What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? April 03 (discuss.online)

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Very busy couple of weeks, so didn't actually read anything.

Still on Streams of Silver by R. A. Salvatore, 2nd novel in Icewind Dale series, which is a subseries of Forgotten Realms series (D&D world).

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[-] cheribbit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

if you are interested in books for the mostly ignorant may I recommend instead: Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide by Ben White

Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappé

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalidi

For more on israel's crimes: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance by Shourideh C. Molavi

Gaza Unsilenced edited by Laila El-Haddad and Refaat Alareer

you may have heard of Refaat Alareer, a prominent Palestinian writer and poet who was assassinated (very much the same way Ghassan Kanafani was) in December 2023. There is a collection of his poems and writings released in memory of him in 2024 called If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose that is also worth a read. There are also way more books, fiction or nonfiction, by Palestinian authors that are very much worthwhile once one gets a better understanding of the history of settler colonialism.