<p>finished reading <a href="https://reviewdb.app/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/5ZmT0cP4pI3e92xdFnFBQd" rel="nofollow">Nine Lives: My time as the MI6's top spy inside al-Qaeda</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 <br>Traces the evolution of a (very) young jihadi from the Bosnian front, to bomb-maker for al-Quada, to (still young) spy for MI6. A lot of extreme living! Valuable insight into motivations & rationalisations of jihadism.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#Biography</a> <a href="/tags/terrorism/" rel="tag">#Terrorism</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span><br></p>
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<p>finished reading <a href="https://reviewdb.app/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/6XYxBTxwHkUxgqqyu1ZCMz" rel="nofollow">Wifedom</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 <br>by Anna Funder.</p><p>Biography of George Orwell's impressive wife, Eileen, and how he and his biographers erased her contribution from history. Masterfully shows how the infrastructure provided by women is kept invisible. The fictionalised sections made me uncomfortable, being based on so little source material - how much of herself has the author put into this? But that is the very point she is making about biography. Also: Orwell was a mysogynistic lecher.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#Biography</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>
<p>finished reading <a href="https://reviewdb.app/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/5hXIs6JnwMoQ0hzU9ZhfhU" rel="nofollow">We Are the Stars</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 <br>by Gina Chick.</p><p>That wild woman who captivated us on Alone Australia is the product of genes, a generous upbringing, and intense tempering in the crucible of life. A remarkable range of life experience, and an impressive capacity to learn & evolve from life's challenges. Heavy on nebulous metaphor, but fitting. I envy her capacity to inhabit her emotions & body so fully.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#Biography</a> <a href="/tags/aloneaustralia/" rel="tag">#AloneAustralia</a> <a href="/tags/alonetv/" rel="tag">#AloneTV</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>
