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this is making me feel good

i will be finished this tonight but WOWWWWW

lowkey most optimistic book i’ve read in a while i’m enjoying this

finished but i need time to mentally process before review bc wow.

emotionally draining so progress has been TOUGH but hoping to finish this week!

it feels like i fell into an alternate universe and imagined all of this im finding this hilarious so far

so who was going to tell me human life literally started in africa and that white people only emerged centuries later…

I feel like I genuinely know nothing and this book is so accessible that i can still feel like i get it!!

finally picked this back up!

‘I am running towards a rusted horizon, running out of a country to run out of.’

Ocean Vuong the man that you are.

so incredible- i need to come back with a notebook!

simon’s luck (not good for him)

read privilege and half a grapefruit!

finished royal beatings- took me until halfway through the story to enjoy it but i LIKE ITTTT

(shoutout Sedonna for making me summarise each story as i go this was helpful!)

I completely understand the James Baldwin hype. Don’t get me wrong if Beale Street Could Talk was a great book but the religious imagery and descriptions in this book are so powerfully moving. The characterisation of John and the way his thoughts and feelings are so artfully expressed really allows you to understand him so much better. (Finished part one and two more to go!)

haven’t done an audiobook in a while- will hopefully finish on my run tomorrow!

this is already at 4 stars and i’m sure it’s gonna be five by the time im done

☹️☹️☹️

i love how accurate somalis are written in this and i love the writing style- very free indirect discourse ish in the way that it flows and doesn’t follow a linear time frame (sayon remembering the stabbing and then skipping forward to secondary, but then back to him and cubas chat)