Status Updates From Surprisingly Down to Earth,...

😊💜 finished the "Comedy" Section for Book Club on Wednesday

"I just want a laugh." was a nice way to end it on

📚 Quote Page 308
"(...)It was like my default state. It was like I was meant to kill myself. Everything else was an effort. Suicidal feelings felt like coming home. They almost brought me closer to myself, they felt stronger than other feelings, they were intimate and private, they almost felt like when I used to spend all that time by myself when I was younger.(...)"

😊💜 for Book Club on Saturday

😊💜for Book Club on Wednesday
finished: The Work Years (Pages 147-209)

💬 the alky years were a roughhhhh read, good on him for digging himself outta that one

💬can't believe my nosy ass is getting aaaall this tmi😭 (....for free even since this book was a birthday present :DD)

😊💜 for Book Club on Saturday
finished: The Student Years (Pages 99-143)

📚 Quote Page 129
"I was a fast touch typer, so I knew I'd be good enough. I might not get the job if there were people much faster than me, but I could live with it, because it would be more of a criticism of my fingers than of me as a person. That's the sort of fragile way I was at the time."

💬 Not to sound twisted, but I'm always so interested in how other people process death and grief. immediate lock-in state for my brain.

📚 Page 117
"(...)For all I know, they did keep something. But I didn't. I don't like the idea of it. What if I kept a necklace of hers or something, then one day I lost it? I'd almost be more upset about losing that than losing my mum. It'd be like losing a memory."

💬 already enjoying the student years more than the secondary years 👀nosy nosy

📚 Quote Page 103
"I think the reason why I couldn't shag women was because I was straight. You heard me."

I’m back to Church this Sunday bc this thing couldn’t have come at a better time, thanks limmy love you love you

😊💜 for Book Club on Saturday*
finished: The Secondary Years (Pages 39-96)

💬 preferred the start (the primary years), found there was a bit too much disjointed jumping around, but I do enjoy reading about a life lived (for better or worse)

*OOP, we postponed book club to Wednesday (have mercy on my reading retention)

📚 Quote Page 86
"Only half an hour before, I'd walked out of school, aimless, with a feeling of my life going nowhere. Then this had happened. It was exciting. That's how bored I was. Me bent over in a police station with a policeman looking at my arsehole. That was a highlight."

😊💜for Book Club on Wednesday
finished: The Primary Years (Pages 03-38)

Avert your eyes, my book club pal!!!! @Michael

📚 Quote Page 19 - Ma and Pa
"(...) But she never told me she loved me, and I didn't tell her. I didn't really notice, and I didn't care. But I think I must have, because I tell my son I love him. I tell him all the time.
(...) My dad never told me he loved me.
Thank fuck. Imagine it. Your smelly fucking da telling you he loves you."

I wasn't sure what to expect: a few funny anecdotes told with a sarcastic smirk, maybe? pleasantly surprised, it's "unpleasant" (:<

📚 Quote page 9
"(...) And I'd be watching it all, as a wee boy. I wouldn't be horrified, because nobody said I should be horrified."

Book Club with Michael again! :D

Chapter titled 'My First Wank'