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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)

Angie Thomas

Start date: December 18, 2023

Finish date: January 4, 2024

Why we're reading this: The Hate U Give is YA for Adults Book Club's January selection! This book club will be held in person at …more
[close] The Hate U Give is YA for Adults Book Club's January selection! This book club will be held in person at Central Library on Thursday, 1/4 at 6:00 PM. Visit our website or call 515-283-4152 to register or for more details. Registration is required for this program

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Jun 23, 2018 Lisa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult

Wow. Just. Wow. On all levels. T.H.U.G. invites the reader into a real world that is beautiful yet ugly-without judging the characters or reader. The author wrote a gripping story that helped me understand the web of poverty, crime, fear, shame, and racism and how it entangles an entire society. It’s also a story that calls the reader to stand up to bullies and haters even if it comes at a cost. I loved to hear Starr’s thoughts throughout the story. I loved getting to know her culture full of lo ...more

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Dec 20, 2017 Celia Buell (semi hiatus) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: america, written-by-a-woman, young-adult, overcoming-adversity, trapped, woc-characters, fiction, loss, strong-women, print-copy

With so many overlapping stories and such accurate realism and relevancy, The Hate U Give is honestly amazing. Starr Carter is a very real and very powerful character, and as the reader, one who's going to stick with me for a long time.

Put in Starr's situation, I don't know what I would do. If I was the sole witness to the shooting of my best friend, would I be able to speak out? Living in the suburbs, sometimes I feel so ignorant about Chicago, or any problems happening in the city. I don't un With so many overlapping stories and such accurate realism and relevancy, The Hate U Give is honestly amazing. Starr Carter is a very real and very powerful character, and as the reader, one who's going to stick with me for a long time.

Put in Starr's situation, I don't know what I would do. If I was the sole witness to the shooting of my best friend, would I be able to speak out? Living in the suburbs, sometimes I feel so ignorant about Chicago, or any problems happening in the city. I don't understand a lot of the racism problems that people living in Chicago proper, but this book helped me to do just that on some levels. I want to learn more about the gang problems and how I can help, from an outsider's prospective.

One thing that I loved about this book was how in depth Angie Thomas gets with each and every one of her characters. I love how Seven deals with all the struggles in both of his families and how DeVante works to get out of the gangster lifestyle. I love how Seven and Kenya try to protect their mother and how much Starr's mother's side of the family loves Seven even though they could rightly hate him for being alive. I love Uncle Carlos's moral development, and the way that Starr's parents treat her and Seven as adults. I love Chris and how devoted he is to Starr and to learning from his mistakes. And I absolutely love Maya and how she grows into her own and separates herself from Hailey along with Starr. All of the different stories absolutely fit in to the bigger picture, and at the same time they take you into every character's life and build relationships between all of them, and with these characters the reader builds strong relationships as well.

Living in the suburbs, the parts about Chris, Hailey, and Maya's houses felt kind of exaggerated. However, since I live in a close suburb of Chicago, I don't actually know for sure if the further suburbs are much better-off than we are. I guess they probably are, because sometimes I see huge houses when I go up to Northbrook, or sometimes even Evanston. However, if Angie Thomas was exaggerating the suburbs, I understand why she did it: to show the contrast between Starr's two worlds.

The idea of this story, while probably not novel, is new to me, and it's something I absolutely love. I know I will definitely be reading this again. ...more

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Apr 23, 2017 Rose Daugherty-rudd rated it it was amazing

Breathtaking and heartbreaking. This is well well written and if you get the chance to listen to it on audible, the narrator is the best. Probably one of the first stories of its kind and definitely one to read if you're politically aware and/or support the BLM movement ...more

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