Status Updates From The Lying Life of Adults

finished: Chapter 7 (pages 305-322)

Rough ending. Solidified my impression/rating, however, so I'm glad I can be more sure of myself thanks to it

finished: Chapter 6 (pages 241-302)

War is, in fact, not over.... but the book is soon, so I might as well finish it tonight 🤷‍♀️
..Ugly this, beautiful that, studious, monstrous, tell me who I am re ree ree..

P268 - spiderman meme, the lot

"I found her extraordinary when I imagined myself becoming a combative adult, and repulsive when I recognized in her traits of my father's. That morning something suddenly occurred to me that seemed intolerable and yet funny: neither Vittoria nor my father nor I could cut out our common roots, and so, depending on the situation, it was always ourselves we ended up loving or hating."

WAR IS OVER ????!!!

"(...) no harmony, just like Vittoria's. But the mistake had been made to make it a tragedy. If you looked even just for a moment at those who had the privilege of a beautiful, refined face, you discovered that it hid infernos no different from those expressed by coarse, ugly faces. The splendor of a face, enhanced even by kindness, harbored and promised suffering still more than a dull face."

recognition of Toninos efforts to be better (after seeing him at his worst). I'll let her romanticize this one if she chooses to, cause he flew under my radar as well 🙏 both pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised

Page 258
"It was Tonino, who said slowly, with a calm that I liked because now it seemed to be his own rich invention: 'I wanted to apologize and say goodbye to you.' '"

First name-ing her parents
increasing need for distance

Page 241 - harsh daughter
"Nella, increasingly malnourished and whiny, was now my father's widow, even though he was still living, in excellent health and surrounded by comforts."

Page 242 + 243 - harsh father
"On another occasion he said to me: it's good you're spending time with people who are better than you, it's the only way to go and up not down."

finished: Chapter 5 (pages 177-238)

from her parents, to Aunt V, to Roberto. She always needs someone to look up to or at least romanticize 😩

This is a teenagerism that's a bit unrelatable to me so I'm just staying for the fire 🔥 pen rather than the (for the most part) unlikables. (I wish I was reading my brilliant friend again)

Gobbling up a few pages during lunch break! 🌮☕

Quotes

Page 208
"(...) maybe it confirmed for her that, since my father's departure, neither of us had been able to live with dignity. She murmured that we had to protect what we were, we had to be aware of ourselves."

"(...) the more I threatened to violate them with my bad behavior, the more forcefully I was excluded."

Quotes

Page 183 - About her father/Aunt V
"(...) Vittoria makes him feel like what he is."

Page 189- the teenager is being honest (into the void)
"I feel ugly, like I'm a bad person, and yet I'd like to be loved."

Page 191 - About her father
"In the past I had considered him far superior to my mother, but now I felt he had no greatness of soul, even in a negative sense."

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