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Katie’s Notes & Highlights

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

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When he was younger he’d assumed he’d major in musical composition, but he’d sold his keyboard during a bad period a couple years back and his mother was unwilling to entertain the idea of an impractical degree, for which after several ...more

Today has been a long day but "for which after" here is confusing me grammatically. Maybe "for which – after [...] –" or "for which, after [...]," are what it means. "For which he couldn't blame her after several expensive rounds of rehab" also is an easier sentence to parse, imo.

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Katie’s Quotes

“Time is how you spend your love.”
― Zadie Smith

tags: love

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“Every monkey is some monkey's monkey.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

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