Status Updates From Must I Go

What they did not understand was that she had no use for solitude. No, she was not afraid of being alone, but she preferred to be alone among people.

I wonder what my diary will be like when (if) I’m 65– I wonder if I’ll be wonderfully soft

Stocktaking time. I like that.

Oddly attached to these characters by this point. They smooth out and soften a little in age and as we get to know them

Valuable perspective as I’m thinking about my own parents as people before and during and after they are parents

Well at least she’s softening a little. Finally—

Ok fine — this is interesting if you let yourself chew on it like you’re in a trance in a hot car. These are hot car thoughts.

It’s smart stuff but not presented well is my issue

The unacknowledged weirdly lesbian-coded storyline in what I can only describe as a nauseatingly heterosexual novel is so strange here

This book is a drag. It better get really great in the final hundred pages…

idk i’m annoyed but also intrigued it’s like im hate reading and im mad it’s good

i want to stop reading bc i think no man and especially not roland deserves the obsession that has for whatever reason consumed lilia and it makes me annoyed so half the time i am engrossed in the prose until i remember we are talking about some lame old guy and get annoyed but i trust in li and the prose is good so i will persist