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Why is this written in such a cringe inducing way? I imagine this what reading White Fragility feels like.

Stay away from that white devil Link.

I hate to read the wikipedia summary because I knew the other shoe would drop eventually and I couldn’t stand the stress. Now I can read this novel in peace.

cannot WAIT to write my negative review! I haven't had a hate read in sssoooo long! <3

his two year old doesn't know how to smile yet? I get what he is saying but it was such odd phrasing for an author with kids.

It’s good if you ignore that he is married to Elizabeth. Literally can’t stand the Black male fantasy that is Elizabeth. I’m sick 🤢

Dear Lord why? Please no more BW who had it all going for them marrying beneath. An epidemic I can’t escape even in fiction.

My only criticism so far and the most glaring and negative is the lack of background or folkloric context of early Northern European death rituals. I understand that there is a lack of written records and Christianization was a massively diverging force but not one monk in some monastery or a sister in a nunnery committed himself or herself to documenting local folklore or death rituals? Find that hard to believe.

I love this people, these families so much.

"Prayer, you know, you open your thoughts, and then you get a clear look at them. No point in trying to hide anything. There is great benefit in anything the L;ord asks of us, especially in prayer."

I can’t believe they nominated the third book in a series for the booker

This is so depressing.

these books are so gentle and kind

I want to finished most of, if not all of, this tonight. I was familiar with the bare minimum history of black bookstores (think pbs doc level) but the depth of surveillance and violence during the 60s was at once shocking but also not.

I am enjoying the challenge of finishing this in a week, and getting to the end of alloted section every day DOES feel good but also...this is a LOT of genre for a short litfic and long realistic fiction classics and nonfiction girlie,