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Reeeeally tough read

I want so badly to get into this book bc the premise is great but I think I’m entering like the 20th POV & I’m only 50 pages in. Too whirlwindy.

Why am I doing this to myself

Tears & so many feelings @ 1:30 AM. Becky Chambers just keeps getting better.

So happy to be back in this galaxy again

Only a third thru & I anticipate this being one of (if not my #1) favorite book this year.

This is so infuriating & so good

Ooooh this is GOOD good.

Blegggghhhhhhh

If I didn’t wait so long for this from the library I would’ve DNFd a long time ago

Picking The Night Circus mostly by random out of my TBR list to be my next audiobook & realizing that it’s narrated by Jim Dale was the most marvelous surprise.

Why can’t anyone write a 9 year old correctly? No 9 year old uses the word “inconsequential” .. please.

Blegh I need to take a break. Gillian Flynn is so good at writing shit that makes you feel like you need to take a shower.

“The only difference between the woman who sells her body by prostitution & she who sells herself in marriage is the price & duration of the contract”

… oh my

“you are our mothers & our life companions, our comrades in struggle, & because of this fact you should by rights assert yourselves as equal partners in the joyful victory feasts of the revolution”

A study on American citizens’ perception of the Vietnam war showed that the average American estimated that 100,000 Vietnamese people died. The real number is closer to 3 or 4 million.


Chomsky:
“What would we think about German political culture, if when we asked German people today how many Jews died in the Holocaust, they estimated about 300,000 - What would that tell us about German political culture?”