Status Updates From Something Rotten

my god this book is so boring

Oh yeah baby now it’s all coming together

i am kind of bored with this but i will persevere

repeated motifs: something being defined as the absence of something else (freedom is the absence of responsibility, baby's pee smells like sweet with the absence of grossness), danish openness vs american skittishness, american gender politics vs danes (danes being inclusive but having very defined ideas of gender, america's anxiety to be genderless and inclusive)

uh oh, a man has a taste of a different life and suddenly just goes feral to be the most toxic manly man you can think of. straight men can hardly escape this

Its a balancing act trying to read this on the train and hide the cover simultaneously

I almost don't want to read this. I just want to stare at the cover. I almost want this as a painting in my house. The colors are perfect, the face is exactly pained, the child teeth in the back of the mouth draws the eyes in, the tears are perfect little dots, all brought together with eye catching color. You wanna help this baby out.

I'm giving it a chance I'm giving it a chance I'm giving it a chance