Status Updates From Do You Still Talk to Grandm...

So much of this book is about getting cancelled online. Grandma isn’t online. If you wanted to write a book about internet mobs, just say that. Very little of this is relevant to how to cope with somebody who is actively toxic. I don’t know what the author is suggesting you do exactly. Just… allow somebody to engage in toxic behavior, in the name of compassion? It feels very theoretical, not practical.

Yeah—I dunno. I have a kind of knee-jerk reaction against people who complain about the Internet ruining society. The chapter on “progressive amnesia” made some good points, I thought, but not in a way that really hit me deeply. And I can’t get over the fact that the author was a megachurch pastor?? Now I can’t think of her as anything else.

Wow, I’m 14% in? I’ve only read an intro and a couple pages of the first chapter. Not sure how I’m gonna feel about this one, but hopefully it hits more than FAILURES OF FORGIVENESS did. Side note: in the first chapter, the author talks about having a falling out with evangelical Christianity… which is what my current audiobook is about. I had no idea this book was going to touch on that. Mere coincidence!

This book is not what I was expecting at all, I thought it was about estranged family members but it’s about much broader topics 😭 but since I’m already 25% done I’ll just keep going with it ig