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Rated How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else 6/10

Rated Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West 10/10

Rated Essence of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Guide to Yoga, Meditation, and Indian Philosophy 10/10

Rated The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5 8/10

Rated What I Talk About When I Talk About Running 10/10

Rated Wie heeft mijn kaas gepikt?: omgaan met verandering - zakelijk en privé 10/10

Rated Uitgelaten 4/10

Rated Cuckold 10/10

Wants to read Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist

Rated Cathedral of the Sea 10/10

Rated Eat, Pray, Love 8/10

Rated Les Miserables 10/10

Rated The Satanic Verses 10/10

Rated The Barefoot Queen 8/10

Rated Moederland 8/10

I am Dutch, but I have no - and never had - people from Curaçao (or with that heritage) in my social circle. So I started reading with a pretty blank slate on a personal level. The author has a really raw style, but I quite liked it and it was easy to follow along. Some passages are very poetic and I really enjoyed those.

Very impressive story and personal history of both the author and her mother.

Rated Norwegian Wood 10/10

Rated The Count of Monte Cristo 10/10

Rated De weduwnaar 8/10

Rated Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 10/10

Rated The Underground Railroad 10/10

Rated Kim 8/10

Rated Het eiland van Anna 10/10

It is about an island that had to be evacuated in the 1800s, because of flooding, which then in the 1900s became part of reclaimed land. It is about the people that lived there, their descendants and how origin and origin story impacts people’s lives (even several generations later).
It also highlights how immigrants find their way faster if they get equal opportunity to education and employment. Something that many present day societies should take note of instead of the xenophobia we see too much of.

Rated De meisjes van De Goede Herder 8/10

Seeing the life in and around Catholic 'shelters' for women between 1860 and 1980 through the eyes of the people who were there.
A rather nuanced take on this, which I quite enjoyed.

I received this book through a curated list and probably would've never bought it otherwise. But I'm glad I read it and would recommend to anyone with an interest in the topic.

Rated Ik heb het echt gemaakt 4/10

I have not often been more annoyed by a character than the person whose 1st person view we get. What shallowness.

Not 1 star because the writing is actually not bad.

Rated De erfgenamen 8/10