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I'm getting dreadfully close to the end of the year and I'm like 10 books shy of my goal so I may need to go grab something I can finish in a few hours and put this one down until January.

I'm not even kidding with how much of a chore this is. Updike never shuts the fuck up about literally anything and it took me like 30 minutes to read 13 pages. That's so incredibly slow for me.

Reading this book is miserable. Every page feels like another uphill climb. I'll be lucky if I finish this by May at this point as I can only really stomach 40 pages every week or so.

I used to absolutely adore these when I was a kid, so I was super excited to see a couple on my lib's juvenile shelf. Might read 5 and give myself a pizza party tbh

I marked this finished because I thought I did finish it but I guess I didn't? Hmm

Oh god not the pee paragraph. John Updike, I don’t wait to pee. The pee doesn’t have to navigate my complicated body. It comes as thunderously as a man’s, as it does for most women.

Finish the other 25 books I'm trying to read? Absolutely not. That would be too easy. Instead of logically progressing through one book at a time to finish my 100-book goal, I am going to sporadically start a new one every three days in order to finish 4 in one afternoon. My collection of library books is currently at 32. Prayers and snaps

I believe one of my groups had this selected as their book of the month a long, long time ago. I don't know why I waited so long to pick it up. It's really powerful and might end up on my Christmas list as I can easily see myself revisiting this one.

being just a little silly with my reads but I'm also so braindead and need cheap words to refuel me PRONTO

My birthday mentioned! On 6/3/19 (the time this is taking place) I was at the DMV getting my very first DL :V

I have a feeling that this is going to be a book that I figured out the ending for on about page 40 and if that turns out to be the case it's going to be difficult to rate. I like the writing style and it's genuinely interesting but I have a feeling... I've been wrong before though!

CEDAR COUNTY MEMORIAL MENTIONED

NEVADA MENTIONED

As someone who spent all summer working in ElDo, I was a little tickled to read that as the setting of this book. I have mildly high hopes. (P.S. Missouri is not the South y'all!!)

In true college student fashion, I am starting this book the day before the paper I am supposed to write about it is due. In my defense, though, I wasn't sure that this was going to be the course reading my paper was based upon. I did what I never do and I looked at reviews and they don't seem to be enamored with this book, which worries me a little as I attempt to take on 240 pages in roughly 12 hours. Sigh.