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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.

Nearly half. I’m doing a fairly good job of keeping my promise (to myself) to listen to this audiobook quicker so I don’t have to put it on hold again. Nothing much to say about the book itself. I feel strangely uninvolved in it, which is odd because the book clearly wants you to feel curiosity. The NPR tone of the book, reminiscent of ‘Serial’ and ‘This American Life’, still weirds me out, too.