Book Thoughts: Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd

I honestly didn't think I was going to finish this book due to being in the Stress gauntlet for the past month. Luckily for me, audiobooks are there to the rescue, even though you also trade some comprehension away for it. Regardless, I probably wouldn't have finished reading this otherwise, much like I didn't finish reading Enemy Feminisms...which reminds me that I should probably dump whatever thoughts I have about that one too really quick and hand in my "GAVE UP BECAUSE OF LIFE, SORRY" card. The audiobook is read by El-Kurd himself, and it's not professionally produced by any means. Rather, the varying audio quality between sections gives you the feeling that he did all of these in single-take chunks and then stitched them together later. Not the easiest book to listen to, especially when names are involved as someone who doesn't speak Arabic, but there's probably an argument to be made out there about letting the author, who embodies what the work is about, speak their own words…