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My pre-Yom Kippur reading:

People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn

On the one hand, it's strange it took me this long to get to this book: People have been recommending it to me since it came out two years ago. On the other hand, even though it's a great book and a reading experience I found very satisfying, I got very little out of it. Nearly everything in the book is something I've addressed on this journal, often multiple times. I didn't learn anything from reading it, I didn't deepen my understanding of the world, I just spend the whole book vibing with its beautifully endless waves of angry energy. It was comforting junk food for the Jewish soul.

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Date: 2022-10-03 06:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] batdina
I felt exactly the same way.

G'mar tov.

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Date: 2022-10-04 12:17 am (UTC)
lannamichaels: Astronaut Dale Gardner holds up For Sale sign after EVA. (Default)
From: [personal profile] lannamichaels
Amusingly, this book also came up over RH for me. $Relative has read it and wanted to discuss it with me. I said to her that I probably agree with everything in it, and despite that, I have no interest in reading it. But I'm glad to see that I'm probably right about agreeing with everything in it. ;)


EDIT: googled and found a review and it says the book talks about Anne Frank, so, wow, me going off on a rant to $relative about how I had to block the words Anne Frank because of the way goyim talk about her actually was on topic. That's nice to know.
Edited Date: 2022-10-04 12:51 am (UTC)

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Date: 2022-10-04 01:18 am (UTC)
lannamichaels: Astronaut Dale Gardner holds up For Sale sign after EVA. (Default)
From: [personal profile] lannamichaels
There's probably two kinds of people in the world: the kind who hear the title "people love dead Jews" and nod and say "yup, accurate", and then people who shold read the book and become convinced?

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Date: 2022-10-04 01:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lirazel
Oh! I'm so glad you mentioned this! I appreciated the book, but that sounds so much more up my alley!!!!

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Date: 2023-12-11 05:50 pm (UTC)
lannamichaels: Astronaut Dale Gardner holds up For Sale sign after EVA. (Default)
From: [personal profile] lannamichaels
I got linked this from I Can't Even Remember because it was linked as apple podcast and I had to find a streamable version, but this is a very good conversation she has about current matters in the In These Times with Rabbi Ammi Hirsch podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoWoZwYI3GY

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