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A carregar... Love Is a Revolution (edição 2021)por Renée Watson (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. i would recommend this book because the main character nala has a whole list of what she wants to do over the summer but her main thing is to find love. and i love nala and her new love get along in this book, and i would alos consider this book to be page turning because they start to get along more page by page This was a really sweet book! I struggled a bit at the beginning, just because it is hard to read as Nala lies to impress a guy. But, to be fair, this is something many teenagers (and even some adults) do, and props to Renée Watson for tackling a realistic issue here and for writing a wonderful story about a black teenager coming to know and love herself. Where this book really shone for me was in its emphasis on extended family and genuine friendship. The supporting characters really made the story- Grandma, JT, Ms. Mabel, the other Sugar Hill Senior Living residents, Sadie. Nala’s growth and her support system were so interconnected, and this really highlighted the notion that both self-love and healthy romantic love can’t exist in isolation from community. It's summer in New York, and unlike her sister-cousin-friend Imani, Nala doesn't have big plans. Mainly she wants to hang out with her grandma, try out new hairstyles, and, oh yeah, find love. When she gets dragged along to an Inspire Harlem event and lays eyes on Tye, "find love" seems possible - but right away she pretends to be more like him and the other Inspire Harlem activists than she really is. By the time she finds out that Tye hates lies, it's already too late. Or is it? Though she doesn't think of herself as an activist, Nala's heart is in the right place; she truly values spending time with her family and her community, while Imani's activism takes her away from home and family. At the same time, Imani has complicated feelings about Nala living with her and sharing her parents. After a blow-up, the sister-cousin-friends make up, and Nala gets to figure out her relationship with Tye on her own terms. Traditional coming-of-age, identity-building themes in a vibrant Harlem summertime setting - oh, and there's ice cream. A cool treat for teen readers. Quotes (from ARC) ...activists...sometimes feels like a word that means their opinion is the only one that matters. (6) "and what the mirror whispers is: girl you are exquisite" (Blue playlist, track 5, p. 95) "Nala, we're just saying that a person can be so busy trying to care for their community that they don't even have time to care for the people closest to them." (Grandma, 99) "...sometimes I feel like a burden to the people who are supposed to love me..." (Nala to Tye, 131) Quotes on Imani's wall: Michelle Obama, Fannie Lou Hamer, Audre Lorde (153) I guess when you feel like you're not good enough, the next best thing is trying to be like someone else. (176) Uncle Randy always says, when you're feeling bad about your circumstance you should do something kind for someone. (203) "You apologized, right? ...You've got to let people forgive you." (JT to Nala, 250) I think people give the type of gifts they want to receive... (252) How do you know if you're doing something for yourself or someone else? (265) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML:From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Renée Watson comes a new YA??a love story about not only a romantic relationship but how a girl finds herself and falls in love with who she really is. When Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her cousin-sister-friend Imani's birthday, she finds herself falling in instant love with Tye Brown, the MC. He's perfect, except . . . Tye is an activist and is spending the summer putting on events for the community when Nala would rather watch movies and try out the new seasonal flavors at the local creamery. In order to impress Tye, Nala tells a few tiny lies to have enough in common with him. As they spend more time together, sharing more of themselves, some of those lies get harder to keep up. As Nala falls deeper into keeping up her lies and into love, she'll learn all the ways love is hard, and how self-love is revolutionary. In Love Is a Revolution, plus size girls are beautiful and get the attention of the hot guys, the popular girl clique is not shallow but has strong convictions and substance, and the ultimate love story is not only about romance but about how to show radical love to the people in your life, including to yo Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I didn’t care too much about the romance here, but I liked the characters, especially JT! The romance is more so in the background while Nala’s character development is in the front.
As someone who has been involved in community organizing, especially for black and environmental issues, I understood Nala’s feelings with the activists to an extent. Sometimes you meet people so passionate (they eat, breathe, sleep it) about something, you feel your zeal doesn’t compare to theirs. But I thought Nala would come around eventually. I also enjoyed that Nala was self-aware to understand her cousin Imani’s feelings may have stemmed from resentment.
Let this be a lesson: Sit cho’ behind down and stop lying all the doggone time. Seriously, even the littlest lies can catapult into something big. Just be honest even if it’s uncomfortable. Still, I think the story managed to show this without getting too preachy.
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