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Best explanation of a character through their name: "About a thousand years before Europe discovered toothpaste, Khosrou stepped onto a magic carpet that shined brighter than a meadow in May. That’s the legend. Khosrou. That name ain’t for your mouth. But the hero’s always less than his legend. Khosrou’s just a twelve-year-old kid with a big butt."

I was surprised to see the race-match data from areas outside education. For example, one study found that refs in the NBA called fewer fouls on same-race players.

I was really surprised to see that the book alluded to Jane Eyre. I used to teach this title to Honors English II and would have never found a connection between the main character and Jane. It is a Victorian novel in which the main character is an orphaned girl.

Remember the housing bubble that collapsed and sent our economy into a recession? Yeah, those adjustable rate loans behind it all first started by targeting borrowers of color. It's almost like the banks knew they could get away with it that way...

Just finished the chapter with her first kiss. Gross.

But I dug that she was asking what she should do with her face during the kiss. #awkwardfirsts

While I have enjoyed the book so far, it's entered into the "romance" part of the young adult genre. Honestly, I am glad to see the characters on a date. But I am annoyed that the author combined two of my least favorite things: Christmas and lovey dovey crap 🙄

I am interested in Beau's background....

I just found out that his mom liked reading, and he reads a lot. Then, I found out his mom passed away. I wonder if that means he's connecting to his mom through books!

Who fills up swimming pools with concrete rather than racially integrate them?

That would be Americans 🙄

Something that struck me was this: "It was one thing to learn and use ASL, and something totally different to understand the people and culture ASL belong to" (22%). The way that this character differentiated her language and her culture made me pause. While the two ARE connected, just signing doesn't mean one really understands anything about deaf culture

Just the intro has me like 🤯😳😁

This sentence stopped me in my tracks: "Gunshots make people disappear."

"This was the thievery of caste, stealing the time abs psychic resources of the marginalized, draining energy in an already uphill competition."

I am 100% relating to Maverick's experience now that he's a teen parent. On this first day of school, he had to change his outfit because his baby popped on him. I remember finding all kinds of nasty stuff on my clothes when I went to school after having my oldest.

There's this moment where Mav looks down at his son and the weight of being a young parent comes crashing down on him...and it is beautiful.

Hearing these stories of people who are just trying to keep a roof over their heads is a difficult reminder of the inequities in our system.

I am SHOOK. There's this poem called "Booked" that plays with the different meanings of the word "book." I literally made a joyful noise as I read it.

Something I am struggling with is visualizing the text. I know from reading another one of her works, Rankine writes poetry with intentional line breaks and integrates art. Since this is an Audible book, it sounds more like prose rather than poetry since I can't picture what it looks like.

You had me at the analysis of Beyonce's Lemonade, Claudia.

I love a good abecedarian...

The 8 pillars of caste was a hard section to read...but the very last sentence brought everything together so well. I can't help but admire the beauty of her writing amidst the horror of the topic.

Chapter 9 of Caste by Isabel Wilkerson 🤯

"Man just naturally can't take the law into his own hands, and hang people, without hurting everybody in the world." --Ox-Bow Incident