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The Bear by Claire Cameron
3.0
After witnessing the aftermath of a bear attack on their parents after camping in Algonquin Park, Anna (5) and Stick (2) are told to get onto the canoe and escape. This is a haunting and yet beautiful story about Anna's love and instinctive protection for her brother. Cameron also explores the mental anguish which would surely follow such an incident in such a young child, using the broken, childish narrative of Anna to try and understand what is happening.
The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
5.0
If you have not read this, please do. It is a beautifully melancholic and inspiring read, exploring the The New Man as well as The New Woman as well as providing thought-provoking discussions on philosophy religion which can afterwards be reflected upon.
I, Pencil: My Family Tree As Told to Leonard E. Read by Leonard Edward Read
Such an important, valuable essay and lesson to mankind. Despite having been first first published in the 1960s, Read's point remains just as important (if not MORE important than it did at the time of publication). With this worldview, we can begin to rehumanise those with whom we are not in direct content... those who live in different countries to us, with different jobs, and different cultural traditions.
Consider the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in April 2013 (which I am sure you still remember reading about in the news!). Before brand names like Primark and Walmart were attached to this collapse, its victims remained separate from us; however, as soon as we found this common ground, a bridge of familiarity formed; the need to protect one another was exemplified. We can find this same sense of familiarity within the pencil: an object which requires millions to flourish, and which connects people all over the world. Read asks that we look past power and focus rather on people and the creative energy which binds us all as a species.
Consider the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in April 2013 (which I am sure you still remember reading about in the news!). Before brand names like Primark and Walmart were attached to this collapse, its victims remained separate from us; however, as soon as we found this common ground, a bridge of familiarity formed; the need to protect one another was exemplified. We can find this same sense of familiarity within the pencil: an object which requires millions to flourish, and which connects people all over the world. Read asks that we look past power and focus rather on people and the creative energy which binds us all as a species.
Alice-Miranda in New York by Jacqueline Harvey
4.0
I'm actually loving dipping into this series in between harder University readings. The character is just so loveable and there is something pleasantly calming in the narrative.