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This is genuinely fascinating.

Starting Storygraph's Reads the World Challenge 2026. First country - Afghanistan!

Intrigued to see what I think of this one. So far, sex and love addiction is definitely an interesting lens on symptoms and dynamics I usually think about differently in mental health, and so far it's illuminating to hear about it from an addict's own perspective. And I always enjoy Elizabeth Gilbert's writing. It's just lovely.

Who made the decision to have a British narrator for a book with an American protagonist? I know Americans suck at British accents too, and I don't mind a mediocre accent for like a side character, but a bad accent in a main character is too much! This narrator just can't do a reasonable American accent and it's quite world breaking for me.

I keep trying to find something that will quell my Murderbot fix. Not sure this is it, though. The sarcasm doesn't have enough depth behind it to give me that gut punch of laughter and absurdity, and it doesn't really add to the characterization or relationship building. But who knows, I'll see where it goes.

Even the forward of this book made me cry as it acknowledged the lived experiences of myself & some of my clients without universally dismissing them as psychosis. It is validating to see IFS leaders genuinely researching and exploring their clients' (often traumatic) experiences of unattached burdens/malicious entity attacks to find effective, data driven, clinically appropriate ways to help them heal. 😭