This should be required reading for all medical professionals. The information was organized in simple to understand categories and broken down in simple terms that were easy to understand. 

A history on this region from an Muslim/Arab perspective felt very refreshing. The author doesn't shy away from discussing the negative impacts of Islamization and the more bloody histories of the caliphs and sultans while still celebrating the rich culture of the area. 

APTLY NAMED. This book really keyed up the emotional toll on the reader, even some of the prospective characters were not safe. The first half was less strong than the second but overall you could tell it was the penultimate book in a series. 

It was just making me angrier and angrier. All the ways American women are just reduced to wombs. Great book but very rage inducing

Loewen was probably one of the first to look at American history and education in revisionist terms; the book frst came out in '95. I liked that he didn't give a whitewashed version or pick and choose what to cover. He chose what to cover based on what evidence and his experience indicated was lacking, basing it on topics that are most likely to be mythologized or simply lied about. 

The format of the book was great, starting with an example of hero worship gave the lens in which hed be looking at other events. The last few chapters covered the why and how of bad textbooks after the bulk of the books discussed the what/when/who.

I couldn't get invested. Soft DNF

I loved the pacing of this book. I thought I guessed the end twist before being completely blindsided by it. Abi being the omnipresent, yet clearly withholding, narrator allowed the characters to come alive. Each main character is hiding something as the book goes on, and those who aren't hiding things are emotionally compromised. By the end, I couldn't decide if Abi was reliable and the ending left me breathless.