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Moving first few pages.

Currently listening to “Oh Girl” by the Chi-Lites and about to start sobbing. I love this book so bad. I don’t see myself giving it anything other than 5 stars unless something insanely bad happens. Like wow…

I created some stipulations for my 2024 reading challenge:

1. No short stories. All books must be over 100 pages. If I want to read a short story, I can of course, I just cannot count it toward the challenge.

2. No books I read for class as a college student.

3. Read the books on my “Want To Read” list instead of looking for new books.

4. Be more objective in my reviews and ratings.

Last book of 2023 alert 🚨🚨

i love this book so much. FIVE STAR ALERT 🚨

super interesting and i’m at the edge of my seat!

this book is so awkward and funny omg

“to be disabled is to understand, at a base level, that your existence, your experiences, do not matter”.

wow.

i love this book.

i’m on chapter 10 and i’m having a great time. ryan o’connell you r eating this so bad rn, lol! i did not expect this book to be SO lewd but…it kinda works. cheating sucks ofc but i understand elliot wanting to be seen as a person and not be discounted because of his disability. it’s an interesting perspective that we don’t hear enough about in the media.

i like it so far!

it’s cute so far. anastasia (i love that name) is a bit dramatic. it wasn’t nate’s fault that rink #2 is out of order…she shouldn’t blame him for that. it was wrong of him to tell a little lie about him not knowing what happened but she doesn’t have to be so rude about it in MY opinion. i’m only 50 pages in and i know for a fact that aaron is going to hell :)

that’s it, bye!

i like it so far!!

my god this book is so many beautiful and tragic things all at once. the prose is out of this world. i’m almost done and i don’t want to be!!

i am taking forever with this book and not on purpose…one more chapter left! 😭

chapter 2 was so sad ://

i finished “chapter one, the lovers” and wow. i rlly liked the writing! the story was cute. i’m not sure if i like the idea of fumiko waiting THREE long years for goro but if she love him THAT bad i guess that’s the right to do…

read the preface and the introduction to part one. i’ll try to read chapters 1 and 2 tomorrow, which are on “philosophy and the afro-american experience” and “african-american existential philosophy”

finally finished chapter 6! i was being hard on myself for not finishing it last night but the chapter was 50 pages and basically…highkey… going over the basic tenets of the ENTIRE discipline of english speaking african philosophy. it was a lot to digest and UNDERSTAND so i’m not mad that i split it into two days. tomorrow, i’m going to try to read chapters 7 to 11 (50 pages). i’m unreasonably ambitious lol

in hindsight, i probably should have started with entry-level poetry instead of sylvia plath. regardless, im 22 pages in(taking this slow and really trying to sit with the poetry),and it took me about half way to figure out how to even READ the poetry.i realized that this is the first poetry collection im reading outside of school(idk why i would start with plath)so far, i like “night shift” and “the eyemote”

broke the one-hundred-page mark. i liked chapter five and I'm like 10 pages into chapter 6, which discusses english-speaking African philosophers.

these chapters made me realize how YOUNG the discipline of African philosophy really is. a lot of the texts that the authors of these chapters are referring to are like 60 years old and younger! ofc that makes sense in context with African liberation in the 60s. it's sad.

read the first 60 pages/chapters 1 to 4. i liked chapter 4 the best.

finished the introduction, probably going to read chapters 1&2 tomorrow. i’ll try to do chapter 3 too 🫣