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"I'm not saying there is a way to determine whether or not you are different from your unhappy mother. I'm saying that as the daughter of an unhappy mother, you will always know that your mother is unhappy, and knowing this will make you try to change something, anything, about yourself."

This is what it will be, every day, without him. I felt a wild-eyed tightness in my chest, like a scream. Every day, without him.

I'm reading this and Parable of the Talents and they were both written in the 1990s and both are harrowingly prescient.

I'm reading this and Ecofeminism and they were both written in the 1990s and both are harrowingly prescient.

"The father's death destroys the world, but a mother's death destroys the sanctuary of the world."

I'm listening to this audiobook. While I love (literally) hearing it in Aja's voice, I also think the statistics and conversations in the book might have been easier for me to internalize if I was reading a physical copy. Still, I plan to listen to the end.

Raw and writhing in the best ways

This book is dense and fascinating

"Apathy takes work to produce. This book shows how some Americans produced it in the course of conversations that engage, or push away engagement, with the wider world; many of the people portrayed here spoke, in intimate whispers, of a vague concern for homeless people, the environment, and even faraway victims of distant wars."

As you can see, I've been reading these in trade paperback form, but I'm imagining having Promethea on your pull list and not knowing that one whole issue was a tantric sex explainer with a nubbly old guy.

I don't know who I think is judging me (other than me) for leaving this book up here in my "currently reading" list for literally years, but I've been reading circa one story a month in it since I got it. SO TURN OFF THAT THUMPING NOISE COMING FROM THE FLOORBOARDS

Book VI footnote: "564-566 The wordplay in discharge, charge, and touch has been regarded as a deplorable attempt at humor on M.'s part. The point is rather that these puns, like those of Belial in lines 621-627, are characteristically Satanic reductions from the metaphorical to the literal. Raphael's pun in "hollow truce" (line 578) works the other way: it moves from the literal to the metaphorical."

Book VI footnote: "564-566 The wordplay in discharge, charge, and touch has been regarded as a deplorable attempt at humor on M.'s part. The point is rather that these puns, like those of Belial in lines 621-627, are characteristically Satanic reductions from the metaphorical to the literal. Raphael's pun in "hollow truce" (line 578) works the other way: it moves from the literal to the metaphorical."