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poucepooffy's Reviews (6)

Against the Loveless World

Susan Abulhawa

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Nothing but love for Susan Abulhawa and “Against the loveless world”. Nahr, the protagonist, inspires me deeply. Her strength, her resilience and her love fill me with great admiration and ignite a fiery resistance to injustice within me. As I read, I am drawn into her world: a Palestinian woman held hostage in an Israeli prison. The story is about her life before her imprisonment, shaped by displacement, resistance and the brutal reality of Israeli colonisation of Palestine. Although the story is fictional, the context in which it takes place is an undeniable truth. I have never felt so strongly about all characters in a book but since the story reads from Nahr’s point of view and she loves all people surrounding her so deeply, not in spite of but because of their flaws, you grow to love them too. This is a love story that expands far beyond the love of two people (even though the central love story is undeniably beautiful) but entails family, friends, neighbours, countries, past, present and future.

Having read this book as my first novel of 2025, I wish we all have at least one resolution in 2025, and that is to do everything in our power to save Gaza and free Palestine.

Thank you for this precious book, dear Susan Abulhawa. Everyone should read this.

#freepalestine

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

5.0

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

Convinced that Trevor’s mother is God and Trevor Noah is actually Jesus. 😂 This book is for everyone who wants to understand institutional racism and apartheid, for everyone who has ever been or plans to go to SA, actually just for everyone! Close this app. Read that book!

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh

3.75

dark funny informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Got me out of my reading slump, started to read on a sunny day outside and continued to read all through the night. Very intriguing. Read like a train.

I’ve heard people say this book was depressing, which I understand, but I did not feel sad after reading it. Really appreciated the honesty!

Guess you either love it or hate it, I loved it.

Content Warnings