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Chapter 4: “Bruises are harder to conceal than poverty.”

Next up, Chapter 5.

Chapter 36. I can see the complaints others had, after nearly half-a-book it’s becoming a whole lot of nothing and just pages. Please don’t let it be a chore before we get to the next one in the series… it’s too better for that.

Chapter 30

I like this book. Special want to call out SJM’s description of Architecture, its unique to her own. I don’t remember the last time the author called out brutalist architecture on purpose to distinguish the character themes. Well done!

“To this curiously familiar city, whose death & life resembles her own.”

“Newborn baby. …Person who does not know who they are, where they are, what has just begun. The most helpless of all young animals, more defenceless even than a newborn chick.”

Done: Chapter 6.

Ended with such a line! “A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back!”

Reading “White Nights” again. And again. And again. And again. Am I sucker for Dostoevsky or it’s just the times? Hahaha

“In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law? Is it like the hand of god hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control, even over his own will.”

Human Acts - One of the heaviest reads I’ve ever done. The sheer act of tackling Violence, Grief, Emotions and All under the pretext of inspired by real events, is shockingly overwhelming.

Completed: Chapter 5
Up Next: Chapter 6 - The Boy’s Mother. 2010

Completed: Chapter 4: The Prisoner (1990)
Next Up: Chapter 5: The Factory Girl (2002)