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This is your warning that there will be some books with racial themes, in case you can't/don't want to deal with that right now.
“There would be no dressing up as a maid. No cyanide slipped into his crystal glass of mineral water. The Fuhrer’s death was to be a loud, screaming thing. A broadcast of blood over the Reichssender.”
Yael, a teenager with skinshifting ability who escaped from a Nazi death camp, impersonates the only female racer in the transcontinental motorcycle race to attend the victor's ceremony and kill Hitler. This book is incredibly well-written, I loved it. It also has a sequel, Blood for Blood.
““I realize that “Do No Harm” is the first rule of medicine, but “Don’t apply human shit to an open wound” seems like a good second one.”
This book is about plagues in history and how humanity dealt with them. Jennifer Wright's commentary is hilarious, though I should note she might have glossed over the work of native Hawaiians in the leper colony of Molokai while praising Father Damien. You should also check out her other book that's about the worst break-ups in history, ''It Ended Badly''.
“The problem is that nobody talks about what they make. It's shame disguised as humility. Screw that. I'm a thirty-two-year-old assistant and I make $30,000 a year.”
Struggling millenial assistant to awful billionaire starts embezzlement scheme, it gets out of hand. Great book.
“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”
Nigerian girl moves to America, it's not as she expected. She puts a lot of things I've thought about America into words, I read it multiple times and I especially relate to the parts about the immigrant experience. Another quote:
“Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or raped, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for for choice and certainty.”
I live in a deteriorating country with no poverty or war (that I saw) but absolute authority and no civil rights. One time I got out, the temptation to break the law and not come back was strong. This passage touched my heart.
The one weakness of this book might be that I felt like Adichie was using the protagonist as a mouthpiece at times. I liked what she had to say, but some might find that annoying.
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
This is the autobiography of Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther who was given political asylum by Cuba and now lives there. It's essentially about the horrifying racism she experinced and how the US government worked to destroy the Black Panthers. It was shocking to me, though it'd probably be nothing new to black people.
“People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.”
“Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.”
(I should move on before I copy the entire book.)
“The age of exploration is long over, amira. Now it’s the age of globalization. And once everyone agrees something is one way, all the other ways it could have been disappear.”
Nix grows up on father's time-and-dimension traveling ship that can go to any real or fictional place if they have a map. Father is obsessed with finding the map of the exact time and place mother existed so he can see her again, but doing so could erase Nix's existence. Pros: the writing is lovely, the crew is great, and it has Kashmir. Cons: there's a love triangle that comes swinging in out of nowhere, though that ends well in my opinion. People say it drags, I didn't notice it as I was only checking how many pages I've read to make sure there's more to read.
“It was indescribable what she wanted. She was restless. She wanted to work. She wanted to be thirty people. She wanted to wear a cap of pearls and a coat of bright blue diamonds. To live as nature does, in many ages, in many brains.”
(Another # about me quote. She put it into words.)
The author's style is a bit dense and purple prose-y, but it's only about 110 pages. My English wasn't very good when I first read it. I was like ''What the hell does ''teeming with gnats'' mean??? Is this old English????'' but once I wrapped my head around it it was very enjoyable. Margaret is my kind of lady, though if it was her I'd probably run away and commit murder.
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