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I downloaded a VPN so I could update Goodreads in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

So many good one liners

Essay #1 had the writing style / balanced attention to sensory detail I want in my own pen

Compelling

Opened like “Monk and Robot” and then got so much better… heheh Catholic joke

This is on my all time list

Essence of Robin Wall Kimmerer but instead of lush mossy metaphors this author supplements with multi-syllable alliterations about mushrooms’ connections to niche class theories. #thatwassuchalongprolouge #I will likely convince myself I like this.

Slow reading and I’m learning a lot

Entering a dream state in literature has never worked for me… | sequel is still working tho.

Consider me compelled

Thank goodness I’m reading an enjoyable book again

She’s so good

“Silence was a good way to get information, to make the other persons commit to the transaction first”… please don’t be this on the nose when you have a solid anti-pharma/capitalist premise :’( crying and begging for the characters to stop “one-lining” and staring into the invisible camera.

Very cool opening chapter.. so why the perspective shift ;(((

Problematic old town chat 💬

Impactful in memoir informative as journalism, teaching me the inability/detrimental nature of separating the two forms

I’m Highly recommending that all put this on their (long wait) library holds list. 2 women, both journalists, interwoven testimonials of modern Iran. .. best written non-fiction for me in a long time in terms of format/delivery. (They don’t use redundancy to be impactful, they just are that good at reporting/ presenting their knowledge and experience.)

I’m annoyed that there’s a marriage prospect, like he’s annoying and diluting her character for me.

Very much something I would have read in high school, so that’s fun!