Born a Crime | Trevor Noah
Title: Born a Crime
Author: Trevor Noah
This is the first audiobook that I have made it through, beginning to end. And it's absolute gold.
In Born a Crime, Trevor Noah takes us through his life, growing up as the son of a Swiss father and a Xhosa mother. In apartheid South Africa, his parents could have gone to prison because of their relationship and Trevor's birth. Apartheid ended when Trevor was a child, but of course the racial dynamics didn't change all that much. Trevor describes things that were very enlightening for me, things that I can never fully understand as a white woman living in America, but that I can at least get a glimpse of through his honest writing. He tells funny stories of the trouble he got into as a mischievous young man. He tells stories of struggle, of how he never really felt like he fit in when he was in school. He tells of his roundabout journey to comedy. He tells stories of his tough-as-nails mother who was his disciplinarian, his rock, his constant. He tells stories of his abusive stepfather who ultimately nearly killed his mother.
I adored every moment of this, and there is no way I can give it any less than five out of five stars.
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QUOTES
"People love to say, 'Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime.' What they don't say is, 'And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.' That's the part of the analogy that's missing."
"People say all the time that they'd do anything for the people they love. But would you really? Would you do anything? Would you give everything? I don't know that a child knows that kind of selfless love. A mother, yes. A mother will clutch her children and jump from a moving car to keep them from harm. She will do it without thinking. But I don't think the child knows how to do that, not instinctively. It's something the child has to learn."
"The only authority my mother recognized was God's. God is love and the Bible is truth--everything else was up for debate. She taught me to challenge authority and question the system. The only way it backfired on her was that I constantly challenged and questioned her."
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READING PROGRESS
Ammey McKeaf by Jane Shoup: 98%
Insomnia by Stephen King: 94%
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen: 43%
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo: 6%
Author: Trevor Noah
This is the first audiobook that I have made it through, beginning to end. And it's absolute gold.
In Born a Crime, Trevor Noah takes us through his life, growing up as the son of a Swiss father and a Xhosa mother. In apartheid South Africa, his parents could have gone to prison because of their relationship and Trevor's birth. Apartheid ended when Trevor was a child, but of course the racial dynamics didn't change all that much. Trevor describes things that were very enlightening for me, things that I can never fully understand as a white woman living in America, but that I can at least get a glimpse of through his honest writing. He tells funny stories of the trouble he got into as a mischievous young man. He tells stories of struggle, of how he never really felt like he fit in when he was in school. He tells of his roundabout journey to comedy. He tells stories of his tough-as-nails mother who was his disciplinarian, his rock, his constant. He tells stories of his abusive stepfather who ultimately nearly killed his mother.
I adored every moment of this, and there is no way I can give it any less than five out of five stars.
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QUOTES
"People love to say, 'Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime.' What they don't say is, 'And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.' That's the part of the analogy that's missing."
"People say all the time that they'd do anything for the people they love. But would you really? Would you do anything? Would you give everything? I don't know that a child knows that kind of selfless love. A mother, yes. A mother will clutch her children and jump from a moving car to keep them from harm. She will do it without thinking. But I don't think the child knows how to do that, not instinctively. It's something the child has to learn."
"The only authority my mother recognized was God's. God is love and the Bible is truth--everything else was up for debate. She taught me to challenge authority and question the system. The only way it backfired on her was that I constantly challenged and questioned her."
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READING PROGRESS
Ammey McKeaf by Jane Shoup: 98%
Insomnia by Stephen King: 94%
If You Tell by Gregg Olsen: 43%
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo: 6%
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