Status Updates From Colored Television

“ she wondered if there was any racial significance to their different body temperatures. Did it make her more white or more black that she was always cold?”
IS SHE FUCKEN SERIOUS RIGHT NOW? THIS IS SO FUCKEN RETARDED

Literally gonna finish bc I’m in the hospital and have nothing better to do but this is bullshit and be ready for this review!

Ok…this book is really losing me. I wanna finish it because it’s such a short book but I can’t with all the racial slurs casually being thrown around like it’s nothing.

“Through the large window behind her was a view of the freeway in the distance. She stared out at its gray morass. Growing up on the East Coast, Jane had imagined California as mysterious, glamorous, sunbaked. She had not predicted this Los Angeles—antiseptic, asphalt, glitterless, and hard. Or how much of Hollywood felt like an enormous ad agency.”

“Film and television people had more generosity in their hearts than novelists, especially more than poets. Poets were like red pandas; from afar they seemed cute and gentle, but if they sensed a threat or competition, they would rip your hand off. Novelists were like bearded dragons. They had to be raised alone in terrariums, away from other bearded dragons, or they would eat one another.”