Issue #34
Hi Page Turners,
The horror continues as we have all witnessed the atrocities over the past fortnight. Yesterday trucks crossed the Rafah border in order to supply (life-saving) aid to Palestine many of whom are living in uninhabitable conditions. I pray it reaches to them in time. I wonder how the world can carry on and live as this isn't happening or how people can ever laugh again. I wonder what really is life? But then someone told me you have to survive. The world doesn't stop moving so I read, I listen, I pray but most of all I take pleasure in the simplest things in life. Because if this has taught me anything it's too never take anything for granted. You have to keep going, use your voice for what is right but don't loose yourself in the process. So here is a round-up of my updates!
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Books 📚
ICYMI- over on my blog I posted my monthly wrap up of what I have read click the link to read here- https://fizwrites.wixsite.com/website/post/the-books-i-read-in-september-2023
Monthly update is here- https://fizwrites.wixsite.com/website/post/update-8
I also posted a little essay on why Lorde's Green Light is influenced by Gatsby's Green Light. Check it out here- https://fizwrites.wixsite.com/website/post/is-lorde-s-green-light-influenced-by-f-scott-fitzgerald-s-green-light
This week I finished a non-fiction memoir called A Women's Battle in a Man's World by Zarifa Ghafari read my full review here- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5915158880?book_show_action=false
It was so inspiring and harrowing that we continue to let generations grow up in abusive regimes. Her story was one of adversity but it makes me think about the stories we don't here, the stories that don't have such an ending. It was also the first book I read which talked about America's presence/actions in Afghanistan and the withdrawal. A must read that everyone needs to pick up!
Opinion piece 📰
https://apnews.com/article/serena-williams-memoir-book-deal -Serena Williams has a book deal. I can't wait to read but it will also be so interesting to read from her perspective of her rise and what she went through to get there. Definitely on my most-anticipated list.
Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama is a book that is also on my tbr because of it's ambitious attempt to 'tell the whole story of Israel/Palestine… I have to tell the story of the Nakba before I tell things that follow the Nakba'. You can read the full conversation on the book here- https://lithub.com/masha-gessen-and-nathan-thrall-on-the-whole-story-of-israel-and-palestine/
Further reading 📑
This article was a very interesting read. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081194/how-to-fix-the-internet-online-discourse/
As someone who is anxious with the speed I guess AI is going out the question of what comes next and what does that mean for the internet is something that plagues me. This was a read that included the good the bad and the ugly but ultimately of how we can change it.
Killers of the Flower Moon is out in cinemas (I haven't had a chance to watch) but there are already rumours that it is going to be nominated for the Academy Awards. I did manage to read the book though check out my full review here- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5853133017
-taken from my journal.
💭 My 3 am thoughts 🕒
I thought looking at snow fall was beautiful...that's until I saw leaves fall. (Seriously look up when the leaves fall because it's such a beautiful image).
Quote of the week ✏
'If you educate one woman, you are saving ten generations.'
'71, 000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan over the twenty years of America's war; four in ten of those deaths were the results of airstrikes. For each one of those dead, there was an extended family left traumatised, angry and often thirsty for vengeance. Who offered to strike back at foreign invaders? The Taliban, taking on the very same role the mujahideen had twenty-five years before. And so, Afghanistan's cycle of invasion and extremism started again.' Taken from - A Women's Battle in a Man's World by Zarifa Ghafari.
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