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LOVE seeing my girl Jessica as Team Cap! I really love Luke and Jessica. And I just loved this issue. Brought me back after all the super boring X Men nonsense and the Thunderbolts or cats or whoever they are
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Ok Jessica Drew. You can hang.
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OH CAP MY CAP. Loved this side of him and showing exactly why registration is a negative. Love love love
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This review has been such a long time coming. I read this book all the way back in July and I still don’t feel like I’m ready to review this book. The first time I heard of this book, I saw Angie Thomas on Twitter, excited over getting ARCs of her new book. And then her name kept popping up on my Twitter. Once I saw what her book was about, I totally knew why it kept popping up and that I had to get my hands on it.
Starr Carter lives in the poor, predominantly black neighborhood, but goes to school in the rich suburban predominantly white neighborhood. One night, while Starr is at a house party in her neighborhood, she’s offered a ride home by her friend Khalil. On the drive back to her house, Khalil and Starr are pulled over and Khalil is shot by a police officer. Then, Starr’s entire world explodes.
The Black Lives Matter movement is something that I find very close to my heart. I work in these communities and see my students and former students in so many of these stories. In fact, one of my students was actually killed by a police officer, so when I read these stories it tends to destroy me. But the thing is that they are so necessary. Especially ones that are in fiction books, because they can pave the way for people to accept that this doesn’t just happen in a fiction novel, but in actual, real life as well.
Angie Thomas is phenomenal in her storytelling skills and it’s something to be envied. With the amount of YA literature that is coming out these days, to find one that has a story that keeps me turning the pages, and that evokes so much emotion. This is a book you can’t miss, even if you don’t typically read YA, or you’re someone who doesn’t fully understand the whole Black Lives Matter movement, you really need to get your hands on this book. It’s beautiful, and worthy of all the hype.
This review has been such a long time coming. I read this book all the way back in July and I still don’t feel like I’m ready to review this book. The first time I heard of this book, I saw Angie Thomas on Twitter, excited over getting ARCs of her new book. And then her name kept popping up on my Twitter. Once I saw what her book was about, I totally knew why it kept popping up and that I had to get my hands on it.
Starr Carter lives in the poor, predominantly black neighborhood, but goes to school in the rich suburban predominantly white neighborhood. One night, while Starr is at a house party in her neighborhood, she’s offered a ride home by her friend Khalil. On the drive back to her house, Khalil and Starr are pulled over and Khalil is shot by a police officer. Then, Starr’s entire world explodes.
The Black Lives Matter movement is something that I find very close to my heart. I work in these communities and see my students and former students in so many of these stories. In fact, one of my students was actually killed by a police officer, so when I read these stories it tends to destroy me. But the thing is that they are so necessary. Especially ones that are in fiction books, because they can pave the way for people to accept that this doesn’t just happen in a fiction novel, but in actual, real life as well.
Angie Thomas is phenomenal in her storytelling skills and it’s something to be envied. With the amount of YA literature that is coming out these days, to find one that has a story that keeps me turning the pages, and that evokes so much emotion. This is a book you can’t miss, even if you don’t typically read YA, or you’re someone who doesn’t fully understand the whole Black Lives Matter movement, you really need to get your hands on this book. It’s beautiful, and worthy of all the hype.
This review was originally posted on Rachel Reading. For 100+ more like this, check it out.
If anyone ever asks me what the hardest book I've ever read was, it would be this one. I read this right after finishing "The Hate U Give", and man. That was hard. It was hard to go from the fictional to the actual real, and to read a love letter from two parents to their son who was taken from us far too young. Trayvon would have turned 23 this year, and my heart just shatters.
This book follows Trayvon's short life, as told by his parents, and the aftermath of his death. Tracy and Sybrina discuss the injustices that were given to them right off the bat from the police (like demanding a drug test on Trayvon's body but not even testing his murderer). The proof that his murderer did actively seek him out, the heartbreaking recollection that Tracy shares where he said he always told Trayvon to run if he was in a situation like the one he was in. We find out why Trayvon was where he was, he was visiting his father, and we listen to these parents process this terrible loss and tragedy.
The most beautiful thing I think about this story is that to me, it felt like bearing a loss of a close friend, our goal is to listen. So often in memoirs I feel like we want to learn, and while that's prevalent here, it's less about us, and more about them. About understanding what these parents went through, and with brutal and sharp honesty, we hear from Sybrina and Tracy as they seem to process. I wrote a full blog post response to this book which you can find here, which is more of an immediate reaction to my sadness about this book.
Everyone, and I mean everyone, should read this book. It will be hard, and that's okay. It should be hard to hear about the murder of a young boy.
If anyone ever asks me what the hardest book I've ever read was, it would be this one. I read this right after finishing "The Hate U Give", and man. That was hard. It was hard to go from the fictional to the actual real, and to read a love letter from two parents to their son who was taken from us far too young. Trayvon would have turned 23 this year, and my heart just shatters.
This book follows Trayvon's short life, as told by his parents, and the aftermath of his death. Tracy and Sybrina discuss the injustices that were given to them right off the bat from the police (like demanding a drug test on Trayvon's body but not even testing his murderer). The proof that his murderer did actively seek him out, the heartbreaking recollection that Tracy shares where he said he always told Trayvon to run if he was in a situation like the one he was in. We find out why Trayvon was where he was, he was visiting his father, and we listen to these parents process this terrible loss and tragedy.
The most beautiful thing I think about this story is that to me, it felt like bearing a loss of a close friend, our goal is to listen. So often in memoirs I feel like we want to learn, and while that's prevalent here, it's less about us, and more about them. About understanding what these parents went through, and with brutal and sharp honesty, we hear from Sybrina and Tracy as they seem to process. I wrote a full blog post response to this book which you can find here, which is more of an immediate reaction to my sadness about this book.
Everyone, and I mean everyone, should read this book. It will be hard, and that's okay. It should be hard to hear about the murder of a young boy.
GUYS I NEED TO TAKE ONE MINUTE TO EXPLAIN TO YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE JESSICA JONES. This series is just. Beautiful, and since Bendis created her, I can tell he knows what he's doing. I love the way Luke was portrayed in this. He knows Jessica will do the right thing and I just I LITERALLY FING CANT RIGHT NOW GUYS.