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“Yet I’m suspicious of this saner ‘me’: Whoever she is, has she lost that streak of wildness? No longer flayed alive - but was it that flaying that broke me into speech?”

“Women felt ashamed even when their work was superior because they were viewing themselves and their work through a masculinity framework. In this schema we can never be good enough, no matter how great we are. It ravaged our self-worth, our ability to live and work without doubting what it is we are doing.”

The rabbis have chavruta, Matt Damon defines it as soul mates in good will hunting, Debrah and Ava have each other in hacks, and Cyrus has Orkideh. Where is my thought partner that pushes me to better understand myself so I can achieve my professional goals 😩

I have been dying to read this since I read the bee sting, let’s hope it lives up to

Love the world building

The way Boris talks reminds me of Heated Rivalry lol but alas I’m sensing a different vibe for the ending

So good that it’s preventing me from reading the last 10 pages of another book

The theme work in this book is so impressive. Obviously the setting is consistent across stories but the way the author connects each story back to a consistent theme at the end always floors me.

Actually what the freak

Lowkey funny af

Brazil, I’m devastated

Did not expect such an interesting take on Zionism from this book

So many twists! So dramatic! Loving it!

This part of history is new to me so I’m enjoying learning about it

It took some patience to get to the really good part of this book but omg it’s so worth it

Childhood was kinda boring and superfluous, but I really liked Youth because I started to understand her motivation and enjoy watching her character development. What I’m wondering now is if that understanding comes from the fact that I already read Childhood or from the fact that in Youth she interacts with the outside world for the first time.

“Justice, in a society, is when each level of a hierarchy works within its place and is content with it.”

I ask you Plato: how do we reconcile the social promise of capitalism and justice? Does this imply that the American ideal is unjust? Is it morally wrong for a parent to strive for a child to want more than they themselves have? Is this why American society is riddled with injustice?

“That if one is to read Dante, and understand him, one must become a Christian if only for a few hours?”

“All thinking does is bring you down.”

Would be so much more interesting if the book more than superficially addressed the quote posted before this. Kinda interesting to learn about how the literary industry works

“Who has the right to write about suffering?”

The writing is so surface level that it’s annoying but I’m willing to keep giving it a chance.

Last book for class!

May have found my new favorite genre