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Merry Christmas from Hegel, contained therein

free falling ...

Loved the first chapters, but have begun to tire of this book about half-way through. She's trying too hard now. Too many one-liners (and set-ups for one-liners), too many plot twists to "surprise" us, too much "look at me being witty" ... Will put aside, let it rest, and then try again, maybe in a fresh and better mood. The opening was so fun and captivating.

The "copy" function disrespects Ocean Vuong's line-breaks, but read this amazing passage: "Turn back & find the book I left for us, filled with all the colors of the sky forgotten by gravediggers. Use it. Use it to prove how the stars were always what we knew they were: the exit wounds of every misfired word."

The "copy" function disrespects Ocean Vuong's line-breaks, but read this amazing passage: "Turn back & find the book I left for us, filled with all the colors of the sky forgotten by gravediggers. Use it. Use it to prove how the stars were always what we knew they were: the exit wounds of every misfired word.

Vuong, Ocean. Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Kindle Locations 611-617). Copper Canyon Press. Kindle Edition.

I'm finished

"'More likely,' guess Lindsay , ;Mr. H.G. Wells's speculative jeu d'esprit on the subject [of time travel] has been adulterated to profitable effect by the "dime novels" of which our visitor, assuming he reads, is no doubt an habitué.'"

"Men in this era not being known to sigh, he exhaled expressively" (204).

To elevate the Prophet Moses ... God granted him the miracle that would dazzle the people of his era, … so all of Moses's miracles involved ... magic: rod into serpent, … Red Sea into parting. During the Prophet Jesus's time, medicine was king. Jesus healed lepers and raised the dead. During our Prophet's time poetry was admired and God gifted Muhammed, an illiterate man, with the miracle of a matchless tongue (8).

got the audio book too!