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Charity consultant/coach (strategy, comms & leadership stuff). People Power, Quirks, Wows & Bitter Irony. It's all personal.
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An extraordinary novel on the experience of The American War, as the Vietnamese call it. Brutality, horror, chaos, loss, trauma, the nostalgia of lost love. Bao Ninh was the only survivor from his unit of 500 men. His book was banned for undermining the glory of war.
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Absolutely. The idea of the special dialect for use in front of white people, to illustrate how marginalised people have to navigate codes to fit in, is genius. Enjoy your break - beach is looking good!
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50 years since unification and Vietnam is still defined largely by the war with the US. Good to have got a broader picture of the place - a history of multiple peoples, and Viet as well as French, communist and American imperial ambitions.
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Beggars belief. I think reasons to find another home for my vote have reached tipping point.
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Finished Orbital in a metal tube at 38,000 feet, somewhere over Siberia, which I guess is apt; sunlight out of the right windows, darkness the left.
Breath-taking, I thought. A gentle but compelling meditation on existence, insignificance and meaning.
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Hard on its heels, Richard Wright’s moving memoir of growing up black, poor and hungry in 1920s Tennessee, and escaping the oppression of the South first in books, then on a train to Chicago. As the saying goes, survival is resistance.
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‘The epic story of America’s Great Migration’. Between the 1920s and 1970s millions of black Americans moved from the southern states to the northern cities.
More accurately, they fled the violence, racism and lynching of Jim Crow segregation, to find freedom.
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“The world has changed” but not enough apparently to contemplate sorting out our relationship with Europe, or changing fiscal rules. Not when you can still screw poor and disabled people.
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Our abiding sense of the US after living there a few years, was of shiny veneer masking a cheap and nasty underbelly. Could be talking roads to health system to Mac-mansions to white supremacy. Our car was just a big tin box. Loved the place, mind you.
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Fifteen aid workers killed, in fact, eight of whom were Red Crescent.
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Crazy days. 🇨🇦✊