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"Maybe it was okay to have some outsized faith in yourself. Maybe plunging along in complete denial of your doomed chances was not the mark of a fool but - it felt sinful to think it - a victor?"

usually not a nonfiction reader, and was a little scared considering how grueling Communion felt at times... i fear i'm gonna eat this one up tho. i'm about to care about fish more than i have ever before.

Somewhere around 2/3 of the way into this book, there is a “twist”, or at least newly revealed information, which throws a wrench in the whole story. It makes me realize that a simmering thread of the book, about what ways we delude ourselves and how that can be either beneficial or harmful to us, is in fact the central theme. I’m much more intrigued by the book now than I was before.