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I started it last night on my Kindle.
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How are you liking it? I am half way through and I just cannot stop.
I have to stop at times, it makes me too angry. Like when she says she likes to walk on the street, but keeps getting bothered by men she doesn't know...When she writes about the shooting in the neighbourhood she was living. The shooter wrote in a manifesto that "it was women who had made him suffer, who left him no choice..."
It automatically made me think of the December 6, 1989 massacre in Montreal.
I think this is a very important book.
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When she writes about the shooting in the ..."
I couldn't agree more. She is so brave to come forward. It hits so close to home because I live only about 2 hours away from where all this went down. It is so disgusting to think of what she had to go through. Feel for her so much
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My review is here:
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Loved the review Margot! I agree so much!
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Rachel Skye (rachandherbooks) wrote: "Margot wrote: "I finished reading it last night and I loved it.My review is here:
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Loved the review Margot! I agree so much!"
I have reserved this at my library but it hasn't come in yet. I am hoping to read it when I do get it because it looks so interesting. Definitely a message that needs to be listened to and heard.
Discussion Questions
1. What observations are made in the book?
2. What is the central idea discussed in the book? What issues or ideas does the author explore? Are they personal, sociological, global, political, economic, spiritual, medical, or scientific
3. Do the issues affect your life? How so—directly,on a daily basis, or more generally? Now or sometime in the future?
4. What evidence does the author use to support the book's ideas? Is the evidence convincing...definitive or...speculative? Does the author depend on personal opinion, observation, and assessment? Or is the evidence factual—based on science, statistics, historical documents, or quotations from (credible) experts?
5. What kind of language does the author use? Is it objective and dispassionate? Or passionate and earnest? Is it biased, inflammatory, sarcastic? Does the language help or undercut the author's premise?
6. What are the implications for the future? Are there long- or short-term consequences to the issues raised in the book? Are they positive or negative...affirming or frightening?
7.What solutions does the author propose? Are the author's recommendations concrete, sensible, doable? Who would implement those solutions?
8. How controversial are the issues raised in the book? Who is aligned on which sides of the issues? Where do you fall in that line-up?
9. Talk about specific passages that struck you as significant—or interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad...? What was memorable?
10. What have you learned after reading this book? Has it broadened your perspective about a difficult issue—personal or societal? Has it introduced you to a culture in another country...or an ethnic or regional culture in your own country?
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