RT foliosociety: BookRiot gives an overview of how #NaNoWriMo, a month-long challenge to write a 50,000-word novel, was founded and how… 1 month ago To be honest I just made it up… AO3_Status 1 month ago RT SoVeryBritish: Meanings of "don't quote me on that":ģ. For more details check out Patty's pos… 1 month ago RT Mercys_Garage: We're sorry to announce that Soul Taken has been pushed back to the 21st of June. RT CycletheErie: Today marks the #shortestday of the year and the first official day of astronomical #winter. RT LKHamilton: This is too fun! Cat Godzilla! 2 days ago The Finder Search for: Flutterby Room Tweets Don’t put off reading this book because of the hype, if you do you’ll miss out on an interesting and complex dialogue about a very real subject. This book really illustrates how casual and pervasive racism can be (and is) and how it influences people’s lives. Starr is a complex, flawed and very real narrator. THE HATE U GIVE is a book that deserves everybody talking about it. THE HATE U GIVE is made up of many different stories, all of them important and together they create a beautiful and complex whole. It’s a story about finding your place in the world. It’s a story about fighting for what you believe in. It’s also much more complicated and nuanced than that. At its simplest level, THE HATE U GIVE is a story about doing the right thing. It’s hard to form coherent sentences about why I think everyone should pick this book up and give it a try. The story is incredibly moving – it sounds clichéd but, it honestly made me laugh and cry (though not at the same time) – and brilliantly told – I picked the book up and finished it the same day. With this book Thomas creates a really interesting and compelling window into Starr’s world. I was very much aware that I was an outsider looking into a world I didn’t know and I didn’t understand, but the further I read the more I fell into Starr’s story and her world. To begin with I found THE HATE U GIVE quite a difficult book to get into. To me that clever usage of the title said that Thomas had put a lot of thought into this book, and I was curious what she had to say. I also thought it was kind of cool that its title spells the word ‘thug’. It had me curious about whether it could live up to its reputation. THE HATE U GIVE is a book that has been very much talked about and, from what I’ve seen, praised. To be honest I can’t remember how I stumbled across this book, whether it was because there was a lot of talk about it within the young adult book blogging and vlogging communities, or whether it was because of the Black Lives Matter movement, or through the We Need Diverse Books campaign. The balance is destroyed when Starr is coming home from a party with her best friend Khalil and they are pulled over by a police officer, and she witnesses him shoot and kill her unarmed best friend. This means that Starr lives something of a double life, so she can fit into both worlds. Starr and her brothers don’t attend the local school instead they travel to a posh high school in the suburbs. It tells the story of sixteen-year-old Starr who lives with her family in a place called Garden Heights it’s a poor neighbourhood with a strong community. THE HATE U GIVE is Angie Thomas’s debut novel. Now what Starr says could destroy her community.
The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and the posh high school in the suburbs. “What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be?” Genre: Contemporary, Social Realism, Young Adult The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (UK edition)
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