Status Updates From This is Also a Love Story

Just finished the chapter on Beirut. Feeling the helplessness of financial troubles myself, so this one was particularly relatable. The war zones are - thankfully, blessedly - not something I have endured, but all of the situations in this book are so aching and sharply pointed, and so well illustrated that you can feel yourself there. Every time I read it again I am ashamed of my comparably safe life.

This is going to be a difficult book to get through if I read it in public like I am right now. I'm waiting in a doctor's office lobby for a friend to finish their appointment, and I really wish I'd brought a simpler or less thought-provoking book to read. I don't want to cry in front of these strangers.