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Very depressing, but thought provoking.

So graphic.
Kainene’s use of language makes her my favourite character, despite the otherwise boring situations we find her in.
Maybe that’s the point, to really highlight the contrast between her and her sister, particularly at this point in the book.

I’m sat on my massive suitcase, on a packed train while reading this. I can’t hide the horror of the imagery at this point.
I also despise Susan. This page is why.

Richard: ‘It was wrong of him to accuse me of disrespect’
Kainene: ‘And it’s wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It’s possible to love something and still condescend to it.’

The candour in the writing is disarming.
That’s what strikes me first when reading it.

Sorry to ruin the suspense, but this will end up get 5 stars from me.

I’ve got to the conflicts bit and it’s really interesting
I can’t help but see similarities between yellows and people with ADHD and reds/blues and people with ASD.
And where the majority of people are greens, you can’t help but come back to the questions: ‘what is normal?’ And ‘who gets to decide what is and isn’t normal?’

From the very first descriptions of all these colours, I quickly proclaimed myself orange.
The book describes that as ‘red-yellow’… details.

‘This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles’.

Olanna meeting Odenigbo’s mum
Discussion point lack of choice for changes in post colonial world vs lack of resources to negotiate the changes

So far I REALLY love this book.
When you’re in a human heavy field, you pick up these ideas (often quite painfully). But I really think everyone should read this/ have an idea of these ideas. Really helps with open mindedness.

I started reading this during the holidays.
I’m glad I paid attention to the foreword because I thought ‘what an interesting concept’ without recognising the direct parallels in environment to the 1930s.

Audiobook
Revised & extended edition

First highlight: ‘who hired all of these idiots?’

Audiobook (track 24/58)
Gone through the intro to Adlerian philosophy and am now seeing its application in interpersonal relationships.

The layout was the first surprise but that’s what I get for not knowing what the book was about and making predictions anyway.

I think it’s at least somewhat true and useful in certain respects, but there are certainly things i disagree with.

Hilarious and convenient
Would love to watch a play one day

… everyone’s crazy.

But actually, the superficiality isn’t too different from what’s happening today.

‘She was used to her mother’s disapproval; it had coloured most of her major decisions, after all’

This was an impressively slow start and entirely my own fault.
I read 3 or 4 other books purely because this is a paperback and didn’t want to carry/ potentially damage it.
But now it’s messy so I’m invested.

The humour in this book was exactly what I needed this week!

This isn’t a slow read, I’m just remarkably slow.
Time moves faster as a shift worker.

It's a great start and my sense of humour. It's on my phone which I'm so so grateful for because books are *not* fitting into my work bag!

I'm on a 'fishing for a good book' (as if I don't have a formalised list of loads of books I want to read) hiatus.

Fascinating how much more visceral my reactions to stories within this book have been compared to my memories of those for the first book.

I just love that billionaires use coupons at the supermarket too.

It's still predictable but at this point I like how the characters we're expecting slot into different roles within the family.
Fully expecting the stepbrothers to be wicked.
I also like how everyone around Christophe - including his very own daughter - has more sense than him. Maxine must be very hot (and financially irresponsible).

Now this is quite dry. The difficulty with representing a fairy tale without much of an exciting twist and then having a long message to your audience at the beginning pretty much detailing exactly which one it’s about is that we’re unsurprised. I’ve admittedly fallen asleep a couple of times.

One of the first times I've read a publication by an old colleague that's not been published in a scientific journal.
Having read a draft chapter I had (and still have) high expectations. So far, so good!

I was convinced that everyone needs to read this in the first half but the taste quickly sours; it just gets darker and more disturbing. Not less believable though.