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One re-read so well went that I’m trying another re-read

I’ve gotten the audiobook - might accelerate things - hopefully

To be born in that city-I went so far as to write once, thinking not of myself but of Lila's pessimism-is useful for only one thing: to have always known what now, everyone is beginning to claim: the dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery & death

I loved my city but I uprooted any dutiful defense of it. I was convinced the anguish in which that love ended was a lens through which to look at the entire West. Naples was the great European metropolis where faith in technology, science, economic development, the kindness of nature, history of necessity to improvement, in democracy, was revealed, clearly & far in advance - completely without foundation

Nino is so annoying
But I’m happy with the recent life developments for Lena and Lila - I know something and will happen but I don’t want it to

Third re-read - nothing is disappointing - everything is magnificent

Stronger finish than I expected

THIS BOOK IS IT! I am so invested I can’t stop thinking about it
What a village
What a narrator!!!
What a best friend!

I bolt just now realized that it’s vines ok the traffic light with flowers and bit Christmas tree lights

I don’t understand the connection he is trying to make to the Sandusky and Madoff and Larry Nasser cases to Sandra Bland. But very interesting read! I do not understand the last line of this chapter at all

“This is the first idea to keep in mind when considering death of Sandra Bland. We think we want our guardians to be alert to every suspicion. Blame them when they default to truth….”

Idk where I put this book

There is more patriarchy than aliens in this and it’s starting to get annoying but I’m in too deep

Something unexpected, the repetition - crimes against humanity & needless loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, or sometimes just a few dozen due to a few private citizens panicked actions, reminds me to remember Gaza, West Bank, Ukraine and Sudan. For us this is sci fi a “what if” for others it’s a real hell they live now. The planet suffers, humanity is whittled away, no change, just appealing bad aliens