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“He had done it all, little, hardheaded, blustering Gerald” you are a slave owner Gerald. You didn’t do any of it. Enjoying reading this book so far but I am left dumbfounded at every page turn that it is not written from a place of irony.This author was not even born during the time she is writing about. Truly harrowing how this novel showcases the utopian nostalgia the people of the south still had in the 30s

I have found fault! Emma’s father would not have always like fall best, he would have liked autumn

Oh wow her writing is really not good

I am only 90 pages in but Pabst is going back to Austria because his mother has told him to ok WHY IN THE WORKD ARE U BRINGING UR WIFE AND CHILD YOU EEJIT

Can’t help reading her family as Irish

Lashing through this on my lunch break. I am addicted to going to the library and taking out too many books

I have read a few of Ernaux’s works at this point. This book so far is reminding me why I became transfixed on her writing from my first reading of I Remain in Darkness. I guess there is a reason The Years is highlighted as one of her most famous and well loved books!

Finally getting back into it after a brief??? Pause…. Love