes and #TriggerWarning. more or less unrelated to this work.
first of all this is not a hardship so put them in. NYT bestsellers can do it, there is no excuse for missing out.
second, and a bit controversial: if you (an author, publisher, reviewer) use trigger or content warnings you should have a list, with all the things you warn about.
Best case your TW are in checkered list form.
The reason behind this is the thought that everybody can define their own list, and therefore a reader can't be sure that the TW they are searching for is even "worth mentioning" by the one curating the list.
Another "problem" how specific are the writers. #SabaaTahir and her team seem to be pretty specific, henc "mentions of repressed sexual assault" but others might not be or filters might not be this specific and won't catch them in that case.
On the other hand someone filtering for TW cancer might not be allerted by TW hospital or illness.
#TriggerWarning needs to be general enough that people can easily filter and specific enough that they don't filter to much.
If someone here is interested in the Trigger warnings I apply to books I do that on #TheStorygraph they have a curated list of TW and show you how many ppl applied a warning. Find me there under KommataTor with another cute dog pic.
And now let's start with this book for real.
"purple as a gossip's tongue" (Tahir, 2022, p. 3). from which language/ culture is this saying? genuinely asking bc I never heard it before but my german ass could just have missed it until now.
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir
"I should have prayed instead for a man unbroken" (Tahir, 2022, 3). This book will break me.
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir #bookquote
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir #bookquote
"[...] I was born with the innate understanding that having a girlfriend while still living with my parents is verboten" (Tahir, 2022, 5). As a german is verboten legit an english word like kindergarten? Could I have written verboten in my english papers in High School?
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir #English
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir #English
because reading playlists are fun and I'm always happy when others did the research and curating.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42fr8k5vTRRlHGOKBfcgjv?si=XvfiRlA4QTKdHqH0aBHBBw&utm_source=copy-link
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir #ReadingPlaylist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42fr8k5vTRRlHGOKBfcgjv?si=XvfiRlA4QTKdHqH0aBHBBw&utm_source=copy-link
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir #ReadingPlaylist
"Little butterfly" (Tahir, 2022, 35). I'm all in for nicknames and parent/child relationships. Especially for realistic and hopefully for good ones.
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir
Nothing more annoying than the trope in children and ya books of the nonexistent unhelpful parent. And that has nothing to do with the fact that that's just the reality sometimes but there is a difference between that trope and a good description of an disfuncional relatioship.
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0lYm8GWVR8f67nfhTseYRu?si=kMM8h5S3SO-8F0rWAD33yg&utm_source=copy-link
Because in the playlist I shared before prominently misses the Punjabi music here is a second playlist, and maybe I should do one myself after all
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir #ReadingPlaylist
Because in the playlist I shared before prominently misses the Punjabi music here is a second playlist, and maybe I should do one myself after all
#AllMyRage #SabaaTahir #ReadingPlaylist
