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My Own Dear People

by Dwight Thompson

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Let Me Liberate You

by Andie Davis (Goodreads Author)

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BookOfCinz said: " Hilarious, eye-raising, and irreverent at times, a solid debut!

Meet Sabre Cumberbatch, originally from Barbados, she’s been living and working in New York as an artist. In the middle of the biggest interview of her career she realizes that she want Hilarious, eye-raising, and irreverent at times, a solid debut!

Meet Sabre Cumberbatch, originally from Barbados, she’s been living and working in New York as an artist. In the middle of the biggest interview of her career she realizes that she wants more for her work and her art. In a snap decision, she decides to go back to Barbados for inspiration, rest and grounding.

Waiting to welcome her in Barbados is her socialite aunt Aggie. She’s a high power attorney with friends in all the right places. She is all about protecting her image and making sure her curated life does not shatter. That is until she makes one mistake and her housekeeper now has something over her. This will not deter Aggie from making sure she shows off her New York City Artist nice to Bajan high society.

During an interview with the local radio station Sabre goes off on a rant talking about neocolonialism, specially how high society Bajan people treat their housekeeper and staff as less than. She riles the working class up, reminds them that they have a voice and they don’t have to fall to the whimps and fancy of the high powered people who employ them. She wants the power to back to the lower and middle class, this leads to a big uproar and calls for justice. Sabre forgets for a moment that her Aunt Aggie is a part of the ruling class…. Overnight she is thrown out of the family home, sends the island into chaos and is now the leader of a movement she doesn’t want to lead…
Let Me Liberate You offers great social commentary on Bajan society and I can see it making a lot of people uncomfortable. I did love that the author really went there is address things that we still happening to this day and is very present in Bajan society. I just felt like the author went there and left us there.

I felt the book started really strong, singularly the pieces and characters are strong and interesting, but when it comes together it kinda falls apart. For example, I loved hearing about the housekeeper and internal thoughts as it relates to her employer- Aunty Aggie. However I just feel like when they come together in a scene it is not as strong. I loved each character and I felt they were strong but I just don’t think the book had a lot of glue and it felt all over the place. I wish the editor had done a better job of focusing the author. There were so many characters and situations introduced that did nothing to really move the plot along. I think the book could have benefitted from a stronger editor and less side quests .

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed the first 150 pages. Justice for all the lower income workers! ...more "

Sep 09, 2024 09:27AM · see review

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“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

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“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

tags: futility, pessimism

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“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley

tags: judge, life, live, perfection

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