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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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5.0

I LOVED THIS

The relationships were so brutally realistic and well done. The strongest relationship in the book was the most untraditional, and the most intimate the most volatile.
Spoiler when Celia mentioned the tv kiss when she got her award I nearly sobbed.
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf

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4.0

a lot of super interesting, thought-provoking points, just wish more of the claims had more sourcing data wise
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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4.0

the unnerving atmosphere in this was ridiculously well done, but I wish a bit more happened
Unit 731 Testimony: Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program by Hal Gold

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I don't have the words for how appalling this was.

The Japanese government having done so little to atone, the US granting war criminals immunity for information on biological warfare, and the fact that so many people who participated in these disgusting acts went on to have affluent positions, positions in education, no less, is beyond shameful.
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

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5.0

I cannot believe how absolutely brutal and atrocious this was, and am repulsed by the japanese government's denial of this massacre

this is hard to read but ridiculously important to
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy by Paul Hendrickson

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3.0

it's very easy to forget how recent the civil rights movement was and how it is not distant relatives, but grandparents of modern americans who were active in this time. I think examining how these mentalities bleed through was very interesting.

I did, however, think there was a bit too much extraneous information about the modern families added in that didn't really add much, and I think the reading experience would've been much better without it