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We Need New Names
by NoViolet Bulawayo
Around the World Reading Challenge: ZIMBABWE
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Unfortunately I just did not much enjoy this one. The pacing here was atrocious, with inexplicable and unexplained time jumps happening between chapters and leaving out critical information. I didn't particularly care for the protagonist, partially because I just don't tend to really connect with middle grade/YA much these days, but she also just didn't really seem to have any personality, which I think is somewhat the fault of the pacing, because we just don't spend enough consecutive time with the character IMO to get a feel for her at all. The anti fat bias throughout was gross to read, and honestly this whole thing just felt like a bit of a slog. Any of the commentary the author wanted to make on colonialism and America etc. was also just explicitly stated in these random interlude chapters with all the subtlety of a brick to the head. I found this to be very underwhelming.
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Unfortunately I just did not much enjoy this one. The pacing here was atrocious, with inexplicable and unexplained time jumps happening between chapters and leaving out critical information. I didn't particularly care for the protagonist, partially because I just don't tend to really connect with middle grade/YA much these days, but she also just didn't really seem to have any personality, which I think is somewhat the fault of the pacing, because we just don't spend enough consecutive time with the character IMO to get a feel for her at all. The anti fat bias throughout was gross to read, and honestly this whole thing just felt like a bit of a slog. Any of the commentary the author wanted to make on colonialism and America etc. was also just explicitly stated in these random interlude chapters with all the subtlety of a brick to the head. I found this to be very underwhelming.