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The way he handle’s Laura’s father’s death and the potential death of his own - die far away from him so he wont feel a thing- soulless, sociopathic , escaping feelings, not human.
Sad really.
Rob’s pity party is insufferable. He has accepted he is second tier citizen and doesn’t do anything to do better. 0 logic.

Ugh Laura is also a cheater…

Interesting to see romantic relationships narrated from a guy’s perspective . He is still messed up and confused and dishonest about his own feelings, not introspective enough to understand , he is a kid in a 35 yo body, but still… i feel for him.

2 cheaters together having an awkward moment

Rob is such an asshole. 0 emotional maturity, self pitiful asshole that nothing is ever his fault, ‘sticking with it’ is just crude, relationships are always hard work, hello? He thinks that he can be honest and suddenly that is enough?! That is not maturity, that is some fake Hemingway bs. It is way past the war buddy. I liked him at first and then he had to be a cheater!Who taught him how to be self righteous

Rob is a fucking idiot…. A questionable fake ‘nice guy’ moral for a stranger that cheated on his wife with a 20 yo because of the record collection and losing on a future and a deal of his life!!!?!? The collection may be worth 6 grand but the guy is an asshole + he left it. Other people would have appreciated it more.
Lunatic.

I always think that women are going to save me, lead me through to a better life , that they can change and redeem me.

I wish i had a kindle version so that I can add all the quotes in…

What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

Perhaps it is the music. I never listened to lyrics. But my mind changed and now I do and just get sadder. Do lyrics make you more cynical?

He loathed her for making feel guilty??
Poor Penny.

Teenage boys are weird
Insightful start

A new Arctic peoples have arrived in my knowledge now after the Inuets and Sami - the Nenets!!!

The coolies are having a tough time, proper exhausted lol

She suggests using a dominating language when influencing at work …..but somehow I cant imagine saying ‘you do this’ to someone already on the edg3 and in a childish fit. Kind of conflicting views when comparing to other books talking about the use of ‘I’ when communicating your needs

The aggressive dominating boss, screaming may be offering plenty of instructions, but her attention is turned inward on her own rage and inadequacies

The words may be saying look what you have done but the body is saying look what you have done to me.

And we have entered the dry land of descriptions….

- “Release me!”
-“No…”
-I hate you
1”There wasnt even a bit of truth in those words”
…
And when his arms only banded even tighter
-“Why me? “
-“I told you, you were mine.”
😭❤️❤️

The toxicity but the love!

The whole thing is so comical like a movie now though….. anything can happen.
The names and places are a bit overwhelming but a crazy person with and icepick attacked their boxes in the village and then he got taken back to the family….lol

I have to say that back in the day books were written in an exceptionally lyrical and philosophical way. The introduction is covered in highlights
Learning about geography and the fact that names of things are spelled much differently nowadays

Jongpen for example

In measuring of themselves against the mountains, men are indeed like puppies, crawling about and testing their capacities on their surroundings , crawling on top of an obstacle, tumbling back but then gallantly climbing back …. And at last finally surmounting it.

Men are like puppies when discovering the world.

It would not be surprising if it did and if another civilized nation succumbed to the infection of a uniform and one-sided idea. America, which – O quae mutatio rerum! – forms the real political backbone of Western Europe, seems to be immune because of the outspoken counterposition she has adopted, but in point of fact she is perhaps even more vulnerable than Europe,

Philosophical**** autocorrect

It is a physiological read. The debate on the of individuality based on whether man is drawn towards State or Religion, where the state is again divides between Soviet and the West and Religion again Marxist vs regular. In both cases the individual loses individuality even at the higher echelon.

The Guardian is the real king i feel, not Xavier.

Going to bed audiobook
Easy dramatic and
Enemies to lovers

Whimsical western - long read and colourful simple men.

It is infuriating that her as a nurse in the war seeing the horrors wasnt considered a veteran… she has seen more death and bombs than anyone

Rye is such a DICK!!!
My god what a horrible man and yet - not surprised at all/… a cheater of the worst sort! Pregnant wife (twice) and lies again and again to Frankie that he will marry her!!!?!

The war in Vietnam was better for her at this stage

It is infuriating the double standards that Frankie’s family has for her and her tours in Vietnam. I like F though. Very well written