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Use Your Weapon

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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I listened to the audio book of Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give, narrated by Bahni Turpin. It’s so good. I’ve read a bunch of really great books this year, this one will stick with me for years. As I have sat with this review, two things have stuck with me.  One is weapons, and the other is the Third Commitment Of Ethical Culture. We choose to treat each other as ends, not merely means. To enable us to be whole, in a fragmented world, we choose to treat each other as unique individuals having intrinsic worth. Every character in […]

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7/4/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:28 |

That’s just the way it is, Things’ll never be the same

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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Considering all the hype that Angie Thomas’ debut novel has received, I honestly thought there was no way it could possibly live up to it.  I assumed it would be a good book, even a great one, but I didn’t really expect it to leave such a lasting impression or to inspire this level of soul-searching.  However, given the incredible reviews this book has gotten, I just had to pick it up and see for myself. Only a couple pages in, and I was hooked. The story starts with Starr feeling out of place at a huge neighbourhood party.  Her […]

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5/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Such a Tough Subject Matter, It Took Me Two Months to Write This Review

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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Most of the YA I read tends to fall into either the dystopian future or fantasy bucket, but with all the buzz and positive reviews, I decided to give this one a shot (it also happened to be February so what better time to read this?).  Then I put off reviewing it for almost two months because I wasn’t sure how to properly do justice to the novel. Many of the themes explored in this novel will feel familiar because Angie Thomas has quite a bit going on this novel. Starr, the main character, is a black teenage girl who […]

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4/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:51 |

“Now we have to somehow un-fuck everybody.”

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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Quick Review: This is a very good YA debut by Angie Thomas and it is important reading to be done in this cultural climate in the United States. Thomas clearly, and evocatively, brings the reader into the layered life of a black teen in today’s United States with its systemic racism. It reminded me of of my own history, and my lived experience, and grew it out. But it isn’t a primer in the way that Between the World and Me is, it is a story, a beautiful narrative of coming to terms with things that are impossible to come […]

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3/9/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

Learning to live with the unimaginable – THUG LIFE

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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When I try to start this review, I am cowed at the prospect of it. What do I, a mid-30s white woman have to say about Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give, the story of Starr Carter, a sixteen year old young black woman growing up in the ghetto, who is a witness to the murder of not one, but two of her friends? What do I have to say about her experience, or about the experience of everyone in this book, so far removed from my life?  I’m not sure, but I have to start somewhere. I heard about […]

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1/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

THUG gave me all the feels

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas deserves all the hype and awards. The story centers around teenager Starr Carter who lives in the African-American community of Garden Heights while attending an expensive private school on the posh side of town. She has two sides of her life, two faces she shows each environment. Her white boyfriend Chris has never met her Dad. Her friend Kenya, who she shares a half-brother with has never met any of her high school friends. The two worlds collide after she witnesses a police office kill her unarmed childhood friend, Khalil. The book focuses on […]

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12/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

Another book my home state has managed to ban

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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I have been on the waitlist to get a copy of this for months and months and was so excited to finally read it. I was even more excited to see that Angie Thomas won two Goodreads Choice Awards for her work shortly afterwards. Well deserved! “Pac said Thug Life stood for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody’.” Starr Carter lives in a rough neighborhood, Garden Heights, with her mother and former gangbanger father but attends a private school in a nicer neighboring town because her parents wanted her to have a better life than they did. Starr […]

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12/6/2017 's CBR9 Review No:134 |

Four Recent novels about teens: What I Saw and why I Lied; All American Boys; The Hate U Give; Confessions

What I Saw and Why I Lied, All American Boys, The Hate U Give; Confessions by Judy Blundell; Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely; Angie Thomas; Kanae Minato

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What I Saw and Why I Lied – Judy Blundell – 3/5  This novel takes place in the years following World War II back in the US. Our narrator’s mother has a new husband who was off to the war and our main character, a teenager in high school, goes with her mom and her husband to a resort in Florida, right at the beginning of school. While she’s there she meets a local boy, a bellhop at the hotel, who is kind of ugly but invites her to a party where she meets an older man. This man, twenty […]

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9/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:369 |


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