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115 reviews

My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit

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informative slow-paced

2.0

Informative. Some valuable insights. 
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women by Christina Lamb

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dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Hare subject matter. Insight on crimes against women written by a woman hits harder and more authentically.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

4.25

It ground to a halt in the middle otherwise this would be 5.
An ethereal mystery Sri Lankan Noir.
The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War by Rohini Mohan

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dark emotional informative reflective

4.0

Sri Lankan literature has a sadness about it. This does a good job personalising it.
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

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adventurous reflective slow-paced

4.25

I love Medusa.
A very hard slow read. Lots of back reading needed. But the second reads were always better. 

Exiles by Jane Harper

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slow-paced

1.0

I hope real police aren’t as useless.
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

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challenging dark reflective slow-paced

4.5

It seems we are all products of colonialism which this book communicates so well.