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“…sometimes, if you are among the very lucky, a spark of understanding cuts like lightning across the space between two people. It’s a defibrillator for the heart. And it toughens you. It nourishes you. And the word we’ve chosen for it (which is an insufficient word for being so abruptly upended in a new and finer place) is friendship.”

So interesting to read at the same time as How to Think!!!!

This is a very, very interesting book

I’m really enjoying it!

We’re reading this aloud now, so we’ll finish it. Vernon is SO excited to share this book with us!!!

I wasn’t sure about this one at first, but now I’m in. I think the writing is so beautiful to read, and it is very much in line with thoughts I’ve been mulling over recently (which is always a bonus, when you’re trying to get into fiction!).

I have just finished what is my favorite chapter so far.
This book. There are beautiful parts which make me cry, and parts where the writing is vile and crass and sounds more like the culture than the author.
However. The ending of chapter six was lovely and I want to sit with it for a bit.

Ok. It took a while but now I’m hooked!

This is such a strange book to read.
In parts it is genuinely lovely and thought provoking. I absolutely love a good conversation about art, and art-making, and storytelling.
And then, just when I’m reflecting on how lovely it is, there will be a crass little tidbit thrown in, reminiscent of his dad, which doesn’t really throw me except to make me sad for him.
I might read his fiction, though.

“It’s one thing to be willing to die. It’s another to give up, in painful stages, the person you thought you were.”
Yeah.

Wild. The family tree situation when you have many many wives and children and are an isolated community…it’s wild.