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Hungry Hearts: Essays on Courage, Desire, and Belonging by

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

5.0

The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss

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adventurous challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life. by Robin S. Sharma

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1.0

Eewww. Cringy. Cheesy. 
I'm Mauritian and no Sir, it is not SUV and villa and the beach to chill. 
What is wrong with him. 
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

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challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Women and Men in the Qur'an by Asma Lamrabet

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challenging informative sad tense slow-paced

3.5

That was tough! Women and Men in the Qur'an is but 200 pages but took me 3 months to complete. Goodness.
I'll have to give it a 3.5*. -0.5 because it was tough and -1 because, gggrrr, it angered me the whole time.
I mean the disparity between The Sacred Text and the interpretations of it is disheartening.
I can't. My Heart.

And the fact that these misguided interpretations are being spread in some places every friday without ever taking a step back and think if the message is peaceful as Islam is, is even more concerning. 
I quote last Friday sermon: "nou ban missier in donn nou pli boku lavataz, la force, lintelizence, responsabilité, pou ki nou pren compte nou ban madam et pa less zot egarer" 🙄 rolling my eyes to the other dimension.
I can't. My Mind.

Asma Lamrabet however, analysed the very beginning of the scared text and brought it to light. From Revelation, to Creation of Humanity, Marriage and Divorce (which was remarkably clear for those who need unbaised information about it and better know their rights). And also discussed SHARED responsibility of Men and Women, inheritance and ofc the Veil/khimar. (the veil/khimar was quite revelating as I didn't know the difference and how the verses came to be)

And she concludes with
"Muslim pray to God 5 times a day, respect the fast during the month of Ramadan, and memorise the Qur'an, all of which are important. However, this 'qiwama' - the provision of maintenance - of justice is virtually absent from their daily conduct. One thus note a huge gap between the religious practices and the sum of the Quranic ethics, a gap that seems to deepen, day after day, throughout the entire muslim world. This lag reduces the grandeur of this last monotheist révélation to a mere ritualised and formalised religious ceremony *carried to excess. "
which I couldn't agree more.