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I fear this book will be so real with all the MAGA nightmare horrors we’re currently enduring in Amerikkka

Well this is all very sad

It pains me how normalized domestic violence is towards women and that they’re deserving of it because women have always been classified as the second sex.

Revolutions don’t come from a place of happiness.

Exactly, why we need a revolution now to overthrow the fascist Stephen Miller notsee Project 2025 BS and the MAGA cult

Learning about intermittent fasting to help with my fitness and menopausal struggles 😅

Here we are in 2026 and men are still heavily oppressing women and our freedoms. Wake up America! This is the bad place

Imagine shaming a woman because she had a daughter instead of a son. Why are people like this? And this isn’t just in American culture, but also cultures who put the most value on having boys

Women have always and likely will always be oppressed by men. That makes me sad

Ugh, making women center men as the omniscient ones. That’s the problem in America. One of many. Too many women who are male-centered upholding the patriarchy

The thought of arranged marriages in this day and age gives me the ick. I know this to be cultural but it also seems in the modern times where women are supposed to have goals and options that sometimes a man just isn’t necessary and marriage shouldn’t be forced on women

I can already tell Isra is going to be disappointed with the promise of freedom in America

We are not free. We live in a fascist dictatorship under the regime of Temu Hitler and his MAGAt minions

Getting book recommendations while reading a book you’re enjoying is top tier work

Another reason I love the correspondence of Sybil:

And yes, I will go into the year as you said: boldly, unapologetically, head up and not taking any bullshit from anyone with a penis.

He’s a lovely man, if a bit uptight and clinging to this modern Republicanism I’ve grown to despise.

I’m now in the timeline of 2016 so it’s MAGA Sybil is referring to. The plague of human plagues

I love all the relationships entwined with Sybil and her correspondence

Cackling because it’s so relatable:

Second postscript: I am watching this Donald Trump for the presidency in disbelief. The thing has legs, James.

This statement resonates so deeply with me and I’m utterly disturbed that so many people admire such evil and disdain for humanity. Did they fail history? Do they not understand the government works for us? What our taxes pay for? Society is so stupid.

Okay. I feel like my quirks are similar to Sybil Van Antwerp, but I’m definitely not as good as a writer as I used to be since completing my graduate degree in 2017. I miss the complexities of articulate sentence structures and well researched discussion topics.

Ann Patchett has a way with words

Correspondence by mail is truly a lost art of communication

Okay, I’m all in now

This book makes miss writing letters and receiving mail

Still gathering my thoughts

I’m reading a new Ann Patchett novel while also beginning The Correspondent where the protagonist writes a letter to Ann Patchett about her newest novel and I cannot believe I am reading these two books at the same time

Excited to read new Ann Patchett