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    <body><![CDATA[<em>“Senjata Suad Amiry adalah ironi dan ia mengemasnya dengan sangat cerdas dan handal…”</em> Figaro<br/><br/>Sebelumnya saya sempat bertanya-tanya siapa atau apa Figaro yang memberikan endors dengan begitu pasnya terhadap autobiografi ini. Setelah melakukan googling, dan bertemu dengan tante Wiki [...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74927011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great humorous (though I did cry multiple times) book on living in Occupied Palestine.  Lots of the same heart breaking stories you have always heard-olive groves demolished, people forced to leave their homes in 1948 (the other day at my international ladies' program we had cultural day and a littl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4717143">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one of the five best books I have read on Palestine/Israel and that IS saying a lot.  It is also one of the best books I have ever read that was distilled from emails, the kind you send out when you are trapped umder curfews for days at a time.  it captures the fabulous senses of humor i saw ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1747676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was excellent.  It's a diary/memoir of a Palestinian woman and what its like to live in occupied territories where you can't even leave your own house if you want to; you have to have permits to travel; they live every day in a war zone.  <br/>I feel like every day I hear on the news abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12672607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="80119466">
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book because the author is hilarious and witty as she describes the dehumanizing stuff of daily life that she deals with as an average Palestinian living in the occupied territories.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[raises a lot of political angst that can't easily be disspelled...  at the same time, an &quot;easy&quot; and quick read.  It's engaging, but as a witness to an impossible life situation.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did like this book, but was a bit disappointed that so much was left out. Although this was just supposed to be a compilation of writings the author had made chronicling her experiences as they happened, I felt it would have been more powerful to &quot;fill in the gaps&quot; a bit and to explain w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21605171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting stories but very simply written. I never really saw how the &quot;mother in law&quot; deserved a place in the title]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny in an absurd way.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was really eager to read this book - I always want to see issues from as many sides as possible, and I'm certainly more familiar with the Israeli side of that conflict. <br/><br/>At first, I felt squeamish reading it but I muscled through because I thought I was feeling thin-skinned when she cri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27697064">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was a really hilarious book that I just remembered reading last year. Some of the humor was inhanced because I know Ramallah and occupation humor Palestinian style and because I was in Ramallah during some of the time this book takes place, but she is a really good writer too and I think it wou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12915300">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an entertaining read for me. Not the typical middle eastern womans point of view but she was really real and quite funny. I will warn however there was some very colorful language and for some reason some mistranslations of arabic mostly of arabic curses. Anyway it was fun to read. Gives a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14240892">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Suad Amiry provides insight to her life in the West Bank in Palestine during an Israeli offensive. The book is a consolidation of emails and short stories of her experiences that reads like a blog, the stories are told in a comical and witty format that convey a grim and helpless situation in an sat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18188244">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a roller coaster of emotions for me. It amazed me how anyone can deal with living in such an oppressed situation and yet have more dignity and humour than I could ever imagine having in thier shoes. If you are feeling 'my lifes shit' then read this and you'll feel like the luckiest per...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7736549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While it provides a perspective that is honest and unsentimental, Amiry's narrative sometimes failed at its attempts at humor.  For me, the best moments are when Amiry is direct and confronts her emotions and experiences head-on, rather than when she tries to frame them with a laugh.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[hilarious and cynical. (oh, what could be better?) Amiry is a hot-shot Palestinian professor of ancient architecture and has served on governmental boards. and she has a biting wit. Very quick enjoyable read. You'll be sorry when your realize you've hit the last chapter.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lovely 'lighter' look at the conflict I picked up off a friend's bookshelf. Nothing too intense (flight reading) but hits a nerve if you have ever spent time in Israel/Palestine. And she made me laugh!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Suad is a fabulous storyteller. I love her ability to find humor and irony living under Israeli occupation. She is fearless and vulnerable at the same time. Highly recommended.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good content for those interested in first hand accounts of living through occupation.  Unfortunately, the writing was a little less compelling than I had hoped.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting insights, though I think some of the humor was lost on me. The chapter titles were great, though.]]></body>
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