I love murder mysteries & history. Preferably in the same book.
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In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a …
I have been more interested recently in murder mysteries that are set in different genres as I cannot tolerate reading any murder mystery involving sympathetic cop / detective. This is a murder mystery based on fantasy that punches up and involves a satisfying victory of the poor over the rich.
The key takeaways for me: - Organize in groups based on actions you take with those things. E.g. have a coffee station with ground coffee, French press, coffee mugs. Or group all stuff that is used for breakfast together - Label these groups! Very important. Otherwise you wouldn't know how you grouped them. - Dont stuff in things unless they belong to the group. This means your shelves will be a little sparse as the stuff gets used. DO NOT FILL IT WITH OTHER THINGS - Make sure you have a place to put every item you buy BEFORE you buy it. It's a good way to curb my shopaholic tendencies.
Also TIL Arizona gov Katie Hobbs used to help run a domestic violence shelter
TIL police jail victims of sexual assault or other violent crime to force them to testify against abusers.
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn …
These stories give a more full depiction of the horror visited upon the Iraqis with the American invasion. One story is about a man who leaves a mental asylum not knowing who he is – other than what is in his file – because the Americans demolished the walls thinking it was a military facility. Another is about how horrific it was to be a woman under the Baathist regime to be a leftist person who does not believe in Baathist regime ideals. I learned how close Iraq is to Iran and started looking for news about both the countries. I learned 3 Iraqi women who were influencers have been killed in Iraq www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/27/iraqi-tiktok-star-om-fahad-shot-dead-in-baghdad-night-attack and how Iran began a crackdown on women who did not cover their heads at the same time they launched their missiles on Israel military targets. www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/24/iranian-women-violently-dragged-from-streets-by-police-amid-hijab-crackdown
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each books comprises all …
“ They found that out of nearly 113,000 emergency visits that year related to sexual violence, 16% resulted in out-of-pocket costs for the survivors.
In those cases, the average cost of care was $3,551 per person. Costs were higher for pregnant people: $4,553 per person, on average.”
This is actually from NBC news coverage of the same study quoted in this book.
I had no idea about Dorothy Hughes until I read this book. Turns out this was her last mystery thriller and she preferred being a critic after that.
Like her other books (that I ravenously stated to read after finishing this) there is a surprise twist in the beginning of the book and she does such a stellar job of seeing the world through the eyes of the protagonist in an era of civil rights movement and in a mystery thriller featuring abortion as a crucial plot point.
I am just shocked not a single movie has been made of this book (3 movies made of her previous works). I really hope someone awesome picks up the rights to make this movie. I would love to watch it!
To think she with her ethnic background was the author of this book surprised me a lot! You will know what I …
I had no idea about Dorothy Hughes until I read this book. Turns out this was her last mystery thriller and she preferred being a critic after that.
Like her other books (that I ravenously stated to read after finishing this) there is a surprise twist in the beginning of the book and she does such a stellar job of seeing the world through the eyes of the protagonist in an era of civil rights movement and in a mystery thriller featuring abortion as a crucial plot point.
I am just shocked not a single movie has been made of this book (3 movies made of her previous works). I really hope someone awesome picks up the rights to make this movie. I would love to watch it!
To think she with her ethnic background was the author of this book surprised me a lot! You will know what I am talking about when you come up to the plot twist. Do not read spoilers about this book! The plot twist is worth it.
I had to skip multiple pages because there were too many words like "dialectic", "Anthroposemeiosis" (I refuse to learn this word) but this book is a grim documentation of how Tamils were failed by so many people including fellow tamils and how casteism is such a big barrier to unity among Tamils. I was also, once again, shocked by the tame demands of Tamils who fought united with the Sinhalese for freedom and how the anti-tamil riots of 1983 opened their eyes to how they will never be equal to the Sinhalese. The increased violence only made Tamils violent with each other as commanders tried to subjugate their troops with violence. There is so much trauma among the tamil diaspora of refugees from Sri Lanka.
Sahitharan was a twenty-nine-year-old asylum seeker from Sri Lanka. He was waylaid by a group of young whites and bashed to death in London…Over 4000 people from all ethnic groups joined the march…there were only 150 tamils…the largest non-Tamil representation…was made up of black Africans. It was of interest that the trustees…of the Wimbledon Hindu temple denied the organizers of the march the right to hang posters on the temple premises. Their reason? "We do not want to antagonize the white community"
— Charred Lullabies by E. Valentine Daniel (Page 188 - 189)
Once again, it is clear how big the gap is within casteism vs racism.
As one Tamil put it, 'The policemen of the world should have a country of their own"
— Charred Lullabies by E. Valentine Daniel (Page 188)
You ask me about Tamil nationalism. There is only Tamil internationalism. No Tamil nationals. Never was. Never will be. This is Tamil internationalism. Being stuck in a windowless room in Thailand, or a jail in Nairobi or Accra or Lagos or Cairo or America. Or being a domestic servant in Singapore or Malaysia for a rich Tamil relative. Being part of a credit card racket in London. Crossing Niagara Falls into Canada. I am told there is even a Tamil fisherman on Norwegian island near the North Pole. All internationals.
— Charred Lullabies by E. Valentine Daniel (Page 176 - 177)
In the many days that I spent with Tamil militants who were fighting for separate state of Eelam, only once did they invoke Tamil historic past,-!: then only to yoke it to the romanticism of the bourgeois Tamil politicians of the then outlawed Tamil united liberation front
— Charred Lullabies by E. Valentine Daniel (Page 27)
Interesting premise where the author talks about how the Sinhalese had created this myth about defeating Tamil King who apparently was an oppressor but Tamil people were uninterested in such mythology.
I see parallels with the myths used by Zionist movement and what is currently happening in Palestine.
